The Kansas City is a twin-propellor, steel hull tow-boat, built in 1938 at Point Pleasant, West Virginia by the Marietta Manufacturing Company. Her dimensions are:- 148.4 x 40.1 x 8.1 feet. She has triple expansion condensing engines, 10-1/4 inches by 17 inches by 27 inches with [sic] and 18 inch stroke; 1,000 horse power at 225 r.p.m.; the propellors are 6 feet 5 inches in diameter. This boat is owned by the Inland Waterways Corporation of St. Louis, Missouri for towing on the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers.