Thanks to Barrel 10

Quick post here . . . since barrel has sent me way up into catfish territory with this boat, Tom Stallings.  Although the photo says it was built in 1919 in Charleston WV, the Charles Ward Shipyard records here do not list the boat. The 1929 records of the Chief of Engineers say that Tom Stallings replaced an earlier snag boat called Quapaw, a photo of which I located here.   Although the Tenn-Tom exhibit is off my near-future itineraries for now, there’s a stern-wheeler snag boat saved and open to tours still out there, here. Has anyone been there?

Here’s another oldie that seems to have disintegrated into history, pipeline dredge Gillespie.

 

 

Many thanks to barrel for sending along these yellowed records.

I am in fact in catfish territory for a week, attending to family business.