- The Mv. United States, right, and America, left, pass somewhere on the Lower Mississippi. Owned by Federal Barge Line, they were the first of the “big horsepowered” towboats at 8,500 hp. They were built by St. Louis Ship, St. Louis, Mo. Date of photograph and ID of photographer unknown. Posted by John Miller.
- Showboat 1 -
University of Minnesota Showboat is shown arriving at St. Paul on April 14, along with 13 barges in the tow of the MV. TITLETOWN USA. Copyright Mike Murphy.
- Showboat 2 -
University of Minnesota Showboat at it new permanent mooring in Harriet Island Regional Park, across the river from downtown St. Paul. Copyright Mike Murphy.
- Showboat 3 -
University of Minnesota Showboat at its Harriet Island Regional Park permanent mooring. The Smith Avenue High Bridge can be seen in the background. The vessels seen are, from left to right, the Mildred Pierce Café, the Covington Inn Bed and Breakfast (the former towboat CODRINGTON), the new UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA SHOWBOAT, and the Padelford Packet Boat Company fleet - the excursion boats ANSON NORTHRUP, HARRIET BISHOP, and JONATHAN PADELFORD, and the excursion barge BETSEY NORTHRUP and its towboat UGH THE TUG, formerly the ARLENE of Bob Draine’s Capitol Barge Service. Copyright Mike Murphy.
- The Hines houseboat (Unlax) was built in 1956 on the same ways as was the Harper C. Patton and trucked to the old steamboat landing and completed. She was 46 ft. x 16 ft. in size. Submitted by Barry Griffith.
- Upstream - To get this Cumberland River night view, the photographer aimed his camera upstream on the Cumberland River, which is smooth as glass on this very early morning at Nashville, Tenn. John Miller says that, "If you look to the left of the picture, you'll see three buildings hugging the highway bridge; this is all that remains of the original location of Nashville Bridge Company. The football stadium for the Tennessee Titans now takes up the space and Nashville Bridge has relocated a few miles downstream." Copyright John Robert Miller.
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- Urgence, a towboat that sails in France on the Seine downstream from Paris, was photographed on March 16, 2004. It works for a dredging company. Copyright Francois Manouvrier, Dreux-France.
- This picture shows the U.S. Engineers work fleet upbound at Mile 84 of Monongahela River during the summer of 2000. Copyright Brent Maletic.
- This mystery boat, posted January 9, 2005, by Ron Richardson, is located on the Ohio River bank, just upriver from old Lock and Dam 35. Numerous B&B readers identified her as the old Corps. dustpan dredge William S. Mitchell. She was purchased at one point by BB Riverboats for use as a haunted house, and that's why the USS Nightmare still appears on the wheel housing. The Mitchell is remembered or gaining national notoriety when she was stationed at Kansas City. She broke free during a flood and, in passing under a bridge stern first, lost her stacks and suffered damage to the after boiler deck.
- Utah (#39-19) with the Van H. Powell at St. Louis Fuel and Supply on April 5, 1975. She was the former Pennsylvania in the Union Barge Line fleet (see slide #31-17). The vessel was renamed Bluebird by Cardinal Carriers, a UBL operating company, in 1969. Then in 1973, she was renamed Utah by Utah Towing, St. Louis. In 1977 she was sold to R & W Marine, Paducah, and renamed Katherine in 1978. Midland acquired her and other R & W assets in 1984. She was removed from the inland waterways in 1988 when sold and moved to St. Thomas (BVI) and converted to ship-handling tug. Copyright Capt. Jeffrey L. Yates.
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