Crescent (Towboat, 1937-1952)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat
• BUILT: Neville Island, Pennsylvania, Dravo Corporation, 1937
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Dismantled, 1952
• OWNERS: 1937: Pittsburgh Coal Company; December, 1947: J.K. Davison Brothers
• OFFICERS & CREW: 1940: Captain Louis Althoff (master), Ed Price (chief engineer)
• RIVERS: Monongahela River; Allegheny River; Mississippi River; Wolf River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T520; She saw service usually in the local Pittsburgh area; to the mines of the Monongahela and to the sand digger in the Allegheny. In the spring of 1940, she made a trip down the Mississippi under charter to UBL. The Davison firm retired and dismantled her in 1952 when they built a new diesel towboat