Allegheny (Towboat, 1927-1945)
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- 1940-06-07
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BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
BOAT TYPE: Towboat
BUILT: 1927 at Ambridge, Pennsylvania; completed at Coal Valley, Pennsylvania
BECAME: J.L. Perry
FINAL DISPOSITION: Renamed J.L. Perry in June 1945
OWNERS: Carnegie Steel Company
OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Frank A. Gould (master, August 1930); Ernest Cropper (chief engineer, 1930, 1939, 1940); Fred German (second engineer, 1930); Captain Paul Cowan (master, 1939); Lew Bradford (pilot, 1939); Andy Zollinger (steward, 1939); Captain William Cowan (master, 1940); Henry E. Holloway (pilot, 1940)
RIVERS: Ohio River; Mississippi River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T0105; Did a good bit of work down the Ohio and Mississippi; in May 1935, she delivered the first gasoline tow to the Republic Oil Corporation plant at Coraopolis, Pennsylvania while under charter to ABL; she caught on a sunken barge at Duquesne, Pennsylvania and sank on May 14, 1942 but was recovered and renamed J.L. Perry in June 1945
PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Allegheny pushing a tow on the Monongahela River, Pool no. 4 on June 7, 1940
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