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The Charles F. Richardson And A Mystery
| 题名： | The Charles F. Richardson And A Mystery |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | DAVID SMITH |
| 摘要： | In 1921, the Eichleay Contracting Company, Hays, Pa., constructed a very large steam sternwheel towboat at their yard located on the left bank of the Monongahela River near Pittsburgh. The boat had a steel hull measuring 207 by 45 feet and condensing engines that were 20's, 45's - 9-foot stroke with horsepower that was estimated to be in the range of 1,500. The six return-flue boilers were fired by coal. This vessel was equipped with one of the first installations of automatic stokers to feed these boilers. The owner was West Kentucky Coal Company, and it would bear the name Charles F. Richardson after the well-known president of that firm. Richardson made his home at Sturgis, Ky., and would die at age 78 at St. Louis on July 17,1939. When new, the Richardson towed coal from the Paducah, Ky., area to points on the Lower Mississippi River. Way's Steam Towboat Directory says that Capt. William M. Crow was master of the boat at that time, and one of the pilots was Capt. Henry Buck- ingham Nye, veteran of the Combine coal towing days. Capt. Nye had been a pilot aboard the fabled Sprague for some 13 years. |
| 出版年： | 2023 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 137 |
| 期： | 7 |
| 页码： | 14,13 |
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