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Name: B.A. DOUGLASS
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull, gasoline powered ferryboat
Area: 1920- ,Yankton, S.D.
Owners: 1920, purchased by Yankton Chamber of Commerce and
Capt. Joseph Giesler.
Captain: 1920-?, W.B. Wait
Comments: replaced JOSIE L.K. as ferry at Yankton, S.D.
Information from Burle County, S.D. Historical Society
Name:B.F. JONES, Jr.
Type: Sternwheeler
Comments: Seen in old photo in Cincinnati Inquirer, Sunday Oct. 10, 1999,
Tallstacks 99 Suppliment entitled "Great River Parade" of 1929.
1. Name: B.S. RHEA
Type Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 162.3' X 31.9' X 4.5'
Area: Cumberland R., out of Nashville, Tenn.
Launched: 1878 for Capt. Thomas G. Ryman
Destroyed: 1886?, probably as the next B.S. RHEA was being built.
Comments: Hull became a wharfboat at Ghent, Ky.
: Named for B.S. Rhea, Esq., the "Corn King of Tennessee."
1. Name: B.S. RHEA
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 165' X 27.1' X 4.6'
Power: Engines 14's- 1-1/2 ft.
Launched: 1886, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard for Ryman Line
Destroyed: 1895, Nov. 5, Cincinnati, during a low water lay up,
burned with SCOTIA and towboat SYDNEY DILLON
Area: Under Ryman Line, Upper Cumberland R., Nashville-Paduucah
Under Capt. Barrett, Louisville- Cincinnati trade
Owner: The Ryman Line
1894, purchased by Capt. John Barrett, Cincinnati.
Captains: 1886, J.S. Tyner for Ryman Line
Name: BADGER STATE
Comments: 1856, late Feb, Torn from docks and swept downstream in
ice flow during Great Ice Gorge at St. Louis. Forced
ashore slightly only damaged.
Name: BAILEY GATZERT See Article
Bailey Gazert from the James E. York Collection
Photo from
The James E. York Post Card Collection
Type: Sternwheel packet
Launched: 1890: Seattle, Wash.
Destroyed: 1923
Area: 1912, Sept 12: Photographed at Cascade Locks, Oregon
Comments: Said to be the fastest Columbia riverboat
: See R/C model
Name: BALTIC
Launched: 1850s?
Area: Ohio R. and Miss. R. and Mo. R.
1. Name: BALTIMORE
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 275' X 38' X 7.'
Power: Engines by H.W. Phillips, 30's- 9ft. with 4 boilers, each 46' X 30'
with 5, 10" flues. Wheels, 36' dia. with 10' buckets.
Launched: 1853, Wheeliong W. Va. by the H. W. Phillips Yard, Wheeling W. Va.
Destroyed: 1859, Dec. 13, Snagged and lost at Chain of Rocks above St. Louis.
Area: 1853, Wheeling-Louisville.
Soon went Louisville-St. Louis and Louisville-New Orleans.
Owner: 1853, Wheeling Louisville Union Packet Line
1856, June 12, sold at public auction
The Alton & St. Louis Packet Company bought her
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: Her Bell spent some years in a church in Shipman, Ill.
After 1900, bell went to the FRED A. BLANKS
: See notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING INTELLIGENCER, June 24, 1951
Name: BANNER
Area: 1833, Pittsburgh to Cincinatti
Comments:Info in this entry is from the diary of an ancestor of
web site visitor Kathryn Grogman.
1. Name: BANNER STATE
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 254 tons
Power: 20's-6 ft., 3 boilers
Launched: 1851, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1855, April 11, Mo. R., Brickhouse Bend, snagged and lost.
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: 1855, Nanson, Joseph S. with Capt. Josh B. Holland
Captain(s):Nanson, Joseph S.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
1. Name: BANNOCK CITY
Type: Stern-wheeler, wooden hull, towboat/packet
Size: 150' X 28' X 5'
Power: Engines 13's 4 ft., two boilers.
Launched: 1866, LeClaire, Iowa
Destroyed: 1877, mouth of Kentucky R., ice
Area: 1866, Keokuk; 1873, New Orleans; 1876, Cincinnati-Vevay
1869, towing grain for DJL
1870, June, Cassville-Dubuque
Owner: *1869, chartered to Diamond Jo Line
1873, W.H. Kirby and others of Warsaw, Kentucky.
Captain: *1865, Erastus Carleton
*1871, Jerry Wood
1873-'77, sometime between, Blanks, Fred A.
Comments: * From an article by William Petersen in The Palimpsest
Name: BARKMAN
Launched: 1860S early?
Destroyed: 18?64 or 5?, Burned
Area: 1864-5, Ouachita and Little River carring troops, corn and
other supplies for the Confederacy.
Comments: Source
1. Name: BATESVILLE
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 178 tons.
Launched: 1844, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1849, dismantled
Area: Ark. and White Rs.
Also during off season, New Orleans-Alexandria up Red R.
Captains: S.T. Smith on Red. R.
Name: BATESVILLE
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 120' X 26' X 4', 173 tons.
Launched: probably 1869 for Capt. Charles Coles
Area: 1869, entered White R. trade running to Marion County.
1871-2, Frequent trips to Marion County landings.
1873, Mar. was running Memphis-White R.
1876, late, with Capt. Will C. Shipp as pilot, Smith took boat over stubborn shoals to
mouth of Bull Creek and brought out 2,000 bushels of wheat.
Later Capt. Shipp took her to mouth of James R.
Owners: 1869-71, Capt. Charles Coles
1872, Capt. Albert B. Smith
Captains: 1869, Charles Coles
1873, Mar., Albert B. Smith
1876, William C. Shipp
Comments: See Article
Name: BARRETT
Launched: 1870s?
Area: Miss. R.
Name: BARRY K
Comments: I know nothing about this boat
1. Name: BASTROP
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull, packet Size: 285 tons
Launched: 1873, Madison Ind.
Destroyed: 1879, Apr. 24, Sank in Bayou Bartholomew.
Area: 1877, N.O, - Monroe, La.
Owner: 1873, New Orleans and Ouachita Transportation Company
Captain: 1873, master, Blanks, Fred A.,
Name: BAY CITY
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull Size: 247'X 66'X 15', 1,283 tons
Power: Vertical beam engine, 52" X 144", 860 hp.
Launched: 1878, San Francisco, William Collyer
Destroyed: 1929, dismantled
Area: California Delta
Owner: South Pacific Coast and Southern Pacific R.R.s
Name: BAYOU CITY
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 165' X 28' X 5'
Launched: Jeffersonville, Ind.
Area: 1859, Galveston - Houston
Owner: When launched, J.H. Sterrett
Comments: 1864?, Was Gunboat on Sabine R. Tex.
