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USED Towboat Mac

Sternwheel Towboat:
  • Built in 1891 as the wood towboat Freddie at Rock Island, Illinois
  • Launched in 1891
  • Purchased by the US Army Engineers, in 1893
  • Christened, commissioned and placed in service in 1893 as USED Towboat Mac
  • Assigned to the US Army Engineers Rock Island District
  • USED Towboat Mac worked on the upper Mississippi River
  • Retired from US Army service, circa 1923
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement unknown
    Length 73'
    Beam 16'
    Hull Depth unknown
    Draft 3'
    Speed unknown
    Crew unknown
    Propulsion
    two boiler(s)
    steam engine(s)
    sternwheel
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    Mac
    303031101    		 80k USED Towboat Mac underway, date and location unknown.
    University of Wisconsin-Madison LaCrosse Historical Steamboat Collection    		 John Spivey
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