B&O Steam Tugboat Baltimore at Pier One

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=50 BGCOLOR="#990000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <B><U>B & O STEAM TUGBOAT BALTIMORE AT PIER ONE–EARLY 1950s</U></B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=170 BGCOLOR="#555555" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="132" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 35 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="BO Steam Tugboat George M. Shriver"><U><B><IMG SRC="007151d0.gif" border=0 width="21" height="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id71.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Annapolis City Dock"><U><B><IMG SRC="008151d0.gif" border=0 width="21" height="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="35" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="20" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id7.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" 18 x 24 pen ink"><U><B><IMG SRC="00d0d1d0.gif" border=0 width="13" height="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="27"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <div> <A HREF="id7.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" 18 x 24 pen ink"><U><B>Return to 18" x 24" pen and ink page</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3fe96940.gif" border=0 width="150" height="148" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=430 BGCOLOR="#000066" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div>   <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  </FONT>           </div> <div> <B>In the 1950's  the inner harbor in Baltimore was known as the “basin” and it was a center of heavy maritime activity in Baltimore.  The giant United Fruit Company was located at Pier One where the Constellation now docks.  Harbor Place was not even a concept and 230 feet along the Light Street side where the Promenade and Light Street Pavilion now stand had not been filled in and was still part of the harbor.  The major commercial activity at Pier One was the unloading of bananas from arriving ships and transfer of the bananas to refrigerated railroad cars called reefers.  Since there was no direct rail access to Pier One, the empty reefers were placed on railroad barges called car floats at the railroad terminal at Locust Point and moved by tugboat to the banana boats arriving at Pier One.  Once the loading of the reefers was completed the car float was then moved by the tugboat back to Locust point where the reefers would be rolled off and sent on their way by rail for distribution of the bananas to marketing points around the country.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>In this scene the B&O steam tugboat </B><B>Baltimore</B><B> (#3584) is moving a car float into pier one.  This is </B><B>NOT</B><B> the steam tugboat </B><B>Baltimore</B><B> (#203700) now at the Baltimore Museum of Industry on Key Highway.  The barge is a station float with a capacity of eight reefers.  It is designed to allow loading of the reefers while remaining on the car float.  The barge is riding a bit high in the water because the reefers are empty.  Behind the car float is the banana ship </B><B>Telde</B><B>, which by this time was flagged out of Honduras and operated by a subsidiary of the United Fruit Company, the Empresa Hondureña de Vapores.  In the background the waterfront along Key Highway and Federal Hill can be seen.  The building on the right was known as the York Street Station, one of four warehouses operated by the Baltimore Fidelity Warehouse Company for the Western Maryland Railway.  To the right was the Atlantic Wholesale Grocery Company.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The 105 foot 500 h.p. </B><B>Baltimore</B><B> was built in 1893 at Sparrows Point for B&O and served the railroad for many years until 1956 when she was sold to the Harbor Towing Corporation in Baltimore, converted to diesel power and renamed </B><B>William E. Voyce, Jr.</B><B>  In 1976 she was renamed </B><B>Shark</B><B> by Harbor Towing.  Sometime in the early 1980s she is appears to have been scrapped in Chesapeake, Virginia.   In this scene she still wears the old colors of B&O steam tugs while the newer diesel powered tugs were arriving on the scene in the new blue/yellow/gray color scheme of the new B&O streamliner locomotives.  While some of the steam tugboats were also painted in these new colors the </B><B>Baltimore</B><B> was not.</B></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>