1. Name: BAXTER/ORIOLE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull, packet Size: 121' X 22.4' X 3.6'
Power: 9"-30", 1 boiler, 40" X 16'
Launched: 1901, Pt. Pleasant, W. Va. for Carr Line which soled her imediately
Destroyed: 1915, Mar. 27, 9th Street, Pittsburg in Allegheny R., Burned.
Area: 1901 Parkersville-Waverly then Marrietta-Parkersburg trade.
1902, Kanawha R.
1910, Frankfort, Ky., excursions
1912, local trades above Marietta.
Owner: 1901 sold to Capt. Richie, Parkersburg.
1902, Feb. Sold to Capt. E.A. Calvert, Charleston, W. Va.
1907-12, Huntington and Point Pleasant Packet Company
1912, May, sold to Beaver Family, St. Marys and Matamoras
1912, Aug. 1/2 owner, Clermont C. Green, St. Marys
1913, sold to Capt. David Boyles and Charles N. Buckley, Parkersburg
1915, Mar., Sold to Capt. William F. (Buck) muller, Ambridge,
A week later sold to C.P. Krantz, Pittsburg
Captains: 1901, William Hall
1902, E.A. Calvert
1907, William D, Kimble
1912. George S. Beaver?
Comments: much of her equipment came from the LEXINGTON.
: 1907, Dec. 2, renamed ORIOLE
: 1914, given new hull and converted to towboat
1. Name: BAYARD
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 354 tons.
Launched: 1864, Monongahela City, Pa.
Destroyed: 1876, Dec. 13, St. Louis, cut down by ice
Area: 1864, Monongahela R., Pittsbutgh-Elizabeth
1864, Dec. went to Pittsburgh-Parkersburg trade till 1869
Owners: 1864, Dec. sold to Capts. William J. Kountz and J.C. Saint
1865, Mar., Capt. George D. Moore purchased control
1869, Apr., sold to st. Louis & Leokuk Packet Company.
1874, was in Keokuk Northern Line
Captains: 1864, Master, Joel C. Peebles
1864, Dec. J.C. Saint, master; Capt. George D. Moore clerk.
1865, Mar., George D. Moore assumed command.
Name: BEAR
Launched: 1890s?
Area: West coast
Owner: U. S. Government
Name: BEAUREGUARD
Comments: Coast Guard?
* Name: BEAVER
Size: 148 tons
Power: Mongrel
Launched: 1827, Cincinnati, Oh.
Name: BEAVER
Area: Ohio R.
Captain(s): Pownall H. C.
Comments:From: Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
Name: BEAVER
Type: Side-wheeler, tug-boat
Launched: 1835
Destroyed: 1888, hit rocks
Area: Columbia R.; Puget Sound
Owner: Hudson Bay Co.; Tolmie, D.
Comments: Was sailed as brig to Columbia R.
1. Name: BEAVER
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 100 tons
Launched: 1847, Shousetown, Pa.
Destroyed: Way's Packet Dir. says she burned at the foot of West Street,
Pittsburgh, hitched to a tow and ready to depart.
Lytle-Hod-ldcamper says she was lost in collision with the
L.M. KENNET, 1854, Apr. 28, 1854, Ste. Genevieve, Mo.
Area: Upper Ill. R. Out of Pittsburgh.
Captains: 1847, Sharp Hemphill
Comments: Machinery went to J.W. HAILMAN
Name: BEE
Type: Snagboat Size:
Launched: 1880's
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. May. 12 1897
Name: BECKY THATCHER, Formerly the MISSISSIPPI
Type: Sternwheeler Size: approx 200'?
Launched: 1926
Area: U. Miss, R.
Owner: 1926 - 1961: U.S. Army Corp of Engeneers
1963 - 1964: Tourist attraction in hannibal Mo.
1964 - 1975: St. Louis Mo., Renamed to BECKY THATCHER and
opperated as a resraurant, museum, gift shop
and bar.
1975 - : Moved to Marietta Ohio (at the confluence of the Ohio
and Muskingum Rivers where she is a restaurant and
showboat theater.
1984, March. Sank but was raised and restored.
1998, Still in opperation.
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: Shown as a Resturant Bar Museum docked in St louis in
print by Misselhorn, Rosco from 19??
Presently:
"The Becky Thatcher is a romantic, old-style showboat on
the Muskingum River in Marietta. Melodrams and revues are
shown here and there also is a restaurant and a lounge
inside the boat.
The 200-feet long Becky Thatcher was built in 1926 for the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The Becky Thatcher is listed in the National Register of
Historic Landmarks."
Name: BELL KEY
Launched: 1840, after
Comments:
Made run N.o. - Louisville 1851, 4/23/0
Name: BELLE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 155' X 29' X 4-1/2', 262 tons.
Power: engines, 10's-5-1/2 ft., Three boilers.
Launched: 1865, March, Monongahela City, Pa. (hull by Latta yard)
Machinery by A. Hartupee, Pittsbutgh.
Destroyed: 1871, fall, broke cylinder timber and was towed to Pittsburgh
by FEARLESS to be dismantled.
Area: 1865, Pittsburgh - Oil City trade
1867, Pittsburgh - Cincinnati
1868, winter, towed circus to southern waters
1870, spring, Pittsbutgh - Parkersburg
1870, June, J.P. Smith
1871, St. Louis - Pittsburgh on iron ore runs.
Allegheny R.
Also, during low water, ran Ohio R. trade.
Owners: 1865-1871?, 1/2 each, Capt. T.W. Laughrey with Capt. James Kennedy
1871, purchased by Capt. Marsh McDonald and others
1860s at one time, Northwestern Union Packet Company
Captains: 1865, T.W. Laughrey
1867, summer, James Kennedy, Capt., pilots J.D. Reno and Jerry Witten
1868, summer, Parkersburg - Gallipolis
1868, winter, Laughrey to southern waters with circus
1870, spring, John Ritchey
1870, june, Pittsburgh - Geneva trade
1871, William McClintock
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: BELLE ANN MARIE
Type" Sternwheel, steel hull excursion boat. Size 70'
Power: originally steam. Refitted with diesel.
Launched: 1925
Area: 1925-58, Ohio and Miss Rs.
Owners: current is Dixieland Riverboat Tours, Jersey City, NJ
* Name: BELLE CREOLE
Size: 122 tons
Power: Low pressure
Launched: 1823, Cincinnati, Oh.
Name: BELLE CREOLE
Type: Sidewheel Wooden hull packet Size:447 tons
Launched: 1845, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1852, off the lists
Area: Miss. R., New Orleans - Vicksburg
Captains: 1846, Champromere ; 1850, J. M. White
Comments: 1849, Nov. 16, near N.O., burst boiler seam. Killed 5
Source: Way's Packet Directory, 1884 - 1994
1. Name: BELLE CREOLE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hulled packet Size: 190 X 33' X 7.5'
Launched: 1856, Moundsbille, Va.
