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BOAT DESCRIPTION: SidewheelBOAT TYPE: Railroad transfer ferryBUILT: 1907 at Dubuque, IowaBECAME: AdmiralFINAL DISPOSITION: Converted into an excursion boat and renamed in the late 1930sOWNERS: Louisiana and Mississippi Valley Transfer CompanyRIVERS: Mississippi RiverOTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 0104; Built by the Dubuque Boat and Boiler Company. She could load 16 railroad cars and operated at Vicksburg, Mississippi. In the winter of 1920-21 she went into drydock at Keokuk, Iowa where the hull was enlarged. The work was done by the Ripley Boat Company. In February 1921 she left Keokuk and became one of the few boats ever to make the run to St. Louis at that time of year. She was sold to Streckfus Streamers, Inc. around 1937. Over the next several years she was converted into the excursion boat AdmiralPHOTO DESCRIPTION: In drydock at Keokuk in 1920 before segregation and before she was lengthened

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