H. S. Douglas (Towboat, 1929-1949)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat
• BUILT: 1910 at Jeffersonville, Indiana by Howard Ship Yards
• FORMERLY: Plaquemine (1910)
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Dismantled in 1949
• OWNERS: U.S. Engineering Department, New Orleans; Warner Brothers (1947)
• RIVERS: Mississippi River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T1025; New boilers were installed in 1946 by Brown Brothers Boiler and Sheet Metal Works. Sold to Warner Brothers in 1947 who thought about using her in the motion picture, "Colt 45". She got to St. Louis and that plan was scrapped. After she was dismantled, she was used at the St. Louis levee for several years as a floating night club and later as a supply boat for the Piasa Tool and Die Company and the Eagle Boat Store