Miriam Werner (Towboat, 1939?-1945)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat
• BUILT: 1901 at Jeffersonville, Indiana
• FORMERLY: S. P. Gillet; A. F. MacArthur; MacArthur
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Beached out at Baton Rouge in 1945, partially dismantled but refloated again in 1946
• OWNERS: J.C. Werner (1939?)
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Frank B. Peabody (master, 1940); Mack Musgrove (engineer, 1940); E. Bates (engineer, 1940); Henry Chenet (pilot); F.B. Peabody (pilot); John Saffel (pilot); E.P. Duckles (pilot); Elmer Broadway (pilot); Captain Joe Trudell (pilot, 1940); Captain George Vinson (pilot, 1940)
• RIVERS: White River; Mississippi River; Ohio River; Gulf of Mexico
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T1836; In the spring of 1940, she went from Baton Rouge to Newport, Arkansas. At Newport she picked up a dredge and delivered it to Huntington, West Virginia. In October 1940, she traveled 90 miles below New Orleans to get barges. After she was refloated in February 1946, she was used to furnish steam for a barge cleaning operation run by Floyd O. Crawford