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USED Towboat Control

Sternwheel Towboat:
  • Built in 1905, as Scimitar II Ed J. Howard Shipyard, Jeffersonville, IN. as a pleasure craft and packet boat
  • Launched in 1905
  • Delivered to the US Army Corps of Engineers, 1n 1906, renamed Control
  • Commissioned in 1906 as USED Towboat Control
  • Assigned to the US Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District
  • Wooden hull replaced in 1921 by a steel hull built at Dravo Contracting, Neville, Island, PA.
  • Steel hull towed to Vicksburg where upper works, machinery, etc. were added
  • Retired in 1940
  • Sold at public auction, 7 May 1940, to CAPT. George Prince
  • Final Disposition, resold in 1941 to to be broken up at Harvey, LA.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 135 t.
    Length 157'6"
    Beam 26'
    Hull Depth unknown
    Draft 4' (fwd light), 4'1" (aft light)
    Speed unknown
    Crew unknown
    Propulsion
    two reciprocating 13 s steam engines, stroke 5'
    two 40 in. by 26 ft. diameter boilers
    boiler(s)
    sternwheel
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    Control
    303003502    		 139k USED Towboat Control underway in 1930, location unknown
    Dave Thomson Collection at Steamboats.com    		 John Spivey
    Control
    303003501    		 82k USED Towboat Control underway, 3 June 1938, location unknown
    US Army Corps of Engineers Digit Library    		  
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