General Ashburn (Towboat, 1927-1945)
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BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
BOAT TYPE: Towboat
BUILT: Dubuque, Iowa by Dubuque Boat and Boiler Company, 1927
BECAME: J. T. Hatfield
FINAL DISPOSITION: Renamed J. T. Hatfield in the summer of 1945
OWNERS: Federal Barge Line; Hatfield-Campbell Creek Coal Company (1941)
OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Ben Winter (master, 1927-?); in June, 1931: Captain W. M. "Billy" Clark (master), Edward F. "Skippy" Shermeyer (pilot), Rolla R. Tweedy (chief engineer), William L. Meyers (second engineer), Harry Hays (mate), Frank Green (steward); in fall, 1935: Captain Thomas P. Craig (master), Abner Friemonth (pilot), R. R. Tweedy and Fred Crenshaw (engineers); Captain Charles M. Young (master, 1941, 1943, 1945); W. D. Curry (pilot, October 1943); Tom Brown (chief engineer, 1943, 1945); Robert Gibson (second engineer, 1943, 1945); Dewell Jones (mate)
RIVERS: Mississippi River; Kanawha River; Ohio River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T0886; Owned by Federal Barge Line and designed by T. Rees Tarn for upper Mississippi River service. This boat and the Wynoka took part in the opening of the Peoria, Illinois terminal in June 1931. The boat was named for Major General Thomas Q. Ashburn, and he and his wife rode from St. Louis to Peoria for the occasion. This boat also served in the St. Louis-Kansas City trade in the fall of 1935. She was seen at Hastings, Minnesota, headed up river with barges in tow, 1935. In 1941 she was sold to Hatfield-Campbell Creek Coal Company of Cincinnati, Captain Charles M. Young, master. She towed coal, Kanawha River to Cincinnati and Louisville. She sank at Reed, West Virginia on Christmas eve, 1944, caught on a falling river, and she was raised a week or so later. She was renamed J. T. Hatfield in the summer of 1945
PHOTO DESCRIPTION: With tow
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