The Sheryl Ann was a steel-hulled, twin-prop diesel towboat originally named C.S. 3. It was built at Coal Valley Marine Ways in Clairton, PA in 1925, and was 64 x 16.3 x 5.6. Its engines produced 150 hp. It was originally owned by Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., Clairton, PA (later United States Steel Corp., Pittsburgh). It was sold in March 1958 to Clarence A. "Jack" Grimm, Pittsburgh in 1958. It's possible that the Inland River Record made a mistake about this, as the 1959 edition shows the owner as Elmer P. "Bill" Grimm, and no mention of Jack.
According to my dad, the C.S. 3 was owned by my grandfather, "Chick” Grimm (a younger brother of C. A. Grimm), although the Inland River Record does not indicate that. But according to my Uncle Ron, E. P. "Bill" Grimm bought two boats in the late 1950s from U. S. Steel, the C.S. 3 and the C.I.S. 5. They were originally owned by Carnegie-Illinois Steel. The Inland River Record shows no Grimm ever owning the C.I.S. 5.
Regardless, in 1960 the boat sunk in Grimm's Landing on the Allegheny in Pittsburgh. Uncle Ron remembers helping raise it in June, 1960 when he got home from the navy. Bill Grimm renamed it the Sheryl Ann in 1964. Here is the boat on December 16, 1963, upbound on the Ohio at Neville Island, Pittsburgh, when it would have still been named C.S. 3.
Photo by Dan Owen.