Baton Rouge Transportation Company News

The Elegant Str. Thompson Dean

Old Boat Column

The Elegant Str. Thompson Dean

June 4, 2021

One of the large and palatial sidewheelers, the Thompson Dean was built at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1872. Constructed on a wooden hull measuring 306 feet in length by 46 feet… Read More

The City Of Baton Rouge The City Of Baton Rouge on drydock in 1958. (Keith Norrington collection)

The City Of Baton Rouge

October 16, 2020

The ferry City of Baton Rouge is one of only a half dozen remaining riverboats built by the famed Howard Shipyard & Dock Company at Jeffersonville, Ind. It was constructed… Read More