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Name: A. B. CHAMBERS
Type:
Size:
Launched:
Destroyed:
Area:
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: 1856, late Feb, Torn from docks and swept downstream in
ice flow during Great Ice Gorge at St. Louis. Don't know if destroyed
by this. Marsh, Grant was watchman aboard her.
Name: A. B. CHAMBERS NO. 2
Destroyed: 1860, Snagged above Mo. R. mouth.
Area: Mo. R.; Miss. R.
Captain and pilots: 1859, Marsh, Grant
Comments: 1859, Marsh was Capt. and 2nd Pilot, Clemens, Samuel was
at wheel when they were nearly done in by an ice flow
near Commerce Missouri. Marsh yelled from a lead boat
for Clemens to back down. Clements quietly said, "No.
Go ahead as fast as you can." Clements was right.
1860, Bowman
1. Name: A. C. GODDIN
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 351 tons
Launched: 1856, Madison, Ind.
Destroyed: 1857, Apr. 20, Mo. R., Lower Bonhomme Island
(mile 41.3-37.6), snagged and lost
Area: Mo. R.
Captains: 1856, Ives, Jackson (?Ivers?, Jackson); 1857, LaBarge, John
Comments: From Diary of E.F. Beadle: 1857, Tuesday, May 19, was in Omaha.
1. Name: A.C. JAYNES
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull ferry boat
Size: 125' x 30' x 4.3'
Power: Compound Engines, 12's, 48's- 4 ft. One boiler, coal burning.
Launched: 1925, Grafton, Ill. by Midwest Boat & Barge Co.
Destroyed: 1960, May, Burned
Area: At first, Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Later went to Greenville, Miss., until bridges were built.
Later still was at Helena Ark.
Owners: At Helena, Ark., Capt. A. C. Johnson and operated by Charles Halbert
Comments: Carried 24 autos.
Name: A.L. SHOTWELL/ECLIPSE
Made run N.O. - Donaldsville 1852, 0/5/42
Made run N.O. - Natchez 1853, 0/19/49
Name: A. M. PHILLIPS
Launched: 1836: by Phillips Yard, Wheeling W. Va.
Area: Ohio. R.
Owner: Phillips Boat Yard
Comments: One of the fastest of her time.
Comments:Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Great American Products
Name: A. T. LACY
Launched: 1850s
Comments: Clemens, Samuel cubbed here after PENNSYLVANIA
Name: AARON HART
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 261 tons.
Launched: 1848, Elizabethtown, Pa.
Destroyed: 1849, Oct. 8, New Orleans wharf, burned.
Owners: Capts. William J. Kountz and John Birmingham, both of Pittsburgh.
Captains: 1849, Oct. 8, W.J. Kountz
Comments: named for river pioneer and father of Capt. Jesse Hart.
Name: ABEONA
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: 1866, May, was on trip to Ft. Benton.
Name: ABIGAIL, originally the LUCILLE NOLAND
Name: ABNER O'NEAL
Area: 1879; Ohio R., Wheeling to Steubenville, W. Va.
Owner: Capt. George O'Neal?
Captain(s): O'Neal, George
Comments: Notes from WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Comments: from the Wheeling Intelligencer, July 6, 1882,
Name: ABIGAIL See LUCILLE NOWLAND
Name: ACHILLES
Area: Hudson R.
Comments: Assisted the CITY OF NEWARK when she burned.
1. Name: ACTIVE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 95 tons
Power: Engine, 9" - 30" stroke
Launched: 1867, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1877, Jan. 29, Brashear, La. lost
Area: Kanawha R.
Charleston-Cannelton,
Later, Charleston-Gallipolis
Owners: Capt. William Penn Wright was part owner
Captains: 1872-74 or so, William Hix was master.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: ACADIA
Launched: 1840s
Destroyed: 1849, May 17, Fire at St. Louis Docks.
Area: Ill. R.
Name: ADA V
Area: Ohio. R.
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Mar. 31 1897
Name: ADAM HEINE
Engineer: during civil war, Henry C. Gerboth, Montrose Iowa
Comments: Was in the service of General Grant and from which he
directed maneuvers of the army and navy.
: This information from site visitor, Norma Key, Folsom CA,
who would like more information on her great grandfather,
Henry C. Gerboth. See
Name: ADAMS JACOBS
Launched: 1840s
Destroyed: 1849, May 17, Fire at St. Louis Docks.
Area: Ill. R.
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments:
Name: ADDIE JOHNSON (Way's Packet Dir. lists only an ADDIE JOHNSTON)
Launched: 1850s or 60s ?
Area: Ill. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: ADELIA
Launched: 1840s, late ?
Area: 1840s, late, Sacramento R., Calf.
1. Name: ADDIE JOHNSTON (Also see ANNIE JOHNSTON)
Type; Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 315 tons.
Launched: 1865, Port Byron, Ill.
Destroyed: 1882, out of service
Owners: For some time, Keokuk Northern Line
Comments: I believe this Article calls this boat the ANNIE JOHNSON
1.Name: ADMIRAL
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 169' X 26'.
Power: 20's- 5 1/2ft., 3 boilers.
Launched: 1853, McKeesport, Pa.
Destroyed: 1862, Apr. 5, Columbus, Ky., burned.
Area: Principally on Mo. R., St. Louis-Council Bluffs, Io.
Owners: At one time, Capt. Pete Flemming
Captains: 1853, first master, Capt. J.T. Stockdale of Pittsburgh.
1858, James Woodworth
Comments: 1856, Oct. Weston Island, Mo., sank in shallow water. Raised.
: Reported to be one of the finest boats during Mo. R.
banner years.
: * 1857, The Diary of E.F. Beadle has her leaving St. Joseph
Mar. 25, Mo. for Omaha. Later in season, arriving up
July 27.
From same, 1857, June 4, Arrived at Omaha from St. Louis.
(No, it didn't take that long. Different trip.)
June 20, back in Omaha.
Also arriving Omaha July 9.
Left St. Louis July 17 arrived Omaha July 27.
: Mentioned in this Article
Name: S. S. ADMIRAL
Type: Excursion boat
Size: 374 X 90 ft. Accomodates 4.000 passengers.
Launched: 1940, May
Area: St. Louis, Mo.
Owner: 1952, Streckfus Steamers, Inc. flagship.
Captain(s): Mabrey, Edgar F.
Comments: Note from Ralph Mabrey
: Note from site Visitor, Chris Johnson
: Was built over a period of years on the hull
of the former ALBATROSS, below.
Name: ADRIATIC
Launched: 1856, Apr.,
Destroyed: St Louis Ice Crush?
Area: U. Miss.
Comments: 1856, late Feb, Torn from docks and swept downstream
in ice flow during Great Ice Gorge at St. Louis. Don't
know if was destroyed by this.
1. Name: ADRIENNE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Launched: 1866, Amite R., La.
Destoyed: 1871 was last documentation
Owners: When new, Jean LaSalle, New Orleans
Later that year sold to Sheldon L. Wheeler, New Orleans
who transfered her papers, *1865, July, to Galveston, Tex.
(*I know, the dates don't work, but that's what Way's has - Dave)
*Later may have been owned by Capts. William and Napoleon Wiess, Neches R., Tex.
Captains: 1st master was Peter L. Cornet
Comments: Under Wheeler, rebuilt. May have been converted to sidewheeler.
