Transporter Towboat

1870/1954

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Transporter Towboat
  • Title
  • Transporter Towboat
  • Creator
  • John C. Bragdon
  • Identifier
  • MSP33.B012.F03.I05
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP33.B012.F03.I05
  • Description
  • The towboat “Transporter,” built in 1921 in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, was actually a rebuilding of another boat called “Valiant.” In February 1927 the boat was caught in a windstorm below Paducah, Kentucky, and turned upside down. She was later righted and repaired. On December 12, 1938, at Six Mile Island, "Transporter" was destroyed by fire.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Transporter (Towboat)
    Towboats.
    Barges.
    Bridges.
  • 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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