A selection of photographs from the Tasco album

When the 6-masted schooner Mertie B. Crowley bound for Boston went aground near Edgartown in January 1910, the Tasco was involved in the salvage operation to save what they could of the 14,500 tons of coal that she was carrying.  But the story of the rescue of the passengers and crew is a dramatic tale that you can hear by clicking on this link to the web site Yankee Yarns.

This photo shows the use of a "breeches buoy" to bring passengers from the steamer Spartan to safety after being wrecked off Block Island. However, the wreck of the Spartan took place in 1905 and the S.S.Tasco was constructed in 1907 so perhaps another T.A. Scott wrecker was involved in this salvage operation.

In this photograph, the Tasco is towing a steamer with a broken shaft to Greenport, Long Island.  The top decks are crowded with passengers.

The Norumbega was a luxury steamship that took passengers to Bar Harbor, Maine in the days before automobile travel became the norm. The Tasco was involved in the salvage operation in 1912 after she went aground. The web site Getting Here from There has an interesting article about steamboat travel to Mount Dessert Island, including the incident shown in this photograph.

Not all of the Tasco activities involved wrecks and rescues.  Here the salvage vessel is being used to take soldiers and horses to "the fort", very possibly Fort Trumbull in New London.

In the time before the regular car ferry service from New London to Orient Point, here is a photograph of the Tasco carrying an automobile to Greenport, Long Island.