Name: ADVENTURE
Comments: 1838, spring, ascended Missouri's Osage R., ran a distance
of 160 miles upstream, and returned to St. Louis.
See Article
3. Name: AETNA
Launched: 1840's mid?
Area: 1850s, early, Sacramento R. Calif.
1. Name: AGGIE
Type: Sternwheel, Wooden hull packet. Size: 92.4' X 20.4' X 3.'.
Power: 9-1/2's- 3 ft.
Launched: 1875, Manchester, Oh.
Area: 1875, Evansville-Owensboro
1880-81, on Osage R., Mo.
1892, Registered in Kansas City, Mo.
Owners: 1875, Capt. Tom Wilson and Messers. O'Neil
1876, Apr., traded to Azro Powel, Uniontown, Ky. for 250 acre farm.
later, sold to Mo.R. by James Tetlow of Chester to Persons in
Washington, Mo.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article.
Name: AJAX
Type: Paddlewhell, Coal towboat Size: 230'
Launched: 1864
Area: 1870's: Ohio R.
Captain(s): Whysall, Job
Comments: From: Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Aug. 18 1897
Name: AIR LINE
Area: Ohio R.?
Name: ALABAMA
From The Olden Times.com
The Mobile Register and Journal
Mobile, Alabama
May 26, 1846
Launched: Pre 1846
Captains: 1846, B.H. Fry
Name: ALABAMA
Launched: 1849, Gadsden, Ala.
Area: Coosa R.
Owner: Coosa River Steamboat Company
Comments: Source
Name: ALABAMA, originally the DE SOTO
Name: ALABAMA
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Launched: 1849, Gadsden, Ala.
Area: Coosa R.
Owners: Coose River Steamboat Company
Comments: Source
1. Name: ALABAMA
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 137.5' X 27.7' X 4.3'
Launched: 1904, Gadsden. Ala
Destroyed: 1917, dismantled
Area: Upper Coosa R.
Owner: Peter Wagnon and/or the LeFevre Bros
Comments: The LeFevre Bros. came from Wisconsin to Rome Ga. and Gadsden, Ala
Name: ALAMO
Area: Between 1866 and 72, Neches R., Tex.
Owners: William and Napoleon Wiess
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: ALANTA
Launched: 1824?
Area: New York to Elizabethtown Point
Owner: Ogdon, Arron
Name: ALBANY
Size: 210 X ?
Launched: 1826
Area: 1850s nd 60s, U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: ALBANY
Type: Size: 210 X ?
Area: 1880, May 12, New York City to Poughkeepsie
Comments: ran New York City to Poughkeepsie (May 12, 1880)
72 7/8 miles: 3 hours, 8 mins. 23.26 mph avg.
Name: ALBATROSS/ADMIRAL
Type: Sidewheel steel hull railroad transfer boat
Size: 308' X 53.8' X 7.6', overall width, 90'
Winter of 1920-21 was lenghtened to 365'
Power: Engines, 26's- 10ft. Four Boilers 72" X 18'
Launched: 1907, Dubuque, Iowa by Dubuque Boat and Boiler Co.
Destroyed: Hull became the ADMIRAL. Still afloat as casino boat.
Area: Around Keokuk, Iowa
Under Streckfus went to lower Miss. R. then back to St. Louis
Owners: When new, Louisiana & Mississippi Valley Transfer Company
1937, purchased by Streckfus Steamers, Inc., St. Louis
Comments: Used to transfer railroad cars from one side of river to the other,
often miles up or down the river. This boat was capable of carrying
16 rail cars.
: Streckfus turned her into the excursion boat ADMIRAL, above.
Name: ALBEMARLE
Launched: 1855 - 65, between" Wheeling W. Va. by Phillips Yard, Wheeling.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING INTELLIGENCER, June 24, 1951
Name: ALBERT GALLATIN
Type: Probably a sternwheeler. A wooden hull packet
Destroyed: 1841, Galveston Bay, Tex., blew boilers whil racing.
15 people killed and injured.
Area: Neches R., Tex.
Comments: See source Article
Name: ALBERT GALLATIN
Type: Probably a sternwheeler. A wooden hull packet
Launched: Between 1866 and 72, Banks of Brake's Bayou, Beaumont, Tex.
Area: Neches R., Tex.
Owners: Captains William and Napoleon Wiess
Comments: See source Article
1. Name: ALBERTA
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 116' X 25' X 3.5', 107 tons.
Launched: 1876, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: her machenery was used in 1880 on new ALBERTA NO. 2
Area: 1877, U. White R., Newport to Batesville, Sylamore, Calico Rock,
Buffalo City, Talbert's Ferry, Dubuque and Forsythe, Ark.
Owners: Built for Albert B. Smith
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: ALBERTA NO. 2
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size:150' X 18.5' X 3.5', 83 ton.
Launched: 1880, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1883 or so, Lower White R., Burned
Area: built for and used on U. White R.
Owners: Albert B. Smith
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: ALBERTA NO. 3
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. 150' x 30' on deck
Launched: 1884, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1887, Pre, White R., Burned.
Area: built for and used on U. White R.
Owners: Capt. Albert B. Smith
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: ALDA
Launched: 1891? in Boonville, Mo., by builder John J. Walther.
Destroyed: 1902?
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
1. Name: ALECK SCOTT/FORT HENRY/LAFAYETTE (also see ALEX.(ander) SCOTT below)
Type: Stern-wheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 296' X 44'
Power: 25's-10 ft., 6 boilers.
Wheels: 30' in dia. w/15 ft. buckets, 28" dip
Launched: 1848, Louisville, Ky., completed, St Louis
Area: 1848 St. Louis - New Orleans
1862, Feb. Tenn. R.
Owners: 1848, Possibly in part by Capt. John C. Swon
Later, the Railroad Line
1862, acquired by U.S.Q.M.C. and renamed FORT HENRY
Captains: 1848 when new, Capt. John C. Swon
Later, Switzer
At outbreak of C. War, Robert A Reilly
1862, pilot was Horace Bixby with Sam Clemens as cub
Comments: 1862, Feb. when Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, Western Dept. sent 17,000 troops
under command of Brig. Gen. U.S. Grant to up the Tenn. R. to Fort Henry,
this boat was one of the fleet of transport boats.
1862, May, was acquired by the USQMC, converted to a gunboat and renamed LAFAYETTE
Name: ALEX KENDALL
Type: Sternwheel, woodenhull packet.
Size: Originally 110'
1876, 30' added amidships, now 140'
1878, lenghtened by 45' to 185'
Launched: 1874, New Albany, Ind.
Area: Built for Cumberland R. trade
Went to Ohio R.
Wound up in St. Louis-Calhoun County apple trade.
Owners: Built for Capt Thomas (Tim) H. Armstrong and others
Eventually sold to Ohio R. people.
Name: ALEX MITCHELL
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 241' X 37.5' X 5.5'
Launched: 1870, Paducah, Ky. (hull), completed, La Cross, Wis.
Destroyed: 1881, La Cross, Dismantled
Area: 1870, Pittsburg-St. Paul, U. Ohio R.
at some time, New Orleans-Shreveport
Owner: Northwestern Union Packet Company
Also associated with Keokuk Northern Line
Captain: 1871, Mar 12, Lon Bryson.
