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Midship Museum: A Steamboat Buff’s Dream Midship Museum curator Ruth Ferris looks at a model (built by a crew member) of the Str. Mississippi III. (Keith Norrington collection)

Midship Museum curator Ruth Ferris looks at a model (built by a crew member) of the Str. Mississippi III. (Keith Norrington collection)

Midship Museum: A Steamboat Buff’s Dream

May 17, 2021

When Frank Pierson purchased the steamer Mississippi (then a tourist attraction moored opposite Hannibal, Mo.) in early 1966 and brought it to St. Louis to replace his sunken Becky Thatcher,… Read More

The City Of Baton Rouge The City Of Baton Rouge on drydock in 1958. (Keith Norrington collection)

The City Of Baton Rouge

October 16, 2020

The ferry City of Baton Rouge is one of only a half dozen remaining riverboats built by the famed Howard Shipyard & Dock Company at Jeffersonville, Ind. It was constructed… Read More

The Str. Southland oldboat

The Str. Southland

December 27, 2019

In 1910, the Howard Shipyards at Jeffersonville built a trim sternwheeler named Nashville to run in the Evansville–Nashville–Paducah trade for W.W. Parminter of Nashville, Tenn. The wood-hulled riverboat measured 155… Read More