SPRAGUE - Revision history

https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=SPRAGUE SPRAGUE - Revision history 2026-04-15T03:00:26Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.45.1 https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=SPRAGUE&diff=22046&oldid=prev Randylyon at 01:34, 28 March 2010 2010-03-28T01:34:40Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 01:34, 28 March 2010</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:bigmama.jpg|left|thumb|350px|Largest stern-wheel vessel of her type in the world in 1902.]]SPRAGUE. Largest and most famous of the [[MISSISSIPPI RIVER]] paddle wheel steamers. Manufactured in 1901 by the [[IOWA IRON WORKS]], the 318-foot ''Sprague'' was named in honor of Captain Peter Sprague, the marine construction superintendent of the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:bigmama.jpg|left|thumb|350px|Largest stern-wheel vessel of her type in the world in 1902.]]SPRAGUE. Largest and most famous of the [[MISSISSIPPI RIVER]] paddle wheel steamers. Manufactured in 1901 by the [[IOWA IRON WORKS]], the 318-foot ''Sprague'' was named in honor of Captain Peter Sprague, the marine construction superintendent of the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The boat was often called "Big Mama." Her hull measured 276 feet in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lengthy </del>by 61 feet in width. The paddle wheel was 38 feet in diameter and 40 feet wide with 21 buckets (a river term for paddles). One of the first boats of its kind to push rather than pull its cargo, the ''Sprague'', with its 160-ton <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">paddlewheel</del>, was capable of moving 67,307 tons at a time. In February 1907 hitched to 56 coal boats and 4 barges, she set a record. The cargo of 67,307 tons of coal was the greatest cargo every handled in marine history in a single movement. The barges covered an area equivalent to 6.5 acres. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The boat was often called "Big Mama." Her hull measured 276 feet in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">length </ins>by 61 feet in width. The paddle wheel was 38 feet in diameter and 40 feet wide with 21 buckets (a river term for paddles). One of the first boats of its kind to push rather than pull its cargo, the ''Sprague'', with its 160-ton <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">paddle wheel</ins>, was capable of moving 67,307 tons at a time. In February 1907 hitched to 56 coal boats and 4 barges, she set a record. The cargo of 67,307 tons of coal was the greatest cargo every handled in marine history in a single movement. The barges covered an area equivalent to 6.5 acres. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Built to push coal down rivers, the Sprague spent her last twenty-three years towing oil from Baton Rouge to Memphis<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. In 1926 the ''Sprague'' moved eleven million gallons of oil</del>. Beginning in 1925 she was operated by Standard Oil of New Jersey on the lower Mississippi.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Built to push coal down rivers, the Sprague spent her last twenty-three years towing oil from Baton Rouge to Memphis. Beginning in 1925 she was operated by Standard Oil of New Jersey on the lower Mississippi<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. In 1926 the ''Sprague'' moved eleven million gallons of oil</ins>. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Before being' retired to Vicksburg, Mississippi, as a restaurant, museum, and theater boat, the ''Sprague'' operated on the rivers of the Midwest for fifty years. In 1927 she played an important role during the flood which struck Greenville, Mississippi. She was one of several boats that transported an estimated 20,000 people to shelters established by the Red Cross. When the ''Sprague'''s towboat career ended in 1948, the city of Vicksburg bought the boat from its owners for one dollar. In its service around Vicksburg, the Sprague attracted more than twenty thousand tourists annually. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Before being' retired to Vicksburg, Mississippi, as a restaurant, museum, and theater boat, the ''Sprague'' operated on the rivers of the Midwest for fifty years. In 1927 she played an important role during the flood which struck Greenville, Mississippi. She was one of several boats that transported an estimated 20,000 people to shelters established by the Red Cross. When the ''Sprague'''s towboat career ended in 1948, the city of Vicksburg bought the boat from its owners for one dollar. In its service around Vicksburg, the Sprague attracted more than twenty thousand tourists annually. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:catfish.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Painted capstans from the Sprague can be found in Catfish Row Landing Park. Photo courtesy: Steamboats.org]]In 1974 a fire gutted the boat without damaging the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">paddlewheel</del>. In 1979 the once mighty boat sank in the mud of the Yazoo River and split in half. Remains can be found in several places around Vicksburg. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:catfish.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Painted capstans from the Sprague can be found in Catfish Row Landing Park. Photo courtesy: Steamboats.org]]In 1974 a fire gutted the boat without damaging the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">paddle wheel</ins>. In 1979 the once mighty boat sank in the mud of the Yazoo River and split in half. Remains can be found in several places around Vicksburg. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Transportation]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Transportation]]</div></td></tr> </table>

