October 29, 1937. - Looking downstream from pilot house of Grafton, about station 223-00. Note face of cut standing practically vertical, also water and sand running out gut about where dragline is located
The engines were 18 inches by 8 feet, with three boilers made of Park Brothers' black diamond steel which were 44 inches by 28 feet, and were allowed 178 pounds of steam. There were six flues in each boiler. The wheels were 26 feet in diameter; the buckets 12 feet long and 26 inches wide. There was 14 feet between her main and boiler decks. The cabin was 13 feet wide in the clear, with 17 large
Dec - 17 - 1962. Steamer "Bowling Green."
"Here My Friends," is my "Really-Real" first Steamboat Love. She - was built at Howards in 1904 - came out, new in early 1905. "And I mean - new." No hand me downs from any other steamboats. I went striker on her May 17th1905, and remained for two years, without pay, except occasionally I had a chance to run as roof watchman for which I got "big
Packet' Liberty' with photographers boat, when new- built-1889. Marietta Ohio, for apt John K. Booth- sold into the Memphis White River trade- Sold, early 1900s to Capts W. MEanes Sr. & T. Jackson, for a Mobile-Tombigbee Packet- who sold her to Winston & Henry Jones for the same trade- Sold circa 1911, to Montgomery Ala intos, for a towboat, on Alabama River, in Mobile- Montgomery trade-
Her
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