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Robert McBride #256814
Length 105 feet -Width 28 feet - Single screw towboat
Built 1948 by St. Louis Shipbuilding & Steel Co., St. Louis, MO
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Last Updated at 8:53 on Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Copyright Photo by Ron Richardson - Thanks, Ron!
In Front Of Yvonne Conway At Brandenburg, KY 5/2008
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GM 16-567C diesel, repowered 1990, 1600 hp.
Falk reduction gears, 3:1.
Originally Sam Houston, owned by
Butcher-Arthur, Inc., Houston, TX.
Firm became Commercial Petroleum & Transport Co. 1950.
Transferred to Commercial Transport Corp., Houston, TX 1955.
Transferred to Inland Tugs Co., Jeffersonville, IN 1962.
Sold to McBride Towing Co., Inc., Harrods Creek, KY,
renamed Robert McBride 1972

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