Randylyon https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=SPRAGUE&diff=14374&oldid=prev Randylyon at 03:02, 12 May 2009 2009-05-12T03:02:28Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:02, 12 May 2009</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sprague</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">JPG</del>|left|thumb|350px|Largest stern-wheel vessel of her type in the world in 1902.]]SPRAGUE. Largest and most famous of the [[MISSISSIPPI RIVER]] paddle wheel steamers. Manufactured in 1901 by the [[IOWA IRON WORKS]], the 318-foot ''Sprague'' was named in honor of Captain Peter Sprague, the marine construction superintendent of the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bigmama</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">jpg</ins>|left|thumb|350px|Largest stern-wheel vessel of her type in the world in 1902.]]SPRAGUE. Largest and most famous of the [[MISSISSIPPI RIVER]] paddle wheel steamers. Manufactured in 1901 by the [[IOWA IRON WORKS]], the 318-foot ''Sprague'' was named in honor of Captain Peter Sprague, the marine construction superintendent of the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The boat was often called "Big Mama." Her hull measured 276 feet in lengthy by 61 feet in width. The paddle wheel was 38 feet in diameter and 40 feet wide with 21 buckets (a river term for paddles). One of the first boats of its kind to push rather than pull its cargo, the ''Sprague'', with its 160-ton paddlewheel, was capable of moving 67,307 tons at a time. In February 1907 hitched to 56 coal boats and 4 barges, she set a record. The cargo of 67,307 tons of coal was the greatest cargo every handled in marine history in a single movement. The barges covered an area equivalent to 6.5 acres. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The boat was often called "Big Mama." Her hull measured 276 feet in lengthy by 61 feet in width. The paddle wheel was 38 feet in diameter and 40 feet wide with 21 buckets (a river term for paddles). One of the first boats of its kind to push rather than pull its cargo, the ''Sprague'', with its 160-ton paddlewheel, was capable of moving 67,307 tons at a time. In February 1907 hitched to 56 coal boats and 4 barges, she set a record. The cargo of 67,307 tons of coal was the greatest cargo every handled in marine history in a single movement. The barges covered an area equivalent to 6.5 acres. </div></td></tr> </table>

Randylyon https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=SPRAGUE&diff=14371&oldid=prev Randylyon at 01:43, 12 May 2009 2009-05-12T01:43:24Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 01:43, 12 May 2009</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sprague.JPG|left|thumb|350px|Largest stern-wheel vessel of her type in the world in 1902.]]SPRAGUE. Largest and most famous of the [[MISSISSIPPI RIVER]] paddle wheel steamers. Manufactured in 1901 by the [[IOWA IRON <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">WORKS </del>WORKS]], the 318-foot ''Sprague'' was named in honor of Captain Peter Sprague, the marine construction superintendent of the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sprague.JPG|left|thumb|350px|Largest stern-wheel vessel of her type in the world in 1902.]]SPRAGUE. Largest and most famous of the [[MISSISSIPPI RIVER]] paddle wheel steamers. Manufactured in 1901 by the [[IOWA IRON WORKS]], the 318-foot ''Sprague'' was named in honor of Captain Peter Sprague, the marine construction superintendent of the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The boat was often called "Big Mama." Her hull measured 276 feet in lengthy by 61 feet in width. The paddle wheel was 38 feet in diameter and 40 feet wide with 21 buckets (a river term for paddles). One of the first boats of its kind to push rather than pull its cargo, the ''Sprague'', with its 160-ton paddlewheel, was capable of moving 67,307 tons at a time. In February 1907 hitched to 56 coal boats and 4 barges, she set a record. The cargo of 67,307 tons of coal was the greatest cargo every handled in marine history in a single movement. The barges covered an area equivalent to 6.5 acres. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The boat was often called "Big Mama." Her hull measured 276 feet in lengthy by 61 feet in width. The paddle wheel was 38 feet in diameter and 40 feet wide with 21 buckets (a river term for paddles). One of the first boats of its kind to push rather than pull its cargo, the ''Sprague'', with its 160-ton paddlewheel, was capable of moving 67,307 tons at a time. In February 1907 hitched to 56 coal boats and 4 barges, she set a record. The cargo of 67,307 tons of coal was the greatest cargo every handled in marine history in a single movement. The barges covered an area equivalent to 6.5 acres. </div></td></tr> </table>

