coalbarge
10 photos tagged coalbarge, from 3 members of Flickr Commons.
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Recent uploads
The last upload was September 2014.
AL-82 Tat Tatman Album from SDASM Archives uploaded September 2014
AL-88 Al Menasco Album Image_000154 from SDASM Archives uploaded June 2014
MILAZZA (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded May 2014
AL_1B_Peterson_00366 from SDASM Archives uploaded August 2013
Coaling MINNEHAHA (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded June 2011
Coaling "North Dakota" (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded December 2010
Four Coal Barges Are Pushed Along the Kanawha River at Charleston, West Virginia...04/1974 from U.S. National Archives uploaded September 2009
"MINAS GERAES" coaling (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded May 2009
CHRISTIAN X (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded March 2008
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Coaling MINNEHAHA (LOC)
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Wystan said:
Another Bain/LOC photo of the Minnehaha:
CHRISTIAN X (LOC)
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Michael Daddino said:
This "Christian X" is probably the same Christian X discussed at length in this letter published in the September 26, 1912 New York Times. The author, Johns J. Rogert, discusses the incredible efficiency of new ships fueled by oil. "The steamship requires recoaling four times to circle the globe if she carries coal in her bunkers. The oil ship circles the globe with what she can carry in her double bottom." There's a LOC picture of the ship's captain, Capt. Robert Niss, here. The Sept. 12, 1912 New York Times reports that Niss "had been queried by every ship he has sighted as to what he had done with the smokestacks." Christian X was the King of Denmark from May 14, 1912 to 1947. (He is populary thought to have worn a yellow Star of David in support and sympathy with the Jews of Denmark during WWII, though this is fiction.) Next to it is a barge with what's probably "Berwind's Eureka Coal" on the side.The Berwind-White Company was in its day a coal-mining operation that, among other things, supplied coal to steam-powered ships. They had offices on Sixth Avenue in Jersey City, New Jersey.