U. Ohio Pilots: James Rowley, Sr. and James Hughes
N.O. - Shreveport capt.: Charles Boardman
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
: Cabin and machenery went to GEM CITY
: Named for President of Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad
1.Name: ALEXANDER SCOTT (also see ALECK SCOTT above)
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet.
Size: 266' X 34' X 8', overall width, 69'
Power: 25's-10 ft., 6 boilers
Wheels: 30', 15 buckets with 28" dip.
Launched: 1842, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Area: When new, St. Louis-New Orleans
1847, Louisville-New Orleans
Owners: when new, principal owner Capt. John C. Swon
1847, sold to Capt. Edward T. Sturgeon and others
Captains: When new, John C. Swon
1. Name: ALEXANDRIA The 2nd one
Type: Sternwheel wood hull packet
Launched: 1877
Area: Red River out of N. O.
Captains: Rea, George W.
Name: ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Launched: 1840s?
Destroyed: 1849, May 17, fire at St. Louis docks
Area: Miss. R.
1. Name: ALHAMBRA
Type: Side-wheeler, wooden hull packet Size: 187 tons
Launched: 1854, McKeesport, Pa.
Destroyed: 1863, Commerce, Mo. Burned
Area: Ohio and Mo. Rs.
Owner: 1856, Minnesota Packet Company
Captains: 1856, Gabbert, W.H.; 1863, Faucette, William
Name: ALICE
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1840s?
Destroyed: 1849, May 17, Fire at St. Louis docks??
Area: Miss. R.
Owner: Saint Louis and Miami Packet Co.
Captain(s): Capt. Geo. Vickers.
Comments: 1856, late Feb, Torn from docks and swept downstream in
ice flow during Great Ice Gorge at St. Louis. Forced
ashore only slightly damaged.
HearthSong
Name: ALICE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet/navigation light tender
Size: 220'
Launched: 1870, early
Area: 1870s, early, Mo. R.;
: 1875, Ohio R.; 1876, Mo. R.; 1878, Miss. R.
Owner: 1870s, early, Kinney, Joseph
Captain(s):
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
: 1. A sidewheeler named ALICE established
the first government lights on the Ohio river and many on the
Mississippi R.. The Ohio lights were first placed by ALICE in
1875, and after that the work was done by the LILY.
In 1876, the ALICE serviced lights on the Missouri up to Kansas
City. She also worked lights on the Mississippi. In 1878,
on Feb. 28, she left St. Louis to service lights to New Orleans.
That spring she was snagged, breaking as meny as eighty of her
hull's timbers, and was returned to St. Louis for docking.
(Way's Packet Directory does not seem certain that this was the
light tender, but the dates seem to indicate that it was.)
*Name: ALICE
Area: 1889, Tombigbee R.
Comments: cir. 1880, this boat was "abducted" by Capt. Shropshire
Name: ALICE
Type: Sternwheeler
Area: Yukon R.
Comments: This "Alice" Was still working in 1945. Was making run
between Nenona and Marshal.
Name: ALICE DEAN
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 411 tons.
Launched: 1863, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1863, July 8, Indiana shore, between Morvins Landing
and Mauckport, burned by Morgan's Raiders (see below)
Area: 1863, Cincinnati-Memphis
Captain: James H. Pepper
Comments: Troops under command of John Hunt Morgan used a small packet
named JOHN T. McCOMBS to lure the ALICE DEAN ashore where they
captured her and used her as a ferry to move from Brandenburgh, Ky.
to the Indiana side of the river. After that they burnd
her. Her equipment was later recovered and auctioned off for $4,500.
Name: ALICE DEAN
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 694 tons
Launched: 1864, Cincinnati, Oh. Maiden run, 1864, Feb. 25, from
Cincinnati. (Commodore)Thompson Dean was
aboard and several other notables.
Destroyed: 1872, was retired. Machinery went to THOMAS SHERLOCK.
Hull became wharfboat, Lake Providence, La.
Area: Cincinnati-Memphis
Captains: 1864, James H. Pepper
1865, Charles Darvo
1866, C. Dan Conwqay
Comments: 1864, Mar. 25, Hit bank below Cincinnati. Stern sank in in 12'.
Raised.
1865, late Dec., Hit bridge at Cincinnati and lost both stacks.
1869, Dec., 40 mi. above Memphis, hit log. Would have sunk if
load of cotton hadn't kept her afloat until THOMPSON
DEAN came to assist..
1870, Apr. 26, mistake in signals between pilot and engineer caused
her to hit the Covington pier of suspension bridge. Downed
both stacks.
Name: ALICE GRAY
Area: 1870, Osage R., Mo. between Tuscumbia and Osage City.
Owner: 1870, William H. Hauenstein, the father.
Captains: 1870, probably Capt. William Henry Hauenstein, the son.
Source: Information from site visitor Kelly Hokkanen
Comments: Mentionedin this Article
Name: ALLEGHENIA
Area: 1833, Pittsburgh -Cincinnatti
Comments: info in this entry is from the diary of an ancestor of
web site visitor Kathryn Grogman. grogman@earthlink.net>
Name: ALLEGHENY
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 160' X 23' x 5.4'
Launched: 1841
Dismantled: 1846
Areas: 1841, advertised Cincinnati-New Orleans
1842, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
1845, ran from St. Louis to Hennepin on Ill. R.
Owners: When new, Capt. Thomas Carmac and others, all of Pittsburgh.
1842, Capt. William Dean became part owner.
1846, Capt Richard C. Gray bought Capt. Dean out.
Captains: When New, Thomas Carmac
1842, William Dean with Richard C. Gray as clerk.
1. Name: ALLEGHENY
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 278' X 30' X 6.', 520 tons.
Power: 5 boilers
Launched: 1852, Shousetown, Pa.
Destroyed: 1857, Nov., bellow Jefferson Barracks at Carroll Island,
sunk by ice.
Area: 1852, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
1857, running St. Louis-New Orleans as passenger carrier only
Owners: when new, R.S. Hays 1/4, David Holmes 1/8, George Black 1/8,
Wm. Bingham 1/8, Thomas S. Clarke 1/8, William Thaw 1/8,
William Frampton 1/8, all of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Also Capt. C.W. Batchelor
1852, fall, Batchelor sold his portion to Robert S. Hayes, Thomas
S. Clarke and William Thaw
Possibly at one time, Isaac Kimber
Companies Associated With: 1853, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet Line
Captains: 1852, Master, C.W. Batchelor
1852, Fall, George B. McLean took command; pilots, James O'Neal,
and Evan Morgan
1855, Master, J.W. Cooke
1857, Richard Phillips
Comments: Nicknamed STAR OF THE WEST
: Made run Louisville-Cincinnati, 0/10/05 to take the "Horns"
from TELEGRAPH NO. 2
Made run Louisville - Cincinnati 1852, 0/10/38
1. Name: ALLEGHENY BELLE No. 4
Type: sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 143 tons.
Power: 16's -6 ft.
Launched: 1859, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1875, May 23, Below Portland Bar, below Louisville, hit
barge and sank.
Area: Allegheny R.
1863, entered Pittsburgh-Wheeling trade.
Under Booth, Parkersburgh-Cincinnati tow trade.
Owners: 1859, Capt. John Hanna, 5/8 and Capt. William Hanna, 3/8
1863, Apr. 16, sold to Capt William J. Kountz, D.S.H. Gillmore and others.
