Oscar F. Barrett (Towboat, 1912-1933)

Date

• ca. 1940

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat
• BUILT: 1894 as the E.R. Andrews at Jeffersonville, Indiana by Howard Ship Yard
• FORMERLY: E.R. Andrews
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Officially abandoned November 10, 1933, but was later used as a quarter boat
• OWNERS: June, 1912: Barrett Line; ca. 1925: Standard Oil of Louisiana
• OFFICERS & CREW: 1916: Captain Guy Mallory (master); 1919: Captain Bob Boles (master), Arthur T. Jones (pilot), Joe Vick (chief engineer); 1927: Captain W.W. Lamb, Sr. (pilot)
• RIVERS: Mississippi River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T1974; In October, 1916 the cabin burned off at Cairo, Illinois. She was chartered to FBL on several occasions and was working for them in 1919. Sold to Standard Oil of Louisiana about 1925, she worked evacuating refugees during the flood of 1927 around Greenville, Mississippi
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: At dock in Winona, Minnesota, ca. 1940s