Seguin Tugboat Model
The wooden Seguin Tugboat is an exact wooden model boat replicated from the
real life Seguin Tugboat. The original Seguin Tugboat is well known and celebrated
even today, for at one time she was the oldest operating steam powered tugboat
in operation. Named after Seguin Island, located at the mouth of the Kennebec
River, she was built in 1884 by skilled craftsman in Bath, Maine.
For 85 long years she routinely made her way along the magnificent Atlantic
coast from Maine to Virginia valiantly towing large sailing vessels and monstrous
barges loaded with valuable goods such as lumber, ice and coal.
After her many long years of operation in Maine, she made her way to the new
and exciting City of New York. Here in the booming metropolis of New York this
assiduous tugboat operated as the hard working ship she built to be during the
early 1900’s.
She eventually returned to her homeland of Maine in 1967 finishing her longstanding
and diligent career as a tugboat. Although now retired as a tugboat, her original
pilot house may still be seen and visited today in Maine at the Maine Maritime
Museum in Bath, where she is now working as a concession stand she still serving
those she loves in her homeland state of Maine.
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