Reliant #279506 Length 90 feet - Breadth 28 feet - Twin screw towboat Built 1959 by St. Louis Shipbuilding & Steel Co., St. Louis, MO (Additional Information Below Picture)
Last Updated at 8:52 on Wednesday, March 6, 2019 Copyright Photo by Steve Huffman - Thanks, Steve! Behind Lady Lois At Carrollton, KY, 1/2012
Cummins KTA38-M1 diesels, repowered 2005, 2000 hp. .Twin Disc red. 6:1. Kort nozzles. Originally E. F. Campbell, operated by The Ohio River Co. Transferred to Capital Marine Supply, Baton Rouge, LA 1977. Transferred to Chotin Transportation, Inc., New Orleans 1978. Sold to Boswell Oil Co., Cincinnati, OH 7/1980. Sold to St. James Transportation Co., Covington, LA, renamed Reliant 9/1981. Sold to Madison Coal & Supply, Charleston, WV 11/1981. Rebuilt at Charleston, WV 2006. Firm became Amherst Madison, Inc., Charleston, WV 1/2010.
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