J. B. Lewis (Towboat, 1900-1926)
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BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
BOAT TYPE: Towboat
BUILT: 1900 at Middleport, Ohio at the Flesher and Cole yard
FINAL DISPOSITION: Lost in a storm in August, 1926 at Nine Mile Point
OWNERS: Collins and Hartweg; Chesapeake Mining Company; Whiteman Construction Company (1920)
OFFICERS & CREW: Captain John Martin (master, 1900-1912); Captain George Whiteman (master)
RIVERS: Kanawha River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T1230; She was built in three days less than four months. Her engines had been on the Hawkeye and the Wm. Ernst. She towed Kanawha River coal to Cincinnati. On October 10, 1901 her cabin and pilothouse burned off at Charleston, West Virginia. She was towed to Cincinnati by the towboat John Mackey for rebuilding later in October of that year. After she was sold to the Whiteman Construction Company, she towed out of the Atchafalaya River for American Pitch Pine Company
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