Looking NW from Clark Bridge .
<p>Steamer "Belle of Louisville" returning to downtown wharf.
Conrail (later L&amp;I) Bridge and upper gates of McAlpine Dam in distance.
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Sternwheel steamboat "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.belleoflouisville.org/">Belle of Louisville</a>" (Length 192 feet - Width 41 feet - capacity 998 passengers)..
Built 1914 by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/19thcentury/rees.htm">James Rees &amp; Sons Co.</a>, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and rebuilt in 1968 by Jeffboat, Jeffersonville, Indiana..
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://steamboats.com/museum/engineroom.html">Engines</a> 16's - 6 1/2 foot stroke..
Three <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flued_boiler#Return-flue_boilers" class="extiw" title="w:Flued boiler">return flue boilers</a> (built by Nooter Corp., St. Louis, Missouri, and placed in 1968), each 28 feet long by 56 inches outside diameter, with 13 six inch flues. Burns fuel oil..
Originally named "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://belleoflouisville.org/app/uploads/2016/11/05-Idlewild.jpg">Idlewild</a>" and owned by the West Memphis Packet Co., the boat operated at times as a packet, excursion boat and ferry..
In 1928, the boat was sold to New St. Louis and Calhoun Packet Corp., Hardin, Illinois..
In 1947, the boat was sold to J. Herod Gorsage, Peoria, Illinois, and in 1948 she was renamed "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cincinnativiews.net/images-2/Avalon-aa.jpg">Avalon</a>".
In 1950, the boat was sold to Steamer Avalon, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio.
In 1962, the boat was sold at auction for $34,000 to Jefferson County, Kentucky, under the leadership of County Judge Marlow Cook, and renamed "Belle of Louisville".
As of 2018, the boat is still running public and private cruises from the wharf.
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Ohio River mile 604.
Louisville, Kentucky.
April 1988.
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file # 88d093.
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<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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