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Texas Rose #254714
Length 166 feet - Breadth 36 feet - Twin screw towboat
Built 1948 by Dravo Corp., Neville Island, PA.
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Last Updated at 8:53 on Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Courtesy of Boat Photo Museum, Dan Owen - Thanks, Dan!
Downbound On The UMR At St. Louis, MO, 4/1987
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GM 16-567C diesels, repowered 1973, 3200 hp.
Western reduction gears, 3:1. Kort nozzles.
Originally Esso Tennessee,
owned by Esso Standard Oil Co.,
then Humble Oil & Refining Co., Houston, TX.
Sold to Security Towing Co., Greenville, MS,
renamed Tennessee 1963.
Sold to Big T Towing Co., Greenville, MS 3/1967.
Transferred to Feeder Line Towing Service, Inc., Greenville, MS 1/1973.
Transferred to Greenville Towing Co., Inc., Greenville, MS 3/1974,
operated for Peavey Co., Alton, IL.
Transferred to Williamson Leasing Co., Greenville, MS 1979.
Sold to TPC Transportation Co., St. Louis, MO 4/1981.
Sold to Aqua Marine Equipment Management, Inc., Baytown, TX 12/1983.
Sold to Transcontinental Towing Co., Inc., Edwardsville, IL,
renamed Emma Catherine 6/1985,
renamed Texas Rose 3/1987.
Sold to Virgie Gray, Houston, TX 1988.
Sold to West Indies Transport Co., Inc., St. Thomas, Virgin Islands 9/1988.,
converted to ship docking tug, renamed Wit Assist I

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