Albatros

Moore, Mack
Hartford, John

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Albatros (Steamboat)
Steamboats
Ferries
Train ferries

Vicksburg (Miss.)
Mississippi River

The Albatros, a side-wheel, double-track, railroad transfer boat, was built in 1907 at Dubuque, Iowa for the Queen and Crescent Railroad crossing at Vicksburg, Mississippi. She was constructed by the Dubuque Boat and Boiler Company. Her dimensions were:- 308 x 53.8 x 7.6 feet. Tonnage, gross and net, 1103 tons. She had 750 horsepower. About 9:25 P.M., on September 28, 1907, a dining car of the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railway, No. 498, on the rear end of passenger train No. 2 from Shreveport, Louisiana, going east, let go on top of the hill on the Vicksburg, Mississippi, side of the river. The car ran back through the transfer boat and into the river. No lives were lost. An investigation showed the accident to be the fault of the railroad company and not the officers of the vessel. After 14 years of service at Vicksburg, Mississippi she was returned to Dubuque in 1921 and lengthened 57 feet; total new length 365 feet. Tonnage: gross, 1313; net, 1281 tons. With the construction of a new highway and railroad bridge at Vicksburg she was sold to the Streckfus Steamers about 1937 and her hull and engine used in the construction of the Admiral. She is now 360 x 52.7 x 7.6 feet. She has high pressure engines 26 inches in diameter with 10-foot stroke. Her machinery is wholly within her hold and below the main deck. She is one of the largest passenger vessels ever built for the Mississippi River and runs excursions exclusively out of St. Louis during the summer months.

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