摘要: |
While the Marietta Manufacturing Company (MMC) was completing and outfitting the big steam towboat Alexander Mackenzie (WJ October 9, 2023) at its Point Pleasant, W.Va., shipyard, the first steel for the hull of a modern diesel towboat was being formed. This boat would be the second built by MMC for the Marquette Cement Manufacturing Company of Chicago. The first was the diesel prop William Dickinson, designed by T. Rees Tarn. From the inception of the Inland River Record in 1945 the build date of the Dickinson was shown as 1933; however, issues of The Waterways Journal, the "List of Merchant Vessels" and the "Shipbuilding History" website show it to have been built in 1930. |