A barge tow struck a mooring cell on the Ohio River last year after encountering a strong outdraft current above the McAlpine Dam during high-water conditions, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said recently. The towing vessel Queen City was transiting the Ohio River with 11...
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Mississippi, Ohio Rivers Drying Up for a Second Straight Year
By Brian K Sullivan (Bloomberg) — Water levels on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers are falling for a second straight year, raising the prospect of shipping problems along the all-important US…
https://gcaptain.com/mississippi-ohio-rivers-drying-up-for-a-second-straight-year/
Ohio River channel maintenance begins near Evansville, Indiana
The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Louisville District has begun annual channel maintenance dredging on the Ohio River, which will likely include maintenance dredging ..
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Breakaway Barges on Ohio River’s Portland Canal
Some tense moments on the Portland Canal yesterday morning as a vessel towing 11 barges collided with a stationary structure near the McAlpine Lock and Dam in Louisville, Kentucky. The…
https://gcaptain.com/breakaway-barges-on-ohio-rivers-portland-canal/
VESSEL REVIEW | Aluminium response craft for Indiana’s Jeffersonville Police
Metal Shark Boats of Louisiana has delivered a new response boat to the Jeffersonville Police Department of southern Indiana. The welded-aluminium centre console boat mea ..
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NTSB publishes report on engine room fire on towboat Capt Kirby Dupuis
A missing retaining ring and mounting bracket on a main diesel engine led to an engine room fire on a towing vessel near Belleview, Kentucky late last year, the National ..
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Jury convicts defendant in towboat pipe bomb case
Nathaniel Blayn Becker, the Marietta, Ohio, man arrested on October 28 last year after suspected destructive devices were found on several towboats, has been convicted on all four counts in a federal criminal indictment.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia says that, after a two-day trial, a federal jury convicted Becker on two counts of possession of an unregistered destructive device and two counts of placement of a destructive device on a vessel.
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https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/jury-convicts-defendant-in-towboat-pipe-bomb-case/
FreightWaves Classics/Infrastructure: Michigan Road helped settle Indiana
Despite its name, the Michigan Road was not the primary route over which pioneer settlers reached the Michigan Territory. The Michigan Road’s name came from Lake Michigan, and it was the primary north-and-south route that settlers used to reach Indiana, which had become a state in 1816.
The Michigan Road provided the shortest practical route between the Ohio River and the Great Lakes during the pioneer period (when waterways were the principal means of travel). It connected Madison, Indiana,...
FreightWaves Classics: Anniversary of bridge linking Kentucky and Ohio
Yesterday was the 90th anniversary of the opening of a suspension bridge across the Ohio River that links Maysville, Kentucky, and Aberdeen, Ohio. The bridge was named for Simon Kenton (1755-1836), who was a famous frontiersman and soldier from that area.
Simon Kenton
In 1774, in a conflict later known as “Dunmore’s War,” Kenton served as a scout for settlers against the Shawnee Indians in the area that is now West Virginia and Kentucky. In 1777, he saved the life of Daniel Boone, his friend...
Ohio Man Charged After Suspected Bombs Found on Tugboats
An Ohio man has been charged with possession of suspected explosive devices that he allegedly planted on two tugboats on the Ohio River. Nathaniel Blayn Becker, 42, of Marietta, Ohio,…