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April; 1940 TAE Marine REVIEW New Types of Boats for Mississippi River : eo following description, together with photos of wash drawings, are sent us by a St. Louis correspondent by courtesy of the Mississippi Valley Transportation Co.: The Mississtppi Valley Transporta- tion -Co., of St. bonis. organized for Tow-Boat For MISSISSIPPI the purpose of operating a line of steel steamers and barges between St. Louis and New Orleans, has accepted plans for two steamers and a barge, de- signed by E. E. Green, consulting en- gineer of the American Bridge Co. at its St.- Louis office, and will procéed to put the boats into commission as rapidly as they can be built. The boats and barges represent a radical departure from any craft ever seen on the Mississippi and inland rivers, and are considered models of ingenuity. There are two types of steamboats, Both and one tow barge. V ALLEY. of the steamers are side-wheelers, with hulls running out as gracefully as an ocean yacht. The design for the barge also has a yacht hull, bow and stern. It will be built of-steel throughout. One of the steamers is intended as a tow-boat. 141 and will cost about $250,000, and the barges about $50,000 each. The barges are designed to carry 4,000 tons on 9 ft. of water, and 1,200 tons on 4 ft. The second steamer will be known as a package freight boat. It will be something of a modification of 'the Great Lakes freighters. It will be 550 ft. long, 60 it. bread, 12 fH, deen and will draw 12 inches of water when light. Every additional foot of draft will represent 1,000 tons carrying capacity, so that the boat will carry 5,000 tons of freight when loaded to TRANSPORTATION CoO. six feet. The boat will have engines of 2,000 horsepower and will travel when fully loaded, 16 miles an hour in still water. The estimated cost of the boat is $250,000. This craft will ply between St. Louis and New Orleans, making two PACKAGE FREIGHT STEAMER FOR MISSISSIPPI VALLEY TRANSPORTATION Co.