{"nrhp_refnum":"00000050","name":"CHANCELLOR (tugboat)","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"Oswego R.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fulton","county":"Oswego County","state":"NY","lat":43.31987713800004,"lon":-76.41702238699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-02-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Maritime History","Engineering"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Chancellor is a welded steel canal tugboat built in 1938 by Ira S. Bushey & Sons in Brooklyn, New York. She is afloat in the Oswego River at Fulton, Oswego County, New York.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the tug is a highly intact, representative example of the steel diesel canal tugboats built for the New York State Barge Canal in the late 1930s. She shows the shift from riveted to welded hulls and from steam to diesel power. Her original 1937 Fairbanks Morse diesel engine and auxiliary equipment are described as rare and unusually complete, and she is believed to be the only tug of her class still afloat with an original power plant.","narrative":"Chancellor is a 76.7-foot welded steel tugboat built in 1938 by Ira S. Bushey & Sons of Brooklyn and now afloat on the Oswego River at Fulton, New York. Her low pilothouse and short funnels suit the height limits of the New York State Barge Canal. She was one of 15 canal tugs Bushey built between 1935 and 1938, and she keeps her original 525-horsepower, five-cylinder Fairbanks Morse diesel engine, propeller, compressor, generator and galley fittings. Over the years she carried petroleum products, molasses and caustic soda, hauled fuel during World War II, and later moved jet fuel to Plattsburgh under the name James J. Kehoe. Her pilothouse was modified in 1963 so it could be raised for better visibility. The nomination values her as an intact example of the 1930s change from riveted to welded hulls and from steam to diesel power. Still working on the canal, she lets observers see early diesel tug technology in operation. Most of her sister tugs have been lost or heavily altered.","period_of_significance":"1938","architect_builder":"Ira S. Bushey & Sons, Brooklyn, New York","architectural_style":"OTHER: canal tugboat","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Maintained in operating condition and remains in commercial service on the Barge Canal system.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.138808-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/00000050.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000050/7a87798003-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000050/7a87798003-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"bobistraveling","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tugboat_Eastern_Mohawk_River_area_NY_8770_(4853863185).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">bobistraveling</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tugboat_Eastern_Mohawk_River_area_NY_8770_(4853863185).jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"14000860","name":"New York State Barge Canal","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/new-york-state-barge-canal-14000860/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320825","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancellor_(tugboat)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5070768"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/oswego-county/chancellor-tugboat-00000050/"}