Destroyed: 1864, Feb. 1, Plum Point, Tenn., snagged and lost. 1 life
lost.
Area: Miss. R., 1856 - 1861, New Orleans - Red River.
Captain: Kusk, W.J.
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson, shopkeeper, Commerce Mo.
- Tuesday Night, April 16th 1861. "Business dull. River on stand.
Boats plenty. Intelligence came this morning on the (steamer) Dickey
that it was a mistake about Anderson being killed, but true that
Fort Sumpter had been taken and its inmates taken prisoners. Nothing
of note took place the balance of the day. The Bell Creole landed
about sunset and took the Burgess boat in tow."
1. Name: BELLE CREOLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 250' X 36' X 7'
Destroyed: 1864, May 28, reported burned in wharf fire, New Orleans. 9 boats were lost.
Comments: was with Porter on Red River.
1. Name: BELLE CREOLE
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet.
Launched: 1862, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1863-64, winter, near West Colunbia, W. Va., sunk and lost.
Area: built for Louisville - Pittsburgh landing trade.
Owners: Capt H. McDougal and Capt. J.B. Ford of New Albany had a hand in her.
Name: BELLE ISLE
Launched: 1840s?
Destroyed: 1849, May 17, Fire at St. Louis docks Area: Miss. R.
Show you care, send a Bear!
Name: BELLE LEE/MARY BELL
Type: Sidewheel, woodhulled packet Size: 291'X 42.4' X 8.4', 1,284 tons
Power: 34-1/2's- 9 ft., 8 boilers built at Barmore yard
Launched: 1868, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: See comment below
Area: Miss, R.
Area: 1868, winter, New Orleans - Vicksburg
1869, Louisville - New Orleans trade
Owners: 1868, came out under charter to Capt. John W. Cannon
1869, June, Capt. John Smoker purchased at Louisville courthouse
auction.
1869, Nov. 12, went to Capt. John C. Sinnott, 1/2; John W. Tobin, 1/4;
Capt. John W. Cannon, 1/4.
1874, a New Orleans group plus Capt J. Frank Hicks and Martin
Walt of Memphis
Captains: 1868, John W. Cannon
1869, Master, Anson McGill; Pilots, James Ostrander and William Underwood
1869, under owner Smoker, J. M. White
Comments: Boat was named for the daughter of James Bridgeford, Esq.,
Louisville
: 1876, summer, was enlarged and renamed MARY BELL.
Name: BELL OF ?ATTARAPU or ATTORAPU? See
1. Name: BELL OF CALHOUN/JULIA/BELLE OF CALHOUN
Bell of Calhoun from The James E. York Steamboat Postcard Collection
Photo From
The James E. York Steamboat Postcard Collection
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 180.9' X 36.4' X 4.7'
Power: Engines 15's- 6 ft.. Two boilers, each 44" X 26'.
Launched: 1895, St Louis, Mo
Destroyed: 1930-31, winter, Alton Slough, burned
Owners: 1899, sold to Memphis & Vicksburg Packt Corporation. Renamed JULIA
1905, owned by St. Louis and Calhoun Packet Company. Got back original name.
Captains: on maiden trip, Aaron Hall
Comments: Boat was named for Miss Anna Wood who was chosen as the
Bell of Callhoun County, Ill in a contest run by the Hardin Journal.
: 1896, May 27, badly damaged by the Great St> Louis Tornado.
Raised and repaired
: 1914, Oct. 4mi. above Alton, sank with bow on shore. Raised and repaired
: 1929, some 3mi. above Hannibal, Mo., sank and raised.
1. Name: BELLE of the BENDS
BELL of BENDS
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 210' X 32.6' X 7.4'
Power: 18's-8 ft., 3 boilers, each 44" X 28'
Launched: 1898, Jeffersonvile, Ind. by the Howard Yard
Destroyed; 1919, Oct. dismantled by John F. Klein
Area: Ohio R. Greenville-Vicksburg
1910-11, winter, New Orleans, excursions
1918-19, Cairo, Ill., excursions
Owners: 1898- Vicksburg And Greenville Packet Company
1910-or so, purchased by Capt Morrissy
Captains: 1900, Master, A. F. Nimtz
1901, Pilots, Billy Newbill and Joe Delahunt
1910, Morrissy
At one time, Joe Ballard, Vicksburg to Greenville, Miss.
Comments: 1909, Sept., 40 mi. below Viskburg, sank and was raised.
1910, Fitler's Landing, 20 mi. below Lake Providence, sank. Raised.
1910, or between 1918-19, renamed LIBERTY
1940, her bell was at Altheimer Plantation near Pine Bluff Ark.
Name: BELLE of CINCINNATI Originally the EMERALD LADY
Name: BELLE of JEFFERSON
Destroyed: 1874, blew up.
Comments: Had new system that blew explosion harmlessly upward. Don't
know if this explosion destroyed boat.
Name: BELLE of the LAKES/SPIRIT of CINCINNATI
Type: Sternwheel excursion boat Size: 77', 120 passenger.
Launched: 1967, Ottawa, Ill.
Area: 1999, Cincinnati, Oh.
Owner: Queen City Riverboats, Cincinnati.
Captains: 1999, Robert Nolan, Jr.
Comments: 1999 was her 4th appearance at the Tall Stacks Festival
Name: BELLE of LaCROSS
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 232' X 37.8' X 37.8'
Power: 22's-7 ft., from ITASCA, 3 boilers, each 41" x 26', 5 Flues
Wheels, 28" dia. w/ 20' buckets.
Launched: 1870, Paducah, Ky., completed, St. Louis, Mo.
Destroyed: 1882, July 12, 4PM St. Louis at foot of Alma St. Burned
Set fire to NORTH WESTERN which also burned.
Area: 1864, U. Miss. R.
Owner: Northwestern Union Packet Company
Captains: *At one time piloted by Oscar M. Ruby
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
: Later got engines from KEY CITY
Name: BELLE of LEXINGTON
Size: 120'
Area: 1875-6, Mo. R., replaced the YANKTON as ferry from Yankton, S.D.
to Green Island, Neb.
Comments: This info from Bob Karolevitz's column The Way It Was,
believed to have been in a Yankton. S.D.. newspaper.
Name: BELLE of the WEST
Comments: Made run N. O. to Natchez 1842. 1/18/0
Made run N. O. - Louisville 1842, 6/14/0
1. Name: BELL PEORIA
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size:180' X 32'.
Power: 15's- 6 ft., 2 boilers.
Launched: 1859, Monongahela, Pa.
Destroyed: Spring, 1865, ?Mo. R.? (see below), wrecked by ice.
Area: 1859, St Louis-Peoria
1860, running Ill. R.
1862, Cumberland R., in U.S service as supply boat.
