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Uploaded by on Sep 29, 2007

Just pictures and a short video I have done since being out there. Hope you enjoy

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  • haha ive done alot of work to that boat

    wickliffe ky dry dock

  • @creetybo -Recently too, right? Been having a lot of work done on it in the last several months, most of it at Wickliffe. I wasn't able to go this trip.... maybe next trip but it isn't looking like it.

  • how big is that boat? i work in the harbor at st.louis but i used to work for united barge line/ teco/ mid south... all the same company though you probebly know that. i worked there for almost 5 years and never road one of the big boats. i road the sam latrico for a while when the boat i was on got tied up. it was a 6800 but not a triple screw. my home boat was the sylvia h a 2800 hp and we stayed on the ohio most all the time except for a few short slow trips to cora or kellogg on the upper.

  • Net Tonnage: 761 Tons

    Engines: GM 16-645-E7B | 9180 | 900 RPM

    Tow Size: 40 Barge Maximum Tow

    Boat Height: 53.6 FT (Highest Fixed Point:53 FT)

    Length Width: 200X50 FT

    Boat Draft: 9.7 FT

    I have worked on the JMD for 9 years now. We get to St. Louis every now and then.

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  • Capt Erna Honeycutt was the first one on that one , if I'm not mistaken.

  • Can you tell me what are the size of one barge on the Mississippi.

    Me i work on the River Danube it's in europe and the size of one barge here is 70 m x 11 m up to 2500 t

  • can you tell me what are the size of one barge on the barge ? i work on the Danube River and here we have a barge 70 m x 11 m

  • lol Menville @ 7:00 I rode with him a couple months ago... laid back capt.

  • I road the MV John Donnelly many times from 91 to 93 along with the MV Alice I. Hooker . The Capt. of the John Donnelly first name was Harold and he pushed 76 barges on the lower Mississippi up to the Vickburg bridge then split tow with the Eileen Bigalow .

  • I road the MV John Donnelly many times from 91 to 93 along with the MV Alice I. Hooker . The Capt. of the John Donnelly first name was Harold and he pushed 76 barges on the lower Mississippi up to the Vickburg bridge then split tow with the Eileen Bigalow .

  • We see alot of the JMD up in columbus fleet

  • @Meowmie707 what company is this

  • good pics, I worked for Ingram back in the mid 80's on the OH Ingram and the Bruce Brown. The old OH.

  • this video is so nice , and the music so extra..from France we love it, please again..!!!

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