Mary B. (Towboat/Bowboat, 1898-1915)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat/Bowboat
• BUILT: 1890 at Lake City, Minnesota
• FORMERLY: Ethel Howard (1890)
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Burned in the Wolfe River, Tennessee on August 5, 1915
• RIVERS: Mississippi River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 1741; She was a single deck towboat. She worked as the bowboat for the rafter Bart E. Linehan. On December 2, 1907, while she was on the ways for the winter at Wabasha, Minnesota, fire broke out on the rafter Isaac Staples. Three boats were destroyed; the Mary B. sustained an estimated $2,600 in damage
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: The Mary B. and a lumber raft. A boy is sitting on a stack of lumber on the raft