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Dec 31, 2011, 2:07:53 PM12/31/11
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One-hundred-thirty years ago today, Thomas W Poe died (31 Dec 1881)
while on a trip from St Louis to Pittsburgh aboard the str Fearless.
In 1880, Capt Thomas W Poe bought the str Fearless to transport grain
between Kansas City and St Louis.
The str Fearless was a large heavy-draft Mississippi River stern-wheel
tow boat built in Pittsburg PA in 1865 according to Benjamin M
Laughlin. It was 160 x 30′ rated at 395 tons with two engines
(20″x8′) and five boilers (26′ x 40″) with a working steam pressure of
150lbs. When it sank on August 26, 1882 in the Missouri River about
40 miles from its mouth near Lower Bonhomme Island, the boat was owned
by the Kansas City Barge Line. The captain of the boat at the time it
sank is unknown.
A most happy New Year to all.
Fran Nash
while on a trip from St Louis to Pittsburgh aboard the str Fearless.
In 1880, Capt Thomas W Poe bought the str Fearless to transport grain
between Kansas City and St Louis.
The str Fearless was a large heavy-draft Mississippi River stern-wheel
tow boat built in Pittsburg PA in 1865 according to Benjamin M
Laughlin. It was 160 x 30′ rated at 395 tons with two engines
(20″x8′) and five boilers (26′ x 40″) with a working steam pressure of
150lbs. When it sank on August 26, 1882 in the Missouri River about
40 miles from its mouth near Lower Bonhomme Island, the boat was owned
by the Kansas City Barge Line. The captain of the boat at the time it
sank is unknown.
A most happy New Year to all.
Fran Nash
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