Plymouth (Towboat, 1911-1945)

Date

• 1929

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat
• BUILT: 1899 at Brownsville, Pennsylvania
• FORMERLY: R. L. Aubrey
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Retired at Jeffersonville, Indiana and sank there on January 14, 1945
• OWNERS: E.J. Hickey Transportation Company; American Barge Line
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Alfred A. Schipper (master)
• RIVERS: Kanawha River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T2061; Renamed the Plymouth after the boilers exploded on the R.L. Aubrey and she was rebuilt. Towed between the Kanawha River and Cincinnati. On March 25, 1917 she sank at Lock 3 on the Kanawha River and her upper works were ruined. One life was lost. She was rebuilt at Point Pleasant, West Virginia. After being purchased by ABL, she was rebuilt (at Paducah, Kentucky in 1926) and given a set of uniflow engines which were the only such set on the river at that time