USCGC Willow (WAGL-253)
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The Willow was a side-wheel steamship built in 1924–27 to resemble a 19th-century Mississippi riverboat. She originally served on the Mississippi as a buoy tender, later as a berthing hulk, and later still was rebuilt as a showboat.[1]
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Name | Willow |
Builder | Dubuque Boat and Boiler Works |
Commissioned | October 4, 1927 |
Decommissioned | March 1, 1945 |
Renamed | (1973) Good Life Showboat |
Fate | Sunk |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Side-wheel steamer |
Displacement | 1070 tons (freshwater) |
Length | 200 ft (61 m) |
Beam | 65 ft (20 m) |
Draft | >8 ft (2.4 m) |
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