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Big Scrappy #265645
Length 65 feet - Breadth 20 feet - Twin screw towboat
Built 1953 by St. Louis Shipbuilding & Steel Co., St. Louis, MO.
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Last Updated at 8:48 on Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Copyright Photo by Tom Waller - Thanks, Tom!
Eastbound Light Boat At Weeks Island, 4/2011
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GM 12V-71 diesels, repowered 1974, 800 hp.
Twin Disc red. 4:1. Kort nozzles.
Originally Mississippi II, owned by
Mississippi Lime Co., Alton, IL.
Sold to Commonwealth Towing Corp., Lexington, KY,
renamed Lady Noel 5/1973.
Sold to Jacobs Towing, Inc., Louisville, KY 10/1974.
Sold to Solar's River Sand, Inc., Morgan City, LA.
Sold to Frisco Marine Services, Smackover, AR,
renamed Frisco Babe 1995.
Sold to Progressive Contracting, Inc., Smackover, AR,
renamed Ms. Diana 10/1995.
Sank 9/9/1998.
Sold to OCI LLC, Youngsville, LA,
renamed Big Scrappy 7/2010.

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