Towboat H.T. Pott

Taken in 2009 at the Museum of Transportation. This is of a towboat that sits next to the entrance of the museum. Built in 1933, this was the first Missouri River towboat with a welded steel hull instead of a riveted hull. It operated out of Kansas City MO. It is named after Herman T. Pott (1895-1985), a distinguished river transportation executive and entrepreneur. The towboat is 58 feet long and 15 feet wide, and it has a "draft" (the amount of the hull below the water line) of six feet. It was built with a 140-horsepower Fairbanks-Morse diesel. It was donated in 1986 by Robert A. Latta. It's hull was brought in by truck, after which its engine was reinstalled and a replica deckhouse built. Mrs. Pott rededicated it in memory of her husband in 1989.