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Day Peckinpaugh
''Day Peckinpaugh'' is a historic canal motorship berthed at the Matton Shipyard on Peebles Island, Cohoes in Albany County, New York.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/press/2007/peckgrant.cfm )〕
==Early years==
The ''Day Peckinpaugh'' was built in 1921 by the McDougall-Duluth Shipyard in Duluth, MN, the first boat specially designed and built for New York State Barge Canal, the successor to the famed Erie Canal. The ship was originally named the ''ILI101'' after the ship's first owner, the Interwaterways Lines Inc of New York City. The ship was the first specifically designed to ply the open waters of the Great Lakes as well as the narrow locks and shallow waterways of the barge canal. The ''Day Peckinpaugh'' is also the last surviving ship from a fleet of more than 100 of its type that once carried freight from the upper Midwest to the port of New York City.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.eriecanalway.org/explore_things-to-do_Peckinpaugh.htm )〕
At a length of and width of , it is among the largest boats to operate on New York’s canal system where the maximum area available for vessels in a lock is long by wide.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.waterfordmaritime.org/day_peckinpaugh.html )〕
With a deep hold and a carrying capacity of , the ''Day Peckinpaugh'' was well suited as a bulk carrier in which she hauled wheat, flax seed, rye, sugar, and in the early years pig iron.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/exhibits/longterm/peckinpaugh/PeckinpaughFacts.html )〕
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