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Title: Ohio River Wicket-Type Dam
Description: Photograph of the wickett type dam on the Ohio River.

Title: Henry M. Stanley
Description: The Henry M. Stanley was built at Murraysville, West Virginia, in 1890 for the Bay Brothers. She was 180 x 32.4 x 5.5 feet; her machinery came from the towboat John Hanna. This boat was sold to the White Collar Line of Cincinnati, ran various trades and had preculiar experiences. On February 1, 1900 she struck a pier of the Southern Railroad bridge at Cincinnati, sank and drowned one. She was

Title: Foote's Gun-Boats Ascending To Attack Fort Henry
Date: 1862-02
Description: From Harper's History of the Great Rebellion, From Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War.

Title: Cincinnati
Description: Photograph of the Cincinnati steamboat as it travels the Ohio River. A barge sits in the foreground with a tug boat behind it., p3boats-33

Title: Omar, Towboat operated by Ohio River Company
Description: The steamer Omar is a sternwheel , steel-hull towboat, built in 1936 at Neville Island, Pennsylvania by the Dravo Corporation. Her hull is 171.4 x 34.6 x 7 feet; Length over-all is 202 feet and she draws six feet, two inches of water. She was built for the Ohio River Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. She has five return flue boilers which are especially designed for river steamers. All five of the

Title: Henry M. Stanley
Date: 1907-09-03
Description: Wreck of Str. Henry M. Stanley. Gallipolis, O. 9/3/07

Title: Cincinnati
Description: Photograph of the Cincinnati steamboat as it was under construction., p3boats-33

Title: The Twin Packets
Description: City of Louisville, City of Cincinnati, White Collar Line. In 1894, at a time when the river trade was visibly declining, Commodore Laidley of the White Collar Line set to work to build and put into the Lousiville and Cincinnati trade three of the finest steamers built within the two previous decades on the Ohio River. They were acutally built from an architect's drawing. The three were completed

Title: Immense Tow of Coalboats
Date: 1898-03-15
Description: On Tuesday, March 15, 1898, the largest single shipment of coal ever moved on the Western Rivers was taken out of the harbor of Pittsburgh, Pa., by the towboat Joseph B. Williams, owned by C. Jutte and Co. of that place.

Title: Nashville
Description: The Nashville was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1910. Her dimensions were:- 155 x 34 x 4.0 feet. Tonnage: gross, 251; net, 116 tons. She had 200 horse power. She ran in the Paducah and Nashville trade but finally dropped out in June of 1918 on account of scarcity of labor and high price of coal. The Nashville was the first packet to pass through the new lock in the Louisville Canal; May

Title: U. S. Greenbrier
Description: Light house service on Ohio River. The U. S. Greenbrier was built at the old Ward plant in 1924 at Charleston, West Virginia by the Charles Ward Engineering Works. She has a length of 164 1/2 feet and a beam of 33 1/2 feet. The length over deck is 140 feet and her beam over guards 32 1/2 feet; depth of hold, five feet. She has 350 horsepower and her engines are non condensing, high pressure with

Title: John Ross
Description: The John Ross was built at Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1905 by the Tennessee River Navigation Company. Her dimensions were:- 121 x 22 x 4.5 feet; tonnage, 94. Her two boilers were each 18 feet long and 36 inches in diameter. The engines were 9-1/2's by 3-1/2's slide valve, poppet cut-off, cold water doctor; 75 horse power. She was offered for sale in 1919 for $3.000 and was purchased by Captain E

Title: Ohio River. Newells Run.
Date: 1890-08-07
Description: Ohio River. Newells Run. View upstream from Koerners Landing. Aug. 7. 1890. #860.

Title: M/V AA Vestal (3,200hp)
Date: 2006-01-16
Description: M/V A. A. Vestal - Tri-River Fleeting & Harbor Service - Bethel Park, Pennsylvania - 3,200 horsepower - Larose Shipyard-1975 - January 16, 2006 downbound at Parkersburg, West Virginia --- See also: M/V Sara Elrabeth, M/V Safety Pledge, M/V Robert Dean Moore --- Boat Photo Museum No. 1847-41982

Title: M/V AA Vestal (3200hp)
Date: 1993-01-17
Description: M/V A. A. Vestal - Cambell Barge Line, Inc. - Charleroi Pennsylvania- 3200 horsepower - Larose Shipyard, Incorporated-1975 - January 17, 1993 at Clarington, Ohio --- See also: M/V Sara Elrabeth, M/V Safety Pledge, M/V Robert Dean Moore --- Boat Photo Museum No. 417-32442

Title: M/V AA Vestal (3200hp)
Date: 1993-01-17
Description: M/V A. A. Vestal - Cambell Barge Line, Inc. - Charleroi Pennsylvania- 3200 horsepower - Larose Shipyard, Incorporated-1975 - January 17, 1993 at Clarington, Ohio --- See also: M/V Sara Elrabeth, M/V Safety Pledge, M/V Robert Dean Moore --- Boat Photo Museum No. 417-32441

Title: Ohio River, Dredging at Brooklyn Harbor, Ill.
Date: 1892-11-07
Description: #1007, Nov. 7, 1892. OHIO RIVER, Dredging at Brooklyn Harbor, Ill. 923 Miles from Pittsburg.
Steamer H. S. McComb and dredges Oswego and Ohio are visible working the river.

Title: Leyhe, Captain William H.
Date: 1952
Description: Photograph of master's license for Capt. William H. Leyhe.

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