Iroquois (Towboat, 1912-1941)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat
• BUILT: 1912 at Dubuque, Iowa
• BECAME: Calvin Verity (1941)
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Sold to the American Rolling Mill Company on July 24, 1941 and renamed
• OWNERS: U.S. Engineering Department
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain William Wright (master, 1917-27); Lee Blagg (pilot, 1917); William Handley (chief engineer, 1917); James Stewart (pilot, 1926); Will Baer (engineer, 1926); Captain James Stewart (master, 1928); Captain Leon Ash (master); Scott Heatherington (pilot)
• RIVERS: Muskingum River; Ohio River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T1209; She was the last steamboat to go through Locks 1-9 on the Muskingum River going from Marietta to Zanesville. She had the backing and stopping bells off the packet City of Louisville. In March 1931, she got three new boilers and two stacks at the Howard yard in Jeffersonville, Indiana
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Pushing a tow