Randylyon https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=SPRAGUE&diff=14370&oldid=prev Randylyon at 01:42, 12 May 2009 2009-05-12T01:42:39Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 01:42, 12 May 2009</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sprague.JPG|left|thumb|350px|Largest stern-wheel vessel of her type in the world in 1902.]]SPRAGUE. Largest and most famous of the [[MISSISSIPPI RIVER]] paddle wheel steamers. Manufactured in 1901 by the [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">DUBUQUE BOAT AND BOILER </del>WORKS]], the 318-foot ''Sprague'' was named in honor of Captain Peter Sprague, the marine construction superintendent of the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sprague.JPG|left|thumb|350px|Largest stern-wheel vessel of her type in the world in 1902.]]SPRAGUE. Largest and most famous of the [[MISSISSIPPI RIVER]] paddle wheel steamers. Manufactured in 1901 by the [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">IOWA IRON WORKS </ins>WORKS]], the 318-foot ''Sprague'' was named in honor of Captain Peter Sprague, the marine construction superintendent of the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The boat was often called "Big Mama." Her hull measured 276 feet in lengthy by 61 feet in width. The paddle wheel was 38 feet in diameter and 40 feet wide with 21 buckets (a river term for paddles). One of the first boats of its kind to push rather than pull its cargo, the ''Sprague'', with its 160-ton paddlewheel, was capable of moving 67,307 tons at a time. In February 1907 hitched to 56 coal boats and 4 barges, she set a record. The cargo of 67,307 tons of coal was the greatest cargo every handled in marine history in a single movement. The barges covered an area equivalent to 6.5 acres. In 1926 the ''Sprague'' moved eleven million gallons of oil. Beginning in 1925 she was operated by Standard Oil of New Jersey on the lower Mississippi.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The boat was often called "Big Mama." Her hull measured 276 feet in lengthy by 61 feet in width. The paddle wheel was 38 feet in diameter and 40 feet wide with 21 buckets (a river term for paddles). One of the first boats of its kind to push rather than pull its cargo, the ''Sprague'', with its 160-ton paddlewheel, was capable of moving 67,307 tons at a time. In February 1907 hitched to 56 coal boats and 4 barges, she set a record. The cargo of 67,307 tons of coal was the greatest cargo every handled in marine history in a single movement. The barges covered an area equivalent to 6.5 acres<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Built to push coal down rivers, the Sprague spent her last twenty-three years towing oil from Baton Rouge to Memphis</ins>. In 1926 the ''Sprague'' moved eleven million gallons of oil. Beginning in 1925 she was operated by Standard Oil of New Jersey on the lower Mississippi.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Before being' retired to Vicksburg, Mississippi, as a restaurant, museum, and theater boat, the ''Sprague'' operated on the rivers of the Midwest for fifty years. In 1927 she played an important role during the flood which struck Greenville, Mississippi. She was one of several boats that transported an estimated 20,000 people to shelters established by the Red Cross. When the ''Sprague'''s towboat career ended in 1948, the city of Vicksburg bought the boat from its owners for one dollar. In its service around Vicksburg, the Sprague attracted more than twenty thousand tourists annually. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Before being' retired to Vicksburg, Mississippi, as a restaurant, museum, and theater boat, the ''Sprague'' operated on the rivers of the Midwest for fifty years. In 1927 she played an important role during the flood which struck Greenville, Mississippi. She was one of several boats that transported an estimated 20,000 people to shelters established by the Red Cross. When the ''Sprague'''s towboat career ended in 1948, the city of Vicksburg bought the boat from its owners for one dollar. In its service around Vicksburg, the Sprague attracted more than twenty thousand tourists annually. </div></td></tr> </table>

