About two dozen men pose with a dry docked boat, which has a small cabin. The boat is high above the dock, and ladders run up to the boat. One man sits on the boat with his leg hanging over the edge. The dock is covered in small pieces of wood and...
Port side view of WABASH, a naptha-powered pleasure boat, moored in the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. Edmonds J. Howard bought the WABASH to entertain shipyard guests.
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
SCIMITAR II, a stern-wheel pleasure boat with wood hull (136 ft. x 29 ft. x 4 ft.), was built at Howard in 1905. Owned by S. Hart in St. Louis, SCIMITAR II operated briefly in the Nashville-Burnside area before being sold to the U.S. Army Corps of...
A steamboat with two large tiers and a small third tier that is inscribed with "Stellawilds" is parked at Paducah Drydock on the Mississippi River. The dry dock is a platform in the river shallows at river height, and has segments of...
A steamboat inscribed (although several letters are blocked) "City of Chattanooga," with two large tiers and a small third tier, is parked at Paducah Drydock on the Mississippi River. The dry dock is a platform in the river shallows at...
Shore; wharf with two wide one-story buildings; and two steamboats on the far side of the wharf in Paducah, Kentucky. A handful of people stand near the water and crowds stand on the wharf and nearest boat.
Boat & ship industry; Steamboats; Military facilities; Transportation; Bridges; Rivers
The City of Louisville was built in 1894 for trade between Louisville and Cincinnati. The U.S. Life Saving Station, or the U.S. Coast Guard, is next to the boat and the Big Four bridge in in the background. Caption under photo reads "Wharf in...
The Pennsylvania Bridge can be seen in the behind the barge and coal station on the bank of the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky. Caption under photo reads, "River with Ice."
U.S. snagboat E. A Woodruff was built in 1874 and operated the length of the Ohio River. The deck mounted cranes and hoists worked to remove debris and obstructions from the river. The boat was retired in 1920 and became a wharf boat in Louisville,...
Boat & ship industry; Steamboats; Transportation; Military facilities; Rivers
A steamboat is coming in towards the bank of the Ohio River in winter. Ice is visible in the water. The U.S. Life Saving Station, or the U.S. Coast Guard, is in the background. Title supplied by caption under photo.
