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One Of The Last Steam Sternwheel Towboats
| 题名： | One Of The Last Steam Sternwheel Towboats |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | DAVID SMIT |
| 摘要： | The August 6,1938 issue of The Waterways Journal carried a small story on page 5 concerning A.C. Ingersoll accepting a position with a new company on the Illinois and Mississippi rivers. This new concern was the Central Barge Company, with offices in Chicago, and Ingersoll would be managing the operations. He had previously been a vice president of The Ohio River Company at Cincinnati. His son, Capt. A.C. Ingersoll Jr., had resigned his "berth" on The Ohio River Company steamer E.D. Kenna to accept a position with Central. A story on the same page detailed the early success of the new Standard Oil towboat Jack Rath-bone (WJ August 21, 2023). In the August 20, 1938, issue of the WJ was a news story about the new Central Barge Company inviting bids to build two steam sternwheel towboats of 1,500 hp. and a fleet of 32 barges. The boats were to be "of the Jack Rath-bone type as built by the Marietta Manufacturing Company," and the hopper barges were to be 195 feet long, 35 feet wide and 11 feet in depth. The boats would be expected to tow out of St. Louis to the Upper Mississippi River and would be slightly shorter than the Rathbone due to the locks that they would encounter. Even though most new boats were being built diesel-pow-ered, Central would be engaged in towing coal northbound, and for real push power, steam was still considered the way to go. |
| 出版年： | 2023 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 137 |
| 期： | 28 |
| 页码： | 14,13,15 |
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