A Mighty Pull

A Mighty Pull (HM2JXP)

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N 38° 47.248', W 76° 13.211'

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Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

Handling heavy hawsers was hard, dangerous work on tugboats, but it became a little easier with powers capstans. This capstan used steam from the same boilers that powered the steam tug America's 450-horsepower engine.

America assisted ships in the port of Baltimore and hauled barges laden with coal from 1920 until the Baker-Whitely Towing Company sold her for scrap in the 1960s. On today's tugboats, the job of this steam capstan is accomplished by electric winches.
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HM NumberHM2JXP
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Placed ByChesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
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Date Added Sunday, August 25th, 2019 at 8:02pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)18S E 394025 N 4293898
Decimal Degrees38.78746667, -76.22018333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 38° 47.248', W 76° 13.211'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds38° 47' 14.88" N, 76° 13' 12.66" W
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