Later, sold to John K. Booth
Captain(s): Master, William Hanna
early 1860's, Peppers, George H.
During C. War was briefly in U.S. service, but deamed too small.
1863, Master, George D. Moore
Under Booth ownership, Nels Davis was master.
Comments: Machinery was recovered and used on CALUMET
: was known to carry 500 to 600 barrels of oil during Allegheny
R. oil boom.
: Booth converted her into towboat
: from the WheelingRegister, Mar. 31 1879
Name: ALLEGHENY CLIPPER
Launched: 1848
Area: Ohio R.
Owner: built by Capt. John McLure Jr., John Reed and John J. Roberts of
Wheeling, W. Va.
1. Name: ALLEN COLLIER the 2nd one
Type:* Sternwheel, wooden hull packet/war boat.
Launched: *1864, Cincinnati, Oh.
Area: Miss. and Mo. Rs.
Owner: *1864, Dec. 8, taken over by U.S. for war service.
Comments: 1864 or 5, was first boat to travel rivers un-molested
after the Civil War.
1867, Sept., left Cow Island, 198 mi. below Ft. Benton,
with 275 passengers packed aboard at $130 per head and hit
sand bar after sandbar (132 of them) until 2 mo. later and
1000 mi. above St Louis, all the passengers had deserted
her. The boat was later sold at public auction.
Name: ALLENA MAY/ Originally the GENERAL MEIGS
3. Name: ALLICE
Type: Sternwheeler Size:
Launched: 1840's mid?
Area: Sacramento R. Calf.
Comments: 1849, Aug. 31, Listed in the Alta Californian as plying trade
on the waters of the Sacramento R.
1. Name: ALLIANCE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 144' X 27.2' X 3.9', 136 tons.
Launched: 1852, Shousetown, Pa.
Destroyed: 1863, Mar. 17, Cape Girardeau, Mo, near Devil's Island,
Lost to stranding.
Area: tramp trades, Pittsburgh-St. Louis. *Later, possibly Osage R. Mo.
Owners: 1/2 by Capt. Samuel Dean
Captains: Master, Samuel Dean.
Comments: * See Article
Name: ALONE
Type: Stern-wheeler Size: Launched: 1850s?
Area: U. Mo. R.
Comments: Was in Indian wars.
Name: ALONZO CHILD
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 236' X 38' X 7.'.
Power: 26 1/4's- 7 1/2 ft., 6 boilers.
Launched: 1857, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Area: 1857, St. Louis-Omaha, Mo. R.
Diary of E.F. Beadle places her at Omaha, May 28, June 12,
June 29, July 15.
1861, St. Louis-New Orleans
Owners: Built for S.B. Holland
1861, in whole by Capt. David DeHaven
1863, Sept. 29, acquired by U.S. Navy but not recommissioned.
Captain(s): 1857, Joe Holland
1861, DeHaven, David
Comments: Plied trade from St. Louis to Jefferson City to connect
with trains bound for Kansas, Ft. Levenworth, Weston,
Atchinson and St Joseph.
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson, shopkeeper,
Commerce Mo.
- March 20th,1861: "The ALONZO CHILD landed last night
twelve o'clock going down and took 12 cords of wood
from P. Noreau."
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Comments: 1862, May 29, took 2nd battalion of 14th Texas Cavalry from Little Rock
to Memphis. 35 PARALLEL took another.
: 1860, Nov. * Pilot Samuel Clemens grounded this boat on the shore in a fog.
Name: ALPHFRETTA
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Launched: 1860's, early?
Area: Coosa R. (Ga. and Ala.)
Owner: 1863: Capt. J. M. Elliott Sr.
Captain(s): 1863: Lay, Cummins
Comments: Source
3. Name: ALTA
Type: Sternwheeler Size: Small
Launched: 1860s?, EARLY
Destroyed: 1868, stuck in mud near Elkhorn Calf on Upper San
Joaquine R.. abandoned
Area: California delta, San Jaoquine R.
Name: ALTAMAHA
Launched: 1817, about, in Charleston
Area: Savannah R. Ga.
Owner: Steamboat Company of Georgia
Captain: 1823 - 1834, sometime between, Swymer, John
Comments: Source
There is a conflict of information on the ownership of the
first two ALTONS, below. However the dates are far enough apart
to make me think they were two separate boats. Still, may be the same boat???
Name: ALTON
Launched: Fall, 1833 or 36
Type: Sidewheel, wooden wheel packet.
Area: 1837, May 8, was at Natchez.
1846, June, Left St. Louis for U. Miss. Source
Owner(s): When built, Capt John Simonds, Jr. and others.
: 183?6?, Sold to Capt. Isaiah Sellers and others.
Comments: Source
: 1837, May 8, Went to aid of survivors of BEN SHARROD disaster.
: Some of the info in this listing is from
"Biographical Sketches of Western Boatmen" sent in by a site visitor.
1. Name: ALTON
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 334 tons.
Launched: 1847, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1855, May 7, Yazoo R., Burned.
Area: St. Louis - New Orleans
Owners: Built by Capt. John Simonds, Jr.
Captains: 1847, Capt. Henry A. Ealer was pilot
*Name: ALTON
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Captains: 1862, Mar. 30, Jim Montgomery was pilot
1. Name: ALTON Post Card Pictures
Click to enlarge
From The Gallery Of
Michael Blaser
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull excursion boat Size: 241' X 38' X 7.3'
Power: Engines, 24's- 8ft. by St. Louis Iron and Machine Co.
Launched: 1906, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: winter of 1918, Jan. 29, the Duck's Nest, Paducah, Ky. crushed by ice.
Owner: Eagle Packet Company, St. Louis
Captains: 1906-14, Commodore Henry Leyhe
Comments: Was originally intended for daily trade, St. Louis-Alton,
But the Commodore tried her in the excursion trade and found it profitable.
: 1909, July 12, collided with Alton. Ill. bridge. Extensive damage.
Name: ALTON originally the GEORGE COWLING
1923-27
Name: ALTOONA (ALTONA?)
Comments: 1856, late Feb, Torn from docks and swept downstream in ice flow during
at St. Louis.
: Made run from St. Louis-Alton, 0/1/35?
1. Name: ALVIN ADAMS
Type; Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 266.5' X 35' X 6.6'.
Power: 29-1/2's X 9 ft., by John Snowden. 6 boilers, each 42" X 28-1/2'
Wheels: 11-1/2' buckets, 24 arms and 30" dip.
Stacks: 71" in dia. Reached 54' above roof and 81' from water line.
Launched: 1853, McKeesport, Pa.
Distroyed: 1860, dismantled. Engines went to 1864 MAGENTA
Area: 1853, Wheeling-Louisville
1854, went to Cincinnati-Louisville trade.
Later under U.S. Mail Line, Louisville-St. Louis
Finally, St. Louis-New Orleans
Owner: Originally, 1/4, Geo. W. Cass, Pittsburgh; 1/8, E.S. Sanford,
Philadelphia; 1/8, S,M. Shoemaker, Baltimore;
1/40, James P. Jack, Cincinnati; 1/16, White Cunningham,
Madison, Ind.; 3/40, Capt. G.W. Norton, and
1/4 by 2 stockholders of Wheeling, J. C. Acheson & Co.
