Channel improvement barge unloading at Gulf Refinery, Guntersville, AL, Tennessee River.

Picture courtesy of Guntersville, AL, Police Department (www.guntersvillepd.com); thanks for the permission to show these great pictures here.

US Coast Guard boat and former lighthouse tender Greenbrier at Guntersville, AL, Tennessee River.

Picture courtesy of Guntersville, AL, Police Department (www.guntersvillepd.com); thanks for the permission to show these great pictures here.


Str. CAPE GIRARDEAU, 1934, photo taken by Ruth Ferris from the deck of the ERASTUS WELLS (later CITY OF ST. LOUIS). Keith Norrington Collection.
Thanks Keith for the picture!


The whistle of the Str. W.P. SNYDER undergoing cleaning and restoration on the boat's engineer table. This snapped summer of 1988.
Thanks to R. Dale Flick for the picture!


Here's the QUEEN CITY photo I uncovered here the other week. No writing on the back; so I have no idea what lock she's in, or when. I'd say late in her career by the clothing on the guys taking it all in. In the far distance there's what appears to be some kind of vehicle. [?] Good load of freight with rousters standing looking and others moving stuff around. The big bales are probably not cotton. I'd opine bales of rags headed to Cincinnati for the paper making concerns here. Hence the name from long ago of 'Ragtown.' Old QUEEN CITY RAG & PAPER CO. still had their building at the far west end of the Public Landing here until down into the 1960s. Old steamboat records mention 'cotton batting' being shipped up here back then.
Thanks to R. Dale Flick for the picture!


Capt. John and Elsie Beatty in their home the day we celebrated the beginning of the work on the restoration of the Str. W.P. SNYDER, spring of 1988. Picture taken in the kitchen of their home.
Thanks to R. Dale Flick for the picture!


Most likely this picture was taken on the Upper Mississippi River, as that is where the CAPITOL spent her summers, tramping between St. Louis and St. Paul. She spent the winters in the New Orleans harbor until replaced by the PRESIDENT. Her wooden hull was the reason for one brother 'firing' another from the company. Capt. Roy Streckfus was her captain and didn't want to continue running her in the deep NOLA harbor with her deteriorating wooden hull, but Capt. Joe, the Streckfus Steamers' President, insisted she be run there and Roy was fired. He later returned to the company. The CAPITOL was made into an excursion boat from the Diamond Jo's packet DUBUQUE, with most of the conversion work being done at the Streckfus carpenter shop in Credit Island Slough in Davenport.. She was dismantled at the St. Louis levee in 1945.
Thanks to Judy Patsch for the picture!


The W. P. SNYDER jr. as she appeared on September 5, 1988 headed back to Marietta's Ohio River Museum fresh from the restoration/renovation by Capt. John Beatty.
Thanks to R. Dale Flick for the picture!