Photograph of pilot and unknown child in the pilothouse of the steamboat DELTA QUEEN. “Pilot Ware in Pilot House while docked in Hannibal. Note Official Number of ship above windshield. Same as posted in stairwell in engine room. This was about 5:30 PM Saturday on the day of accident. / 1980.”
THE GOLDEN EAGLE WAS BUILT IN 1904 BY THE HOWARD SHIP YARD AND DOCK COMPANY AT JEFFERSONVILLE, INDIANA AS THE WM. GARIG, A SOUTHERN COTTON BOAT. HER WOODEN HULL IS 175 BY 35 BY 5.2 FEET AND THE GROSS AND NET TONNAGE IS 193. THE MACHINERY IS OF 200 HORSEPOWER WITH CYLINDERS 15 INCHES IN DIAMETER AND SIX FEET STROKE. THE BOILERS ARE 44 INCHES IN DIAMETER BY 32 FEET LONG. THE EAGLE PACKET COMPANY
by Randy Gerber - when? Ca 1935 on the Str. "Golden Eagle". Men with white caps L to R Jim Swift, Rudy Gerber, Oliver P. center standing: Horty Wilder, Hostess; between Horty & Rudy G. is Ruth Ferris, side view. Others not known to me - Marga F.