1854, early, sold to Lightning Line
Later sold to United States Mail Line
Companies Associated with: 1853, Wheeling-Louisville Union Line
Captains: 1853, George. W. Norton was her first master.
Under U.S. Mail Line, Boies
Comments: Named for Pres. of Adams Express Company.
: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: AMARANTH
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 147' X 25' X 5.5', *220 tons
Launched: 1841, Sharpsburg, Pa on Allegheny R.
Destroyed: 1842, Sept. Stranded and lost, Aramanth Island, Miss. R.
Area: 1841, St. Louis-Gallena
Owners: *Capt. George W. Atchison and others
Captain: George W. Atchison
Comments: *Source The Allegheny River by Mrs S. Kussart, 1938,
According to this book,
The owners also built two barges designed to be rafted along side of
this boat. Each was 140' X 20' X 2' with open holds, with cargo
boxes. They carried about 200 tons of cargo each. These were the
first barges of this kind built.
Name: AMARANTH
1845-48
Comments: This list of arriving passengers at Mobile, Ala. from The Olden Times.com could be for
either this boat or the next one below.
From The Mobile Register and Journal, May 25, 1846
Name: AMARANTH
1846-52
Name: AMARANTH
1864-67
Name: AMAZON
Type: Sidewheel woodenhull packet
Size: 231 tons.
Launched: 1839, Wheeling W. Va.
Destroyed: 1843, Feb. 21, Bird's Point, Mo. Snagged and lost
Area: When new, Ohio R.
Under later owners, Cincinnati-New Orleans.
Owners: 1839, Capt. John McLure, Jr., James H. Louderback
Later went to Capt. John Fink, Hiram Martin and Capt. John McClure
Captains: When new, James H. Louderback
Under new owners above was, John McClure's first command as master.
Later under other owners, Capt. Wylie
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING INTELLIGENCER, June 24, 1951
Name: AMELIA
Launched: 1840s?
Destroyed: 1849, Mo. R. Near Euphrase Bend
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Name: AMELIA
Type: Sidewheel, wood hull Size: 147' X 33.5' X 12', 386 tons
Launched: 1863, Owens Shipyard
Destroyed: 1882, sold
Area: Californis Delta
Owner: Central Pacific R.R.
1. Name: AMERICA
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size:315' X 44' X 7.', unofficial
Power: 26's 10 ft., 8 boilers; wheels 38' w/13-1/2' buckets
Launched: 1867, or Nov. 21, 1866, Cincinnati, Oh. Morton and Startzman yard.
Destroyed: 1868, Dec 4, Above Warsaw, Ky. at Rayl's Landing, Ind,
collided with UNITED STATES.
Area: Ohio R., built expressly for Cincinnati-Louisville trade.
Owners: U.S. Mail Line
Captains: 1867, Apr. 27, trial trip, Master, David Whitten
1868, Pilot, Capt. Charles Dufour
1868, Dec. 4, Master, David Whitten; pilot, Jenkins, Napoleon B.
Comments: In collision, both boats burned and sank. 40 lives lost, among
who were Capt. David Whitten and pilot Jenkins.
: Once raced the CINCINNATI.
1. Name: AMERICA Post Card Pictures
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet and excursion boat
Size: 285' X 45' X 6.'
Power: Engines, 25's- 8ft. 5 boilers, ea 42" X 26'
Launched: 1917, Jeffersonville, Ind. at Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1930, Sept. 8, above Jeffersonville, Ind., burned while laid up for winter.
Area: Ohio R. At first, Louisville-Cincinnati
Later became full fledged excursion boat, mostly at Louisville, Ky.
Owners: built by the Louisville and Cincinnati Packet Company
Captains: During excursion years, James o'Brien was master
Comments: 1922, was converted to an excursion boat
: Machinery came from the burned INDIANA.
: This boat started as a packet boat with staterooms
Name: AMERICAN EAGLE
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1840s?
Destroyed: 1849, May 17, fire at St. Louis docks
3. Name: AMERICAN EAGLE
Launched: 1850's early
Area: 1854, Sacramento R. Calif.
Owner(s) 1856, California Steam Navigation Company
Name: AMERICAN QUEEN
Type: Replica of sternwheeler/Steam-powered sternwheel. Cruise boat
Size: Length, 418'; height, 104' from waterline to top of stacks.
6 decks including sundeck. 477 passenger, in 222 cabins.
Crew of 170
Power; Nordburg compound 15's, 30's-8 ft. from the U.S. dredge KENNEDY
driving the sternwhee. Also to supplement sternwheel, twin
props powered by diesels.
Launched: 1994, McDermott Shipyard, Amelia, La. Cost: $65,000,000
1995, June 27, Placed in service
Area: 1995 - present, Out of New Orleans, La.
Owner: 1994-2001: Delta Queen Steamboat Co. Photos
2005 - Present (2006) American West Stemboat Company
Captain: Capt. Harold Schultz
1999, John Davitt
Comments: 2 story Grand Salon. "The most elaborate paddle-wheeler ever."
Faithfully decorated in Victorian Era decor.
: stacks are hinged to pass under bridges, and her pilot house
decends into a hole for the same reason
: 1999, was her 2nd Tall Stacks Celebration.
Name: AMERICUS
Type: Sternwheel woodenhull packet
Size: 137' X 36' X 4.5', 203 tons.
Launched: 1853, Brownsville, Pa.
Built under the supervision of Capt. C.W. Batchelor
Destroyed: Ill. R. burned
Owners: Capt. Charles W. Batchelor
Captains: C.W. Batchelor
Comments: Capt. E.W. Gould thought boat was ill fated because it was
launched on a Friday and had stopped to pick up a preacher
on a white horse.
: This boat was The first of many owned by Capt. Batchelor.
: Mentioned in this Document
Name: AMY HEWES
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet.
Name: ANDERSON See ROBERT R. ANDERSON
Name: ANDES No. 1
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1860's?
Area: Ohio R.
Captain(s): 1870's?, Mate, Peppers, George H.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, Wheeling West Va.,
June 24, 1951
1. Name: ANDES
Type: Sternwheel woodenhull packet. Size: 220' X 39' X 5.5'
Power: Engines, 20's-6 ft. 3 boilers
Launched: 1877, Cincinnati,, Oh. 4 months, start to launch.
Destroyed: 1895, May, John H. Woods and Co. bought and dismantled her.
Area: 1876, Apr. 4 set out for Cincinnati, Wheeling and Pittsburgh.
left Wheeling at 3:00p.m., Bellaire at 6:00p.m. until 1889.
1879, used Booth's "Old Reliable" warf-boat at Wheeling W. Va, Ohio R.
1889, under new owners went to excursion trips.
Owners: When new, Wheeling & Cincinnati Packet Company
Late 1880s, Muhlman sold his interest to Capts. Ed Cooper, Al Slavin and Ben D. Stout
1893, went to Capt. Lee Anshutz and Charles Ollum, who were backed by Harry Davis,
a Pittsburgh theater man.
Captain(s): When new Charles Muhlman, master, Capt. Martin F. Noll, clerk.
1870's?, Mate, George H. Peppers
1889, Charles Muhleman
Comments: Notes from WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, Wheeling West Va., June 24, 1951
1. Name: ANDREW ACKLEY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size; 162' X 25' X 3.5'
Power: 12's-5 ft., 2 boilers.
Launched: 1868, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: Fate not known
Area: 1868, departed for Mo. R.
