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Number 305 • spriNg 2018 PowerT HE M AGAZINE OF E NGINE -P OWERED V ESSELS FRO M ShipsT HE S T EA M SHI P H IS T ORICAL S OCIE T Y OF A M ERICA “MINI LINERs” OF THE 1930S 10 Ship Research, Part 3: Flags at Sea & Funnel Preana: One Marks 46 of Australia’s Oldest Steam The Ferry Vessels 42 Binghamton: 1905-2017 36 Alcoa’s Combination Liners 16 Thanks to All Who Continue to Support SSHSA March 2018 Fleet Admiral ($50,000+) Admiral ($20,000+) Dibner Charitable Trust of Maritime Administration Massachusetts The Family of Helen & Henry Posner, Jr. Heritage Harbor Foundation The Estate of Mr. Donald Stoltenberg Ms. Mary L. Payne Benefactor ($10,000+) The Champlin Foundation Mr. Thomas C. Ragan Leader ($1,000+) Mr. Barry W. Eager CAPT & Mrs. James J. McNamara Mr. and Mrs. James W. Shuttleworth Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Eberle Mr. W. John Miottel Mr. Douglas A. Tilden Amica Companies Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Ferguson Mr. Don Leavitt CAPT & Mrs. Terry Tilton, USN (Ret.) Mr. Charles T. 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Caiger Mr. Roger Gill Mr. Alexander Melchert Dr. Robert A. Shea Mr. Steve J. Caminis Mr. & Mrs. John & Vera Harsh Mr. Harry Meyer Mr. Howard Smart Prof. A. G. M. Campbell Mr. & Mrs. Glenn P. Hayes Dr. Laurence Miller CAPT Cesare Sorio Mr. Gabriel Caprio Mr. Rob Haynes Mr. Jeffrey Miller Mr. Donn R. Spear Mr. Peter Cawthorn Mr. & Mrs. Joseph & Anne Ilacqua Morgan Stanley Community Affairs Mr. Edward Spinney CDR Andrew O. Coggins, Jr., USN (Ret.) Mr. Neil E. Jones Mr. & Mrs. Robert Mullen Mr. Todd Sposato Council of American Maritime Museums Mr. John J. Kennedy Mr. William G. Muller Mr. Alan Stover CAPT John M. Cox Mr. Kevin P. Kernan Mr. Carl R. Nold CAPT Eric Takakjian Cunard Line Mr. Murray Kilgour Mr. Harry Olsen Mr. Eric Wiberg Mr. Mike Dacosta Mr. Stephen Lash Mr. Ronald L. Oswald The Wolfsonian - FIU Mr. Donald Deckebach Dr. Peter J. Leahy Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Payton Contributor ($100+) Mr. & Mrs. Donald Caldera CAPT George H. Fisher Mr Kenneth Meaney Mr. Dwight D. Quella Mr. Nicholas H. Cooper Mr. Raymond H. Fredette Mr. Wayne C. Miller Mr. Arnold Rathmann Mr. Gregory E. Abbott Ms. Carol Cooper Mr. Gregory C. Gettle Mr. Charles W. Moorman Mr. William J. Raver Mr. George W. Adams Mr. William F. Cosgrove Mr. Robert L. Gray III Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Morgan Mr. William S. Reid Mr. Ronald Amos Mr. Patrick Dacey Mr. John C. Gustafson Mrs. Harry Morgan Mr. Todd J. F. Schaumloffel Anonymous Mr. David J. Davila Mr. Doug Hart Rev. Bart R. Muller Mr. William O. Schlotter, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Eduardo Arini Mr. Douglas Dease Ms. Patricia Hartle Ms. Nori Muster Dr. & Mrs. Arthur Schoenwald Mr. David C. Bailey, Jr. Mr. Christopher DeCamps CAPT Brian H. Hope National Grid Mr. Mark Shumaker Mr. David A. Bavlitschko Mr. Thomas Diedrich Mr. Thomas Horsfall Mr. Mark J. Nemergut Mr. Mark G. Southern Mr. Henry H. Baxter CAPT Robertson Dinsmore Mr. Tom Jordens Mr. Brian L. Norden Mr. Jerry Stewart Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Beaulieu Ms. Astrid M. Drew Mr. Derek Kendall CW4 (Ret.) Samuel R. Ohmacht Mr. Tom Stone Mr. Steven Bienenfeld Mr. Francis J. Duffy Mr. Robert J. Kimtis Mr. James Onions Mr. David Sylvestre Mr. John D. Brandner, Jr. Mr. Michael Dugan Mr. Earl Krantz Mr. Paul J. O'Pecko Mr. Craig Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Mr. Andrew Edmonds Mr. Thomas Lavin Mr. Hollis S. Paige Mr. Steven Tise & Tracey Brennan Mr. & Mrs. William Edwards Mr. Clayton E. Leroue Mr. Paul Paisley Ms. Sandra P. Ulbrich Mr. James G. Brown Ms. Kathy Farnsworth Mr. Hugh C. MacKay Mr. Peter Pare Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Weinbaum Mr. Todd Buckley & Mr. John Teichmoeller Mr. Gary Maehl Mr. John Paul Mr. Hubert Wicki Mr. Andrew J. Burger Mr. David Fein Mr. Frank Mallalieu Mr. Frank H. Peacock CAPT Phillip B. Bush II, USN (Ret.) Dr. Jerry Fingerut Mr. Christopher McCarty Mr. Miles N. Peterle Mr. David B. Butler Mr. Michael Fisher Mr. Alan McKie Ms. Kinda Priestley Mr. James Cafferky, Sr. Mr. Arild Johan Ellingsen Mr. and Mrs. Les Isaacowitz Mr. Raisuke Numata Mr. Victor Stanescu Friend (Up to $100) Ms. Alissa Cafferky Mr. John David Ferguson Mr. Samuel L. James, Jr. Ms. Catherine Covell Orloff Mr Joseph Sturges IV Mr. Ronald Russell Andersen Mr. Edwin C. Carlson Giving Assistant Ms. Kyle Ingrid Johnson Mr. Frederic