At age 19, Darrell Pyke was attending a welding school when an older man named Willie Neville struck up a friendship with him. Neville worked on dredges and told the… Read More
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Few people know the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway as well as Capt. Jesse Rogers and his crew. Rogers is captain of the mv. Tenn-Tom, the Corps of Engineers-owned towboat tasked with much… Read More
One of Capt. Danial Kuntz’s first teachers in life was also one of his first in the river business. Kuntz, 39, of Martins Ferry, Ohio, went to work for Bellaire… Read More
Faith and family are everything to Capt. Cecil Dilworth of Parker Towing. Dilworth, 51, of Tupelo, Miss., has worked for the company for 17 years, making his way into the… Read More
Capt. Scott Dupriest is a captain with Tennessee Valley Towing on the mv. Tom Freeman, a twin-screw 3,450 hp. boat built by Marine Welding & Repair Works in Greenville, Miss.,… Read More
Each February in the “Wheelhouse” special issue of The Waterways Journal, we feature profiles of some of the captains who helm commercial vessels on the waterways. We hope you’ll enjoy these… Read More
The previous two columns have been about the original Ashland Oil & Refining Company (AO&R) towboat named Ashland going missing during a flood in December 1942 and January 1943. The… Read More
A National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report dated January 14 determined the probable cause of a July 4, 2023, allision between the mv. Kitty’s lead barge and Algiers Lock, located… Read More
On February 5, the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held its first hearing in the 119th Congress. The hearing continued the… Read More
The Kentucky Lock Addition Project near Grand Rivers, Ky., and the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project in Chattanooga, Tenn., both achieved major milestones in 2024, the Nashville Engineer District said. In… Read More
