{"id":2396,"date":"2015-09-21T18:28:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T18:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=2396"},"modified":"2015-09-21T19:03:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T19:03:21","slug":"made-in-memphis-the-bob-lee-jr-july-1912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=2396","title":{"rendered":"Made in Memphis the BOB LEE Jr. July 1912"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BOBThe BOB LEE Jr was built on the levee by the Southern Tank & Boiler Works. \u00a0She was 145 ft long x 32 ft wide. A fire destroyed her upper works in Aug. 1913. \u00a0She was sold to Standard Oil which made a towboat out of her and renamed her CORONA. \u00a0Later she was sold to a subsidiary of Standard Oil, the Transcontinental Oil Co. and taken to the Panuco River Mexico where she was renamed ROBALO. \u00a0Eventually she was brought back by Standard Oil and renamed CORONA. \u00a0Pictures in the Univ. of Wisconsin LaCrosse collection show her pushing gasoline barges. \u00a0Interestingly, a few days after the BOB LEE Jr. was completed, my great uncle Robert E Lee in a Memphis newspaper was quoted as saying “his company would never build a side-wheel boat, the day of the big boat is gone.” \u00a0Later modifications added an additional smoke stack along with four boilers replacing the origional single boiler.<\/p>\n

The above newspaper clipping was taken from Capt. William Tippitt’s History of the Lee Line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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