To be able in small way to be part of the restoration and preservation of our history and of the steamboats that made it possible for this country to become truly great is a great satisfaction. Signed: John Shipley
Gast St. Louis Brewing Co. operated a plant at 851 Hornsby Avenue. After a fire, it bottled beer in a plant in Highland, Ill. The brewery closed in the 1940s.
The Portland was built in 1947 as a harbor tug. She is aprox 220 feet long, and her paddle wheel is 25 plus feet in diameter. She has 7 rudders. In 1980 the Port of Portland who owner her, retired her. They planned to restore her to daily passenger excursions, but gave up due to lack of funding. She was given to the Oregon Maritime Museum a few years ago, and the with massive volunteer help have restored her. The pictures are on her first trip since 1980.
She is on a steel hull, Boiler Deck, and Main Deck. Floor. The rest is wooden.
So hopefully, an exemption can be gotten to allow her to operate as basically is, or funds to change wood to steel.
She is very typical of the Western Steam Paddle Wheeler.
Beer advertisement for Channel Nine's first international beer and food tasting. The event was held at the Omni International Hotel at Union Station and tickets cost $10 for Channel Nine members, $12 for guests and those purchasing at the door. Admission included samples of hundreds of international beer and food samples.
M/V A. B. Barr - Stapp Towing Company, Inc. - Dickinson, Texas - 700 horsepower - Sabine Neches Shipbuilding Corporation, 1966 - April 9, 1993 eastbound at Freeport, Texas
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See also: M/V Margie D., M/V Miss Jan
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Boat Photo Museum No. 1357-33330
M/V A. B. Barr - Stapp Towing Company, Inc. - Dickinson, Texas - 700 horsepower - Sabine Neches Shipbuilding Corporation, 1966 - April 9, 1993 eastbound at Freeport, Texas
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See also: M/V Margie D., M/V Miss Jan
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Boat Photo Museum No. 1357-33329
M/V A. A. Vestal - Cambell Barge Line, Inc. - Charleroi Pennsylvania- 3200 horsepower - Larose Shipyard, Incorporated-1975 - January 17, 1993 at Clarington, Ohio
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See also: M/V Sara Elrabeth, M/V Safety Pledge, M/V Robert Dean Moore
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Boat Photo Museum No. 417-32442
M/V A. A. McKinney - McKinney Towing, Inc. - Baton Rouge, Louisiana - 1,800 horsepower - Avondale Shipyards, Inc. - 1963 - October 23, 1994 upbound at Mound City, Illinois
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See also: M/V Paul H. Chotin, M/V Emmanuel Ch 133
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Boat Photo Museum No. 33041
M/V A. A. Vestal - Cambell Barge Line, Inc. - Charleroi Pennsylvania- 3200 horsepower - Larose Shipyard, Incorporated-1975 - January 17, 1993 at Clarington, Ohio
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See also: M/V Sara Elrabeth, M/V Safety Pledge, M/V Robert Dean Moore
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Boat Photo Museum No. 417-32441