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2016-09-20 Tug Garth Foss & Trident Seafoods Factory Ship Independence (02) (2048x1360)

Guemes Channel. Dakota Creek Floating Drydock DD1.

Built as a tanker in 1938 by Manitowoc Shipbuilding Corp., Manitowoc, Wisc., In 1980 Converted into a Fish Factory.

1938 TRAVERSE CITY SOCONY

1955 - Socony-Mobil Oil Co., Inc., Chicago

1962 - RAYMOND J. BUSHEY Diesel Tanker S. D. Maddock, Inc. (Spentonbush Fuel Transport Service, Inc.), New York

1977 - Diesel Tanker Ira S. Bushey, Inc.

1980 - BERING TRADER Converted to Fish Factory by Bering Trader, Inc., Seattle

1991 - INDEPENDENCE Trident Seafoods Corp., Seattle

Auke Visser's MOBIL Tankers & Tugs Site

 

On Board The Traverse City Socony in 1954

 

Lindsey Foss and Garth Foss are Enhanced Tractor Tugs, and were the largest in the world (when built in 1994), featuring Voith Schneider cycloidal propulsion systems. and are specifically designed for tanker escorts.

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