Ran Red R. occasionally
Owners: 1868, built for Capt. William J. Kountz
1873, July, New Orleans, Sold at U.S. Marshal sale for $2,000
Captains: 1868, Boise
Commnents: made 7 trips to Montana points. Ft. Benton 4 times. Once to Cow Island.
: Named for Pittsburgh storekeeper.
: A boat by this name is said to have been running New Orleans-Ouachita R.
in 1858-60. Said to have been scuttled on Ouachita, 1864, and rtaised
and rebuilt. From
historian F.L. Wooldridge.
Name: ANDREW JACKSON
Area: MO. R.
Great American Products
Name: ANDY JOHNSON
Launched: 1866, Madison, Ind./compleated at St. Louis
Destroyed: 1876, Dec. 13, St. Louis, cut down by ice
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet
Power: Engines, 28-1/2's- 7ft. Five Boilers
Area: Pre 1881, U. Miss. R.
1873, made one trip to New Orleans
Owners: 1876, Keokuk Northern Line
Captains: 1871, Lee
1873, D.R. Asbury
Comments: 1866, Sept. 8, Led a parade of 37 steamers,
Alton to St. Louis, with Pres. Johnson aboard.
: 1881, Equipment went to GEM CITY
Name: ANGELINA
Built, cir 1846, Pattonia, Tex.
Destroyed: 1850, just south of Evadale, Jasper Co., Tex., sank.
Area: Sabine, Neches and Angelina Rs., Tex.
Owner: Capt. Robert S. Patton
Captain: 1846-50, Moses L. Patton
Comments: See source Article
1. Name: ANGLO SAXON
Type: Siedwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 214 tons.
Launched: 1846, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1848, Feb. 16, Chester, Ill., snagged and lost.
Area: Pittsburgh-St. Louis
Owners: *Elli Mills and Capt. Herman Price
Captains: *Herman Price
Comments: *Source
Name: ANGLO SAXON
1857-68
3. Name: ANN
Launched: 1840's mid?
Area: Sacramento R. Calf.
Comments: 1849, Aug. 31, Listed in the Alta Californian as plying
trade on the waters of the Sacramento R.
Name: ANNA CALHOUN
Launched: 1835?, Wheeling W. Va. by either the Bell Yard ot the Patton
Yard
Area: Ohio R. Owner:
Comments: Engines and Machinery probably made by T. Sweeney & Son. Foundry
of Wheeling, W. Va..
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: ANNIE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 238' X 29' X 3.8'
Launched: 1877, LaCrosse, Wis.
Owners: At first, Keokuk Northern Line
St. Louis & St. Paul Packet Company
Captains: for a time, Robert Roehing
Comments: Renamed WHITE EAGLE
Name: ANNIE CADE
Type: Sternwheel, stemboat ferry Size:
Launched: 1879?
Destroyed: 1912 or 13 Soon after the Hannible Bridge was opened across
the Mo. R. between North and South Kansas City in 1912,
and began taking her fares, she hit one of the bridge's piers
and sank.
Area: Anywhere between the foot of Main street and the foot of Broadway
in Kansas City, Mo., depending upon the currents, and Harlem
(North Kansas City, Mo.)
Captain(s); in later years, Kirkman, R. B.
Comments: The ANNIE CADE was a wide-open-bowed, twin stacked, sternwheeler.
Designed to be a ferry boat, she could carry as many as 12 to 15
farm wagons on her lower deck.
Fare: 5 cents per person.
Hours: Early morning until 10pm.
1903: did rescue service during flood of that year
Credit: "A Bridge To The Past': 1983 under the auspices of the North Kansas
City, Mo. 1983 City Council, and edited by Mildred Fullton.
A fine coffee-table, hard-back book, primarilly about the history of
that part of Kansas City, Mo that is North of the Missouri River.
: See more ferry boats Here
1. Name: ANNIE JOHNSON Also see ADDIE JOHNSTON
Launched: 1863, LaCross, Wis.
Destroyed: 1877, documented until.
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
: There is some confusion about boat names, here.
Way's also lists an Addie Johnston
Name: ANNIE L Articles on collision
Area: 1882, Ohio R. Wheeling, W. Va.
Captain(s): Dougherty
Comments: 1882, July 5: Helped with rescue efforts when the JOHN LOMAS
collided with and sank the SCIOTO. Both were over-crowded
excursion boats.
Name: ANNIE LEE
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: quite small.
Power: 8"- 2 ft., 1 boiler
Launched: 1876, Boonville, Mo.
Destroyed: 1881, Nov. 11, snagged and lost near Euphrasie Bend, Griffith's Landing Mo. R.
Owner: Horace Kingsley
Area: Mo. R. Owner: Captain(s):
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Name: ANNIE M/LEOTA
Type: Sternwheeler
Launched: 1900?'s early?
Area: Coosa R. (Ga. and Ala.)
Captain(s): 1913: Sims
Comments: As the LEOTA she was a U.S. Corp of Engineers boat used for
construction of locks, and dams and as a dredge barge tow.
Comments: Source
: This boat was the model for the boat Popeye The Salor Man's seagoing tugboat.
Name: ANSON NORTHRUP
Type: Stern-wheeler Size: 60 - 70'. Small, cheep and wooden of the early era
Launched: 1840s?
Area: Minnesota, Upper river boat
Owner: Anson Northrup
Name: ANSON NORTHRUP
Type: Ornamental Sidewheels excursion boat. Size: 92', 300 passengers.
Launched; 1988, Jennings La.
Area Out of Minneapolis
Captains: 1999, Gus Gaspardo
Comments: Named for owner /opperator of first ANSON NORTHRUP
1999 was third "Tall Stacks" festival appearance.
Note: These next two boats may be one and the same.
I have conflicting info.
3. Name: ANTELOPE
Type: Sidewheel, wood hull Size: 202.6', 581 tons
Power, 350 hp. vertical beam engine
Launched: 1847
Destroyed: 1888, broken up
Area: California Delta; 1850s, early, Sacramento R. Calif.
Owners: San Francisco and North Pacific R.R.
: 1856, California Steam Navigation Company
3. Name: ANTELOPE
Launched: 1840's late? Size: 260 tons
Area: 1850s, early, Sacramento R. Calif.
Name: ANTELOPE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 180' X 32'
Power: 18's - 6'. 2 boilers.
Launched: 1866, Metropolis, Ill.
Destroyed: 1869, Apr. 12, burned 5 mi. below Bonhomme Isl. on Mo. R.
Area: Long Island Sound, Sacramento, Ohio R. and U. Miss. R. and Mo. R.
Owner: Lightning Line
Captain and pilots: Capt. Bill Massie
Comments: 1860, helped deliver 1st Pony Express pouch. Was a gold boat.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: ANTHONY WAYNE
Launched: 1846
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: ANTON WILBERT
Type: Sternwheeler Size:
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: Credit
1 Name: ARABIA
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 181' X 31' X 5.5', 200 ton.
Power: 3 boilers
Launched: 1853, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1856, Sept, 5, Mo. R, near Parkville, Mo., snagged, sank. Map
Area: MO. R.
Owners: Capt, John Shaw
: 1856, when snagged, Capt. Wm. Terrill
Captains: John Shaw then Wm. Terrell
Comments: The Arabia Steamboat Museum is in Kansas City, Mo.