Randylyon https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=SPRAGUE&diff=14369&oldid=prev Randylyon at 01:30, 12 May 2009 2009-05-12T01:30:35Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 01:30, 12 May 2009</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sprague.JPG|left|thumb|350px|Largest stern-wheel vessel of her type in the world in 1902.]]SPRAGUE. Largest and most famous of the [[MISSISSIPPI RIVER]] paddle wheel steamers. Manufactured in 1901 by the [[DUBUQUE BOAT AND BOILER WORKS]], the 318-foot ''Sprague'' was named in honor of Captain Peter Sprague, the marine construction superintendent of the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sprague.JPG|left|thumb|350px|Largest stern-wheel vessel of her type in the world in 1902.]]SPRAGUE. Largest and most famous of the [[MISSISSIPPI RIVER]] paddle wheel steamers. Manufactured in 1901 by the [[DUBUQUE BOAT AND BOILER WORKS]], the 318-foot ''Sprague'' was named in honor of Captain Peter Sprague, the marine construction superintendent of the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The boat was often called "Big Mama." Her hull measured 276 feet in lengthy by 61 feet in width. The paddle wheel was 38 feet in diameter and 40 feet wide with 21 buckets (a river term for paddles). One of the first boats of its kind to push rather than pull its cargo, the ''Sprague'', with its 160-ton paddlewheel, was capable of moving 67,307 tons at a time. In February 1907 hitched to 56 coal boats and 4 barges, she set a record. The cargo of 67,307 tons of coal was the greatest cargo every handled in marine history in a single movement. The barges covered an area equivalent to 6.5 acres. In 1926 the ''Sprague''moved eleven million gallons of oil. Beginning in 1925 she was operated by Standard Oil of New Jersey on the lower Mississippi.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The boat was often called "Big Mama." Her hull measured 276 feet in lengthy by 61 feet in width. The paddle wheel was 38 feet in diameter and 40 feet wide with 21 buckets (a river term for paddles). One of the first boats of its kind to push rather than pull its cargo, the ''Sprague'', with its 160-ton paddlewheel, was capable of moving 67,307 tons at a time. In February 1907 hitched to 56 coal boats and 4 barges, she set a record. The cargo of 67,307 tons of coal was the greatest cargo every handled in marine history in a single movement. The barges covered an area equivalent to 6.5 acres. In 1926 the ''Sprague'' moved eleven million gallons of oil. Beginning in 1925 she was operated by Standard Oil of New Jersey on the lower Mississippi.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Before being' retired to Vicksburg, Mississippi, as a restaurant, museum, and theater boat, the ''Sprague'' operated on the rivers of the Midwest for fifty years. In 1927 she played an important role during the flood which struck Greenville, Mississippi. She was one of several boats that transported an estimated 20,000 people to shelters established by the Red Cross. When the ''Sprague'''s towboat career ended in 1948, the city of Vicksburg bought the boat from its owners for one dollar. In its service around Vicksburg, the Sprague attracted more than twenty thousand tourists annually. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Before being' retired to Vicksburg, Mississippi, as a restaurant, museum, and theater boat, the ''Sprague'' operated on the rivers of the Midwest for fifty years. In 1927 she played an important role during the flood which struck Greenville, Mississippi. She was one of several boats that transported an estimated 20,000 people to shelters established by the Red Cross. When the ''Sprague'''s towboat career ended in 1948, the city of Vicksburg bought the boat from its owners for one dollar. In its service around Vicksburg, the Sprague attracted more than twenty thousand tourists annually. </div></td></tr> </table>

Randylyon https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=SPRAGUE&diff=14368&oldid=prev Randylyon at 01:30, 12 May 2009 2009-05-12T01:30:13Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 01:30, 12 May 2009</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sprague.JPG|left|thumb|350px|Largest stern-wheel vessel of her type in the world in 1902.]]SPRAGUE. Largest and most famous of the [[MISSISSIPPI RIVER]] paddle wheel steamers. Manufactured in 1901 by the [[DUBUQUE BOAT AND BOILER WORKS]], the 318-foot ''Sprague'' was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">often called "Big Mama." Hr hull measured 276 feet </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lengthy by 61 feet in width. The paddle wheel was 38 feet in diameter and 40 feet wide with 21 buckets (a river term for paddles). One of the first boats </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">its kind to push rather than pull its cargo, the ''</del>Sprague<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'', with its 160-ton paddlewheel, was capable of moving 67</del>,<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">307 tons at a time. In February 1907 hitched to 56 coal boats and 4 barges, she set a record, The cargo of 67,307 tons of coal was </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">greatest cargo every handled in </del>marine <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">history in a single movement. The barges covered an area equivalent to 6.5 acres. In 1926 the ''Sprague''moved eleven million gallons </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">oil. Beginning in 1925 she was operated by