McAllister Clean Up
Tugboat from the McAllister Towing and Transportation Company. Photo by Rob and Jessie Stankey.
Commercial divers recently reached the shipwrecked tugboat McAllister to assess whether it still contained diesel fuel from when it sank in 1963. The wreck sits in about 165-feet of water off Schuyler Reef. The tug was carrying diesel fuel when it sank and had a capacity to hold up to 14,000 gallons of fuel. Until the divers reached the wreck it was unknown how much fuel remained underwater. Fortunately, the divers found only small amounts of lubricating oil and no diesel fuel. LCC first reported on the Tugboat in an April 2010 Lake Look column. The McAllister, Towing and Transportation Company, which owns the wreck and still operates today, paid for the recovery operations.
