Monitor (Towboat, 1907-1925)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat
• BUILT: 1901 at Brownsville, Pennsylvania
• FORMERLY: W. H. Flint
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Rammed by the tow of the La Belle while moored at the upper guidewall of Lock 3 on the Monongahela River on February 14, 1925
• OWNERS: Diamond Coal and Coke Company; Carnegie Steel Company (1918)
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain A.O. Ackard (master); Captain George T. Griffiths (deckhand, 1911); Captain Harry McGuire (1917); Charles Martin (engineer, 1917); Captain Park Buttonfield (master, 1925)
• RIVERS: Monongahela River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T1860; In May 1912 she sank at Lock 3 on the Ohio River while upbound with empties; she was raised. On October 23, 1917 she collided with the Duquesne at Charleroi, Pennsylvania and the Monitor was sunk again. A year later, she was towing coal on the Monongahela River for Carnegie Steel