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The Mysterious Str. Iron Mountain
| 题名： | The Mysterious Str. Iron Mountain |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | KEITH NORRINGTON |
| 摘要： | On March 25, 1882, shortly after departing Vicksburg, Miss., the towboat Iron Mountain struck an underwater obstruction and sank near Island 102 on the Lower Mississippi River. The entire crew escaped safely, with the exception of a chambermaid, who clung to floating debris and was rescued the following morning. The five barges being towed by the Iron Mountain were cut loose and found by another upbound steamer. The holed steamboat went completely out of sight, and all that was ever located of the vessel was some splintered wood from the cabin and an ice box that was found in a cotton field at Omega Crevasse, near Tallulah, La., the following June. The Iron Mountain was built at Freedom, Pa., in 1872, and, with a wooden hull measuring 181 feet in length by 35 feet in width, was the largest towboat in the Gray fleet. Capt. W.C. Gray was the first master. Five boilers provided steam for engines having 22-inch cylinders with an 8-foot stroke. |
| 出版年： | 2021 |
| 期刊名称： | Waterways Journal |
| 卷： | 134 |
| 期： | 41 |
| 页码： | 14,13 |
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