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Lady Lois #227875
Length 100 feet - Width 20 feet - Sternwheel towboat
Built 1928 by Nashville Bridge Co., Nashville, TN.

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Last Updated at 8:51 on Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Copyright Photo by Steve Huffman - Thanks, Steve!
With Reliant At Carrollton, KY, 1/2012

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GM series 60 diesel, 500 hp. Twin Disc red. 3:1.
Originally Catherine D,
owned by Alpha Portland Cement Co.;
Renamed C. A. Irvin.
Sold to Bedford-Nugent Co., Evansville, IN,
renamed Graco
Firm became Evansville Materials, Inc., Evansville, IN 1962.
Sold to Three State Towing, Inc., Panama City, FL 9/1973.
Sold to Jacobs Towing, Inc., Louisville, KY 10/1975.
Sold to Merdie Boggs & Sons, Inc., Catlettsburg, KY,
renamed Lady Lois 8/1976
Leased to Warner Brothers, Los Angeles, CA,
for filming of TV series "Mississippi"
Renamed (for film only) Charles W. Stone 3/1982
Renamed (for film only) Mississippi 1983
Sold to Madison Coal & Supply Co., Charleston, WV 12/1996.
Firm became Amherst Madison, Inc., Charleston, WV 1/2010.



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