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Lesta K #244288
Length 154 feet - Breadth 36 feet - Twin screw towboat
Built 1943 by St. Louis Shipbuilding & Steel Co., St. Louis, MO.
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Last Updated at 11:49 on Monday, July 15, 2019
Copyright Photo by Don Grot - Thanks, Don!
At Chain Of Rocks Canal, 6/1972
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GM 16-567 diesels, repowered 1968, 3200 hp.
Falk reduction gears, 2.5:1.
Originally Henry S. Sturgis, owned by
Ohio River Co., Cincinnati, OH.
Sold to Econo-Flo Flour Service, Salina, KS,
renamed Lesta K 2/1966
Sold to Port City Towing Co., Greenville, MS 1968.
Leased to White River Fleeting, Inc., Greenville, MS 1983.
Leased to Triangle Marine, Inc., Greenville, MS 3/1984.
Sold to Mississippi-Alabama Boat Leasing, Inc., Vicksburg, MS 1986.
Sold to American Boat Co., Cahokia, IL circa 1988.
Off the record, machinery removed 2003.

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