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Merlin Banta #249614
Length 126 feet - Breadth 29 feet - Twin screw towboat
Built 1946 by St. Louis Shipbuilding & Steel Co., St. Louis, MO

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Last Updated at 8:52 on Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Copyright Photo by Tom Waller - Thanks, Tom!
Pilothouse, 10/2011

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GM 12-645C diesels, 2800 hp.
Falk reduction gears, 3:1. Kort nozzles.
Originally Havana Zephyr, owned by
J. D. Streett & Co., St. Louis, MO.
Sold to Huffman Towing Co., St. Louis, MO 1955,
renamed H. F. Leonard 11/1973.
Sold to Plaquemine Towing Corp., Sunshine, LA,
renamed Merlin Banta 1986.
Sold to Chem Carriers LLC, Sunshine, LA 4/2006.



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