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The Mary Woods No. 2
| 题名： | The Mary Woods No. 2 |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | CAPT. DAVID SMITH |
| 摘要： | Steve Huffman has compiled a new Gas & Diesel Sternwheel Tow-boat Calendar for 2023. The front cover features the sternwheel tow-boat Mary Woods No. 2, a great candidate for an Old Boat column since it still exists, at least in part. The original Mary Woods was a sternwheel steamer built at Paducah, Ky., in 1926 for the Woods Lumber Company of Memphis. It had a wood hull that was 96 by 22 feet and was used by the company until about 1930. Waifs Steam Towboat Directory offers no further information on this boat. In 1931, the Woods Lumber Com- pany contracted with the Nashville Bridge Company, Nashville, Tenn., for a steel hull 111 by 26 by 4.4 feet for a sternwheel towboat. This hull was towed to Memphis, where it was completed as the Mary Woods No. 2. According to Way's, the boat was equipped with a set of new Gil-lett & Eaton engines, 12-1/8's with a 6-foot stroke. The boilers came from the Frank E. Woods, a wooden-hulled boat that had been built as the Chastang in 1911 at Bridgeport, Ala., sold to the Woods firm in 1929 and dismantled as the Mary Woods No. 2 was completed. Huffman has compiled an exten- sive file on the Mary Woods No. 2. His records say that the boat was named for a daughter of Eugene Woods, as was the earlier boat that had burned. The second boat was originally a coal burner, but it was converted to burn bunker C fuel oil in 1937. It initially handled a tow of two barges, each capable of handling 85,000 board feet of logs, and it operated primarily on the Lower Mississippi River under Capt. George Thomas. After the Woods Lumber Company purchased the White River Lumber Company, it ran on the White and Cache rivers under a Capt. Emmons. |
| 出版年： | 2022 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 136 |
| 期： | 33 |
| 页码： | 14,13 |
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