The Helena is a steel hull, twin-propellor towboat. She was built in Midland, Pennsylvania in 1938 by the Midland Barge Company. Her dimensions are:- 148.4 x 40.1 x 8.1 feet. She is an oil burner and has water tube boilers. The triple expansion engines, 10-1/4\" x 17\" x 27\" with an 18-inch stroke total 1,000 horse power. Her propellors are 6 feet 5 inches in diameter. She is owned by the Inland
Passing the Peoria river front. Owned by Ohio River Company. The steamer E. D. Kenna was the first boat built outright for the Ohio River Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, having been constructed in 1926 by the Chas. Ward Engineering Works, Charleston, West Virginia. In 1936 the Kenna was placed on the ways of the Dravo Corporation, Pittsburgh, to be cut in half, pulled apart, and twenty feet added to