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Title: Deckhands, U. S. Sergeant Floyd
Description: Deckhands tightening headline with capstan.

Title: Robert McGregor
Description: The U. S. Robert McGregor is an all steel dust pan suction type dredge. She was built in 1914 for the U. S. Engineers and first operated on the Warrior River in Alabama. Later she was sent to the Mississippi but left that stream in 1928 for the Missouri River where she now operates in the Omaha District. She is 220 feet in length, 45 feet wide and of 1000 tons burden. Her propelling engine is of

Title: Sounding
Description: 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

Title: Construction of Cape Girardeau Bridge
Date: 1927-12-08
Description: Placing concrete in Pier No. 2. Mixing plant, aggregate (sand and stone) and cement barges alongside. Pile driver heating concrete aggregate with steam.

Title: Construction of Cape Girardeau Bridge
Date: 1927
Description: Towboat GILLESPIE placing barge of gravel alongside floating mixer plant.

Title: Comanche
Description: The Comanche was a steel hull, stern wheel towboat. She was built at Dubuque, Iowa in 1915 by the Dubuque Boat and Boiler Works. Her dimensions were:- 141 x 28.1 x 5.6 feet. The Comanche was owned by the U.S. Engineer Corps of Chicago, Illinois and was used on the Illinois River, mostly working out of Peoria, Illinois. In 1946 she was sold to Captain Charles Colvin who dismantled her in 1947.

Title: The Waterways Journal, Volume 22, Number 11
Date: 1909-06-12,
Description: Vol. XXII, No. 11. Blow to 14-Foot Waterway. Army Engineers Report That Outlay of Money is Unwarranted. Tonnage of Des Moines.

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