Standard Oil of New Jersey on </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lower Mississippi</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sprague.JPG|left|thumb|350px|Largest stern-wheel vessel of her type in the world in 1902.]]SPRAGUE. Largest and most famous of the [[MISSISSIPPI RIVER]] paddle wheel steamers. Manufactured in 1901 by the [[DUBUQUE BOAT AND BOILER WORKS]], the 318-foot ''Sprague'' was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">named </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">honor </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Captain Peter </ins>Sprague, the marine <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">construction superintendent </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company</ins>. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Before being' retired to Vicksburg, Mississippi, as a restaurant, museum, and theater boat, the ''Sprague'' operated on the rivers of the Midwest for fifty years. When the ''Sprague'''s towboat career ended in 1948, the city of Vicksburg bought the boat from its owners for one dollar. In its service around Vicksburg, the Sprague attracted more than twenty thousand tourists annually. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The boat was often called "Big Mama." Her hull measured 276 feet in lengthy by 61 feet in width. The paddle wheel was 38 feet in diameter and 40 feet wide with 21 buckets (a river term for paddles). One of the first boats of its kind to push rather than pull its cargo, the ''Sprague'', with its 160-ton paddlewheel, was capable of moving 67,307 tons at a time. In February 1907 hitched to 56 coal boats and 4 barges, she set a record. The cargo of 67,307 tons of coal was the greatest cargo every handled in marine history in a single movement. The barges covered an area equivalent to 6.5 acres. In 1926 the ''Sprague''moved eleven million gallons of oil. Beginning in 1925 she was operated by Standard Oil of New Jersey on the lower Mississippi.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Before being' retired to Vicksburg, Mississippi, as a restaurant, museum, and theater boat, the ''Sprague'' operated on the rivers of the Midwest for fifty years<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. In 1927 she played an important role during the flood which struck Greenville, Mississippi. She was one of several boats that transported an estimated 20,000 people to shelters established by the Red Cross</ins>. When the ''Sprague'''s towboat career ended in 1948, the city of Vicksburg bought the boat from its owners for one dollar. In its service around Vicksburg, the Sprague attracted more than twenty thousand tourists annually. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:catfish.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Painted capstans from the Sprague can be found in Catfish Row Landing Park. Photo courtesy: Steamboats.org]]In 1974 a fire gutted the boat without damaging the paddlewheel. In 1979 the once mighty boat sank in the mud of the Yazoo River and split in half. Remains can be found in several places around Vicksburg. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:catfish.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Painted capstans from the Sprague can be found in Catfish Row Landing Park. Photo courtesy: Steamboats.org]]In 1974 a fire gutted the boat without damaging the paddlewheel. In 1979 the once mighty boat sank in the mud of the Yazoo River and split in half. Remains can be found in several places around Vicksburg. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Transportation]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Transportation]]</div></td></tr> </table>

Randylyon https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=SPRAGUE&diff=11627&oldid=prev Randylyon at 02:35, 26 January 2009 2009-01-26T02:35:19Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 02:35, 26 January 2009</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sprague.JPG|left|thumb|350px|Largest stern-wheel vessel of her type in the world in 1902.]]SPRAGUE. Largest and most famous of the [[MISSISSIPPI RIVER]] paddle wheel steamers. Manufactured in 1901 by the [[DUBUQUE BOAT AND BOILER WORKS]], the 318-foot ''Sprague'' was often called "Big Mama." Hr hull measured 276 feet in lengthy by 61 feet in width. The paddle wheel was 38 feet in diameter and 40 feet wide with 21 buckets (a river term for paddles). One of the first boats of its kind to push rather than pull its cargo, the ''Sprague'', with its 160-ton paddlewheel, was capable of moving 67,307 tons at a time. In February 1907 hitched to 56 coal boats and 4 barges, she set a record, The cargo of 67,307 tons of coal was the greatest cargo every handled in marine history in a single movement. The barges covered an area equivalent to 6.5 acres. In 1926 the ''Sprague''moved eleven million gallons of oil. Beginning in 1925 she was operated by Standard Oil of New Jersey on the lower Mississippi.