Looking down from downriver side of Clark Bridge:
Towboat "Jerry E. Holbert" upbound.
Twin screw towboat "Jerry E. Holbert" (USCG doc. # 284286, MMSI 367371390, length 164 feet, breadth 40 feet, Fairbanks-Morse 38 8-1/8 diesels, 4000 hp. [repowered in 2008 with GM 16-645E7B diesels, 6140 hp.])
Built in 1961 by St. Louis Shipbuilding & Steel Co., St. Louis, Missouri
Originally named "John Ladd Dean", owned by Midland Enterprises, Nashville, Tennessee
Sold to Excell Marine Corp., Cincinnati, Ohio, and renamed "Jerry E. Holbert" in 2004
Sold to Marquette Transportation Co., Paducah, Kentucky, circa 2008
Renamed "Ronald E. Wagenblast" in 2009
Still operating in 2017
Ohio River mile 604
Louisville, Kentucky
November 12, 2005
file # a5k018
Scanned from 6x9 cm Kodak 400UC negative
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