RIVER QUEEN sunk at Saint Louis, Missouri, Dec. 2, 1967. Formerly the CAPE GIRARDEAU and GORDON C. GREENE. Last packet boat built at Howard Shipyards (b. 1923). Looking north.
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
Workers, probably of the Army Corps of Engineers, building a wooden mat. Barge in foreground has rock, barge behind wooden mat has logs. Steamboat in the background. Photograph of John C. DeBolt, Corps of Engineers. Photo 4 of series.
The enclosed pictures were taken during August 1981 on the Beardstown Illinois waterfront showing typical river scenes with the usual amount of tugs and other equipment. The B&N RR bridge in its river mode. The stern-wheel river tug is a locally built boat, original builders and name still showing = LOGSDON = built sometime in the 1930s more details could be obtained. These pictures were taken
down the Ohio somewhere between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. They seem to be saying "Wish you were here." Too late: too late. But not too late for Grace and me to wish you and yours a Happy Voyage through 1961. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The Ways.
The steamer PLUCK of the Henry W. Alsop Line. Barge in foreground. Barge or ferry in the mid-ground, along with the boat WINNIPEG. A Northern Pacific train runs in the background, where there is also a railroad bridge.