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Tug Pegasus Preservation Project

Tug Pegasus next to Lehigh Valley No. 79 and nose in to Pier 25 during the North River Historic Ship Society's festival on July 30, 2011. Photo by Milo Hess.

We are education in a tug.

Our mission:

• To restore and preserve the 1907-built Tug Pegasus, a maritime icon whose very existence tells an important story about the history of the Port of New York/New Jersey.
• To interpret the world around the Tug Pegasus, by bringing the public out into the waterways of the Port. Naturalists, historians, and marine industry personnel can teach visitors about the harbor’s value as a rich natural habitat, a historic waterway that shaped this city’s history and a thriving commercial port crucial to today’s economy.

Preservation timeline: 1953 is the date of her last alteration, the removal of her steam engine and the installation of her diesel engine.

Significance: Her activity in both World Wars and her survival in technological changes, from steam to diesel propulsion and from riveted to welded construction.