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Ira Vaughn #241259
Length 102.9 feet - Breadth 22.6 feet - Single screw towboat
Built 1941 by Nashville Bridge Co., Nashville, TN.
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Last Updated at 8:50 on Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Courtesy of Boat Photo Museum, Dan Owen - Thanks, Dan!
On The LMR At Memphis, TN, 8/1974
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GM 16-567BTL diesel, repowered 1967, 1600 hp.
Falk reduction gears, 2.48:1.
Originally Kenwood, owned by
Kosmos Towing Co., Louisville, KY.
Sold to Walter G. Hougland Sons, Paducah, KY,
renamed Whayne H 1944;
renamed Camilla H 1949.
Sold to Chemical Barge Lines, Wilmington, DE 3/1951.
Sold to River Towing, Inc., Paducah, KY,
renamed Emma V 1/1955.
Returned to Hougland fleet,
renamed Bill Hougland 1962.
Sold to Universal Marine, Inc., New Orleans, LA,
renamed Brenda Jones 1963.
Renamed Universal Oiler 1968.
Sold to Kenner Marine & Machinery Co., Kenner, LA 1971.
Sold to Wm. C. Ellis & Sons, Memphis, TN,
renamed Ira Vaughn 5/1973.
Out of service 2005.

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