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USED Snagboat / Towboat Mammoth Cave

Sternwheel Snagboat / Towboat:
  • Built in 1908 for the US Army Engineers, hull laid down in 1908 at Howard Shipyard, Jeffersonville, IN.
  • Launched in 1908
  • Original price, $30,830.00, Much of the equipment used in building Mammoth Cave came from ex-USED William Preston Dixon
  • Delivered, christened, commissioned and placed in service by the the US Army Engineers in 1908
  • Assigned to the US Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District
  • USED Snagboat / Towboat Mammoth Cave operated on the Green, Barren and Tennessee Rivers
  • Retired in 1936
  • Sold at public auction, 31 July 1936, to Tom and Jeff Williams
  • Sold to CAPT. Hiernaux, rebuilt her as a towboat, renamed Richard
  • Laid up, date unknown, at Charleroi, PA.
  • Final Disposition, while laid up at Charleroi she burned, 10 December 1940
    Specifications:
    Displacement 284 t.
    Length 141'
    Beam 32.6'
    Draft 5'
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Propulsion
    steam engines
    boilers
    sternwheel
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    USED Mammoth Cave
    Msmmoth Cave
    303201803    		 79k
    Namesake
    Mammoth Cave - The longest cave system known in the world. Portions of Mammoth Cave are encompassed within the bounds of Mammoth Cave National Park located in the state of Kentucky.
    Image - The Bottomless Pit in Mammoth Cave, woodcut (1887)
    Map - Mammoth cave system and surface, US National Park Service    		 Tommy Trampp
    Msmmoth Cave
    303201801    		 115k USED Mammoth Cave moored along the river bank, date and location unknown.
    Dave Thomson Collection at Dave Thompson Gallery, Steamboats.com    		 John Spivey
    Msmmoth Cave
    303201802    		 50k USED Mammoth Cave at right and two dredges at work on the Green River in 1926.
    University of Wisconsin-Madison Library    		 John Spivey
    Merchant Service
    Msmmoth Cave
    303201804    		 86k Ex-USED Mammoth Cave tied to a riverbank while in merchant service as the Towboat Richard, circa 1937-1940, location unknown.
    University of Wisconsin-Madison LaCrosse Historic Steamboat Collection    		 John Spivey
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