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  2. Sergeant Floyd (towboat) - Wikipedia

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    Sergeant Floyd is a historic museum boat, serving as the Sergeant Floyd River Museum & Welcome Center at 1000 Larsen Park Road in Sioux City, Iowa.Built in 1932 as a utility vehicle and towboat, she is one of a small number of surviving vessels built specifically for the United States Army Corps of Engineers in its management of the nation's inland waterways.

  3. George M. Verity (towboat) - Wikipedia

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    George M. Verity is a historic towboat now displayed as a museum ship in Keokuk, Iowa.Built in 1927 as SS Thorpe, she is nationally significant for being one of only three surviving steam-powered towboats in existence in the United States.

  4. List of museum ships in North America - Wikipedia

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    Stripped down to a barge in 1943. Scrapped in 1956. Some parts were preserved. USS Banning: United States Oregon Hood River: United States: 1944 Patrol craft Museum ship at Hood River from 1961 to 1969. Returned to Navy custody in 1969. Sunk in 1973.

  5. National Museum of Transportation - Wikipedia

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    The National Museum of Transportation (TNMOT) is a private, 42-acre transportation museum in the Kirkwood suburb of St. Louis, Missouri.Founded in 1944, [1] it restores, preserves, and displays a wide variety of vehicles spanning 15 decades of American history: cars, boats, aircraft, and in particular, locomotives and railroad equipment from around the United States.

  6. Bertrand (steamboat) - Wikipedia

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    The Missouri River was a major transportation route that sustained these Montana gold mines and the budding cities. Museum at the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge. River routes were also integral to the fur trade between St. Louis and the Indian country that provided the furs, which had been going on since the early 19th century. J.J. Roe & Co ...

  7. List of maritime museums in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Maritime and Seafood Industry Museum: Missouri: Branson: The Titanic Museum: Missouri: Kansas City: Steamboat Arabia Museum: Nebraska: Brownville: Museum of Missouri River History: Nebraska: Omaha: Freedom Park Navy Museum: New Hampshire: Portsmouth, New Hampshire: USS Albacore (AGSS-569) New Hampshire: Wolfeboro: New Hampshire Boat Museum

  8. Historically low water levels in the Mississippi reveal ...

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    With the passing of barges restricted by authorities, barge traffic on the river has been reduced by 39% compared to the previous five years. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers normally moves ...

  9. Arabia Steamboat Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Arabia Steamboat Museum is a history museum in Kansas City, Missouri, housing artifacts salvaged from the Arabia, a steamboat that sank in the Missouri River in 1856. The 30,000-square-foot museum opened on November 13, 1991, in the Kansas City River Market. [1] The museum is operated by the partners of River Salvage Inc., who excavated the ...