EMMA at Bowling Green, KY.

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Emma (Steamboat)
River steamers
Steamboats

Bowling Green (Ky.)

Bowling Green, KY. B.G. Ice and Cold Storage Co. Str. EMMA in foreground. 11-22-1962 Steamer Emma – 1901-1923 at Bowling Green Ky. on Barren River head of navigation. In 1924 she was renamed M.C. Clay. Built at Evansville Ind. In 1901, size 85’x22’x3.9. She had two boilers, western river type engines were – 10”x4½’ stroke slide value poppet cut-off. She towed, RR cross ties, coal, and asphalt, under command of Capt’n J. Mike Speck, Teb Howell, Jessie L. Wilson, and Captain James E. Wallace, on the Emma, I was a member of her crew under Captn Jessie L. Wilson, and Captain Jas. E. Wallace, Charlie Lucas was chief engineer (Cylinder Cock Charlie as he was known). Had my real, really first pay job as a deckhand on this boat at age 15, under command of Captn Jessie L. Wilson. I was a little too light for decking especially when we hit a coal pile. Captain Wilson and my father were very close friends and Captain Jessie carried me on the payroll as a deckhand, but put me in the firebox to haul ashes down through the ash well. At other times, I spent in the engine room with Chief Lucas. Then later on when was about 19, I was a watchman on her, in command of Captain James E. Wallace. Captain Wallace is now living in Bowling Green, Ky., in his 91st year. By Courtney M. Ellis, Nashville, Tenn.

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