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By JAMESV. SWIFf Lockwood Is Gone guaranteedsite on a canal or on the river. WI Contributing Editor We are appreciative of an e-mail from Despite this, they did the conversion in You will read a lot aboutSt. Louis in this Norm Laskay, with Dufour, Laskay & hopes of changing the minds of the city, issue,and how important the Port of St. Strouse,New Orleans,who was recentlyin but this neverhappened. Louis is to inland waterwaystransportation. Holland. Before leavingfor Europe he had "Over the years it was moved from lay How abouta picture of a different era when read our story aboutAmerican boats over- berth to layberth. On January 11, 1999,a there were still steamboatsrunning? We seas,in whichwe speculatedthat the Mark fire broke out. Firefighting was hampered don't knowthe exactdate, but one can see Twain shownin Lelystad,Holland, was the by frozenhoses; the weightof the ice broke that the river was high, the old part of town former steamerJames Y. Lockwood (WJ, up the deckhouseand the hull finally sank. had not beencleared for the GatewayArch, May 8). He had this to sayabout the Mark The ownerswere forced to salvagethe hull and the elevatedrailroad was still in place. Twain we pi~red: and it was reportedlytowed to Rotterdam, There is a cluster of boats at one of the "This boat waSgiven to a Dutch salvagewhere it is now supposedto be. wharfboats,but we can't identify them. companyin lieu of someother salvagepay- "The causeof the fire was never estab- It is interesting to see the wharfboats, ment for somethingthey did in the United lished but 1 am told that the claim has not though, perhaps the best photo we have States. It arrived in Amsterdam in 1985,wasbeen paid." seen,with their gangwaysunderwater. The soldto somebusiness people and about upper onesincluded the Diamond Jo Line, $2 million was spent to convert it into a More On The Lockwood Eagle Packet Companyand Anchor Line. floating . This conversionwas The hull of the JamesY. Lockwood was The photographer was probably on the done on spec as the Amsterdam Port built at McKees Rocks, Pa.,in 1896,and EarlsBridge. Authority could not/would not give them a -SEE STEAMBOAT PAGE25 iness. Steamboat (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 26) the boat was completed at Marietta. It was 165.4by 33 by 4.5 feet. We will havemore on the boat in a future issue. Another Mississippi Queen Also in this article on European boats we had a picture of another Mississippi Queen. Laskayhas this to say about this vessel: "This vesselis in cruise service on the Dutch inland waterways out of the homeport of Nijmegan,on the Rhine, and calls at Amsterdam.I'm told that the pad- dlewheel was entirely enclosed as the authorities felt it wasa risk to small craft. I did not get to seethis boat but hope on some future visit I can get a photo and somedetails on its service."

Important Reprint Word has come of a reprint of a river classic. Lloyd's SteamboatDirectory and Disasterson the WesternWaters hasbeen done by the Land Press,Nashville, Tenn. JamesT. Uoyd first published the book in 1856. It wasthe first generalrefer- ence available on American river craft. It has become a basic guide to early western rivers history. The reprint has an introduction by Gre- gory G. Poole that includes background information on the structure of western steamboats,steamboat personnel, steam- boat passengersand the nature and causes of steamboatdisasters. The softcover book has 350 pagesand sells for $25 plus $3.50 for shipping and handling from the publisher at P.O. Box 210262,Nashville, Tenn. 37221-0262.The phone and fax number is 615, 646-2186, and the e-mail address is landyacht- [email protected].

Permit Fo! Docking Area Submitted To Corps The Corps of Engineers announcedan applicationhas beensubmitted for a permit to constructa accessstairway on the Ohio River at Mile 646.1 at the foot of Main Streetin Brandenburg,Ky. The stairs would be constructed down the riverbank and onto a 10- by 10-foot floating boatdock. The dockwould be used mainly asa landing for .It would allow boatsto be moored 50 feet from the shore to provide sufficient water depth. The dock systemwould extenda maximum of 140 feet into the Ohio River at normal pool with boat attached. Plans call for the installation of four three-foot diameter by four-foot deep deadmen located on the shore. Existing deadmenwould be usedto moorthe river- boats using I-inch steelcables. An existing road and parking lot would be modified to include a 40-footby 28-foot overlookarea and a turnaround areaat the end of the road.