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USED Snagboat / Towboat Joseph E. Ransdell

Sternwheel Snagboat / Towboat:

Built in 1908 at Howard Shipyard at Jeffersonville, IN.

Launched in 1908

Delivered, Commissioned and placed in service by the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1908

Assigned to the US Army Engineers Vicksburg District

USED Snagboat / Towboat Joseph E. Ransdell worked on the Ouachita and Yazoo Rivers

Retired from Army service, circa 1935

Sold, 29 October 1935 to CAPT. George Prince, Royal Route Co. Natchez, MS.

Resold, 2 August 1939, to Cincinnati Gymnasium Boat Club, Cincinnati, OH. for conversion to a club boat.

Machinery, boilers and wheel were removed at Cincinnati Steel Products Co. where the conversion to the club boat was carries out

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Specifications:
Displacement 286 t.
Length 137'
Beam 32'
Draft 5'
Speed unknown

Complement unknown

Propulsion

reciprocating steam engine(s)

boiler(s)

sternwheel

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
303203801	39k	USED Snagboat Joseph E. Ransdell snagging logs in lock chamber at Lock No.6 on the Ouachita River, date unknown " Of Men and Rivers The Story of the Vicksburg District"		John Spivey

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