1863, Nov., Ill. R.
1864, Spring, Mo. R. to Ft. Benton
Owners: 1864-5, possibly earlier, Capt. William H. Reid
Captains: *William H. Reid
Comments: 1860, Mar. 11, Sharp's Landing, Ill. R., burned and rebuilt.
1864, Oct. near Acrow's Trading Post, 5 mi. above Cheynne R.
ran onto bar and lay there all winter.
:* info on Capt. Reid from family research by Caroline Villier,
Capt. Reid's great grandaughter
Name: BELLE PRINCE
Type: Probably a towboat
Captains: 1882, William (Billy) Prince
Comments: Mentioned in this Document and Here
1. Name: BELLE ZANE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 128 tons.
Launched: 1844, Zanesville, Oh. (*California boat yard on the Monongahela river)
Destroyed: 1845, Dec. 19, 12 miles below White R., snagged and turned
bottom side up. 40 lives lost.
Area: 1845, ran Zanesville-Marietta-Cincinnati
1845, Dec., loaded out for New Orleans
Captains: 1945, when running Zanesville-Marietta-Cincinnati, Cogswell
Master at time of sinking, John Brazure, of Cincinnati
Comments: Many of the lost were buried along the river bank.
: See account of her sinking Here
Name: BELLONA
Launched: 1820s?
Area: Elizabethtown to New ?
Owner: Gibbons, Thomas
Captain and pilots: Capt. Vanderbilt, Cornelius
1. Name: BELVIDERE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 46 tons.
Launched: 1859, Covington, Ky.
Area: 1860, White R., Marion County landings
Owners: 1860, Capt. N. C. Shipp
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: BEN ACCORD
Launched: 1850S? EARLY?
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: BEN BOLT
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 167' X 29' X 5.', 228 tons.
Launched: 1853, California, Pa. completed Pittsburgh.
Destroyed: not inspected after 1858.
Area: 1853, Pittsburgh-St. Louis
1857, the Diary of E.F. Beadle has her in Omaha, July 4.
Owners: 1853, Charles f. Frisbee, 7/16 - Andrew Miller, 3/16 - both of
Pittsburgh; D.S.H. Gilmore, Pomeroy, Oh., and A.B. Fisher
of Gallipolis, Oh.
Later, sold to Capt. Thomas W. Scott, St. Louis and others of Omaha.
Comments: 1856, late Feb, Torn from docks and swept downstream in
ice flow during Great Ice Gorge at St. Louis. Badly
damaged.
Name: BEN CAMPBELL
Area: 1847, U. Miss. R.
Owner: Ben Campbell
Captain: Ben Campbell
Name: BEN CAMPBELL
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 287 tons.
Built: 1852, Shousetown, Pa and finished at Pittsburgh.
Destoyed: 1860, Aug. 23, while laid up at Capt. Clark's home in Buffalo, Iowa.
Area: Later in Davenport - Keokuk trade.
Owner: Built for Galena, Dubuque & Minnesota Packet Company
1855, Capt. L.W. Clark, Buffalo, Iowa.
Captains: *Piloted at one time by Oscar M. Ruby
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: BEN CAMPBELL
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 130' X 24' X 3.5'
Power: Engines, 10's- 3-1/2. Two Boilers, each 44" X 16'
Launched: 1865, Buffalo, Iowa.
Destroyed: 1870, dismantled
Area: Red River during cotton seasons.
Name: BEN COURSION
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet.
Size: Originally 149 tons. 1854, rebuilt to 161 tons.
Destroyed: 1857, *Oct. 4, 2 A.M., La Crosse, Wiss., Collision with KEY CITY
7 lives lost.
Area: early, L Miss. R.
1854, Cincinnati-Madison
1856-57, U. Miss. R.
*1856, U. Miss. R., tramping.
Comments: 1853, Sept. 12, Louisville, Ky., rammed and sank U.S. MAIL
1854, Aug. Rising Sun Bar, was in collision with JANE FRANKLIN
1857, La Cross, Collided with KEY CITY. COURSIN sank.
Boats Named
BEN FRANKLIN
According to my count there were at least 9 boats named BEN FRANKLIN, and
4 more that were numbered 2, 6, 7 and 8. The numbers do not
necessarily coincide with the boat's actual place in time within this line
of boats. For instance BEN FRANKLIN NO. 2 was named in 1923 or 4. and NO.
6, according to the dates I have, is only the 5th boat with BEN FRANKLIN
for its name, leaving open to speculation that whoever named BEN FRANKLIN
NO. 6 either couldn't count or did not do his homework, or possibly there
was another BEN FRANKLIN he knew about that we have all missed.
1. Name: BEN FRANKLIN
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 163 tons.
Launched 1826-27, winter, Cincinnati, Oh.
Power: single engine, low pressure boiler.
Area: Louisville-Cincinnati, as extra boat when trade warrented.
Owners: Capt.Jacob Strader, Capt. James Gorman, Philip Grandon,
James Kelly and others.
Captains: 1826-30, masters, Jacob Strader and James Gorman
John Blair Summons, mate and pilot;
John Wesley Brown, pilot
1830-32, Master, Edward Carroll
1. Name: BEN FRANKLIN
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 89 tons.
Power: single stiff shaft, 27" X 5 1/2 ft., 4 boilers,
each 39" X 18'
Launched: 1934, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1836, Mar. 13, Mobile, boiler exploded with great loss of life.
Owners: 1834-35, Fall, United States Mail Line
1835, Fall-36, Capt. Slade and others of Mobile
Comments: considered fast boat, Louisville-Cincinnati 00/14/12
: under U.S. Mail Line made 200 round trips Cincinnati-Louisville.
1. Name: BEN FRANKLIN
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 183' X 25' X 6.5', 194 tons.
Power:25 1/2's-7 ft., 6 boilers, each 60" X 23', 2 15" flues
Wheels: 22' dia. 11' buckets w/ 22" dip
Launched: 1836, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1841, Mar. 13, Cincinnati, sank, lost.
Owner: United States Mail Line
Captains: when new, Master was John Blair Summons
Comments: record time upriver Louisville-Cincinnati, 00/12/08
: 1838, Mar. made special round trip Cincinnati-Pittsburgh.
: was considered very fast.
1. Name: BEN FRANKLIN
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet
1841-46
1. Name: BEN FRANKLIN No. 6
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 289 tons.
Launched: 1843, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1849, dismantled.
Area: Cincinnati-Louisville w/occasional trips to St. Louis
Owner: United States Mail Line
Caaptain: 1843-49, John Blair Summons
Comments: 1843, On special trip, arrived Pittsburgh, Nov.16, from
Cincinnati with Pres. John Q. Adams on board.
