Net Tonnage: 18
Length: 52 ft. (overall)
Breadth: 15 ft.
Depth: 5.6 ft.
Horsepower: 175
Draft: 6


The wooden tugboat W.O. Decker was built in Long Island City, Queens in 1930 for the Newtown Creek Towing Company, a firm specializing in berthing ships and barges in the creek that separates Brooklyn and Queens. Originally called the Russell I for the towing company’s owners, she was renamed the W.O. Decker in 1946 after being sold to the Decker family's Staten Island tugboat firm. One of the last steam-powered tugs built in this harbor, she was later refitted with a diesel engine. In 1986, the W.O. Decker was donated to the museum, where she is used in a variety of ways.