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Sailor Steel Hull Sternwheeler

1870/1954

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Sailor Steel Hull Sternwheeler
  • Title
  • Sailor Steel Hull Sternwheeler
  • Identifier
  • MSP33.B012.F02.I03
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP33.B012.F02.I03
  • Description
  • The “Sailor” steel hull sternwheeler, owned and operated by the Vesta Coal Company, a subsidiary of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, was built by the Marietta Manufacturing Company of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1924. The 850-horsepower towboat was the only boat in the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation's fleet equipped with five boilers. The Point Bridge is visible in the background.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Sailor (Towboat)
    Towboats--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Point Bridge (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Collection Photographs, 1864-1953, MSP 33, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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