It is "the only intact, steam-driven sternwheel towboat still on the nation's river system". On November 21, 2009, the Snyder was towed from Marietta to South Point, Ohio to have her hull replaced. The Snyder arrived back in the Muskingum River at Marietta on September 17, 2010. W. P. Snyder, Jr. is a sternwheel, steam driven, towboat that was originally built as the Carnegie Steel Company towboat W. H. Clingerman in 1918 by Rees & Sons Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1938, it was renamed J. L. Perry, and in 1945 A-1. In August 1945, it was sold to Crucible Fuel Company of Pittsburgh, and renamed the W. P. Snyder Jr. in September 1945.