Minnesota (Towboat, 1921-1951)
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BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel/screw propeller
BOAT TYPE: Towboat
BUILT: Stillwater, Minnesota, 1921
FINAL DISPOSITION: Sank at Fire Prairie Creek near Levasy, Missouri, after striking a railroad bridge pier on the Missouri River at Sibley, Missouri, June 21, 1951
OWNERS: Goltra Line; Federal Barge Line
OFFICERS & CREW: 1925: Captain Edgar L. "Jocko" Meek (master), Leroy King and John M. Warner (pilots), Charles Hunley (chief engineer), Ernest Vongruenigan (second engineer), George Lindsay (mate); Goltra Line crew in spring 1926: Captain John M. Warner (master), Guy Walker (pilot), Charles Hunley (chief engineer); March 1926: James Rowley and Henry Lindenburn (pilots); after 1930: Captain J. Wylie Leek (master), Carl R. Cutting (master), J. F. Browinski, Jr. (master); C. S. Wilkins (pilot, 1940; died while on watch near Chester, Illinois)
RIVERS: Mississippi River; Missouri River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T1826; Had a long, low paddlewheel; later converted to twin props (1930). In March, 1926, on a trip to Pittsburgh, she tried to lock through old Lock 1, Monongahela River and wouldn't fit. During WWII she delivered submarines from Lockport, Illinois to New Orleans
PHOTO DESCRIPTION: With barges in tow
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