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Photo Identifier
1978.01.0236.01.07.03
Creation Date
1900
Description and Location
ca. 1900
Steam towboat Defender pushing coal barges.
Defender was a sternwheel towboat built at Brownsville, Pa. in 1896 as the S. L. Wood.
Exploded Jan. 3, 1905, at Huntington,W.Va., with a loss of 7 or 8 lives.
Transportation Category
River (ferryboats, steamboats, towboats, wharfboats)
Media Format
Photographic print copy
Keywords
steamboats, towboats, steamboat explosions, Defender, S. L. Wood, Ohio River
