Derelict river tender "Wakerobin".
Ohio River mile 528.
Warsaw, Kentucky.
Oct. 1987.
File # 87j277.
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Wakerobin was a 182-foot, 622 ton, stern paddlewheel river tender. .
She was steel-hulled and had a wood and steel superstructure. .
She had two horizontal steam engines powered by two coal-fired Babcock & Wilcox section header boilers. .
Her maximum speed was 9 knots and she had an economical cruising speed of 5 knots. .
She was commissioned into the US Lighthouse Service in 1927 and was decommissioned and placed in storage in 1948. .
She was temporarily transferred to the Army Corps of Engineers in 1949 and in 1955 the transfer was made permanent. .
During her Coast Guard service she was stationed in Memphis..
[ from River, Inland, and Construction Tenders of the U.S. Coast Guard ]
See another history of "Wakerobin" and a description of the plant for which the boat is named.
In 2004, this boat was used as a "haunted boat" and docked at Louisville before Halloween. At that time, it was billed as the "USS Frightliner" despite bearing the name "USS Nightmare." As of 2012, the "USS Nightmare" was an old dredge in Newport, Ky.
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35 mm Kodachrome slide.
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