Built in 1918, the W.P. Snyder Jr. is the last of its kind: a steam-powered sternwheeler towboat that hauled coal from the mines to the steel mills of the Monongahela and Ohio River valleys. Now a museum ship and National Historic Landmark berthed in Marietta Ohio, the Snyder's steel hull was in dire need of replacement. This is the saga of how the Snyder was towed almost 150 miles from its berth in Marietta down the Ohio River to the McGinnis Shipyard at South Point, where the old corroded hull was removed and replaced.