Tug as museum ship,
Ludington.
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Tug
Ludington was built in 1943 as the
Major Wilbur Fr. Browder (LT-4),
at the Jacobsen Shipyard in Oyster Bay, New York.
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This tug participated in the D-Day invasion at Normandy,
towing ammunition barges across the English Channel.
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In WWII, the
Browder was equipped with two 50-caliber machine guns.
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The
Browder was renamed in 1947 as the tug
Ludington,
and assigned to Kewaunee, Wisconsin.
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Ring buoy from days as the
Ludington, homeported in Kewaunee.
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They leave the light on for you. Tug
Ludington.
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Tug as museum ship,
Ludington.
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Mast and navigation lights on tug
Ludington.
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Wide view of mast on tug
Ludington.
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Anchor on starboard side of tug
Ludington.
The
Ludington is 115-feet long, by 26-feet wide, with a draft of 14.3-feet of water.
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The
Ludington operated with a crew of fourteen for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
As a naval tug it carried a crew of 24 during the war.
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The
Ludington is pwoered with an 8-clylinder engine with 1,200 HP.
The tug has a capacity of 40,000 gallons of fuel and 2,000 gallons of water.
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