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USED Towboat Fort Armstrong

Sternwheel Towboat:
  • Built in 1930 at Charles Ward Engineering Works, Charleston, W.V.
  • Launched in 1930
  • Christened, commissioned and placed in service in 1930 by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers as USED Towboat Fort Armstrong
  • Assigned to the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Rock Island District
  • Retired from US Army service, date unknown
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement unknown
    Length unknown
    Beam unknown
    Hull Depth unknown
    Draft unknown
    Speed unknown
    Crew unknown
    Propulsion gasoline engine
    sternwheel
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    Fort Armstrong
    303015103    		 96k
    Namesake
    Fort Armstrong - (1816 - 1836) was one of a chain of western frontier defenses which the United States erected after the war of 1812. It was located at the foot of Rock Island, in the MIssissippi River near the present-day Quad Cities of Illinois and Iowa.
    Photo - Photograph of an 1839 painting of Fort Armstrong, attributed to Octave Blair, an early captain in the Corps of Engineers, is one of the only clear pictures of the Quad Cities during the 1800's. The painting, which depicts what currently serves as the Rock Island Arsenal was painted from the Illinois side of the Quad Cities, showing the hills and trees of Davenport in the background.
    Wikipedia Commons >Map and text describing the location of Fort Armstrong on Rock Island Illinois, 10 September 1819.
    U.S. National Archives and Records Administration NAID: 6861819 Local ID: Dr.130,Sht.5    		 Tommy Trampp
    Fort Armstrong
    303015104    		 1086k
    Fort Armstrong
    303015101    		 130k Towboat Fort Armstrong on the builders ways at Charles Ward Engineering Works, Charleston, W.V., 1 August 1930
    University of West Virginia West Virginia and Regional History Center    		 John Spivey
    Scott
    303004404    		 135k Towboat Fort Armstrong and Towboat Scott under construction, 1 November 1930, at Charles Ward Engineering, Charleston, WV.
    Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen, riverhistory.org    		 John Spivey
    Fort Armstrong
    303015102    		 78k USED Towboat Fort Armstrong underway, date and location unknown
    University of West Virginia West Virginia and Regional History Center    		 John Spivey
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