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USED Towboat Edwin M. Baldwin

Stern-wheel Towboat:

Built in 1917 at US Army Corp of Engineers Boat Yard, Gasconade, MO.

Launched in 1917

Christened and commissioned in 1917 and put into service by the US Army Corps of Engineers as USED Towboat Edwin M. Baldwin

Assigned to the USED Engineering Department Kansas City District

Edwin M. Baldwin worked on the Missouri River

Retired from Army service, circa 1940

Sold in the spring of 1940 to the Ohio River Co. of Cincinnati, OH., renamed Omega

Final Disposition, dismantled in 1945

Specifications:
Displacement unknown
Length 139'
Beam 24'
Hull Depth unknown
Draft 5'

Speed unknown

Crew Accommodations unknown

Propulsion

two return flue boilers

reciprocating steam engines, 13" bore with 5' stroke, rated at 200hp

two return flue boilers

sternwheel

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
303008801	144k	US Army Corps of Engineers Towboat USED Edwin M. Baldwin moored, date and location unknown University of Missouri-St. Louis Digital Library	John Spivey
303008802	80k	US Army Corps of Engineers Towboat USED Edwin M. Baldwin underway with a tow, date and location unknown University of Wisconsin-Madison LaCrosse Steamboat Photograph collection	John Spivey
303008803	117k	USED Edwin M. Baldwin tied up to a riverbank, date and location unknown. Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library, St. Louis Mercantile Library, University of Missouri-St. Louis	John Spivey

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