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Marion M

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Marion M

Marion M seen here in her home berth at South Street Seaport Museum, Lower Manhattan, New York on 18th April 2008

Courtesy of http://www.southstre...x1.aspx?BD=9007

"Material: Wood hull
Length: 60.6 ft.
Breadth: 22.5 ft.
Gross Tonnage: 41
Depth of Hold: 5.4 ft.

Built in 1932, the recently-retired Marion M., marked the end of an era as the last wooden-hulled chandlery lighter employed in New York Harbor. The Marion M. was originally built as a small motor freighter, for operation on Long Island Sound out of Greenport, Long Island. She was built for Jesse M. Monsell (1899-1963) of Greenport, but was enrolled at the Port of New York. Monsell christened the boat for his wife Marion Udell Monsell. After oyster beds further west were shut down, largely due to pollution, Greenport at the east end of Long Island became the center of oystering in the region."