Duncan Bruce

Hartford, John

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Duncan Bruce (Motor vessel)
Motor vessels
Towboats

The Duncan Bruce is a steel hull, twin-propellor towboat. She was built at Charleston, West Virginia in 1927 by the Charles Ward Engineering Works. Her dimensions are:- 133.6 x 35.1 x 6 feet. Her two National Superior Diesel engines total 1350 horse power. She was originally built as a sternwheel towboat with 750 horse power Fairbanks-Morse engines. In 1939, following damage in a fire, the boat was entirely rebuilt at Jeffersonville, Indiana by the Jeffersonville Boat and Machine Company. She is owned by the American Barge Line Company of Louisville, Ky.

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