Name: ARAGO
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson,
shopkeeper, Commerce Mo. (Displaced to Santa Fe, Ill. during War.)
- Santa Fe, Illinois, October 16th 1861. "The times have
been quiet since my last. On Tuesday morning the Arago put
off some freight for us consisting of ten bbls. salt one sack
coffee, 1 doz. brooms, 1 box candles, box black pepper and other
articles. . . . "
1. Name: ARCHIE P. GREEN
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 110' X 22' X 3', 57 ton.
Launched: 1873, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1880, Feb. 10, 3 mi. below Batesville, Ark, sank.
Area: White R., Ark.
Owners: Built for J.W. Lovell, Nashville, Tenn.
1877, Capt. Charles B. Woodburry
Captains: 1875, Alex C. Elliot
1877 - 1880 when sunk, Charles B. Woodbury, Dayton Ky.
Comments: Boat was probably named after Mr. Arch P. Green of
Jackson and Overton Counties in Tenn.
: see article
Name: ARCHIMEDES
Type: Snag boat
1. Name: ARGAND
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet/towboat. Size: 132.6' X 24' X 5.
Power: 10's-3 1/2 ft. from H.A. MEAD. 1 boiler, 42" x 20'.
Launched: 1896, Levanna, Oh.
Destroyed; 1927, Dec., Muskingum R. at Lowell Oh. lock, Burned
Area: 1896, Pittsburgh-Parkersville trade at first, then
1896-1898, Oct., Wheeling-Parkersburgh
1898, Oct.-1901, Apr., Big Sandy R. trade
Owner: 1896- when new for 10 weeks, Capts. Newt Flesher and Gordon C. Greene
1896-1898, Oct., Green Line Steamers
1898, Oct.-1901, Apr., Big Sandy Navigation Company
1901, Oct.-1927, Capt. Edwin A. Price, New Martinsville, W. Va.
Captains: 1896, Newt Flecher
1896 after Greene purchased entire, Master, Mary C. Greene; pilots,
Jessie P. Hughes and Henry Brookhart, pilots.
1901, Oct., Edwin A. Price used her to tow his showboat WATER QUEEN
Comments: The whistle from the WILL J. CUMMINS was given to her by Capt Mack Gamble
: Capt. Price usually wintered his showboat on Muskingum R. at Lowell Oh. Lock
Name: ARGO
Type: sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 41 tons.
Launched: 1845, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1847, fall, above Winona, Minn., sank.
Area: 1845, Galena, St. Paul-Stillwater
Owner: Blakeley, Rusell
Captain(s): 1845, Kennedy Lodwick then Russell Blakeley
*c. 1846, mate, Jones Worden
1847, M.W. Lodwick and Russell Blakeley
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
*Jones Worden's Steamboats and Steamboating Career by Frederick J. Worden
1. Name: ARGOS
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 115' X 24' X 3', 8 1/2" draft.
Launched: 1864, Brownsville Pa.
Destroyed: ?1871, late?, mouth of Poke Bayou, Batesville, Ark., sank, lost.
Areas: Built for Brownsville-Morgantown, w. Va. trade.
1868, running U. White R.
Owners: built by Capt. E. D. Abrahams
1869, July-1871, early, Thomas Cox, Batesville, Ark.
Captains: after July, 1869, William C. Shipp*
1871, June 27, Capt. Albert G. Cravens* was listed as pilot.
Comments: 1871, Nov., sold at auction for $525.00*
Mentioned in this *Article
Name: ARGOSY/TINCLAD #27
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 157' X 33' X 4.5'
Power: 15's- 5 ft.,3 boilers.
Launched: 1862, Monongahela, Pa. for Capt. George W. Reed.
Destroyed:1872, Mar. 7, Cincinnati, burned.
Owner: 1862, Capt. George W. Reed
1863, Mar., Cairo, taken over by U.S.
1865, Aug. 17,sold to U.P. Schenck and Vevay
1. Name: ARGOSY NO. 2/WAVE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 154' x 31' x 4.5'
Power: 15's - 4 ft., from sidewheeler MINNETONKA, 2 boilers
Launched: 1863, Mononghela, Pa. for Capt. George W.Reed.
Owners: originally Capt. George W. Reed
: 1863, Nov. 14, Cincinnati, purchased by U.S. and renamed WAVE.
Comments: In U.S. service was tinclad #45
: 1864, May 6, Calcasieu Pass,Tx., captured by Confederates
: Possibly, in later life, the boat mentioned in this Article.
Name: ARGUS
Owners: Early 1830's, Horatio Nelson Crooks, his brother Benjamin Crooks
and Brother-in law, James Cargill.
Name: ARIEL
Destroyed: Abandoned on Buffalo Bayou Area: early 1800s, Rio Grand
and Brazos Rs. in Texas.
Comments: May have been first riverboat on Rio Graqnde R.
: Source
: An ARIEL is mentioned in this Article. Probably not the same one.
Name: ARKANSAS
Type: Ram boat Size:
Launched: 1860?
Destroyed: Confederates set on fire to keep from Union troops.
Comments: homemade engines failed during battle.
Name: ARKANSAS
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull towboat/packet. Sixe: 185' X 36' X 5.'. *459 ton.
Power; 16's-5 1/2 ft., 3 boilers, ea. 38" X 26'
Launched: 1868, Elizabeth, Pa., completed Pittsburgh
Destroyed: c. 1884, Lousiana, mo, or St. Louis, Sunk by ice
Area: 1868, built for Ark. R. - New Orleans
1876-78 U. Miss. R., grain barges and packet cruises
1878-84, Mo. and u. Mo. R.
Owners: 1868, principal, Capt. A.H. Shaw
1871, Aug.-78, Diamond Jo Line
1878-84, Capt. Peyton (Pate) S. Davidson of La Crosse
Captains: *1873, Joseph B. Wilcox
*Various pilots, Sherman Brown, Stephen Dolson, William Tibbals and
Henry Rider
Comments: 1870, Dec. 29, arriv. N.O. with 2,301 bales cotton, biggest load
out of Ark. to date. 1871, bettered that with 2,322 bales.
: 1876, mid-Mar. Near Dubuque, sunk and raised.
Source:* From an article by William Petersen in The Palimpsest
1. Name: ARKANSAS BELLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 203.5' X 32.5' X 5.1'
Power: Engines, 17-1/2's- 5-1/2 ft. Three Boilers, each 37-1/2" X 24 ft.
Launched: 1870, Cincinnati, Oh
Destroyed: 1880, laid up at Evansville and disasembled
Area: Built for Memphis-Ark. R. trade.
1870, Dec. 20, entered Evansville-Cairo trade
in end left Evansville at 4 P.M. 3 dys a week
Owners: 1870, Dec, 20, sold to Evansville & Cairo Line
Captains: 1870, G.J. Grammer
Later, Ben Howard
Last, John Weed
Comments: Machinery went to H.T. DEXTER
1. Name: ARKANSAS CITY
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 273' X 44' X 7.', 1,236 tons.
Launched; 1882, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1896, May 27, St Louis. Demolished by the Great St. Louis Tornado.
Area: St. Louis-New Orleans.
Owners: Anchor Line
Captains: 1882-?96?, Charles B. Zeigler
Clerk: 1885, William Howard Pritchartt
Name: ARMENIA
Type: Side-wheeler
Launched: 1850s?
