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原文传递 The Jack Rathbone, Last Steam Sternwheeler For Standard Oil

题名：	The Jack Rathbone, Last Steam Sternwheeler For Standard Oil
正文语种：	eng
作者：	DAVID SMITH
摘要：	While new diesel-driven towboats were making headlines in the 1930s, steam power was still king, and several significant new steamers were built in the waning days of steam construction. The Standard Oil Company of Louisiana was one concern that relied on steam power to shove tows loaded with finished petroleum products from their refinery at Baton Rouge to points north. The Standard fleet at that time included the mammoth towboat Sprague, fabled since 1902 as the largest towboat ever built. Conceived to shepherd giant coal tows to southern regions by the Combine of Pittsburgh, it had begun a new career towing oil when first chartered to Standard in 1922 and purchased by them in 1925. Standard continued to acquire or build large steam sternwheel towboats throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Dubuque Boat & Boiler built the Amos K. Gordon for Standard in 1933. It was 190 by 38 feet and had condensing engines that were 16's, 32's - 10 foot stroke. These engines had been built by the Marietta Manufacturing Company (MMC) to repower the James Moren, a wood hull sternwheeler built in 1896, after Standard bought it in 1925. The Moren was dismantled in 1932, and the engines were used for die new Gordon. The boat had two Foster-Wheeler boilers that were allowed 300 pounds of steam pressure. The boat was rated at 750 hp.
出版年：	2023
期刊名称：	The Waterways Jouranl
卷：	137
期：	21
页码：	34,33