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Victory/O.F. Shearer
| 题名： | Victory/O.F. Shearer |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | CAPT. DAVID SMITH |
| 摘要： | In 1919, Dravo Corporation built two steam sternwheel towboats in their yard in the back channel of Neville Island (Pa.). The boats were essentially sister vessels with one being the Warren Elsey for Jones & Laughlin Steel Company and the other built for a Dravo subsidiary, Keystone Sand & Supply of Pittsburgh. This would be the first of three boats named Victory that Keystone would operate. According to A Company of Uncommon Enterprise, a Dravo publication detailing the history of the company, Keystone Sand & Supply was formed in 1902 by the Dravo brothers, Francis R. "Frank" and Ralph M., to ensure a reliable source of aggregates for their construction company as well as to establish control over the quality and cost of the materials. In 1916, Dravo had experimented by building the steam twin-prop towboat Peace for Keystone, but the Victory of 1919 was a traditional sternwheel boat with a steel hull 135.7 by 27 by 5.6 feet. It had condensing engines 14's, 30's - 6-foot stroke rated 440 hp. The four return-flue boilers burned coal. |
| 出版年： | 2022 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 136 |
| 期： | 21 |
| 页码： | 34-34 |
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