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sprague.JPG|left|thumb|350px|Largest stern-wheel vessel of her type in the world in 1902.]]SPRAGUE. Largest and most famous of the [[MISSISSIPPI RIVER]] paddle wheel steamers. Manufactured in 1901 by the [[DUBUQUE BOAT AND BOILER WORKS]], the 318-foot ''Sprague'' was often called "Big Mama." Hr hull measured 276 feet in lengthy by 61 feet in width. The paddle wheel was 38 feet in diameter and 40 feet wide with 21 buckets (a river term for paddles). One of the first boats of its kind to push rather than pull its cargo, the ''Sprague'', with its 160-ton paddlewheel, was capable of moving 67,307 tons at a time. In February 1907 hitched to 56 coal boats and 4 barges, she set a record, The cargo of 67,307 tons of coal was the greatest cargo every handled in marine history in a single movement. The barges covered an area equivalent to 6.5 acres. In 1926 the ''Sprague''moved eleven million gallons of oil. Beginning in 1925 she was operated by Standard Oil of New Jersey on the lower Mississippi.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Before being' retired to Vicksburg, Mississippi, as a restaurant, museum, and theater boat, the Sprague operated on the rivers of the Midwest for fifty years. When the Sprague's towboat career ended in 1948, the city of Vicksburg bought the boat from its owners for one dollar. In its service around Vicksburg, the Sprague attracted more than twenty thousand tourists annually. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Before being' retired to Vicksburg, Mississippi, as a restaurant, museum, and theater boat, the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>Sprague<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'' </ins>operated on the rivers of the Midwest for fifty years. When the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>Sprague<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>'s towboat career ended in 1948, the city of Vicksburg bought the boat from its owners for one dollar. In its service around Vicksburg, the Sprague attracted more than twenty thousand tourists annually. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1974 a fire gutted the boat without damaging the paddlewheel. In 1979 the once mighty boat sank in the mud of the Yazoo River and split in half.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Image:catfish.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Painted capstans from the Sprague can be found in Catfish Row Landing Park. Photo courtesy: Steamboats.org]]</ins>In 1974 a fire gutted the boat without damaging the paddlewheel. In 1979 the once mighty boat sank in the mud of the Yazoo River and split in half<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Remains can be found in several places around Vicksburg</ins>. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Transportation]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Transportation]]</div></td></tr> </table>

Randylyon https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=SPRAGUE&diff=11625&oldid=prev Randylyon at 02:27, 26 January 2009 2009-01-26T02:27:47Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 02:27, 26 January 2009</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sprague.JPG|left|thumb|350px|Largest stern-wheel vessel of her type in the world in 1902.]]SPRAGUE. Largest and most famous of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Mississippi paddlewheel </del>steamers. Manufactured in 1901 by the [[DUBUQUE BOAT AND BOILER WORKS]], the 318-foot Sprague was often called "Big Mama." One of the first boats of its kind to push rather than pull its cargo, the Sprague, with its 160-ton paddlewheel, was capable of moving 67,307 tons at a time. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sprague.JPG|left|thumb|350px|Largest stern-wheel vessel of her type in the world in 1902.]]SPRAGUE. Largest and most famous of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[MISSISSIPPI RIVER]] paddle wheel </ins>steamers. Manufactured in 1901 by the [[DUBUQUE BOAT AND BOILER WORKS]], the 318-foot <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>Sprague<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'' </ins>was often called "Big Mama." <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hr hull measured 276 feet in lengthy by 61 feet in width. The paddle wheel was 38 feet in diameter and 40 feet wide with 21 buckets (a river term for paddles). </ins>One of the first boats of its kind to push rather than pull its cargo, the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>Sprague<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>, with its 160-ton paddlewheel, was capable of moving 67,307 tons at a time<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. In February 1907 hitched to 56 coal boats and 4 barges, she set a record, The cargo of 67,307 tons of coal was the greatest cargo every handled in marine history in a single movement. The barges covered an area equivalent to 6.5 acres. In 1926 the ''Sprague''moved eleven million gallons of oil. Beginning in 1925 she was operated by Standard Oil of New Jersey on the lower Mississippi</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Before being' retired to Vicksburg, Mississippi, as a restaurant, museum, and theater boat, the Sprague operated on the rivers of the Midwest for fifty years. When the Sprague's towboat career ended in 1948, the city of Vicksburg bought the boat from its owners for one dollar. In its service around Vicksburg, the Sprague attracted more than twenty thousand tourists annually. