Looking SE from
Clark Bridge.
"Daniel Webster" (doc. # 288062) downbound.
Martin Marietta sand yard on Kentucky bank.
Twin-screw towboat "Daniel Webster" (doc. # 288062)
Length 164 feet - Breadth 40 feet - GM 16-645E7B diesels, repowered 2007, 6140 hp.
Built 1962 by
St. Louis Shipbuilding & Steel Co., St. Louis, MO
Originally owned by A. L. Mechling Barge Lines, Joliet, IL
Transferred to
Union Mechling Corp., New Orleans, LA 1973
Transferred to Dravo Mechling Corp., New Orleans, LA 1980
Leased to Western Kentucky Navigation, Inc., Paducah, KY 1986-2005
Sold to National Marine, Inc., New Orleans, LA 1988
Sold to American Commercial Barge Line, Jeffersonville, IN 1998
Sold to Excell Marine Corp., Cincinnati, OH, renamed "C. H. Martin" 2005
Sold to Marquette Transportation Co. LLC, Paducah, KY 2007
Renamed
"Darin Adrian" 2008
[Not to be confused with a different
boat named "Darin Adrian" (doc. # 266359) between 1992 and 2008]
Ohio River mile 604.
Louisville, Kentucky.
Aug. 1987.
File # 87h011.
.
35 mm E-6 slide.
scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 7600i and Silverfast 8.
edited with Picture Window 4
