Alexander Mackenzie (Towboat, 1939-1954)

Date

• ca. 1948

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat
• BUILT: 1939, Marietta Manufacturing Company, Point Pleasant, West Virginia
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Dismantled at Port Amherst, West Virginia, 1954
• OWNERS: Central Barge Company, 1940; Mississippi Valley Barge Line Company, 1952; Amherst Barge Line, 1954
• OFFICERS & CREW: A.C. Ingersoll (Captain/Master); Harry Morse (Pilot); Marquette Lancaster (Pilot); Carl Hall (Chief Engineer); Robert Brown (Engineer, 1946); Lonnie Langdon (2nd Engineer); Ellis Robinson (Mate)
• RIVERS: Illinois River; Mississippi River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T0085; Designed by Floyd E. Alexander and christened by Miss Sylvia Traer; April, 1946 an engineroom accident resulted in the death of engineer Robert Brown of Cincinnati, Carl Hall had been on vacation
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Alexander Mackenzie churns the Mississippi with wheel as she pushes a 12 barge tow upstream; view just north of Marquette, Iowa from the Prairie du Chien-Marquette bridge