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USED Towboat Tombigbee

Sternwheel Towboat:

Built in 1908 at Howard's Shipyard Jeffersonville, IN. for the US Army Engineers

Launched in 1908

Christened, commissioned and placed in service in 1908 as USED Towboat Tombigbee

Assigned to the US Army Engineers District, unknown

Tombigbee operated on the Black Warrior River and Tombigbee River in the Black Warrior River Basin

Retired from US Army service, date unknown

Sold at public sale to Southern Sand & Gravel Co., Selma, AL. prior to 1929 for operations on the Alabama River

Final Disposition, hit a bridge at Selma and was lost 11 October 1934

Specifications:
Displacement unknown
Length 104.8'
Beam 28.6'
Hull Depth unknown
Draft 4.9'
Speed unknown
Crew unknown

Propulsion

steam engine(s)

boiler(s)

sternwheel

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description
USED Towboat Tombigbee Source
303022701	141k	USED Towboat Tombigbee at Lock 6, Warrior River, AL., first lockage, looking upstream, 3 November 1902 University of Wisconsin-Madison LaCrosse Historic Steamboat Collection	John Spivey
Commercial Service
303022702	87k	Ex-USED Towboat Tombigbee on the Tombigbee River when owned by Southern Sand and Gravel Co., Selma, ALabama, circa 1930. Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library	John Spivey

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