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Towboat Joe's Detailing |
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GEORGE M. VERITY The str. George M. Verity was built at Dubuque Boat and Boiler Works in 1927 as the str. S. S. Thorpe. The Thorpe's hull measured 130.1 by 35.1 by 5.1 feet. She was equipped with Foster-Wheeler watertube boilers burning fuel oil. Her tandem-compound engines had fifteen inch high pressure cylinders and thirty inch low pressure cylinders with a six-and-a-half foot stroke. Her wheel was nineteen by twenty-two feet and turned nineteen revolutions per minute. In 1940 the Thorpe was purchased by the American Rolling Mills Company and renamed the George M. Verity. In 1945 she was hauled out and her hull widened to 40.2 feet and she was refitted with a helical wheel.
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