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USED Towboat Aldebaran

Sternwheel Towboat:
  • Laid down in 1924 as the towboat Aldebaran for William G. Peters of Wabasha, MN.
  • Launched in 1924
  • Acquired by the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1925
  • Commissioned in 1927 and placed in service as USED Towboat Aldebaran
  • The US Army Corps of Engineers used Aldebaran as a survey boat on the lower Mississippi River
  • Retired from US Army service in 1934
  • Sold at public auction in December 1934 to CAPT. Rush Burnside, homeported at Memphis, renamed Rush Krodell
  • Final Disposition, burned one mile below Natchez. MS in December 1937
    Specifications:
    Displacement unknown
    Length 132'
    Beam 26'
    Hull Depth unknown
    Draft 4'
    Speed unknown
    Crew unknown
    Propulsion
    boiler(s)
    steam engine(s) 12's-6 ft. stroke
    sternwheel
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    Merchant Service
    Aldebaran
    303011302    		 113k William G. Peters Towboat Aldebaran tied up to the riverbank on the upper Mississippi River, 1924
    Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library    		 John Spivey
    USED Towboat Aldebaran
    Aldebaran
    303011301    		 71k USED Towboat Aldebaran underway, date and location unknown
    University of Wisconsin Madison Digital Library LaCrosse steamboat gallery    		 John Spivey
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