Comments from another source: 1846, Made run Louisville -
Cincinnati 0/11/45
1. Name: BEN FRANKLIN NO. 7
Type: sidewheel wooden hull packet
1844-48
Owner: United States Mail Line
1. Name: BEN FRANKLIN NO. 8
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size:
Launched: 1848, Cincinnati, Oh.
Area: 1850, Miss. R., Ark R.
Owner: United States Mail Line
Comments: The article linked below claims to have a BEN FRANKLIN
aground at Webbers Falls on the Ark. R. in 1850.
Comments: see Article
1. Name: BEN FRANKLIN
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size:145' X 24' X 5.5'
Launched: 1854, Brownsville, Pa.
Area: Cotton carrier out of New Orleans.
Comments: 1861, went to Confederate registry.
: 1863, Dec. 14, Red River, captured by U.S. tinclad ARGOSY.
1. Name: BEN FRANKLIN
Type: sidewheel wooden hull packet
1856-58
1. Name: BEN FRANKLIN
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 260 tons.
Launched: 1861, Parkersburg, W. Va.
Destroyed: 1867, dismantled.
Area: was in Wheeling - Cincinnati trade for several years
Captains: 1861, May, James P. Jack
1. Name: BEN FRANKLIN
Type: sidewheel wooden hull packet
1869-1881 or so
Owner: United States Mail Line
1. Name: BEN FRANKLIN NO. 2, originally the first CHRIS GREEN
Type: Sternwheel towboat
1915-1922
Name: BEN HUR
Type: Sternwheeler, wooden hull Size: 165'
Launched: 1887 at Marrietta, Ga.
Destroyed: 1916, March, Duckport, Miss., sank and was lost.
Area: Ohio R., Miss. R. : 1887, Towboat for Robinson's Floating
Circus : 1888 - 1909, In the Pittsburg/Parkersburg trade.
Owner: Original, Cramer Family of Clarington : 1909, Sold to interests on
Miss. R.
Captain(s): 1888, Kimpel, Fred Jr.
1904, Sims, Edward
Comments: Her whistle was from the GEORGE STRECKER and was passed on to the
BESSIE SMITH, then to the LIBERTY and on to the towboat MILDRED.
Comments: Mentioned in this Document
Name: BEN LEE
Type: sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 122 tons
Launched: 1852, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1856, Dec. 13, Mobile, Ala., snagged and lost.
Area: 1853, White R. Passed through Marion County
Also ran Mobile-Alabama R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: BEN SHARROD
Launched: 1830s
Destroyed: 1837, May, near 19 mi. above Ft. Adams, Miss., burned
Area: Coosa R. and to New Orleans
Comments: Was racing PRAIRIE when fire broke out. Eventually a
keg of whiskey exploded, then her boilers exploded and a bit
later 40 barrels of gun powder blew up. The boat was just
plain ment to sink. See Bits and Pieces for the rest of the
story.
1. Name: BEN STICKNEY
Type: Sidewheel, wood hull packet. Size: 285 X 40 X 8
Power: Engines, 26's- 9 ft.and 5 boilers from the BOSTONA
Launched: Hull: Cannelton, Ind. Completed, 1864, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1865, Nov. 16, Island 18, Miss. R. snagged and sunk
Area: L. Miss. R.
Owner: Principal owner said to be Commodore David Gibson, Cincinnati
Ran under Atlantic and Mississippi Steamboat Co banner.
Captain: 1864, Aug, Maiden trip, Master, Sheble, E. A.;
Pilots, Charles Sebastian and James Ostrander
1865: Master when she sank, Dravo, Charles A.
Name: BENTON, Orininally SUBMARINE NO. 7
Name: BENTON (the 2nd one), originally christened INTREPID
Name: BENTON (The 3rd one)
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull ferryboat Size: 88 tons
Launched: 1865, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Dismantled; 1870
Name: BENTON IV
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 197' X 33' X 5.'
Power: Engines by James Rees, 15's-5 ft. Three boilers, each 38" X 24'
Launched: 1875; Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1897, July 18th.: under the command of Capt. James P. Boland,
boat became sideways when stopping for drawbridge at
Souix City. Backed into piling, holing hull. Out of control,
she plunged under the unraised drawbridge, destroying her
upper works. She was wrecked.
Area: Mo. R., Ohio R. and Miss. R.
Owner(s): 1875: T. C. Power & Bros. and I.G. Baker & Co.
1889: Sold to Capts. James T. Boland and Thomas B. Sims
1897: Capt.Thomas B.Simms of St Louis.
Captain(s): 1875: James McGarry
: * 1877, Sept., Grant Marsh
: 1889, Sept. 15 Asa P Boland.
: 1896, James P. Boland
Comments: Much more info
: Gary Lucy artwork and comments
Comments: * 1877, Sept., was involved in the Nez Perce conflict at Crow Island on U. Mo. R.
: 1889, Sept. 15, 5 miles above Washington, Mo., snagged,
sunk and raised. Pilot at the time was George G. Keith
: 1895, July 31, a tiller line parted.
She swerved into a snag and sank. Was raised. See Map
1. Name: BENTON McMILLIN/D.H. PIKE
Type: Sternwheel woodenhull packet.
Size: as McMILLIN, 155' X 33' X 5.5'; As PIKE, 199.6' X 33.5' X 5.5'
Power: Engines, 14-1/2's- 5 ft., 3 boilers, each 40" X 18'
Launched: 1883, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard yard
Destroyed: 1898, dismantled. Parts went to BALD EAGLE
Area: ran on Cumberland R. for several years
1886, summer, entered Pittsburgh-Cincinnati trade.
1890S, St. Louis-Peoria
cir. 1890s, took load of groceries up Red R. to Knox's Point
Owners: 1886, summer- 1888, FALL, Capt. Hod Knowles, Capt. Ira B. Huntington and others
1888 March, sold to Eagle Packet Company.
Captains: 1886, summer- 1888, FALL, Hod Knowles with Capt. Huntington as 1st. clerk,
Will Brookhart and Aaron McLaughlin pilots.
Comments: Capt. Huntington recalled she was first boat lighted throughout by electricity.
: Eagle Packet lengthened her at Cincinnati and renamed her D.H. PIKE
Name: BERKSHIRE
Name: BERTHA ROEBUCK
Area: Sabine and Neches Rs., Tex.
Destroyed: Late 1800s,north of Orange, Tex.,
at Kansas City Southern R.R. crossing, burned.
Captains: *at various times, Peter D. Stockholm
Comments: See source Article
Name: BERTRAND 1844-50
Name: BERTRAND
BERTRAND
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 161'X 32.9'X 5.2', 251 tons.
Launched: 1864, Wheeling W. Va. summer
Power: Machinery from the A.J. SWEENEY
Destroyed: 1865, ?Apr. 1?. Hit snag and sank at Portage LaFarge, some 20 mi. north of
Omaha, Neb.. Deck cargo was salvaged but a large quantity
of mecury was unrecoverable and has since beensought many times.
