Random Nola Tugs 5

Kirby pushboat Niceville, named for a Florida town that used to be Boggy, rounds

the bend at Algiers Point.

Marquette’s St. Peter heads

downbound.

Classic 1956 George W. Lenzie . ..

was built at the Calumet Ship Yard & Dry Dock in Chicago, where Daryl Hannah was also built in 1956, launched three months after George W. Lenzie.

Gregory David heads downstream under the spans of the Business 90 Bridge.

The water tower in the background is on Guadalcanal Street in Federal City.

Affirmed is a 2009 boat, here headed downstream.

 

All photos by Will Van Dorp, but if you want a great database for inland river tugs, check out Dick’s Towboat gallery.  Here are the previous posts in this series.