The Father Mychal Judge underway on 23 October 2015.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Father Mychal Judge |
Namesake | Mychal Judge |
Operator | NY Waterway |
Builder | Allen Marine, Inc., Sitka, Alaska |
Christened | February 20, 2002 [2] |
In service | March 2002 |
Identification |
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Status | in active service, as of 2012 [update] |
General characteristics [3] | |
Type | Passenger ferry |
Tonnage | |
Length | 65 ft (20 m) |
Beam | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
Draft | 3 ft 6 in (1.07 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
Capacity | 110 passengers |
The Father Mychal Judge is a NY Waterway ferry named in honor of Mychal Judge, a New York City priest who was a victim of al Qaeda's attacks on September 11, 2001. [4]
The vessel was christened in March 2002. [5] The ferry participated in the rescue of passengers of US Airways Flight 1549 that made a successful emergency landing on the Hudson River on 15 January 2009. [6] [7] On April 6, 2012, her captain, Mohamed Gouda, led his crew in a second rescue of the crew of capsized barge Katherine G..
His crew lowered a Jacob's ladder — a device specifically designed to pull people out of the water — and brought five people aboard his ferry, the Mychal Judge, which is named after a pastor who was killed at the Twin Towers on 9/11.
A New York Waterway ferry was christened Father Mychal Judge.
Authorities say the Katherine G was in place at the end of the pier, that workers were in the process of loading a construction crane onto the spud barge, which is a unique barge that features 3 deck pilings.