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Mystic Steamship Company, also known as Boston Tow Boat Company was a Boston, Massachusetts shipping company named after the Mystic River. The company was founded in 1854 as the T-Wharf Towing Company. Boston Tow Boat Company was an operator of ship salvaging, icebreaker shipping, and a tugboat operator. The other major operation was transporting coal. Mystic Steamship Company operated collier ships and coal barges. Coal was load at Newport News, Virginia and delivery to New York Harbor, Philadelphia and Baltimore. Mystic Steamship Company was also a bulk grain transporter. Eastern Gas & Fuel Associates, which is now Eastern Enterprises, purchased and ran Mystic Steamship Company. T-Wharf Towing Company merged into the Boston Gas Eastern Enterprises Incorporated, its parent company, on June 30, 1917. Boston Gas Eastern Enterprises reformed the shipping lines as the Boston Towboat Company Incorporated. Boston Fuel Transportation Company purchased Boston Towboat Company in 1985. Boston Fuel renamed the company the Boston Towing and Transportation Companies. In 1940, the company became the Mystic Steamship, a Division of Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates.
During World War I, Mystic Steamship Company operated Merchant navy ships for the United States Shipping Board. During World War II, Mystic Steamship Company was active with charter shipping with the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration.
Post Mystic Steamship purchased some World War surplus Liberty ships, both tankers and colliers types.




Ships


Luna, tugboat, a City of Boston Landmark
Venus, tugboat
Trojan, tug
Biwabik, ship
Brandon, ship
Admiral Clark, ship
Brockton, 1908 Steamboat
Arlington, 1910 Steamboat




= Liberty ships

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SS Winchester, ship
Sewanee Seam
Sewell Seam
Beckley Seam
Pittsburgh Seam
Jewell Seam
Jellico Seam
Mingo Seam
Roda Seam




= World War II

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USS Stephen R. Jones
SS William A. McKenney
SS Melrose, collier, Coal cargo 7200 tons, bunkers 800 tons, crew of 3



Liberty ships

Jagger Seam
Hadley F. Brown
William Pierce Frye
Sumner I. Kimball




See also


World War II United States Merchant Navy




External links


Media related to Luna (tugboat, 1930) at Wikimedia Commons
Tugboat Luna Preservation Society
City of Boston, Landmarks Commission. Tugboat Luna Study Report, 1985




References

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• Mystic Steamship Company
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• USS Arkansas (BB-33)
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