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Jerome D. Beeler, a steel hull, singer-propellor towboat built at St. Louis, Mo. by the St. Louis Shipbuilding and Steel Co. in 1941. Originally named the Delmar R. Traver but her name was changed in late 1943 to Jerome D. Beeler of Evansville, Ind. Owned by Commercial Barge Lines, Inc., Detroit, Michigan. In 1946 she was sold to the Arrow Transportation Co. and renamed Atco. SEE MSS 262-015 for this ship in its previous incarnation.