Control (Towboat, 1906-1941)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat
• BUILT: 1905 by Howard at Jeffersonville, Indiana as the Scimitar II; renamed 1906
• FORMERLY: Scimitar II
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Dismantled 1941
• OWNERS: U.S. Engineering Department, Vicksburg District (1906); Captain George Prince (1940)
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Benjamin Bernstein (master, 1929); S.M. Bigby (chief engineer, 1929); Captain Sam F. Haney (master, 1932); Frank Burdick (pilot (1932); Robert Young (pilot, 1932)
• RIVERS: Yazoo River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T0498; In 1921 a new steel hull was built for her by Dravo at Neville Island, Pennsylvania. She was towed to Vicksburg where the old upper works, machinery, etc. were placed on it. In March 1932 she and the C.W. Howell went up the Yazoo River to Silver City, Mississippi--the first steamboats to do so for many years; work was underway there in closing a breached crevasse. In February 1941, Captain Prince sold her to parties in Harvey, Louisiana
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: At the levee: Nokomis (left), Control (middle), Senator Cordill (right middle), Alice B. Miller (right)