Area: Missouri R.
Owner: Original owner: J. J. Roe & Co of St. Louis ie: George Feller
and Thomas H. Reed, both of Wheeling, West Virgina,
and George Laing, Lewis W. Cochran,
and Jeremiah Cochran, all of Monroe County, Ohio
: 1865: The above men formed the
Montana and Idaho Transportation Co.
Captain(s):1864, Goodwin, Ben, master, and Yore, James A.
1865, spring, John Jacobs with Horace Bixby as pilot.
Comments: Was enrout with supplies for the goldfields in Montana
when she sank.
Comments: The river changed course. Feb. 1968 the site of wreck was
located within the old ox-bow loop some 25 mi. above Omaha.
there is a musueum to the preservation of this boat HERE .
Comments: from Boone's Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Comments: From Wheeling Intelligencer, Nov. 26, 1864.
Name: BESSIE
Type: Sternwheeler Size: Small
Area: Rio Grande R.
Comments: Source Article
Name: BESSIE SMITH
Type: sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 140' X 26' X 3.5'
Built: 1897, Smithsonia and Florence, Ala.
Power: Engines, 10's- 3-1/2'. Two boilers, each 36" X 18'
Destroyed: 1911, Mar. 20, Parkersburg, burned
Area: Built for Tenn. R.
Later went to Upper Ohio R.
Ran Wheeling-Parkersburg under Kimple and Williamson ownership
Owners: purchased by Capts. Fred Hornbrook and Harry Donnally for upper Ohio R. trade.
Later sold to Capts. Fred Kimpel and Sam Williamson
1910, purchased entire by Capt. Martin F. Noll
After burned, Capt. Harry B. Hulings purchased wreck for machinery.
Captains: 1905, Wheeling-Parkersburg, Henry R.Kraft
Comments: Originally a scow bow boat, but was later rebuilt with a model bow.
: Whistle came from the sternwheeler BEN HUR
and was passed onto the LIBERTY.
: Machinery went to towboat UNCLE SAM
1. Name: BETSY ANN
Click to see pictures of Betsy Ann
From
James E. York Postcard Collection
Type: Sternwheel, iron hull packet
Size: 165' X 33' X 5.5'
Power: Cross compound condensing engines, 16" and 32"
When new, 1 boiler, 72" X 12'
Launched: 1899, Dubuque, Iowa by Iowa Iron Works
Destroyed: 1940, dismantled.
Area: At first mostly Natchez-Bayou Sara trade, U.S. Mail carrier
1921 Pittsburg-Portsmouth. Later Pittsburgh-Cincinnati to 1929
1932 went to towing barges
Owner: When new, R.F. Learned, Natchez, Miss.
1921, purchased by D. Grover Gill, Gallipolis, Oh. and others.
1925, late Fredrick Way, Sr. and Jr. bough stock in her
1932, spring, sold to John I. Hay
Captain(s): Fredric Way
Comments: See working model of the BETSY ANN being built.
Name: BETTY
Type: sternwheeler
Comments: Seen in old photo in Cincinnati Inquirer, Sunday Oct. 10, 1999,
Tallstacks 99 Suppliment entitled "Great River Parade" of 1929.
Name: BETTY WRIGHT Source photo
Type: sternwheeler Size:
Area: Ohio R., home port was Wheeling, W. Va.
Name: BEZALEEL WELLS
Launched: Between 1815 and 1820
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Machinery and boilers by Phillips Works.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: BIG HATCHIE
Destroyed: 1845, (possibly 1842) blew up near Herman Mo. killing 35 and
wounding many more
Name: BIG HORN
Launched: 1860s?
Destroyed: Stranded
Area: U. Mo. R.
Name: BIG SANDY
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet.
Launched: 1899
Owners: 1901 purchased in part by Capt. Steven Thompson
Name: BILOXI
Area: 1858, made a trip up the Sabine R. from Beloxi, Miss.
Comments: The landing where it off loaded its cargo of slaves became known as Beloxi, Tex.
The town is long since deserted and gone.
: See source Article
Name: BIRDIE BRENT
Type: FERRY BOAT Size:
Launched: 1871
Destroyed: 1887
Area: Mo. R. Boonville, Mo.
Owner: Porter, Capt. John
Captains: Porter, Capt. John, Wilson, R. C.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: BLACK DIAMOND
Area: 1870s, possibly Osage R., Mo.
Owners: *possibly Charles F. Lohman and his son Capt. Louis Charles
Lohman, Jefferson City, Mo.
: This listing from family records of Lee Lohman, GGG grandaughter
of Charles F.
Name: BLACK DRAGON
The nick name given the 1851 PITTSBURGH
Name: BLACK HAWK
Launched: 1830s?
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: BLACK HILLS
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 135' X 27.5' X 4.5'
Power: 14's-4 1/2 ft., 2 boilers each 42" X 21'.
Launched: 1877, California Pa.
Destroyed: 1884, Mar. 28, After wintering at Bismarck, was cut down by ice
Area: Mo. R. and Yellowstone R.
Spent some time on Osage R., Mo.
Owners: 1/2-Timothy B. Burleigh, 1/4-James C. McVay, 1/4- Thomas M. Rees
Captains: First master, Timothy B. Burleigh, Yankton, Dakota Terr.; pilots,
William Gordon and Jim Witten
: 1881, July 23, Capt. Robt. F. Wright
Companies associated with: 1877, Benton "P" Line
Comments: 1881, July 23, took on 10 cords of wood at Crittenden's
Island at $4 a cord.
: Machinery and cabin came from SILVER CRESENT
Name: BLACK LOCUST
Type: Recessed Wheel ferryboat, wooden hull. Size: 106 tons
Launched: 1847, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1866-67 winter, ice.
Area: operated, Louisville-Jeffersonville
Owners: John Shallcross, James J. Thompson, Charles Strader and Athanasius
Wathen.
Name: BLACK PRINCE
Type: Sternwheeler Size:
Launched: 1900s early?
Destroyed: fate unknowen
Area: Skagit R., Pugeot Sound area, Wash. state
Captain: Albert Manwarren Galligan (8/14/1887 - 2/13/1973)
Name: BLACK ROVER
Launched: 1830s?
Area: u. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: BLOSSOM
Launched: ?1900-1911?
Area: California Delta
1. Name: BLUE RIDGE
Type: sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 138 tons.
Launched: 1844, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1848, Jan. 9, 1:00 A.M., Racoon Island below Gallipolis,
downbound in snow storm, blew boilers. Killed 15.
Area: 1845, March, advertised in Cincinnati Daily Atlas,
Cincinnati-Louisville and Kanawa R. trade.
Owners: 1844, when built, Warth and English
1845, went to a Capt. James A. Payne and others.
