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USED Towboat Myrtle

Towboat:
  • Laid down date and location unknown
  • Launched date unknown
  • Delivered to the US Army Corps of Engineers date unknown
  • Christened and commissioned USED Towboat Myrtle date unknown
  • Assigned to US Army Engineers District unknown
  • Final Disposition, boilers exploded on the lower Mississippi, 28 January 1897, killing one man
    Specifications:
    Displacement unknown
    Length unknown
    Beam unknown
    Hull Depth unknown
    Draft unknown
    Speed unknown
    Crew unknown
    Propulsion
    steam engine(s)
    sternwheel
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    Myrtle
    303024501    		 160k USED Myrtle underway probably on the lower Mississippi River with US Engineers office boat No. 68, prior to 1898
    University of Wisconsin-Madison LaCrosse Historic Steamboat Photograph Collection    		 John Spivey
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