A. F. MacArthur (Towboat, 1917-1920)

Photographer

Way, Fred, Jr.

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat
• BUILT: Jeffersonville, Indiana 1901
• FORMERLY: S. P. Gillet
• BECAME: MacArthur
• OWNERS: MacArthur-Hamger Construction Company
• RIVERS: Ohio River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T0012; Renamed in 1917 when sold to MacArthur-Hamger Construction Company; they sold her to the U.S. Engineering Department at Memphis, Tennessee August 1920, and from then on her name was shortened to MacArthur
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: With barge Polly (of the Ohio River Contract Company?); at Steubenville, Ohio