Launching Almost Premature-These tugboats, under construction at the Missouri Valley Steel Shipyards at Leavenworth, Kas., can now await their normal launching as the floodwaters at the Missouri river, just short of the bottom of their hulls, starts to recede. Men in a boat (under crane, left) keep a check on the valuable boats and equipment as the water stands at window-level on the houses in the area.

Associated Press · [ca. April 1952]

[Information from item housing] Floods: 1952: Wire Photos