On a Long Hawser
16" x 20" oil on canvas
Corporate collection

The big white-hulled tug, LACKAWANNA, well off the coast with her three light coal barges, heads south in a following sea for another load of anthracite for New England. The overtaking steamer has the tug's pilot concerned, but with such a moonlit night, all should pass safely.

Steam tug, LACKAWANNA, KQJR
Built at Camden, New Jersey in 1990.
Registered length - 137.1 ft.
Registered Breadth - 25.0 ft.
Registered depth of hold - 14.7 ft.
Of 340 gross registered tons, showing an indicated horsepower of 500 hp., one deck, two masts, steel hull, carrying a crew of 15.
Home port - New York, N.Y.
Owners - Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company, Hoboken, N.J.