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Before being' retired to Vicksburg, Mississippi, as a restaurant, museum, and theater boat, the Sprague operated on the rivers of the Midwest for fifty years. When the Sprague's towboat career ended in 1948, the city of Vicksburg bought the boat from its owners for one dollar. In its service around Vicksburg, the Sprague attracted more than twenty thousand tourists annually. </div></td></tr> </table>

Randylyon https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=SPRAGUE&diff=11624&oldid=prev Randylyon at 02:21, 26 January 2009 2009-01-26T02:21:15Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 02:21, 26 January 2009</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sprague.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">jpg</del>|left|thumb|350px|Largest stern-wheel vessel of her type in the world in 1902.]]SPRAGUE. Largest and most famous of the Mississippi paddlewheel steamers. Manufactured in 1901 by the [[DUBUQUE BOAT AND BOILER WORKS]], the 318-foot Sprague was often called "Big Mama." One of the first boats of its kind to push rather than pull its cargo, the Sprague, with its 160-ton paddlewheel, was capable of moving 67,307 tons at a time. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sprague.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">JPG</ins>|left|thumb|350px|Largest stern-wheel vessel of her type in the world in 1902.]]SPRAGUE. Largest and most famous of the Mississippi paddlewheel steamers. Manufactured in 1901 by the [[DUBUQUE BOAT AND BOILER WORKS]], the 318-foot Sprague was often called "Big Mama." One of the first boats of its kind to push rather than pull its cargo, the Sprague, with its 160-ton paddlewheel, was capable of moving 67,307 tons at a time. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Before being' retired to Vicksburg, Mississippi, as a restaurant, museum, and theater boat, the Sprague operated on the rivers of the Midwest for fifty years. When the Sprague's towboat career ended in 1948, the city of Vicksburg bought the boat from its owners for one dollar. In its service around Vicksburg, the Sprague attracted more than twenty thousand tourists annually. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Before being' retired to Vicksburg, Mississippi, as a restaurant, museum, and theater boat, the Sprague operated on the rivers of the Midwest for fifty years. When the Sprague's towboat career ended in 1948, the city of Vicksburg bought the boat from its owners for one dollar. In its service around Vicksburg, the Sprague attracted more than twenty thousand tourists annually. </div></td></tr> </table>

Randylyon https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=SPRAGUE&diff=11623&oldid=prev Randylyon at 02:20, 26 January 2009 2009-01-26T02:20:49Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 02:20, 26 January 2009</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sprague</del>.jpg|left|thumb|350px|Largest stern-wheel vessel of her type in the world in 1902.]]SPRAGUE. Largest and most famous of the Mississippi paddlewheel steamers. Manufactured in 1901 by the [[DUBUQUE BOAT AND BOILER WORKS]], the 318-foot Sprague was often called "Big Mama." One of the first boats of its kind to push rather than pull its cargo, the Sprague, with its 160-ton paddlewheel, was capable of moving 67,307 tons at a time. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sprague</ins>.jpg|left|thumb|350px|Largest stern-wheel vessel of her type in the world in 1902.]]SPRAGUE. Largest and most famous of the Mississippi paddlewheel steamers. Manufactured in 1901 by the [[DUBUQUE BOAT AND BOILER WORKS]], the 318-foot Sprague was often called "Big Mama." One of the first boats of its kind to push rather than pull its cargo, the Sprague, with its 160-ton paddlewheel, was capable of moving 67,307 tons at a time. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Before being' retired to Vicksburg, Mississippi, as a restaurant, museum, and theater boat, the Sprague operated on the rivers of the Midwest for fifty years. When the Sprague's towboat career ended in 1948, the city of Vicksburg bought the boat from its owners for one dollar. In its service around Vicksburg, the Sprague attracted more than twenty thousand tourists annually. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Before being' retired to Vicksburg, Mississippi, as a restaurant, museum, and theater boat, the Sprague operated on the rivers of the Midwest for fifty years. When the Sprague's towboat career ended in 1948, the city of Vicksburg bought the boat from its owners for one dollar. In its service around Vicksburg, the Sprague attracted more than twenty thousand tourists annually. </div></td></tr> </table>

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