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Title: Pacific No. 2
Description: The Pacific No. 2 was built at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1893. Her dimensions were:- 176 x 32 x 5.0 feet. Tonnage, gross, 570; net, 416 tons. The Marmet Coal Company sold the machinery of the Lioness No. 2 to the Captains Joseph and Abe Gould who placed them in the Pacific No. 2. She was a coal towboat operating out of Pittsburg. On January 23, 1900, the Pacific ascending the Ohio River

Title: A. M. SCOTT - Kansas City Missouri Navigation Co.
Description: K. C. Missouri River Navigation Co. Str. A. M. SCOTT with barge. Photograph.

Title: Hortense B. Ingram
Date: 1953-12-29
Description: M/V (Hortense B. Ingram) passing dredge.

Title: Fred W. Olcott
Date: 1953-07-29
Description: M/V (Fred W. Olcott) passing dredge in lower approach to Chain of Rocks Canal.

Title: James H.
Description: The James H. is a steel hull, twin-propellor towboat. She was built at Nashville, Tennessee in 1940 by the Nashville Bridge Company. This boat has Atlas Imperial Diesel engines which total 800 horse power. She is owned by the Walter G. Hougland Lines of Paducah, Kentucky.

Title: Minnesota
Description: The Minnesota is a steel hull, twin propeller towboat built at Stillwater, Minnesota in 1921. Her dimensions are:- 223.7 x 58 x 8.0 feet. She has triple expansion condensing engines, 16-3/4\" x 26-1/2\" x 31-1/2\" x 31-1/2\" by 22-inch stroke; 2400 horsepower are developed at 185 r. p. m. Water tube boilers with oil burners. She was originally built as a sternwheel towboat, one of a series of

Title: Grand Tower III
Description: Photograph of the towboat GRAND TOWER. Corps of Engineers boat.

Title: Sabrina
Description: The Sabrina was a small, sidwheel towboat built for the U. S. Engineers at Carondelet, Missouri in 1878. Her dimensions were: - 82.9 x 12.7 x 3.6 feet. Tonnage: gross, 30; net, 19 tons. She was used for towing on the Missouri River. Later he name was changed from the U. S. Sabrina to just plain Sabrina.

Title: Joseph B. Williams
Date: 1905-08
Description: On August 10, 1905, while enroute up the Ohio River, she struck a snag at Sister's Island, below Golconda and near Bay City, Illinois and tore a hole 40 feet long in her hull, causing the boat to sink in shallow water. Three towboats went to the rescue of the wreck - the Fulton, Ranger and Wash Honshell - assisted in raising the Williams. She was then placed on the ways for repairs; damage

Title: Alice Brown
Description: Empty coal tow. Upbound, Ohio River.

Title: Alice Ingram
Date: 1953-04-06
Description: M/V (Alice Ingram) passing service base.

Title: Lady Linda
Date: 1952-12-19
Description: M/V (Lady Linda) at Goose Island, mile 34.9.

Title: Sequoyah
Description: Photograph of the towboat SEQUOYAH.

Title: Illini
Date: 1953-09-05
Description: M/V (Illini) of Illinois Farmers Supply Co. - passing dredge (Mile 136.9).

Title: Admiral and Towboat
Date: 1945
Description: The steamer ADMIRAL under way, passing a towboat and tow. Photograph.

Title: Towboats on the Ohio
Date: 1938
Description: Towboats crowd each other along the Ohio, where modern river traffic surpasses anything in tonnage that was known in the days when steamboating was at its height.

Title: Cotton Palace Showboat and Mollie Able
Description: Photograph of the COTTON PALACE SHOWBOAT and tow MOLLIE ABLE.

Title: Federal Barge Lines towboats
Date: 1946
Description: winter for overhauling. Normally, the screw type boats operate between St. louis and new Orleans during the winter months, but operations will be extended to Chicago this year.\" Color photo by staff photographer Jack Zehrt. November 10, 1946

Title: Sioux City
Date: 1953-07-08
Description: Recently built M/V (Sioux City) for the newly formed Missouri River line named the (Sioux City and New Orleans) Barge Line. This is the boat's first north bound trip.

Title: Jayne Houghland
Description: Photograph of the Houghland Barge Line Inc. towboat JAYNE HOUGHLAND. WJ

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