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USED Towboat Colbert

Sternwheel Towboat:
  • Built in 1891 at Howard Shipyard, Jeffersonville, IN.
  • Launched in 1891
  • Christened, commissioned and placed in service in 1891 by the U.S. Engineering Department as USED Towboat Colbert
  • Assigned to the U.S. Engineering Department Nashville District
  • USED Colbert worked on the Tennessee River
  • Rebuilt in 1909
  • Rebuilt again in 1915
  • Nashville Bridge Company built a steel hull for Colbert in 1925
  • Retired from Army service, circa 1946
  • Final Disposition, sold in 1946 to Muscle Shoals Boat Company at Florence, AL. and dismantled
    Specifications:
    Displacement 241t.
    Length 136'
    Beam 26'
    Hull Depth unknown
    Draft 5'
    Speed unknown
    Crew unknown
    Propulsion reciprocating steam engine
    sternwheel
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    Colbert
    303013601    		 123k USED Towboats Colbert tied up to a river bank, date and location unknown
    University of Wisconsin-Madison LaCrosse Steamboat Photograph Collection    		 John Spivey
    Pettus
    30269102    		 123k USED Towboat Colbert tied up astern of USED Dredge Pettus dredging, date and location unknown.
    University of Wisconsin-Madison Digital Library    		 John Spivey
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