Isthmian (Towboat, 1926-1936)

Date

• August 17, 1935

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat
• BUILT: Ambridge, Pennsylvania by Ambridge Bridge Company (hull) and completed at Coal Valley, Pennsylvania marine ways, 1926
• BECAME: Thomas Moses August 1936
• OWNERS: Carnegie Steel Company
• OFFICERS & CREW: 1930: Captain James Hays (master), Harry Black (pilot), Dan P. Varble (chief engineer), Sebolt M. Varble (second engineer), Charles Anderson (steward); April, 1935: Captain William Cowan (master), Fred Irwin (pilot), James McCarthy and James Smith (engineers), Robert Mitchell (mate), Charles Anderson (steward); December 27, 1935: Captain Walter "Yukon Pete" Price (master), Harry Nichols (pilot on watch), Vern K. Byrnside (pilot), Van Petty (chief engineer), Anson Crabb (second engineer), Floyd Weiss (mate), Clare Carpenter (watchman), Bob Southall and Raymond Merritt (deckhands), Bella Robinson (chambermaid)
• RIVERS: Mississippi River; Ohio River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T1217; Launched December 2, 1926; owned by Carnegie Steel. Chartered by the Campbell Transportation Company in 1935-1936 and made several trips Pittsburgh-Memphis. Upbound on December 27, 1935 she went aground on Wolf Island Bar, Mississippi River, about ten miles below Columbus, Kentucky, with one barge and a fuel flat on a falling river. Efforts to pull her off that evening were unsuccessful, and she was left high and dry until dug off by the US Engineering dredge Burgess about ten days later