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Dispatch

Another view of the boat... the olny word I could make out on the side was "dispatch".
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This rules Motts...
Radical Ed
Wed 08-31-2005
Yes!!!
Ed
Sat 09-03-2005
yes it does
tj
Thu 09-29-2005
I can also make out an "NE" on it... making it possibly New York or New Jersey (NY being more probable with the space given) does anyone else think that this may have been a rescue craft?
Art Owens
Mon 10-10-2005
Possibly New England????
Lawman
Mon 10-10-2005
I don't know, but it's VERY OLD. that style of bow went out of fashion before WW2. Also note the riveted plates, as opposed to the welded plates on the post WW2 wrecks.
Rich
Thu 10-13-2005
it's quite possible this was PY-8, the USS Dispatch which was a pressed into service in WW1 as a coastal anti-sub ship...
droid
Thu 10-13-2005
I found a picture of PY-8 here, http://www.history.nav...s/h54000/h54504c.htm sadly this is defiantly not it.
Dino
Thu 10-13-2005
Sorry, history.nav is not living any more ........

I found a picture of PY-8 here, http://www.history.nav...s/h54000/h54504c.htm sadly this is defiantly not it.
P.O.Nilsson (Sweden)
Sat 10-22-2005
Love this photo. Great shot. I love to wonder where this ship's career led her besides this final resting place.
cheerie
Sat 11-26-2005
Hmmmm. Some time ago, I researched the history of the first US presidential yacht -- called Dispatch, dating from the late 19th century. Eventual disposition was unclear. Wish we had a view of the sheerline, or any other shot. Surely not -- but?
tusker@tds.net
Fri 02-10-2006
this is definitely not the USS Dispatch, the bow is the wrong style. It doesn't look like a pleasure yacht either. Very nice shot. I wish I knew what it was a shot of.....
Geekspeek
Tue 02-14-2006
DISPATCH was some sort of small tanker, I will get the correct info and get back with it.
FB Jim
Tue 02-14-2006
She looks kinda like she ends abruptly further aft. Was she broken in two?
geekspeek
Wed 02-15-2006
I'm pretty sure it was all there...
Motts
Wed 02-15-2006
weird.....it looks a lot like she's broken about midway back. Must be the angle of the picrue.
Geekspeek
Thu 02-16-2006
er...that's "picture ', not "picrue". Sorry for the double comment.
Geekspeek
Thu 02-16-2006
She was all there, in the 70s there was still the engine order telegraph in the wheelhouse. It was a small tanker but I cant find out any definate data on it, sorry
FB Jim
Thu 02-16-2006
OK< here is my best shot. This is the DISPATCH, formerly the NEPCO DISPATCH< formerly RICHMOND< formerly TEXACO 147. A single screw tanker, 147 feet long 30 feet wide. Built by Texas S.S. Co, Bath Maine in 1919, had a 400 horsepower McIntosh and Seymour engine in it. I finally found this in the 1950 edition of the, "RECORD" of the American Bureau of Shipping . That is my best guess, size, age, riveted hull all fit and the NE before Dispatch would work as well.
FB Jim
Thu 02-16-2006
thanks
geekspeek
Fri 02-17-2006
Thanks for the info, FB Jim. Such data breathes life into these old hunks of rusted steel.
Ouroboris
Sun 03-05-2006
you can almost tell how old it is look closely you can see rivets
Jeremy
Wed 06-21-2006
Look below the word DISPATCH, you can see the word richmond (or atleast the last half of that word) below it in smaller darker letters. So that corroberates with the tanker story.
Owen
Tue 07-04-2006
PY-8 was the USS Despatch. Photo here
http://www.history.nav...-usn/usnsh-d/py8.htm
Eric
Fri 08-18-2006
Fantastic Pics!
You must have had a ball taking them,well done.
Glen
Mon 09-04-2006
Oh. The name IS readable on the starboard bow.
J. Shultz
Sun 10-08-2006
If anyone's interested, you can get nicely detailed satellite view of the boatyard here:

http://maps.google.com...497&t=h&om=1

be sure to click satellite)
For those of us who'll never make it in person, it helps to picture the scene when you can pick them out from above.
Dunny
Thu 12-21-2006
Nevermind. Nothing beats the aerial views that Live Search has.
Dunny
Sat 12-23-2006
Very sad picture
I'm about to cry when I see that "dying" ship.
witek
Wed 12-26-2007
def a small sub chaser of the world war one era
kraken
Wed 12-26-2007
Hey Kraken, Read FBJim's comment from Feb 06. This is some kind of tanker.
ALM
Tue 01-01-2008
small oil replenishment ship. The F/V Wizard on deadliest catch is almost the same except for the bridge.
northwesternrocks
Sat 07-19-2008
If you smell fish on the grill,your know Im near
you.Ill take you on tour for a few bucks.
wethorse
Sat 06-06-2009
there are letters under the word dispatch,looks like B N C
Merc24
Mon 03-08-2010

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