Isthmian (Towboat, 1926-1936)

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Created Date
1935-08-17
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BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel

BOAT TYPE: Towboat

BUILT: Ambridge, Pennsylvania by Ambridge Bridge Company (hull) and completed at Coal Valley, Pennsylvania marine ways, 1926

BECAME: Thomas Moses August 1936

OWNERS: Carnegie Steel Company

OFFICERS & CREW: 1930: Captain James Hays (master), Harry Black (pilot), Dan P. Varble (chief engineer), Sebolt M. Varble (second engineer), Charles Anderson (steward); April, 1935: Captain William Cowan (master), Fred Irwin (pilot), James McCarthy and James Smith (engineers), Robert Mitchell (mate), Charles Anderson (steward); December 27, 1935: Captain Walter "Yukon Pete" Price (master), Harry Nichols (pilot on watch), Vern K. Byrnside (pilot), Van Petty (chief engineer), Anson Crabb (second engineer), Floyd Weiss (mate), Clare Carpenter (watchman), Bob Southall and Raymond Merritt (deckhands), Bella Robinson (chambermaid)

RIVERS: Mississippi River; Ohio River

OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T1217; Launched December 2, 1926; owned by Carnegie Steel. Chartered by the Campbell Transportation Company in 1935-1936 and made several trips Pittsburgh-Memphis. Upbound on December 27, 1935 she went aground on Wolf Island Bar, Mississippi River, about ten miles below Columbus, Kentucky, with one barge and a fuel flat on a falling river. Efforts to pull her off that evening were unsuccessful, and she was left high and dry until dug off by the US Engineering dredge Burgess about ten days later

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Sternwheel towboats
Towboats
Mississippi River
Ohio River
Ohio--Cincinnati
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