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The Geo. T. Price Was The First Diesel Line-Haul Towboat
| 题名： | The Geo. T. Price Was The First Diesel Line-Haul Towboat |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | DAVID SMITH |
| 摘要： | The Charles Ward Engineering Works, Charleston, W.Va., was a pioneer in the advent of the screw propeller as a means of providing thrust to towing ves-sels. The James Rumsey, built by Ward in 1903 as a 350 hp. steam, single-screw towboat for the U.S. Engineer Depart-ment, created a lot of attention with a cel-ebrated shoving contest against the steam sternwheel D.T. Lane of the Campbells Creek Coal Company, which had simi-lar horsepower rating. The winner of the contest was debated by rivermen for years, and it was judged to be an even draw by most, though many felt the Rum-sey was the victor.Ward went on to build several more steam prop boats, advancing from single-to twin-screw in vessels such as the A.M.Scott in 1906, which actually began lifeas a pleasure boat and entered the tow-ing ranks for the Kansas City & Missouri River Navigation Company in 1911; the Inspector in 1915, again for the U.S. En-gineer Department; and the Clairton (lat-er renamed Kanawha, Alecia, Henry A.Roemer and J.M. Leithead), built in 1918 for Carnegie Steel and later owned by Hillman Transportation Company. |
| 出版年： | 2021 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 135 |
| 期： | 3 |
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