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USED Towboat Lafourche

Sternwheel Towboat:
  • Built in 1912 at New Orleans, LA.
  • Launched in 1912
  • Acquired in 1912 by the US Army Engineer
  • Christened, commissioned and and put into service as USED Towboat Lafourche in 1913
  • Assigned to the US Army Engineers New Orleans District
  • Lafourche operated on the lower Mississippi
  • Retired from US Army service, circa 1943
  • Sold at public auction in March 1943 to E,N. Bisso Towing, New Orleans and renamed CAPT. Joe
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 300 t.
    Length 136'
    Beam 29'
    Hull Depth unknown
    Draft 5.5'
    Speed unknown
    Crew unknown
    Fuel Oil Capacity unknown
    Potable Water unknown
    Propulsion
    two cross-compound condensing steam engines
    boiler(s)
    sternwheel
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    Lafourche
    303010001    		 106k USED Towboat Lafourche underway with a tow, date and location unknown
    University of Wisconsin-Madison LaCrosse Steamboat Collection    		 John Spivey
    Lafourche
    303010002    		 61k USED Towboat Lafourche underway, date and location unknown
    University of Wisconsin-Madison LaCrosse Steamboat Collection    		 John Spivey
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