Derrick Boat No. 8, also known as DB 8, is a historic floating derrick located at Oswego,

Oswego County, New York Oswego County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 117,525. The county seat is Oswego. The county name is from a Mohawk-language word meaning "the pouring out place", referring to the point at ...

. It was built in 1927, and it is one of the few surviving steam-powered floating derricks to have worked on the

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. It has a 75 foot by 28 foot hull composed of both riveted and welded heavy steel plate. The site of the vessel's caretaker is the

H. Lee White Marine Museum The H. Lee White Marine Museum is located in Oswego, New York. It was founded in 1982 by Rosemary Sinnett Nesbitt (1924–2009), a local professor and the City of Oswego Historian. Nesbitt retired from directorship of the museum in 2008 after com ...

. ''Note:'' This includes an
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in 2015.

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