Passing towboat traffic leaving Lock 26, the Delta Queen is saluted and returns greetings of the morning. As she had appeared out of the mist just an hour earlier, she disappeared into it going east. And now she is gone, forever. Why must it be so?
The Yocona is a sternwheel, steel hull towboat built by the Dubuque Boat and Boiler Works in 1919 at Dubuque, Iowa. Her hull measures 153.5 by 34 by 5.8 feet. She has 3 boilers which burn oil. The engines are 15's - 30's with 7-foot stroke; 450 horse power. The Yocona was oariginally built for the U.S. Coast Guard. However, she was converted into a towboat by her present owners, the Patton
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