Looking down from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Rogers_Clark_Memorial_Bridge" class="extiw" title="w:George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge">Clark Bridge</a>.
<p>Towboat "Bob Benter" upbound.
</p><p>Twin <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propeller" class="extiw" title="w:Propeller">screw</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/towboat" class="extiw" title="w:towboat">towboat</a> "Bob Benter" (doc. # 273238, length 141 feet, width 36.5 feet, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_645" class="extiw" title="w:EMD 645">GM 16-645E2</a> diesels, repowered 1974, 3950 hp.)
Built in 1957 by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/small/stlouisboats.htm">St. Louis Shipbuilding &amp; Steel Co.</a>, St. Louis, Missouri
Originally named <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.towboatgallery.com/Britney_Lee-0273238.php?pic=4&amp;tnc=1&amp;mnu=">"Bob Benter"</a>, owned by Midland Enterprises, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio
In 2002, sold to Ozark Transportation Company LLC, Paducah, Kentucky, and renamed <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.towboatgallery.com/Britney_Lee-0273238.php?pic=2&amp;tnc=1&amp;mnu=">"Britney Lee"</a>
Operated by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://westernriversboat.com/our-history/">Western Rivers Boat Management, Inc.</a>, Paducah
Still operating in 2019
</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_River" class="extiw" title="w:Ohio River">Ohio River</a> mile 604.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville,_Kentucky" class="extiw" title="w:Louisville, Kentucky">Louisville, Kentucky</a>
Sept. 1987.
File # 87i014.
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35 mm Kodachrome slide.
scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 7600i and Silverfast 8.
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edited with Picture Window 4
<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/7298284490/">87i014: Bob Benter at Clark Bridge, Louisville</a>