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Vintage Beautiful Wooden Seguin Tugboat Ship Model 38"x24"x8" - $575 (Santa Barbara)
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This listing is only for the Beautiful Wooden Tug Boat 38" Length x 24" Height x 8" beam/Width $575. OBO
Also available are in my other Listings:
Beautiful Wooden Tug Boat 38" Length x 24" Height x 8" beam/Width
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Vintage Wooden Model Sailboat with Cabin, 28" Length x 36" Height x 10" beam/Width
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Titanic's No.14 Lifeboat Sloop Model, 38" Length x 24" Height x 8" beam/Width
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BRIEF HISTORY: The tug
Seguin was the single-most historically important Maine vessel artifact, that had been donated to the Maine Maritime Museum
for restoration. Launched in 1884, the Seguin had seen the full scope of history on the Kennebec River, assisting at the launchings
of hundreds of Kennebec-built vessels. Acquired by the museum in Bath in 1969, she was hauled in 1977 at Percy & Small’s
north ways, where a ship-house facility was built over it, and the search for sound wood begun. None was to be found. Seguin
was not to reach her 1984 centenary, as many had hoped. By 1988, defeated by the magnitude of the decay of the vessel, ironically
and wrenchingly, the Museum had to dismantle its own ultimate artifact. The old tug was dissected into a sub-collection of
over 350 separate items, ranging from coffee-cans of nuts up to the enormous compound engine. A program of documentation,
publication, and exhibition of these was undertaken that continues to this day.