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Jason Belcher #272061 Length 124 feet - Breadth 30 feet - Twin screw towboat Built 1956 by St. Louis Shipbuilding & Steel Co., St. Louis, MO. (Additional Information Below Picture)
Last Updated at 18:03 on Thursday, May 30, 2019 Copyright Photo by Capt. Billy Smith - Thanks, Billy! Working In New Orleans, LA, 8/2006 (11 of 17)
Cat 3512 diesels, repowered 2003, 2400 hp. Twin Disc reduction gears, 3:1. Originally Betty Moran, owned by Moran Inland Waterways Corp., Mt. Vernon, IN. Sold to National Marine Service, St. Louis, MO 4/1962, promptly resold to Hougland Barge Line, Paducah, KY, renamed Jim Hougland 1962. Sold to Hougland Marine Service, New Orleans, LA 4/1976. Sold to Three Rivers Rock Co., Smithland, KY 4/1976, renamed Louise Daniel 1/1977. Sold to Rushing Marine Corp., Cape Girardeau, MO, renamed Evelyn Rushing 2/1979. Sold to Findett Transport Co., Alton, IL, renamed Erin Marie 6/1981. Sold to Wheeler Transport Co., Alton, IL 11/1984, renamed LaDoris C 4/1985. Sold to Mark Twain Towing Co., Pekin, IL, renamed Joseph Ray 8/1991. Sold to South Coast Marine, Inc., Madisonville, LA, renamed Brittany D. Montz 1/1997 Sold to CPD Towing Co., renamed Drew Davis 7/1997; operated by Mississippi Limestone Corp., Friars Point, MS. Sold 5/2001, renamed Jason Belcher 5/2002. Operated by Florida Marine Transporters, Inc., Mandeville, LA.
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