Captains: 1845, Master, William Summers
1848, master, William Penn Wright
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Also see CRUSADER
Name: BLUE TEAL, THE0
Type: Side-wheeler, Fictional
Size: 300 ton; 200 passenger. Draft, 3'.
Owner: Michael Riley
Captain(s): Capt. Michael Riley
Comments: In book "The River Witch" by Marjorie McIntyre, 1955
Name: BOAZ
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Area: 1897, OHIO R.
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Mar. 31 1897
1. Name: BOB BALLARD
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet Size: 130' X 26.2' X 4'
Power: Engines, 13's - 5ft., 3 boilers, each 38" X 20'.
All from the BOONE
Launched: 1890, Mason City W. Va.
Destroyed: 1909, Dec. 10, Coal Haven above Ironton, Oh., sank and lost.
Area: At first, Gallipolis - Marietta
Later also ran Louisville-Kentucky R. trade.
Owners: Toward end, after conversion to towboat,
Capt. Frank Morgan, Ironstown, Oh.
Captains: At first, Elmer E. Varian (Gallipolis - Marietta trade)
Later, C.H. Varian (Louisville-Kentucky R. trade)
Name: BOB FUGUA
Type: tugboat Size:
Name: BOB PRITCHARD
Launched: 1880?
Destroyed: 1890'S?
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Her whistle went to the H. R. BEDFORD
From The Tribune Telegraph, Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio.
Name: BOLIVAR
Launched: 1831, Wheeling W. Va. by either the Bell Yard or the Patton Yard.
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Engines and machinery probably made by T. Sweeney & Sons at
Wheeling.
: Mentioned in this article
Name: BON ACCORD
Destroyed: 1856, late Feb, Torn from docks and swept downstream in
ice flow during Great Ice Gorge at St. Louis. Crushed
and sunk.
Name: BOONS LICK
Type: sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: Large
Distroyed: Sunk near N.O. by collision in which a
large number of lives were lost.
Area: St. Louis - New Orleans trade
Owner(s): Capt. John Simonds, Jr.
1. Name: BONANZA
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 267.5' X 42.8' X 6.7'
Power: Engines, 22's- 7-1/2 ft. Three boilers each 48" X 30'.
Launched: 1885, Jan. 17, Cincinnati, Oh. at Mack's Yard
Owners: White Collar Line ran her Cincinnati-Portsmouth and later on to Pomeroy
Captains: 1887, Nov. 2 through Jan. 1888, bills of lading show E.E. Moore was master.
1891, Capt. J.T. Campbell was master.
Comments: Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Aug. 18 1897
Name: BORDER STAR/BONNIE BELLE/NORTHERN STAR/ARAWANNA BELLE/COCOA BELLE/MAGNOLIA BELLE
Type: Sternwheel excursion boat
Power: Originally designed as steam driven sternwheeler
Launched: 1969
Areas: 1969, Ohio R.
Later as BONNIE BELLE out of Madison Ind.
Later as NORTHERN STAR and subsuquently as ARAWANNA BELLE
out of Toledo, Oh.
Later as COCOA BELLE, out of Cocoa Beach, Fl.
Now (2006) As MAGNOLIA BELLE, out of New Orleans North shore.
Comments: Featured in the 1993 Disney film "The Adventures of Huck Finn".
Name: BOREAS No 3
Launched: 1840s
Destroyed: 1849, May 17, fire at St, Louis docks.
1. Name: BOSTONA
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet
Size: 266' X 34' X 7.5', 468 tons
Power: engines by Inman, Gault and Co, 26-1/2's - 9', 5 boilers,
each 42" X 34-1/2 ft., Wheels - 31-1/2'
Hull by James Murry
Launched: 1849, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1852, nov. 25, At or near Ford's Ferry, Ky., above Cave In Rock,
stranded and sank, then was cut down by ice.
Area: 1849, Louisville - New Orleans
Owner: 1849, Part owner, Capt. E.T. Dustin
Captains: 1849, Master and part owner, Dustin, E.T.
Comments: Helped rescue surivors of SULTANA.
Made run N.O. - Louisville 1849, 5/8/0
Comments: from Way's, "Was quite ornate; each of 50 staterooms had
columns at doors upon which rested porticos richly gilded.
Had bedsteads and spring mattresses. Doors glassed with
many colors divided ladies' and men's sections; tub baths
connect with men's and ladies' rooms."
1.Name: BOSTONA
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 355 tons
Launched: 1854, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1866, June 2, St. Louis whaie awaiting dismanteling, burned.
Area: Cincinnati - Portsmouth
1.Name: BOSTONA
Type: Sidewheel woden hull packet.
Size: 260' X 40' X 6.7', 816 tons.
Launched: 1867, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1877, Feb. 8, Sciotoville, collided with twoboat SAM MILLER.
Sunk and raised and given new decks.
1879, Dismantled
1.Name: BOSTONA
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet.
Size: 302.5' X 43.5', 759 tons.
Power: Engines, 25's- 8 ft. Four boilers, each 47" X 30'. 6 flues, 10" dia.
Wheels, 27' ea with 16' buckets; 18 arms and 4 flanges on each wheel shaft.
Launched: 1879, Cincinnati, Oh.
Captains: *1881, Issac Brysom
Comments: This boat carried her own coal for fuel in 24, 50 bushel rail cars on two sets of tracks in the hold.
Name: BOUISA
Launched: 1850s
Captain: 1850s, Keeling, Frankin A.
Source: Obituary, F.A.Keeling
Name: BRAGG
Magic Cabin
* Name: BRANDYWINE
Size: 140 tons
Power: Mongrel
Launched: 1827, Cincinnati, Oh
Name: BRAVE
Launched: 1832, Wheeling W. Va. by either the Bell Yard or the Patton Yard.
Area: U. Miss.
Owner: Smith, Orrin, Capt.
Captain and pilots: Capt. Smith, Orrin
Comments: Engines and machinery probably made by T. Sweeney & Sons at
Wheeling.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: BRAZIL
Area: U. Miss.
Owner: Smith, Orrin, Capt.
Captain(s): Capt. Smith, Orrin
Comments: Designed to be excursion boat with double-bunk cabins
lining salon with doors leading both into center saloon
and out onto the deck.
Name: BRAZOS BELLE Source
Type: Sternwheeler Size:
Area: Brazos R. Texas
1. Name: BRIDE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 295 tons.
Launched: 1848
Destroyed: 1853, Apr. 18, Vincennes, Ind. snagged and lost.
Area: Red R.
1851, Wabash R.
Comments: 1851, Cloutierville, La., exploded boilers.
1853, Feb. 8, Wabash R., ran aground
: 1853, while sparring the Captain broke and killed 3 men
Name: BRIGAGIER GENERAL R.H. STOKES
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 140 tons
Launched: 1852, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1857, off the lists.
