Way’s Steam Towboat Directory

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The Sea Lion Towed Rafts and Built Locks
November 3, 2023

In 1880 there was a small towboat built at Wheeling, W.Va., that would prove to have a very versatile career over the nearly 40 years that it existed. The sternwheel… Read More

J.N. Pharr Irvin S. Cobb new at Paducah in 1940.

J.N. Pharr

June 24, 2022

Capt. Joseph Chotin owned and operated two steam, sternwheel towboats named J.N. Pharr. The first was a wood hull vessel, 115 by 24 feet, that had been built in 1910… Read More

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