Scheduled lock closures on the Ohio River could cause some delays. The main, 1,200-foot chamber at John T. Myers Locks and Dam on the Ohio River at Mount Vernon, Ind.,… Read More
Louisville
The Belle of Louisville is looking for donations and gift certificate purchases to stay afloat financially. The 1914 paddlewheel-driven, steam-powered vessel is the last operating riverboat of its kind anywhere… Read More
Seven decades ago, on May 11, 1949, the steamer Avalon arrived at my hometown of New Albany, Ind., just across the Ohio River from Louisville, Ky. The last of the… Read More
Built at New Albany, Ind., in 1861, the wooden-hulled packet Louisville measured 220 feet in length by 38 feet in width. Five boilers suppled steam to engines (recycled from the… Read More
The Louisville Engineer District announced April 11 that Corps natural resources managers and other personnel will be conducting prescribed burns at McAlpine Locks and Dam for the remainder of April. Read More
A brief lowering of high water allowed salvage teams to retrieve the sixth of nine sunken barges at McAlpine Dam before the water rose again, suspending operations. The barges were… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Coast Guard accepted a salvage plan developed by salvors Big River Salvage and McKinney Salvage to retrieve barges pinned against the McAlpine… Read More
Rising water has slowed the response efforts of the Coast Guard, the Army Corps of Engineers and Tennessee Valley Towing Company to a towboat and barge accident on the Ohio… Read More
The Coast Guard, Corps of Engineers and Tennessee Valley Towing (TVT) are continuing their response to a bridge allision that occurred the evening of December 25 in Louisville, Ky. The… Read More
May 21 was the Louisville Propeller Club’s Maritime Day Ceremony. The “Laying of the Wreath” honoring sailors and rivermen who have lost their lives in service of the nation’s waterways,… Read More
