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USED Towboat Daniel Boone (II)

Sternwheel Towboat:
  • Built in 1925 as the steel hull towboat Daniel Boone by USED at Gasconade, MO.
  • Launched in 1925
  • Christened, commissioned and placed in service in 1925 by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers as USED Daniel Boone
  • Assigned to the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Omaha District
  • Daniel Boone worked on the Missouri River and Mississippi River
  • Retired from Army service, circa 1940
  • Sold to Waterways Transportation Inc. of St. Louis in 1940
  • Final Disposition, dismantled, hull sold to Phillips Petroleum Co. in 1943, used as a barge at their tank farm below East St. Louis, Il.
    Specifications:
    Displacement unknown
    Length 128.1'
    Beam 26'
    Hull Depth unknown
    Draft 4'
    Speed unknown
    Crew unknown
    Propulsion
    two reciprocating steam engines, 9's stroke 4½ ft.
    boiler(s)
    sternwheel
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    Daniel Boone
    303014001    		 77k USED Towboat Daniel Boone (II) at Gasconade, Mo. in 1926
    University of Wisconsin-Madison LaCrosse Steamboat Photograph Collection    		 John Spivey
    Daniel Boone
    303014002    		 55k USED Towboat Daniel Boone (II) underway with tow on the Missouri River, circa 1930.
    Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library    		 John Spivey
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