Muscatine (Towboat, 1915-1945)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat
• BUILT: Grafton, Illinois, 1915
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Burned at Paducah, Kentucky, July 29, 1945
• OWNERS: U S Engineering Department, Rock Island; T. J. McCarthy Company, Davenport, Iowa (1941); Arrow Transportation Company (circa 1944)
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Paul H. Underwood (master, 1944); James Thompson (pilot, 1944)
• RIVERS: Mississippi River; Tennessee River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T1876; Used by the USE on upper Mississippi River; sold at public sale summer of 1941 to T. J. McCarthy Company, who used her for general towing, including at least one trip to Pittsburgh. She was sold to Arrow Transportation and arrived at Knoxville, Tennessee February 13, 1944 with two barges containing 70,000 bushels of wheat, the first commercial tow to arrive there on the improved TVA Waterway. She continued in this trade along with the Mildred and burned at Paducah on July 29, 1945. She was bought by the city of Paducah and made into a public landing boat
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Muscatine at shore, sternwheel towboat Illinois in background