from MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE OLIVER POOL (Brina J. Agranat, 1992) :

In the early 1940s both Baker Towboat and Parker Towing operated from Riverview, although Baker apparently kept an office at River Hill, at the foot of Greensboro Avenue, near the present site of Parker Towing (Editor note: behind the present-day Amphitheater). Baker added another towboat to his fleet, the sternwheel steamer CYPRESS, at this time as well. The CYPRESS was built in St. Martinville, Louisiana in 1915 as the F. HILDA BURDIN. She measured 105.3 feet in length, 24.3 feet in beam, and 3.5 feet in depth. She was rebuilt in 1925, renamed, and sold by her owners, the Wis Paterson Lumber Company to Captain Owen F. Burke of Mobile, Alabama in 1930. After a single trip to Selma, Alabama on the Alabama River, Burke sold the CYPRESS to John C. Webb of Demopolis. The CYPRESS was a "push or pull" boat, mounting towing knees forward and a towing rig up aft. 

 

  from MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE OLIVER POOL (Brina J. Agranat, 1992)

WRECK 1 consists of the lower hull of an iron-fastened wooden vessel 105.5 feet in length with a surviving beam of 24 feet. Dimensions are consistent with the Baker towboat CYPRESS. Structure shows evidence of engine mount locations. Double floors are present at the 22nd through 26th, and 28th frames aft. Frames are 4 inches sided and 5.5 inches moulded. Room and space is 18 inches. Outer hull planking measures 11.5 inches wide and 2.75 inches thick. Outer hull is sheathed with three-quarter inch wood sheathing.

CYPRESS -Baker Towboat;  wood, steam, sternwheel towboat 102 tons, built St. Martinville, Louisiana, 1915. Rebuilt 1925. Dismantled Tuscaloosa, 1947.  105.3 X 24.3 X 3.5