Derelict river tender "Wakerobin".
<p>Ohio River mile 528.
Warsaw, Kentucky.
Oct. 1987.
File # 87j277.
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Wakerobin was a 182-foot, 622 ton, stern paddlewheel river tender.  .
She was steel-hulled and had a wood and steel superstructure.  .
She had two horizontal steam engines powered by two coal-fired Babcock &amp; Wilcox section header boilers.  .
Her maximum speed was 9 knots and she had an economical cruising speed of 5 knots.  .
She was commissioned into the US Lighthouse Service in 1927 and was decommissioned and placed in storage in 1948.  .
She was temporarily transferred to the Army Corps of Engineers in 1949 and in 1955 the transfer was made permanent.  .
During her Coast Guard service she was stationed in Memphis..
[ from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.uscg.mil/history/WEBCUTTERS/WLR_Photo_Index.asp">River, Inland, and Construction Tenders of the U.S. Coast Guard</a> ]
</p><p>See <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.riverboatdaves.com/aboutboats/wakerobin.html">another history of "Wakerobin"</a> and a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/galleries/trilliumerec.html">description of the plant for which the boat is named</a>.
</p><p>In 2004, this boat was used as a "haunted boat" and docked at Louisville before Halloween. At that time, it was billed as the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bill_alden/6371072163/">"USS Frightliner"</a> despite bearing the name "USS Nightmare." As of 2012, the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ussnightmare.com/">"USS Nightmare"</a> was an old dredge in Newport, Ky. 
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35 mm Kodachrome slide.
scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 7600i and Silverfast 8.
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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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