<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville_and_Portland_Canal" class="extiw" title="w:Louisville and Portland Canal">Portland Canal</a> near 18th St.
<p><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jmschneid/11837584175/">"Jincy"</a> downbound with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/coal" class="extiw" title="w:coal">coal</a> tow.
<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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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 605.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville,_Kentucky" class="extiw" title="w:Louisville, Kentucky">Louisville, Kentucky</a>.
March 22, 2001.
file # a1c048.
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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/42405612655/">a1c048: Jincy with coal tow, Mama Lere and Cliff Webster in Portland Canal, Louisville</a>