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Title: Jack Rathbone
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Description: The Jack Rathbone is a steel hull, stern-wheel towboat. She was built at Point Pleasant, West Virginia in 1937 by the Marietta Manufacturing Company. Her dimensions are: - 190.1 x 42.1 x 7.2 feet. She is an oil burner and has two Foster-Wheeler water tube boilers. The condensing engines, 16's by 32's with a 10-foot stroke, produce 1900 horse power at 350 pounds steam pressure. The Rathbone is

Title: Francis M. Houghland
Date: 1953-10-24
Description: M/V (Francis M. Houghland) of Houghland Line - passing dredge at mouth of the Meramec River, mile 160.0.

Title: Charles R. Sundby
Description: Capt. Charles R. Sundby - last summer's master of The Natchez, in pilot house of towboat.

Title: Lady Linda
Date: 1952-05-20
Description: M/V (Lady Linda) passing service base.

Title: Elisha Woods
Date: 1953-06-11
Description: M/V (Elisha Woods) passing service base.

Title: Richard Moyle
Date: 1953-04-13
Description: M/V (Richard Moyle) passing service base.

Title: Delta Queen
Description: Photograph from the steamboat DELTA QUEEN after the boat caught up with the towboat.

Title: Pere Marquette
Date: 1953-07-02
Description: M/V (Pere Marquette) passing service base.

Title: F. M. Wallace
Description: . She swung around, turned over and sunk in 100 feet of water, a total loss; valued at $3000. No one hurt and no lives lost. She aws taken into the Pittsburgh \"Combine\" in the early 1900's, and then towed coal from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. In May 1907, towing 28 pieces loaded with 21,000 tons of coal, she made the run from Pittsburgh to New Orleans in 15 days. On June 15, 1909, charges were

Title: Sam Craig
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Description: The Sam Craig is a steel hull, sternwheel towboat. She was built at Midland, Pennsylvania in 1929 by the Midland Barge Company. Her dimensions are: - 151 x 34.7 x 6 feet. She has 4 return flue boilers. Her compound, condensing engines, 15's by 30's with a 7-foot stroke, produce 750 horse power. Her paddle wheel is 19 feet 4 inches in diameter, 23 feet long, working 13 buckets of 40-inch dip. The

Title: A. W. ARMSTRONG
Description: Sank on Lower Mississippi. One of her boilers was hauled to Brunswick MO, where I placed it aboard the "Ralph Hicks." For Kansas City Bridge Co.

Title: Midwest Cities
Date: 1953-10-01
Description: M/V (Midwest Cities) of Lake Tawkers Corp. - passing dredge, mile 235.7.

Title: Tri-Cities
Date: 1953-04-18
Description: M/V (Tri-Cities) passing service base.

Title: T. M. Norsworthy
Date: 1953-07-09
Description: M/V (T. M. Norsworthy) of the Houston Barge Line passing service base.

Title: Seneca
Date: 1953-09-23
Description: M/V (Seneca) passing dredge.

Title: Geno C. Hutchinson
Date: 1953-09-07
Description: M/V (Geno C. Hutchinson) of the Hutchinson Towing Co. - passing dredge, mile 136.9.

Title: Raymond Horner
Description: The Raymond Horner was an old \"Combine\" towboat built at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania in 1882. Her dimensions were:- 195 x 45.1 x 6.7 feet; tonnage listed as 688 tons. She collided with the ferry steamer Champion on December 23, 1884, resulting in the loss of one life. On November 26, 1898 with a tow of barges she collided with the Ben Hur at Newel's Run, Ohio, due to the narrow channel. No censure

Title: A. D. Franz
Description: Towboat A. D. Franz, probably at Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

Title: Vicksburg
Description: Photograph of the steamer VICKSBURG midstream.

Title: Hortense B. Ingram
Date: 1953-05-07
Description: M/V (Hortense B. Ingram) passing service base.

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