Montgomery (Towboat, 1920-1963)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Screw propeller
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat
• BUILT: 1920 at Jeffersonville, Indiana at Howard Ship Yard
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Dismantled in 1963
• OWNERS: Federal Barge Line; Ejras Corporation (1959); John J. Hasson (1962)
• RIVERS: Warrior River; Tombigbee River; Illinois River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T1865; She was launched in 1923. Her home port, circa 1923, was Mobile, Alabama. She was designed for the Warrior-Tombigbee Division of the FBL. Until 1920 she ran out of Mobile and then was cut down to a single deck and began working on the Illinois River. On June 21, 1947 she hit the Free Bridge at Peoria, Illinois and knocked a 240-foot section of it into the river. In early 1949 she was converted to diesel at the Calumet Shipyard in Chicago
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: On the waterfront at Cairo, Illinois, right to left: Henry Marquand, Demopolis, Choctaw, Montgomery, Unidentified boat