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原文传递 Monongahela: Among The Last Large Sternwheel Towboats

题名：	Monongahela: Among The Last Large Sternwheel Towboats
正文语种：	eng
作者：	CAPT. DAVID SMITH
摘要：	By the mid-1920s, diesel-powered boats were becoming more numerous, but for the heavy jobs, such as towing steel products from Pittsburgh to points on the Lower Mississippi River, steam sternwheel boats were still a necessity. The Carnegie Steel Company had built a large sternwheel steamer for this purpose in 1926, which the company named City of Pittsburgh. It departed its namesake city on March 22, 1926, in charge of Capt. Calvin Blazier (nicknamed Quaker Oats, and for whom the navigation light below Cairo, Ill., is named). Before returning to Pittsburgh, this new boat was sold to Standard Oil of Louisiana and was later renamed D.R. Weller. Carnegie then contracted for two near duplicate boats with the hulls to be built by the American Bridge Company at Ambridge, Pa., and completed at the Coal Valley Marine Ways. The first of these came out in February 1927 and was christened City of Pittsburgh, again with Capt. Cal Blazier in command. The second boat entered service in May of that year and was named Monongahela. It would be a fixture in the run from Pittsburgh to New Orleans for the next 28 years.
出版年：	2023
期刊名称：	The Waterways Jouranl
卷：	137
期：	38
页码：	66,65