Bob Tresler (Towboat, 1938-1944)

Date

• 1938

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat
• BUILT: 1916 (called Volcano) at Pittsburgh
• FORMERLY: Volcano (1916); Mengal (1930)
• FINAL DISPOSITION: During high water in 1944, she was beached at the top of the bank at Madison (Indiana) Marine Ways and was dismantled there some time later
• OWNERS: Tresler Oil Company
• OFFICERS & CREW: W. A. Gary (master or manager, 1940); Captain Owen P. Jones (master, 1940); Captain Tom W. Posey (master, 1943); Raymond Chambers (pilot, 1943)
• RIVERS: Mississippi River; Ohio River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T0283; Renamed Bob Tresler when bought by the Tresler Oil Company in January 1938. She sank near La Crosse, Wisconsin in July 1940; then towing oil between Cincinnati and St. Paul. In 1941 she was towing from East St. Louis to Cincinnati. She made trips to the upper Ohio in fall of 1943
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: At Louisville, Kentucky