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Dravo And Carnegie Steel Try Prop Towboats
| 题名： | Dravo And Carnegie Steel Try Prop Towboats |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | DAVID SMITH |
| 摘要： | It can only be supposed that the attention generated by the success of the early Ward-built, prop-driven towboats commanded a lot of attention throughout the inland rivers. The Dravo Contracting Company was fairly new to vessel construction and had primarily built sand dredges and barges when it began design work on a tunnel-stern, prop towboat in 1915. The company began building the boat in 1916, and Way's Steam Towboat Directory says that the trial trip was made on January 25,1917. A Company of Uncommon Enterprise, a history of Dravo published by the company in 1974, makes but bare mention of the boat. The vessel appears to be the first towboat built by Dravo. The vessel was of steel construction with a hull 108 by 22 feet. It had twin screws, but there is no mention anywhere of the particulars of the steam engines installed. It had upright boilers and but a single cabin with pilothouse located forward atop that. Twin smokestacks rose out of a structure behind the pilothouse, and these stacks were able to fold back to allow clearance for the low bridges in the Pittsburgh pools. |
| 出版年： | 2023 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 137 |
| 期： | 4 |
| 页码： | 14,13 |
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