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The Steamer Duffy And A Mystery
| 题名： | The Steamer Duffy And A Mystery |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | CAPT. DAVID SMITH |
| 摘要： | Anyone who has worked aboard a vessel on the rivers for any length of time has eventually witnessed an argument erupt between crew members. Seldom do these quarrels wind up with missing people, much less both participants. The subject vessel of this column in the August 7, 2023, issue of The Waterways Journal was the streamlined diesel towboat J.H. Duffy of 1938. It was owned by the Ohio River Sand Company of Louisville, Ky., which also owned the steam sternwheel tow-boat Duffy. This Duffy, not to be confused with an earlier wood-hull boat, had been built by Howard at Jeffer-sonville, Ind., in 1921. It had a steel hull with dimensions of 125 by 25 feet. The engines placed on the Duffy were 14-1/2's - 4-1/2 foot stroke that came from the packet E.G. Ragon, which had been built by Howard in 1887. It was sternwheel, with a wood hull measuring 165 by 31 feet. According to Way's Packet Directory, it was named for a grocer in Evansville, Ind., and ran in the Evansville-Nash-ville trade until sold to the Louisville & Evansville Mail Line in 1893. After the sidewheel Morning Star was built in 1901, the Ragon was dismantled. The engines were placed on the first towboat Duffy when it was built at Harmar, Ohio, in 1909. When the steel hull Duffy of 1921 was built, the engines were placed on it. |
| 出版年： | 2023 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 137 |
| 期： | 31 |
| 页码： | 14,13 |
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