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USED Towboat General John Newton

Sternwheel Towboat:

Built in 1899 at Iowa Iron Works, Dubuque, IA. for the Mississippi River Commission

Launched in 1899

Delivered to the Mississippi River Commission in 1899 for service with Mississipp;i River Commission as Inspection and Towboat

Christened, commissioned and placed in service in 1899 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as USED Towboat General John Newton

Rebuilt in 1936, sponsons added (150’ x 28’ x 7.5’)

General John Newton was assigned to the Second New Orleans District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

General John Newton operated on the Mississippi River

Retired from US Army service in 1957

Sold in 1957 to to University of Minnesota and converted into the showboat Minnesota Centennial Showboat

Sold to the City of St. Paul in 2016 for one dollar by the University of Minnesota

Resold in 2018, to a nonprofit and moved to Winona, MN.

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Specifications:
Displacement unknown
Length 175'
Beam 28'
Hull Depth unknown
Draft 7.6'
Speed unknown
Crew unknown

Propulsion steam engine

sternwheel

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
303014902	34k	*Namesake* John Newton - John Newton was a Union general during the American Civil War (1861–1865). Born in Norfolk, the son of a long-serving congressman, Newton graduated from West Point and served in the Army Corps of Engineers before commanding a brigade and then a division in the Army of the Potomac. After the disastrous Union defeat at Fredericksburg in December 1862, Newton and fellow general John Cochrane met with United States president Abraham Lincoln in a veiled attempt at seeing Ambrose E. Burnside removed from command. Lincoln did remove him, but Newton’s career suffered for his effort. Newton fought well during the Chancellorsville Campaign in May 1863, and after the death of John F. Reynolds on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, he took command of the First Corps. Within a year, however, he had been denied promotion, been sent west to participate in the Atlanta Campaign (1864), and eventually exiled to Florida. There, in March 1865, he was defeated in his ill-advised attempt on Tallahassee at the Battle of Natural Bridge. Newton worked as an army engineer after the war, retiring in 1886 and dying in New York City in 1895. Photo - Library of Congress Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Biography - Encyclopaedia Virginia
303014901	84k	USED Towboat General John Newton underway, date an location unknown University of Wisconsin-Madison LaCrosse Steamboat Photograph Collection	John Spivey
303014905	158k	Starboard broadside view of USED Towboat General John Newton underway, 2 June 1938, location unknown. US Army Corps of Engineers - Second New Orleans District, Corps of Engineers U.S. Army photo 2300	John Spivey
303014904	65k	USED Towboat General John Newton underway, date an location unknown University of Wisconsin-Madison LaCrosse Steamboat Photograph Collection	John Spivey
303014903	33k	*Minnesota Centennial Showboat* and performers, 1965.	University of Minnesota Photographic Laboratory.

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