Category Archives: Boaz Towboat
WHEELING’S GATEWAY PARK 2022 / WALKER DICK. OHIO VALLEY YACHT CLUB. WHEELING, WV by John Bowman
WALKER DICK. OHIO VALLEY YACHT CLUB. WHEELING, WV by John Bowman July 9, 2021 WW II had just ended and in 1945 a young man in his early 20s made his return to Wheeling. This was Walker Dick. Walker had been in New York City performing and working as an acrobat when his family gave […]
Read MoreTOWBOATS. OHIO RIVER TOWBOATS by John Bowman July 2021
TOWBOATS. OHIO RIVER TOWBOATS by John Bowman July 2021 Towboats seen on the Ohio River today are generally pushing (towing) a fifteen-barge tow, three barges abreast and five barges deep. Why call a diesel-powered boat pushing barges on the river a towboat? When were Ohio River steamboats first called Towboats? The first river ‘Towboats’ were […]
Read MoreTOWBOAT PHOTOS JOHN BOWMAN’s COLOR BOAT PHOTOS A – C Post 1 of 6
The majority of these Diesel Towboat Color Photos were taken at 40o 05’ 55.60” N 80o 42’ 21.04” W. Elevation 667’ Ohio River mile 87.6 at the lower end of (Warwood), Wheeling, West Virginia circa the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Many photos (150+) were taken on the Lower (L) Mississippi River, 30 at Warfield Point, near […]
Read MoreLOG BOOK OF THE STEAMER BOAZ FRANK A. GOULD CAPTAIN by John Bowman©
Excerpts from the Towboat BOAZ LOG BOOK by Capt. Frank A. Gould December 27, 1904 to March 5, 1913. LOG BOOK OF THE STEAMER BOAZ FRANK A. GOULD Captain The stern-wheel towboat Boaz (Way T0277), the third of five towboats with this name had her hull built at Sewickley, Pennsylvania. She was completed at Pittsburgh […]
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