J. D. Ayres (Towboat, 1929-1954)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat
• BUILT: 1929 at Midland, Pennsylvania by the Midland Barge Company
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Decommissioned in 1954
• OWNERS: Union Barge Line Company; Island Creek Fuel and Transportation Company (1947)
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Clark Sheets (master); Captain Alfred Edgington (master, 1940)
• RIVERS: Ohio River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T1240; She came out new the same year that the locks and dams were completed on the Ohio. She was the first towboat to take a tow down the Ohio using all of the locks. After she was sold in 1947, she towed coal from Huntington to Cincinnati