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Thread #94329   Message #3492808
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
20-Mar-13 - 07:49 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Stowing Sugar in the Hold
Subject: RE: Origins: Stowing Sugar in the Hold
More digression:

"The most famous steamboat race in history had the venerable Rob't E. Lee against the newly built Natchez," 1870. The Natchez arrived in St. Louis about six and one-half hours after the Rob't E. Lee.
http://www.museum.state.il.us/RiverWeb/landings/Ambot/SOCIETY/SOC7.htm