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River Wildcat #262621
Length 156 feet - Width 35 feet - Twin screw towboat
Built 1951 by St. Louis Shipbuilding & Steel Co., St. Louis, MO
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Last Updated at 17:58 on Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Copyright Photo by 'Towboat Joe' Brown - Thanks, Joe!
Working On The River circa 11/2005
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GM 16-645CE2 diesels, repowered 1971, 3200 hp.
Western reduction gears, 4.12:1.
Originally Memphis Zephyr, owned by
J. D. Streett & Co., St. Louis, MO.
Sold to Blaske Lines, Inc., Alton, IL 7/1956.
Transferred to American Commercial Barge Line 9/1962.
Sold to Rose Barge Line, Marseilles, IL 9/1970,
renamed White Dawn 10/1971
Transferred to Agri-Trans Corp., St. Louis, MO 7/1974.
Sold to Iowa Marine Repair Corp., Morris, IL,
renamed Janet L. Klusak 1/1987
Firm name changed to RRS Transportation, Inc., Morris, IL 1/1991.
Sold to American River Transportation Co., St. Louis, MO 3/1992.
Sold to Tolen Marine, Inc., Paducah, KY,
renamed Ingle L. Tolen 2/1993
Sold to Excell Marine Corp., Cincinnati, OH,
renamed River Wildcat 7/1997
Sold to South America 1/2008.

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