Name Donald B Displacement 108 long tons (110 t) Beam 18 ft (5.5 m) Launched 1923 Builder Marietta Manufacturing | Tonnage 51 GRT Length 99 ft (30 m) LOA Draft 32 in (0.8 m) Year built 1923 Added to NRHP 20 December 1989 | |
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Similar Joseph Bailly Homestead, Charles L Shrewsbury House, Broad Ripple Park Car, Cannelton Cotton Mill, Eugene V Debs House | ||
Donald B, originally Standard, and now Barbara H is a paddlewheel towboat that has been named a US National Historic Landmark and is now based at Lamb, Indiana, across the Ohio River from Carrollton, Kentucky. She is owned by the Historic Sternwheeler Preservation Society, a not-for-profit corporation.
The boat was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989.
The boat measures 99 feet (30 m) long overall (80 feet (24 m) hull length plus the paddlewheel) by 18 feet (5.5 m) beam. She draws 32 inches (0.8 m). She is powered by a 160 horsepower (120 kW) 1940 Fairbanks-Morse 35E10 direct reversing diesel engine. She measures 51 gross registry tons and displaces approximately 108 long tons (110 t).
Nomenclature
Vessels that move barges on the Mississippi River and its tributaries are known as "towboats" despite the fact that they do not tow barges, but always push them from behind.