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原文传递 The Kansas City Socony Goes To The Ohio River

题名：	The Kansas City Socony Goes To The Ohio River
正文语种：	eng
作者：	CAPT. DAVID SMITH
摘要：	In the last column, we looked at the Kansas City Socony, built by the Elliott-Fairfax Shipyard at Kansas City, Kan., in 1937. It was 125 by 32 (a typo in the last column noted the width at 52 feet, which was wrong) and had 1,020 hp. from a pair of Superior diesels. This was the first river towboat built for Socony, and it racked up a record of "firsts" for that company. Shortly after completion in 1937, it picked up the first gasoline loaded at the Socony facility at Kansas City and delivered that as the first tow into the Socony dock at St. Paul, Minn. In 1939, it delivered the first tow of gasoline into Omaha, Neb., and in 1940 it towed the first gasoline into Sioux City, Iowa. Some subtle changes were made to the boat over time. The searchlights that had originally been on each side of the front of the pilothouse had been moved to the top of that structure. The large white "S" was gone from the sides of the smoke- stack, replaced by a white shield with a red Pegasus in the center, and the traditional "nighthawk" post forward of the pilothouse had been removed. Socony added other, larger boats to its fleet and, in 1951, the Kansas City Socony was sold to new owners. In the August 4, 1951, issue of The Waterways Journal, J. Mack Gamble had as the lead item in his Upper Ohio News column that Atlas Towing Company, Parkersburg, W.Va., had announced that Atlas had purchased the Kansas City Socony. Atlas had an ongoing contract towing slag from Standard Slag Company, Weirton, W.Va., to points on the Upper Ohio and Kanawha rivers. The 400 hp. diesel sternwheel tow-boat Atlas had been in this trade for the company for some time with Capt. Ralph Tuel in charge.
出版年：	2023
期刊名称：	The Waterways Jouranl
卷：	137
期：	26
页码：	13-14