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The Presque Isle was a 1,000-foot-long integrated tug and barge, designed to combine the smaller crew of a tug boat with the cargo capacity of a footer. After sea trials, the U.S. Coast Guard determined that the vessel required the same size crew as a freighter, and no other 1,000-foot-long barge was ever built.
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