The G.W. Spore Helped Give Birth To St. Louis Ship - The Waterways Journal
An early Herman Pott-designed boat, built in 1932 as the G.W. Spore for Gipson Brothers of Memphis, is still in operation today.
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An early Herman Pott-designed boat, built in 1932 as the G.W. Spore for Gipson Brothers of Memphis, is still in operation today.
The James Rees & Sons Company built the steam sternwheel towboat Henry A. Laughlin for Jones & Laughlin Steel Company in 1905.
The big news in 1935 concerned the packet Cape Girardeau, purchased by the Greene Line Steamers from the Eagle Packet Company of St. Louis.
The W.K. Field was originally the Ironsides, built in 1869 for Gray’s Iron Line, and operated for 58 years.
The name of the Tu-Endi-We was based on how how Native Americans had referred to the area where the Kanawha River joins the Ohio River.