N. Phinney Mr. John Sutka Mr. Roger A. Angelo Caterpillar Foundation Ms. Lulu Gmoser Mr. Leonard Kaisalahti Reverend Donald E. Potter Mr. and Mrs. William Tatewosian Mr. Albert K. Antrobus Mr. Thomas C. Chadwick Mr. and Mrs. John Goschke Mr. Robert Kessler Mr. William Praegner Mr. G. Thomas Tranter Mr. Joe Attura Charter Oak Credit Union Mr. Norman Grant Mr. Peter Kirkegaard Mr. Gary C. Raffaele Mr. Chase Welles LCDR. Peter E. Baci, USNR (Ret) Mr. Arthur S. Clarke III Mr. Alan Graves Mr. Loring M. Lawrence Mr. W. Bruce Redpath Mr. Parker Williamson Mr. & Mrs. Ronald & Linda Beck Dr. William B. Cogar Mr. A. Allen Green Mr. William R. MacIlvaine Mr. Edward L. Reiley, Jr. Mr. George Wissler Mr. Thomas Berlin Mr. Stephen Craig CDR Michael Greene, USN (Ret.) Mr. Alex Macintyre Mr. Colin R. Revill Mr. William Wooding Mr. Francis Birchard Mr. Alan Cullen Mr. Robert R. Hill Mr. A. Michael Marzolla Ms. Tonya L. Ricketts Ms. Jean Wort Mr. Douglas Blount Mr. Terry B. Curtis Mr. David Hill CAPT & Mrs. Earl E. Maxfield, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Riddervold CAPT & Mrs. Lawrence E. Worters Mrs. Rosemary Bouckaert Mr. George Anthony Damiano Mr. Donald A. Hunt CAPT Ronald J. Meiczinger Mr. Edward J. Ryan Mr. Peter T. Young Mr. Rick Brown Dr. Robert W. Dellers CAPT Robert M. Hussey Mr. John Merriam Mr. John C. Sauter Mr. Robert A. Bucher Mr. Steve Donohue Mr. G. W. Hutton Ms. Diana Moraco Mr. Robert H. Savarese Mr. Vincent J. Budesa Ms. Marjorie Dovman IBM Corporation Mr. John A. Morgan Mr. Donald H. Smith CAPT Stephen Busch Mr. Frederick Eller Matching Gifts Program Mr. Michael Mulligan Mr. John S.W. Spofford n (At top) Engineering officers aboard Fall River Line steamer plymouth. – Edward O. Clark Collection, SSHSA Archives. PowerTHE MAGAZINE OF THEShips STEAMSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA MA NIFEST • Number 305 • spriNg 2018 THIS QUARTERLY MAGAZINE has been continuously published by The Steamship Historical “Mini-Liners” of the 1930s Society of America since first by William H. Miller........... 10 appearing as The steamboat bill of Facts in 1940. THE STEAMSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, INC., (SSHSA) was organized in 1935 as a means of bringing together those amateur and professional historians interested in the history and development of steam navigation, past and present, and incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1950 as a tax-exempt THE PILOT HOUSE . .4 education corporation. Alcoa’s Combination Liners Q&A WITH STEAMBOAT BILL .....5 IN ADDITION TO POWERSHIps, by Captain Terry Tilton, USN, Ret. 16 MESSAGE FROM THE the SSHSA produces other books and NEW PRESIDENT . .6 publications of marine interest, a LEttERS . 7 list of which is available online and from the Warwick headquarters. FULL STEAM AHEAD ..9 The Ferry Binghamton: REGIONALS.......... SSHSA MEETINGS are normally 1905–2017 High Seas ...........53 held annually. Several local Mid-Atlantic.........56 by William A. Fox . 36 chapters also meet regularly. New York ...........58 Overseas ...........60 MEMBERSHIP in SSHSA includes New England & subscriptions to powerships, the Eastern Canada . 62 Telegraph, and Ahoy! Dues West Coast Preana: One of Australia’s ..........64 are in various classes, beginning at Great Lakes / Seaway ..68 $50.00 for Annual Members. Oldest steam Vessels Southeast & Gulf Ports . 71 by Jeff Rowe . 42 Southwest Pacific .....74 FOR FURTHER DETAILS, write: Western Rivers .......77 Steamship Historical TUGBOATS ..........80 Society of America, s hip research, part 3: REVIEWS ...........83 2500 Post Road, Flags at sea & HEARD ON Warwick, RI 02886 THE FANTAIL . .85 Funnel marks Visit our website at by James Shuttleworth . 46 FROM THE COLLECTION . .86 www.sshsa.org ON THE COVER: Illustration from a 1930s Clyde-Mallory Lines brochure advertising travel on “the cool ocean trail between New York, South Carolina and Florida.” – SSHSA Archives. ABOVE: 6,200 ton “mini-liner” iroguois early in her career. – Everett Viez Collection. PowerShips (formerly titled Steamboat Bill) (issN 0039-0844)—founded in 1940 by Jay Allen—is published quarterly as a cooperative effort by the steamship Historical society of America, inc., 2500 post road, Warwick, RI 02886, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the activities of marine historians in the field of self-propelled vessels. material for possible publication is always welcome and should be sent to the editor; Jim pennypacker, 4 snead Ct., palmyra, VA 22963.