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Model-Maker Brings Towboats And Sculptures To Life A detailed illustration by Randy Mayse depicts the mv. Mary Evelyn, one of the many custom towboat drawings he has created using Adobe software to preserve the history of inland river vessels. (Photo courtesy of the artist’s collection)

A detailed illustration by Randy Mayse depicts the mv. Mary Evelyn, one of the many custom towboat drawings he has created using Adobe software to preserve the history of inland river vessels. (Photo courtesy of the artist’s collection)

Model-Maker Brings Towboats And Sculptures To Life

August 7, 2026

For a little more than 33 years, Randy Mayse, 74, has been a man of many talents when it comes to being an artist, a craftsman and a historian. Read More

A Radically Different Towboat The stern showing the vertical axis blades that propelled the LTI-2194 from the December 12, 1953 WJ. (Photo from the author’s collection)

The stern showing the vertical axis blades that propelled the LTI-2194 from the December 12, 1953 WJ. (Photo from the author’s collection)

A Radically Different Towboat

July 24, 2026

The last column examined a “radically different” style of barge from 1930. This column will look at a “radically different” towboat that was built in 1953. The December… Read More

Revolutionary War-Era Cannons Unveiled In Savannah Museum Three of the cannons recovered during the Harbor Expansion Project are displayed at the Savannah History Museum. (Photo courtesy of the Savannah Engineer District)

Three of the cannons recovered during the Harbor Expansion Project are displayed at the Savannah History Museum. (Photo courtesy of the Savannah Engineer District)

Revolutionary War-Era Cannons Unveiled In Savannah Museum

July 2, 2026

Seventeen Revolutionary War-era cannons and other artifacts recovered during dredging for the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project were officially unveiled July 2 at the Savannah History Museum in Savannah,… Read More

America’s River Story Is One Of Partnership Photo 3 – The 3200hp HARRY TRUMAN with integrated 12,000 ton tow departing New Orleans upbound on March 8, 1949.David Smith collection.

Photo 3 – The 3200hp HARRY TRUMAN with integrated 12,000 ton tow departing New Orleans upbound on March 8, 1949.David Smith collection.

America’s River Story Is One Of Partnership

June 26, 2026

The story of America is the story of its rivers and waterways and the commerce they enable. It’s also a story of partnership between private enterprise and government support… Read More

U.S.S. Kid Homecoming Celebration Delayed USS Kidd (Photo courtesy of the USS Kidd Veterans Museum)

U.S.S. Kid Homecoming Celebration Delayed

May 15, 2026

The U.S.S. Kidd Veterans Museum announced May 13 that the “Welcome Home” celebration planned for the return of the U.S.S. Kidd has been postponed. Dangerously low river levels on… Read More

A Tragedy Greatly Unnoticed Famous (and only known) photo of the crowded steamer Sultana at Helena, Ark. April 26, 1865. Library of Congress. (Photo by Helena photographer T.W. Bankes)

Famous (and only known) photo of the crowded steamer Sultana at Helena, Ark. April 26, 1865. Library of Congress. (Photo by Helena photographer T.W. Bankes)

A Tragedy Greatly Unnoticed

May 1, 2026

Mid-to-late April 1865 was full of news. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, the hunt for and eventual killing of his assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was ongoing, and the Civil… Read More

WISTA Hosts Event With Maritime Historian Lincoln Paine Lincoln Paine, author of “The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World,” speaks at WISTA luncheon March 12 in New Orleans. (Photo by Frank McCormack)

Lincoln Paine, author of “The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World,” speaks at WISTA luncheon March 12 in New Orleans. (Photo by Frank McCormack)

WISTA Hosts Event With Maritime Historian Lincoln Paine

March 20, 2019

The New Orleans chapter of Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA) hosted a lunch & learn March 12 at the Jones Walker Law Firm in downtown New Orleans… Read More