Wake Island (Towboat, 1943-1959)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Screw propeller
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat
• BUILT: 1943 at Jeffersonville, Indiana by Jeffersonville Boat and Machine Company
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Sold to the Brazos Engineering Company and taken to St. Petersburg, Florida in 1959
• OWNERS: Defense Plant Corporation; FBL (1947)
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T2599; Owned by the DPC and leased through the Inland Waterways Corporation during World War II. She was one of the first of the 21 DPC towboats in operation. During WWII she was chartered to FBL, John I. Hay and the Ashland Oil and Refining Company. She was sold in 1959