Posted 01-02-2011 at 02:09 PM by Travis Vasconcelos
Updated 01-04-2011 at 07:14 AM by Franz Neumeier
(included the boat list into the original posting, removing it from the comments.)
Beginning in what I can best determine as 1959 and ending in 1971, Captain Dennis Trone designed and built a large number of modern diesel-powered riverboats at the fabled Dubuque Boat and Boiler Works in Dubuque, IA. These boats were a cost effective answer to the fading number of expensive to operate steam excursion boats of the day. The boats were phenomenal examples of the boat builders art featuring interesting and very aesthetically pleasing lines in a time of flat steel hulls. The vessels...
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