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 "Red Marvel" downbound.
</p><p>Single screw towboat "Red Marvel" (doc. # 270483, length 100 feet, breadth 28 feet, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_567" class="extiw" title="w:EMD 567">GM 16-567BC</a> diesel, repowered in 1982, 1600 hp.)
Built in 1955 (with <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2014/05/variable-height-pilot-houses.html">retractable pilothouse</a>) 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/Polaris-0270483.php?pic=15&amp;tnc=1&amp;mnu=6">"Tom Ragsdale"</a>, operated by the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://magazines.marinelink.com/Magazines/MaritimeReporter/20000615/content/midland-enterprises-expands-207343">Ohio River Co.</a>, Cincinnati, Ohio
In 1973, sold to Inland Rivers Service Corp., Cincinnati, Ohio, and renamed <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.towboatgallery.com/Polaris-0270483.php?pic=11&amp;tnc=1&amp;mnu=6">"Ricky Lee"</a>
In 1974, sold to Columbia Marine Service, Ludlow, Kentucky
In 1979, renamed <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.towboatgallery.com/Polaris-0270483.php?pic=7&amp;tnc=1&amp;mnu=6">"John K"</a>
In 1981, burned near Evansville, Indiana
Sold to Tradewater Towing Co., Paducah, Kentucky
In 1982, rebuilt at Paducah (with non-retractable pilothouse), sold to Marvel Marine Services, Inc., Paducah, and renamed <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.towboatgallery.com/Polaris-0270483.php?pic=5&amp;tnc=1&amp;mnu=6">"Red Marvel"</a>
In 1983, sold to Mound City Sand Co.; operated by Delta Materials, Inc., Shawneetown, Illinois
In 1998, sold to Northstar Navigation, Inc., Paducah, and renamed <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.towboatgallery.com/Polaris-0270483.php?pic=2&amp;tnc=1&amp;mnu=6">"Polaris"</a>
In 2004, sold to Millenium Trading Corp., Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Sold or leased to Viking Marine Transportation
In 2005, sank at New Iberia, Louisiana
</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>.
Aug. 1987.
File # 87h068.
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35 mm E-6 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/7348734368/">87h068: Red Marvel downbound at Louisville</a>