A group of men stand at a steel column during a ceremony for the raising of the first set of columns at the second building on the GE Appliance Park construction site.
Barges; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
People are gathered to watch American Barge Line's first steel barge slide off the ways and onto the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard in Jeffersonville, Indiana.
Barges; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Steel barge (124 ft. x 30 ft. x 7 ft.) being launched into the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard at Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana in 1915. The barge was being built for someone in the port of New Orleans. There is an unfinished towboat in...
Barges; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Steel barge slides off the grade and onto the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard in Jeffersonville, Indian. Towboat ED. J. HOWARD (Way T0679) is tied to the bank down river from the launch.
Ferries; Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
STEEL QUEEN, a stern-wheel towboat and ferry with wood hull (125 ft. x 28 ft. x 3.5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1901. Owned by Pressed Steel Car Company, STEEL QUEEN operated on the upper Ohio River in the McKees Rocks, Woods Run and Bellvue,...