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Effie Afton
Length 181 feet - Breadth 52 feet - Twin screw towboat
Built 1944 by St. Louis Ship & Steel Co., St. Louis, MO.
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Last Updated at 11:12 on Friday, September 10, 2021
Copyright Photo by John Gardner - Thanks, John!
Abandoned On The River Bank, 10/2018
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Two four-cylinder triple expansion engines, 2400 hp. at 185 rpm.
Foster-Wheeler "A" type steam generator,
275 psi. at 100 deg, superheat. Bunker C fuel oil.
Built by Defense Plant Corporation (hence called a DPC).
Originally Mateur, chartered to
Federal Barge Lines, St. Louis, MO.
Transferred to U. S. Engineers, Vicksburg, MS 3/1947.
Sold to Jumer's Casino & Hotel, Rock Island, IL,
moored by casino, renamed Effie Afton.
Sold to Hamm's Holiday Harbor, Chillicothe, IL. Apparently abandoned.

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