''G.W. Rogers'' was a

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active on the

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. She was built in 1919, at Great Yarmouth, in the United Kingdom. Her previous names included: ''Ballen Balloch'', ''West Hope'' and ''Ocean Gull''. She helped free the

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'' George M. Carl'', when she ran aground off the mouth of the Humber River, in 1975. The ''G.W. Rogers'' sank at her moorings at Rensselaer, New York in December 1987. A port official told the ''

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'' that the vessel was so rusty her name was "nearly illegible". The ''Schenectady Gazette'' reported that a floating crane would have to be brought from

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to salvage the tug, as the combined weight of the vessel and a land-based crane would overwhelm the moorings.

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