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The Ben Hur Was Accident-Prone

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The Ben Hur Was Accident-Prone

March 25, 2022

Editor’s note: Keith Norrington is retiring as Old Boat columnist for The Waterways Journal after a decade of weekly columns. His final column will appear April 4; until then, we… Read More

The Ben Hur Was Plagued With Accidents

January 8, 2018

The sternwheel packet Ben Hur was built by the Knox Boat Yard at Harmar (Marietta), Ohio, in 1887, the same year as the founding of The Waterways Journal. Constructed on… Read More