Looking SW from Indiana bank near foot of Indiana Ave..
<p>Towboat Annie's restaurant, formerly towboat "Gregory J", or "Gregory Jay" (doc. # 259375), tied off after arriving sometime in Jan. 1988.
Ohio River mile 603.
Jeffersonville, Indiana.
January 1988.
File # 88a023.
[Note: slide is labelled with original file number 88a022a].
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Diesel towboat, with steel hull and twin props.
The hull was built at Ambridge, PA by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/large/americanbridge.htm">American Bridge Co.</a> and the rest was completed by the owner, in 1950.
It was 140 x 25 x 10.1 [ more likely 103 x 25.1 x 9.8, as listed in Coast Guard documentation ] and powered by GM 12-567 diesels with a total of 1800 hp. (Those were placed in 1955).
It was owned by Warrior &amp; Gulf Navigation Co., of Chickasaw, AL, and was originally named "Choctaw".
In 1971 it was sold to Gulf-Canal Lines, Inc. of Houston and renamed Port of Houston.
In 1978 Hollinger Transportation of Greensville, MS bought the boat and resold it to Bel-Mon Towing Co., of Powhattan Point, OH, who renamed it the "Gregory Jay".
Sometime after 1978, Ron Grimm bought it (Golden Triangle River Contract &amp; Towing Co., Ltd., of McKees Rocks, PA).
Ron sold it in 1983 to G &amp; C Towing of Point Pleasant, WV.
The "Gregory Jay" burned in Pittsburgh in 1984, and was sold to River Valley Cruises of South Point, OH.
It was converted to a restaurant boat, renamed Towboat Annie's, and berthed in Jeffersonville, Indiana [in early 1988], then later in Louisville, Kentucky.
[from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~grimm/photoalbums/towboat_photos/grimm_towboats_a-l/gregory_jay.html">Michael A. Grimm's genealogy blog</a>].
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In 2002, the restaurant was renamed <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2002/04/22/daily26.html?page=all">"Port O' Call,"</a> but I don't recall if it ever opened under that name. I think the boat left Louisville soon after that, perhaps in 2003..
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In 2010, it was cut up for scrap at the foot of the I-470 bridge across from Wheeling WV..
[from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ohio981.blogspot.com/2010/09/three-photos-from-1980s.html">ohio981.blogspot.com/2010/09/three-photos-from-1980s.html</a>, comment by Ben Duvall]..
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35 mm Kodachrome.
Plustek OpticFilm 7600i and Silverfast 8.
Picture Window 6.
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JPEG quality 95.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/70020260@N04">William Alden</a> from Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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