Area: Hudson R.
Comments: Ran last race in East against HENRY CLAY, won.
Name: ASA WILGUS
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 210' X 36' X 6.'.
Power: 22's- 6 1/2 ft., 3 boilers, each 46" C 26'.
Launched: 1857, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1860, Sept. 3, Mouth of Lost Creek near Weston Mo., sank.
U.S. Army Corp of Engineers map places this wreck Here
Area: Mo. R.
Owners: 1860 Sept. 3 when sunk, R.R. Hopkins, A. C. Hopkins and Henry Thornbrough
Captains: 1860, R.R. Hopkins, Master; William R. Massie, pilot,
George G. Keith, steersman.
Comments: 1857, The Diary of E.F. Beadle has arriving Omaha
arriving up to Omaha, May 31, in Omaha June 22, July 15.
Name: ASIA
Launched: 1850s?
Area: 185?, U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
* Name: ASSINIBOINE
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet
Size: 210 X 36' X 6', 412 tons.
Launched: 1833, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1834, below Ft. Union, stranded in low water. Forced to winter there.
1835, on way back down, grounded in N.Dakota and eventually burned there.
Area: Mo. R.
1833, Landed at Ft. Union
Owners: American Fur Company
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Comment: Named after the American Indian tribe of the same name.
1. Name: ASSUMPTION
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 151' x 35.8' x 6.5'
Launched: 1875, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1895, July, hit a bluff bar. Beached, then was laid up to rot
Area: 1878, advertised New Orleans-Thibodaux
1880, New Orleans-Bayou Lafourche trade
1895, New Orleans-Bayou Vermilion
Captains: 1878-83, P.A. Charlet
Name: ATLANTA
Type: Side-wheeler
Launched: 1820s?
Area: Hudson R.
Owner: Gibbons/Ogden
1. Name: ATLANTIC
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 275' X 39' X 6.8'
Power: 26's-10 ft., 5 boilers
Launched; 1859, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1867, St. Louis, dismantled. Hull to wharfboat, New Albany
Area: L. Miss. R.
1859-? Louisville-New Orleans
1864-?, St. Louis - New Orleans
Owner: when new, J. B. Ford, New Albany, Ind.
1864, Spring, sold to Capt. Dan Able and Co.
*At one time was under Atlantic and Mississippi Steamship Company banner.
Captains: 1859, Anson McGill
Comments: 1864, Spring, St. Louis, rebuilt to 45' wide with new engines, 32's-8 ft.
: Her cabin and machenery went to DEXTER
: was U.S. troop carrier in C. War
*From site visitor Lynn Cunningham
Name: ATLANTIC
Launched: 1840, after.
Comments: Made run N.O. - Donaldsville 1860, 0/5/11
Name: ATLAS/CHEROKEE CHIEF
Type: Stern-wheeler Size: little
Launched: 1820s?
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: 1826. Was 1st steamer to reach Knoxille, Tenn.
: 1838-39 winter, as CHEROKEE CHIEF was one of the steamboats that transported
the Cherokee Indians to Oklahoma during the Trails of Tears Removal.
Name: AUCOCISCO
Type: Wooden hull, propellor driven ferryboat steamer Size: 117'
Launched: 1897?
Destroyed: 1952?
Area: Cosco Bay, (Portland) Maine
Owner: Haspswell Lines
Captain(s): Sometinme between 1897 until 1952, Edward Legere
1. Name: AUGUSTUS McDOWELL
Launched: 1860, Probably in March
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 240' X 34'X 7', 451 tons.
Power: Engines by Gaty, McCune & Co. 22" dia cylinder, 7' stroke.
3 Boilers, each 40inches X 28 ft.
Wheels: 28' with 10' buckets
Destroyed: 1862, Oct. 27, St. Louis, Burned and lost.
Area: 1861: Miss. R.
1861, Aug. was troop carrier and supply ship for U.S. on Mo. R. (See)
Owner: in Part Capt. William Eads
Comments: Named after a carpet merchant of that name.
: 2. - Thursday Night, March 21st, 1861.
". . . The McDowell came up this evening, put off 2 sks.
coffee, 1 bbl molasses and one bbl. sugar for J.M. Jehlen.
I pd. ft. and chgs.(freight and charges) with beef, eggs,
and cash from store ($) 15.75. Max paid 52.10 which I am
to refund tomorrow. The goods being brot. up closed up
business of a very dull day."
: Was with Gen. Grant's fleet on Tenn. R.
: * 1860, Nov. Cub pilot Samuel Clemens hitched a ride on this boat.
From the Missouri Republican newspaper, Jan. 21, 1860
Name: AUNT SALLY
Size: 85'X 18'
Launched: 1870s?
Area: Ark R., Mo. R., ?Miss. R.?
Comments: 1878, left Little Rock on June 18, and arrived in Arkansas
City, Kansas, on June 30. Great rejoicing in Kansas!
Credit
Name: AUSTRALIA
Destroyed: 1856, Apr. St.Louis Ice Crush Area: u. Miss. R.
Comments: 1856, late Feb, Torn from docks and swept downstream in ice
flow during Great Ice Gorge at St. Louis.
Name: AURORA
Launched: 1815 -20: Wheeling, W. Va.
Comments: Machenery and engines by Means and Brothers, Wheeling.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING INTELLIGENCER,
June 24, 1951
Name: AUTOCRAT No 1
Launched: 1880s?
Destroyed: 1912, Snagged
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: 1.
Name: AVALON/OHIO (#4)
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet/excurssion boat
Size: At launch: 167.1' X 33.4' X 4'; 1901, Summer, lenghtened
to 199.2' X 33.4' X 4.4' Power: 12's-4 1/2 ft. from the
ELAINE, two 38" X 24' boilers.
Launched: 1898, Aug. Clarington Oh. Built and opperated by Cramer Family
of Clarington.
Destroyed: 1916, Feb. 2, working out of Parkersburg, burned in night at
mouth of Little Kanawha R.
Area: 1898 - 1900, Pittsburgh-Parkersburg trade 1901, Jan. - Tennessee R. Trade.
1901, Nov. - Dec., Cairo-Chattanooga trade.
Later in Cincinnati-Memphis trade. Later Excursion trade for one
summer between Wheeling and Sisters Island park.
1907-08, Pittsburgh-Charleston trade.
1909, Jan, 18, - 1913, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati trade.
1914, Excursion boat in Wheeling, W. Va.
1915, early, made a Pittsburgh - New Orleans trip to Mardi Ggras
1916, working out of Parkersburg
Owners: 1898 - 1907, The Cramer Family headed by Cramer, Capt Lanford
: 1907 - ??, Aug. 21, equal parts by Roe, Capt William E.,
Noll, Capt. Martin F.
and Pope, Capt. Ben S.
Captains: 1898 - 1906, Sept. when he died aboard, Cramer, Capt Lanford
1909, Maddy, Edwin F.
1915, Lepper, W.C.
1915, summer, Stapleton, Billy
Later, McGee, Cornelius "Connie"
Comments: 1901, Lenghtened 190?, engines compounded Mentioned in this Article
Name: AVALON, The second one, originally the IDLEWILD
Name: AVONDALE
Launched: 1855 - 65, between" Wheeling W. Va. by Phillips Yard, Wheeling.
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING INTELLIGENCER, June 24, 1951
