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USED Towboat Muscatine (I)

Sternwheel Towboat:

Built in 1915, by Grafton Boat Works, Grafton, IL.

Launched in 1915

Delivered, christened, commissioned and put into service in 1915 by the US Army Engineers as USED Towboat Muscatine

Assigned to the US Army Engineers, Rock Island District

USED Muscatine worked on the upper Mississippi

Retired from Army service, circa 1941

Sold at public sale, summer of 1941, to T.J. McCarthy Company, Davenport, IA. for general towing service

Resold in 1944 to Arrow Transportation Company with two barges containing 70,000 bushels of wheat

Muscatine was the first commercial tow to arrive at Knoxville, TN. on the improved TVA waterway, 13 February 1944

Final Disposition, burned, 29 July 1945, at Paducah, KY. purchased by the City of Paducah for use as a landing boat

Specifications:
Displacement 243 t.
Length 151'
Beam 31'
Hull Depth unknown
Draft 4'

Speed unknown

Crew Accommodations unknown

Propulsion

reciprocating steam engine(s)

boiler(s)

sternwheel

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
303008003	63k	USED Towboat Muscatine alongside a coal barge while tied up to the riverbank of the Mississippi River at Keokuk, Iowa, circa 1918. *Muscatine* was known as one of the "Silo Boats", so called because of her height and the forward placement of her pilot house. Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library	John Spivey
303008001	34k	USED Towboat Muscatine moored to a riverbank, date and location unknown. "A History of the Rock Island District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 1866-1983."	John Spivey
303008002	110k	USED Towboat Muscatine moored to the river bank, date and location unknown. University of Wisconsin-Madison LaCrosse Steamboat Collection	John Spivey
303018502	189k	USED Towboat Muscatine (I), and USED Nauvoo drydocked with USED General Allen, *Drillboat 426, and barges 289 and 650. date and location unknown. University of Wisconsin-Madison LaCrosse Steamboat Collection*	Tommy Trampp

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