PEA
PATCH ISLAND
AND
MISS
KATHY
Friday
26 November 1988, Wilmington Morning News.
The
Miss Kathy , the 42 foot which carries 42 passengers from the
Branch
Canal at the foot of Clinton Street in Delaware City, one mile
trip
to the Pea Patch Island State Park, is retired and replaced by
double
the
size, 20 year younger, 90 passenger custom built ferry boat.
Pea
Patch Island, with Fort Delaware, once a Confederate POW Camp,
is
a tourist attraction and the largest nesting grounds for wading
birds
on
the East Coast.
The
20 year old Miss Kathy, a all wooden vessel , got too old to
maintain.
It
is difficult to find anyone to work on a wood ship nowadays and it
is
feared
the coast Guard will shut her down any time. Plus that she is to
small
at 49 passengers since attendance to Ft. Delaware is
increasing
every
year.
The
new ferry vessel will be 57 feet long, made of fiberglass with twin
diesel
engines and carry more than 100 visitors each trip, and cost th
Parks
Department $200,000. She is to be named Delafort.
Miss
Kathy's fate is uncertain but she will probably go up to auction.
Abstract:
25 November 2018 by Harrison H. for Facebook readers
26
November 1988 Wilmington Morning News
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