John A. Wood

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Hartford, John

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John A. Wood (Steamboat)
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The John A. Wood was built in 1870 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the Wood Company. Her dimensions were:- 198 x 40 x 7.0 feet; tonnage, gross and net, 688 tons. On September 7, 1894 she caught fire at night while lying at her landing in Pittsburgh. She was scuttled and sunk. Later raised and repaired; damaged $12,000. While making a landing in the harbor at Cairo, Illinois, on March 24, 1906, the pilot wheel became unmanageable, breaking the leg of Captain Harry B. Green. Amputation was necessary, resulting in the death of Captain Green. She long served as coal towboat from Pittsburgh south until laid up with the cessation of the coal towing business. The Wood was rescued from the famed boneyard on the Ohio River in the 1920s by the Standard Oil Company, repaired and used to tow oil products out of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She burned at Baton Rogue on November 19, 1925.

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