EDWARD LUCKENBACH DEAD
Owner of Luckenbach Tugboat Fleet
Passes Away in Brooklyn Home.
Edward Luckenbach, the largest individual tugboat and barge owner on the Atlantic Coast died at his home, 28 Montgomery
Place, Brooklyn, on Wednesday. Mr. Luckenbach was sixty years of age, and came to New York from Rondout when a young man, beginning his career In the tug and barge business with a single canal boat. Several years later he entered the towboat
business, and In the last fifteen years has built the largest and swiftest fleet of oceangoing tugs in the United States. He was also the owner of the steamship J. L. Luckenbach which was formerly the North German Lloyd liner Saale, one of the vessels partly destroyed in the great Hoboken fire of June, 1900. The Luckenbach tugs are principally engaged In towing coal-laden barges between Newport News, Boston, and this port The Buena Ventura, one of the steamship prizes of the Spanish-American War, was purchased by Mr. Luckenbach and was recently converted into a coal barge. Mr. Luckenbach had practically retired from the business, which is now conducted by his son, Edgar.
THE NEW YOUK TIMES. Friday, August 19, 1904.
Owner of Luckenbach Tugboat Fleet
Passes Away in Brooklyn Home.
Edward Luckenbach, the largest individual tugboat and barge owner on the Atlantic Coast died at his home, 28 Montgomery
Place, Brooklyn, on Wednesday. Mr. Luckenbach was sixty years of age, and came to New York from Rondout when a young man, beginning his career In the tug and barge business with a single canal boat. Several years later he entered the towboat
business, and In the last fifteen years has built the largest and swiftest fleet of oceangoing tugs in the United States. He was also the owner of the steamship J. L. Luckenbach which was formerly the North German Lloyd liner Saale, one of the vessels partly destroyed in the great Hoboken fire of June, 1900. The Luckenbach tugs are principally engaged In towing coal-laden barges between Newport News, Boston, and this port The Buena Ventura, one of the steamship prizes of the Spanish-American War, was purchased by Mr. Luckenbach and was recently converted into a coal barge. Mr. Luckenbach had practically retired from the business, which is now conducted by his son, Edgar.
THE NEW YOUK TIMES. Friday, August 19, 1904.
EDWARD LUCKENBACH DEAD
Owner of Luckenbach Tugboat Fleet
Passes Away in Brooklyn Home.
Edward Luckenbach, the largest individual tugboat and barge owner on the Atlantic Coast died at his home, 28 Montgomery
Place, Brooklyn, on Wednesday. Mr. Luckenbach was sixty years of age, and came to New York from Rondout when a young man, beginning his career In the tug and barge business with a single canal boat. Several years later he entered the towboat
business, and In the last fifteen years has built the largest and swiftest fleet of oceangoing tugs in the United States. He was also the owner of the steamship J. L. Luckenbach which was formerly the North German Lloyd liner Saale, one of the vessels partly destroyed in the great Hoboken fire of June, 1900. The Luckenbach tugs are principally engaged In towing coal-laden barges between Newport News, Boston, and this port The Buena Ventura, one of the steamship prizes of the Spanish-American War, was purchased by Mr. Luckenbach and was recently converted into a coal barge. Mr. Luckenbach had practically retired from the business, which is now conducted by his son, Edgar.
THE NEW YOUK TIMES. Friday, August 19, 1904.
Owner of Luckenbach Tugboat Fleet
Passes Away in Brooklyn Home.
Edward Luckenbach, the largest individual tugboat and barge owner on the Atlantic Coast died at his home, 28 Montgomery
Place, Brooklyn, on Wednesday. Mr. Luckenbach was sixty years of age, and came to New York from Rondout when a young man, beginning his career In the tug and barge business with a single canal boat. Several years later he entered the towboat
business, and In the last fifteen years has built the largest and swiftest fleet of oceangoing tugs in the United States. He was also the owner of the steamship J. L. Luckenbach which was formerly the North German Lloyd liner Saale, one of the vessels partly destroyed in the great Hoboken fire of June, 1900. The Luckenbach tugs are principally engaged In towing coal-laden barges between Newport News, Boston, and this port The Buena Ventura, one of the steamship prizes of the Spanish-American War, was purchased by Mr. Luckenbach and was recently converted into a coal barge. Mr. Luckenbach had practically retired from the business, which is now conducted by his son, Edgar.
THE NEW YOUK TIMES. Friday, August 19, 1904.
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