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Chem Carriers Repowers Fleet With Mitsubishi Engines

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Chem Carriers Repowers Fleet With Mitsubishi Engines

May 16, 2025

Sunshine, La.-based Chem Carriers has repowered the twin-screw mv. Capt. Robert J. Banta with a pair of Mitsubishi S12R-Y3MPTAW Tier 3 main engines from Laborde Products. Each engine delivers… Read More

The Sidewheeler Sunshine The Sunshine in a lock with excursionists aboard. Note the ornate pilothouse. (Keith Norrington collection)

The Sidewheeler Sunshine

September 13, 2020

One of this writer’s favorite steamboats built by the Howard Shipyard at Jeffersonville, Ind., was the Sunshine. Launched on May 3, 1888, for a contract price of $21,750,… Read More