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USED Towboat Chicot

Sternwheel Towboat:

Built in 1925 as a wooden steamer by Howards Shipyard, Jeffersonville, IN.

Launched in 1925

Christened, commissioned and placed in service in 1925 by the U.S. Engineering Department as USED Towboat Chicot

Assigned to the US Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District

Chicot worked on the Mississippi River

Retired from Army service, after June 1941

Sold in 1941 to Commercial Barge Lines, Evansville, IN., renamed Jerome D. Beeler

In 1943 Commercial Barge Lines renamed her Alec Parnie

Sold in 1946 to C.C. Stone of Point Pleasant, W.VA. with plans convert her power plant to diesel, this never happened

Final Disposition, dismantled, superstructure removed in 1954, her steel hull became a floating wharf. Her hull was later abandoned

Specifications:
Displacement 160 t.
Length 126.5'
Beam 23'
Hull Depth unknown
Draft 4.5
Speed unknown
Crew unknown

Propulsion

two reciprocating steam engines, 10's stroke 5'

two boilers

sternwheel

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
303013201	100k	USED Towboat Chicot on the builders ways, Howard Shipyard, Jeffersonville, IN., circa 1925 University of Wisconsin-Madison LaCrosse Steamboat Photograph Collection		John Spivey
303013202	71k	USED Towboat Chicot under construct, tied up to the riverbank at Howards Shipyard, Jeffersonville, IN., circa 1925 Howards Steamboat Museum		John Spivey

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