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Ralph Sykes #239198 Length 61 feet - Breadth 19 feet - Twin screw towboat Built 1939 by Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Sturgeon Bay, WI. (Additional Information Below Picture)
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Cummins NH855 diesels, 800 hp. Twin Disc red. 3:1. Originally Tadpole, owned by Leaman Transportation Co., Paducah, KY. Sold to Igert, Inc., Paducah, KY, renamed Martee 5/1951. Sold to Ketcher & Co., N. Little Rock, AR, renamed Herman K 1969. Sold to Mollie Y. Daniel, Rosedale, MS 1972. Sold to Orval P. Kerr, Ironton, OH 7/1975. Rebuilt at Ironton, OH 1979. Sold to Landers Marine, Inc., Dunbar, WV, renamed Sue Ann 7/1981. Sold to Kanawha Dredging & Minerals Co., Cross Lanes, WV, renamed Jess Lee 7/1988. Sold to Voyager Coal Co., Cross Lanes, WV 9/1990. Sold to Eugene H. Bartley, Jr., Wellsburg, WV 7/2000. Renamed Mean Gene 7/2009. Sold to Gulf Materials LLC, Braddock, PA, renamed Ralph Sykes 7/2010.
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