<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville_and_Portland_Canal" class="extiw" title="w:Louisville and Portland Canal">Portland Canal</a> near 20th St.
<p><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bill_alden/6921985243/">"Vicksburg"</a> downbound.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bill_alden/6637111285/">"Mama Lere"</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bill_alden/27646882437/">"Cliff Webster"</a> upbound.
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Triple screw towboat "Vicksburg" (doc. # 290399, length 119 feet, breadth 36 feet, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_567" class="extiw" title="w:EMD 567">GM 12-567A</a> diesels, 2700 hp.).
Built in 1963 by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/other/inlandpostwar.htm">Vicksburg Towing Co.</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicksburg,_Mississippi" class="extiw" title="w:Vicksburg, Mississippi">Vicksburg, Mississippi</a>.
Originally owned by Magnolia Towing Co., Vicksburg.
In 1966, sold to Missouri River Barge Lines, Overland Park, Kansas.
In 1987, transferred to Valley Transportation, St. Louis, Missouri.
In 1992, sold to American Commercial Barge Line, Jeffersonville, Indiana.
Sometime after 2007, renamed "Hallelujah Chibb", owned by Chibbco Equipment.
Documentation expired in 2011.
</p><p>Twin screw towboat "Mama Lere" (doc. # 264863, length 132 feet, width 30 feet, GM 16-645C diesels, 3800 hp.).
Built in 1953 by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/small/nashvilleboats.htm">Nashville Bridge Co.</a>, Nashville, Tennessee.
I think the boat was named for Valere Blair Potter, who was called Mama Lere by her children and grandchildren. She was the wife of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Potter" class="extiw" title="w:Justin Potter">Justin Potter</a>, founder of the Nashville Coal Co.
Originally owned by Nashville Coal, Paducah, Kentucky.
In 1965, sold to Chemical Towing Service, Memphis, Tennessee.
In 1967, sold to Valley Towing Service, Memphis.
In 1983, sold to Triangle Marine, Greenville, Mississippi.
In 1994, sold to Northstar Navigation, Paducah.
In 2004, sold to Millenium Trading Corp., Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The Coast Guard vessel documentation site shows 2004 as the year of the boat's most recent documentation and lists the boat's name as "PB 131".
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_River" class="extiw" title="w:Ohio River">Ohio River</a> mile 606.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville,_Kentucky" class="extiw" title="w:Louisville, Kentucky">Louisville, Kentucky</a>.
March 22, 2001.
file # a1c047.
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Scanned from 6x9 cm Fuji NPS color negative, taken with Fuji rangefinder.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/70020260@N04">William Alden</a> from Louisville, Kentucky, USA
CC BY-SA 2.0
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bill_alden/41500125670/">a1c047: Vicksburg, Mama Lere and Cliff Webster in Portland Canal, Louisville</a>