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Sprague (towboat)
''Sprague'' built at Dubuque, Iowa's ''Iowa Iron Works'' in 1901 by Captain Peter Sprague for the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company, was the world's largest steam powered sternwheeler towboat. She was nicknamed ''Big Mama'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Big Mama )〕 and was capable of pushing 56 coal barges at once. In 1907, ''Sprague'' set a world's all-time record for towing: 60 barges of coal, weighing 67,307 tons, covering an area of acres, and measuring by . She was decommissioned as a towboat in 1948.
==Legacy==
After decommissioning, ''Sprague'' became a museum on the Vicksburg, Mississippi, waterfront. For many years the long-running melodrama ''Gold in the Hills'' was performed there.
The boat was wrecked and burned in Vicksburg on 15 April 1974,〔 〕 and pieces still remain in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
A model of ''Sprague'' is in the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium in Dubuque, Iowa. The Friends of the Sprague organization sponsored a mural entitled ''The Big Mama of the Mississippi'' as one of the Vicksburg Riverfront Murals. It was dedicated on 23 March 2007.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vicksburg Riverfront Mural "The Big Mama of the Mississippi" )〕
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