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Polaris #270483 Length 100 feet - Breadth 28 feet - Single screw towboat Built 1955 by St. Louis Shipbuilding & Steel Co., St. Louis, MO. (Additional Information Below Picture)
Last Updated at 8:52 on Wednesday, March 6, 2019 Courtesy of Boat Photo Museum, Dan Owen - Thanks, Dan! As Tom Ragsdale, Inside The Pilothouse, 1955-1973 (16 of 16)
GM 16-567BC diesel, repowered 1982, 1600 hp. Falk red. 3:1. Originally Tom Ragsdale, operated by The Ohio River Co., Cincinnati, OH. Sold to Inland Rivers Service Corp., Cincinnati, OH, renamed Ricky Lee 3/1973. Sold to Columbia Marine Service, Ludlow, KY 9/1974, renamed John K 1979. Burned near Evansville, IN 1981. Sold to Tradwater Towing Co., Paducah, KY. Rebuilt at Paducah, KY 1982. Sold to Marvel Marine Services, Inc., Paducah, KY, renamed Red Marvel 1982. Sold to Mound City Sand Co. 1983; operated by Delta Materials, Inc., Shawneetown, IL. Sold to Northstar Navigation, Inc., Paducah, KY, renamed Polaris 8/1998. Sold to Millenium Trading Corp., Baton Rouge, LA 4/2004. Sold or leased to Viking Marine Transportation, sank at New Iberia, LA 6/1/2005.
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