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The Herbert Hoover

HERBERT HOOVER, NEW ORLEANS

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 7/16/2019 at 20:58:16

The Herbert Hoover, the largest diesel-powered tow boat on the Mississippi is launched in Dubuque’s ice harbor in 1931. Built by Dubuque’s Boat and Boiler Works for Mississippi Valley Barge Line Inc. The Hoover was overhauled in 1948 and renamed the New Orleans.

Dubuque the Birthplace of Iowa, Vol. II, A Telegraph Herald Publication.


 

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