Record-setting rains in the central and upper Midwest in the third week of February combined with melting snowpack to produce sudden and dramatic flooding across an arc from northern Louisiana… Read More
Kentucky
Capt. Bobby Wilson Capt. Bobby Wilson, a heavy-tow pilot on the mv. Lewis B. Strait, has been on the river for 35 years. That would be close… Read More
Graestone Logistics LLC, Murray, Ky., added two vessels to its fleet recently, both previously owned by Genesis Marine LLC, Houston, Texas. Twin-screw towboats, the vessels are the mvs. CGB… Read More
The Coast Guard reported last week that the mv. Virginia Renee, the Terral RiverService towboat that sank near Mile 823 on the Lower Mississippi River on January 24, had… Read More
The burned-out mv. George King following January 24 fire. (Photo by Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandon Giles) The mv. George King, the Marquette Transportation Company… Read More
The Cincinnati riverfront in January 1918 showing the sunken City of Cincinnati. Other boats in view are the sternwheeler Loucinda and the wrecked steamer City of Louisville. (Keith Norrington… Read More
The ice at Cincinnati in 1918. The disastrous winter exactly 100 years ago was a perfect storm involving weather, politics and war. Nowhere in the United States was… Read More
The William E. Strait after the fire was extinguished. (Photo courtesy of Kentucky State Police) An explosion from within the mv. William E. Strait, docked at First Marine’s… Read More
The Tarascon at the Louisville waterfront in the 1870s. For a contract cost of $40,900, the beautiful sidewheeler Tarascon was constructed on a wooden hull (250 feet in… Read More
A record number of guests attended the Seamen’s Church Institute’s (SCI) 18th annual River Bell Awards Luncheon this year to honor selected individuals for their contributions to the inland… Read More
