"Golden Eagle" below Eads Bridge St. Louis MO. Picture taken May 17, 1947 before departure for her last trip to Nashville, Tenn. She sank next morning May 18 at Grand Tower Island after striking rock formation and fearing a 6 foot hole in the center seam in the hull. The Pilot Nathan Smith beached her and all passengers & crew were saved. Repeated floods in the summer of 1947 made raising of the
Alone on the foredeck, a hand coils lines under the watchful eye of the mate and passengers. The landing stage has been secured since its last use at some small river town where passengers boarded.
Taken June 1935 for Wilbur Finger from Dick Lemen. L to R Capt. Dan Dipple, R. V. Gerber, Ruth Ferris, Capt. "Billy" Clark in pilothouse of Str. Golden Eagle.
U. S. Sergeant Floyd. Captain McIntyre pulls on a polished bass knob and a bell sounds somewhere below. A deckhand, equipped with a life belt of Mae West mode and hidden from view on the deck below, picks up an 18-foot pole marked with alternate black and white bands a foot wide and expertly pokes it toward the bottom. We are in 12 feet of water, or two fathoms, and his softly spoken \"Mark Twain