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"Tugboats? What are tugboats?" Tugboat Tales on YouTube
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2011 Pegasus newsletter available! Click here to read and print it (PDF format)

Tug & Barge on NY1!

"Exploring Tugboats and Barges in Brooklyn" on WNYC

Tug Pegasus gives a ride to Thomas the Tank Engine

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Tug Pegasus Preservation Project

Cast a Vote! Keep Us Afloat!

Tug Pegasus & Waterfront Museum Barge were selected out of 500 nominees to participate in Partners in Preservation, a program of American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation to help educate New Yorkers about the importance of historic sites.

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Help us win the grant! 1. Click on Partners in Preservation.  2. Either log in using Facebook or create an account on PIP (a one-time activity). 3. Find Tug Pegasus & Waterfront Museum Barge on the list of sites. 4. VOTE.  5. Repeat the next day.

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When you do, you'll automatically be entered into a raffle for a July 4 Fireworks Tugboat Cruise for two!

We are one of forty nominees in New York City.

The three historic places that receive the most votes are guaranteed funding. Additional grants will be awarded to other sites after review by American Express, the National Trust for Historic Preservation. and an advisory committee composed of New York civic and preservation leaders. 

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. Our visiting naturalists, historians, and marine industry personnel teach visitors about the harbor’s value as a rich natural habitat, as a historic waterway that shaped this city’s history, and as 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.