Area: Cincinnati-New Orleans
Owners: 1852, built by Richard Henry Stokes, Jr.
later Capt. Clitus A. Brown, Yazoo City, Miss.
1854, sold to Capt William L. Staples, Columbus, Ga.
Captains: Clitus A. Brown
William L. Staples
Comments: See Querie
Name: BRIGHT LIGHT
Launched: 1880s?
Area: 1883, Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Name: BRIGHT STAR
Type: Sternwheel ferryboat Size:
Area: 1873, Mo. R., Washington, Mo.
Comments: Gary Lucy Artwork and some info on boat
Name: BRILLIANCE
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Destroyed: Rammed by JOHN RANDOLPH. Sank
Name: BRILLIANT
Launched: 1842
Area: Ohio R.
Owner: 1847, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Steamboat Line
Comments: From The Wheeling Register, Monday, March 31, 1879
Name: BRISTOL
Launched: 186?
Area: Hudson R.
Owner: Fall River Line; Jim Fis???
Name: BRONX
Name: BROOKLYN
Name: BROTHER JONATHAN/COMMODORE
Type: Three masted Sidewheeler Size:
Launched: 1850 or 51, Perrine, New York by Pattreson and Stack,
for Long island Trade, but upon completion was sold to West
Coast interests.
Destroyed: 1865, July 27: Left SanFrancisco under the command of
Capt. de Wolf. Struck a large rock in a heavy sea off
Crecent City and was lost.
Area: West coast, Columbia R.
Owner: Vanderbuilt-Nicaragua Line, John T. Wright who renamed her COMMODORE,
1856, California Steam Navigation Co.
Captain(s):1851, Baldwin, C. H. who took her around Cape Horn;
1865 de Wolf
Comments: This information from Jerry Canavit
Name: BRUNETTE
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.
Name: BRYANT'S NEW SHOWBOAT
Name: BUCK ELK
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 100.7' X 18.3' X 3.'
Launched: 1900, Herman, Mo.
Area: 1901 or so, White R. (Source)
1908, Yazoo R.
1 Name: BUCKEYE BELLE
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 151' X 22' X 5'
Power: Engines, 17's - 6ft. 2 boilers, each 42" X 20'. 2 flues.
Launched: 1852, Marietta, Oh.
Destroyed: 1857, Nov. 26, Columbus Ky, Boilers exploded, no lives lost.
Area: 1852, Muskingum R. - St. Marys, Va. to Newport, Oh. and Zanesville, Oh.
Ran U.S. Mail, freight and passengers until boiler explosion.
See Comments, below.
1854, Pittsburgh - Portsmouth
1857, Mound City-Cairo-Hickman
Captains: 1852, James T. Hahn, Pilot: Calvin R. Stull
1854, Spring, Capt. Smith
1857, J.W. Brown
Comments: 1852, Nov. 2, near Beverly, Oh. upbound shortly after 5PM. Boilers Exploded.
20 died, 14 were injured. 13 were buried the Beverly Cemetary
in a common box of unidentified body parts.
Was rebuilt.
: See Article by site visitor Debbie Noland Nitsche.
Name: BUCKEYE STATE
Type: Sidewheel, woodenhull packet. Size: 260' X 29.4' X 6.6'
Power: 29-1/2's- 8 ft., Nelson built. 5 boilers
Wheels; 31' 8" dia., 12' buckets with 36" dip. 20 arms ea.
Launched: 1850, hull, Shousetown, Pa., Completed, Pittsburgh
1850, Feb. 17, maiden trip.
Destroyed: 1857, dismantled.
Area: 1857, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
Owners: Original stockholders, David Holmes, Thomas S. Clarke, William
Bingham, Robert S. Hays and Capt. Samuel J Reno.
Companies Associated with: came out under Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet
Line colors.
Captains: 1850, Feb. 17 - Mar. 28, Samuel J. Reno
1850, Mar.- Master, Samuel Dean; pilots, William Clark and
Thomas Witten.
Later years, Master, M.W. Beltzhoover
Comments: Made run Cincinnati - Pittsburgh in 1851, May, in 43 hrs. a record that still stands
amoung steamboats.
: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: BUCKEYE STATE
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 235' X 36' X 5'
Launched: 1878
Area: Ohio R., 1879: Ohio R.. Was docking at The "People's Warf Boat" in
Wheeling W. Va.
Captains: 1878, Kerr, Wash H.
Companies Associated with: Pittsburgh & Cincinnati Packet Line
Name: BUENA VISTA
Area: 1850s - 80s Tombigbee River in Clarke County, Ala.
Owner: Jordan, David S.
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: From David Upton: "I am looking for imformation on my
familys history. My great great great grandfather, David
S. Jordan, owned a river boat company. He shipped produce
and items between Mobile Alabama and the river systems to
the north of that city. His base of operations was on the
Tombigbee River in Clarke County during the 1850s-1880's.
He started with flatbottom river boats and eventually
steam powered boats. I only have two names of the boats
he owned. They were the Buenavista and the Samual J.Tilden.
He did not have a pilots licence and he had
to hire his crews instead of using his own family to
run the boats."
Name: BUFFALO See
Name: BURGESS
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson, shopkeeper,
Commerce Mo.
- Tuesday Night, April 16th 1861. "Business dull. River
on stand. Boats plenty. Intelligence came this morning
on the (steamer) Dickey that it was a mistake about Anderson
being killed, but true that Fort Sumpter had been taken and
its inmates taken prisoners. Nothing of note took place
the balance of the day. The Bell Creole landed about sunset
and took the Burgess boat in tow."
Name: BURLINGTON
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Soze: 210' X 35' X 5.5'
Launched: 1864, Cincinnati, Oh., Capt. R.C. Gray superindended construction.
Destroyed: 1867, Sept. 7, 1 mi. above Wabasha, Minn., Snagged and lost
Area: U. Miss. R.
Owners: Northern Line Packet Company
Captains: 1864, J.J. Robinson
1866, J.B. Rhodes
Name: BURLINGTON
Launched: 1880s?
Area: 1883, U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: BURNSIDE/MINER
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 248 tons.
Launched: 1864, Bridgeport, Ala. for U.S.Q.M.D.
Destroyed: 1869, June 8, Skunk R. near Burlington, Iowa, Snagged and lost.
Power: 16 1/2's- 5 ft., 3 boilers.
Owners: originally USQMD as BURNSIDE
1866, June 7, sold to private hands. Renamed MINER.
Comments: when lost was carrying load for contractors working on
C.B. & O. R.R. bridge.
1. Name: BUSINESS/MARK TWAIN/ALICE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet.
Size: 1872, 70 tons.
1876, Nov. Covington, Ky., lengthened to 111' X 20.4' X 4.'.
Launched: 1872, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1885, Mar. 27, exploded boiler. 6 lives lost.
Refloated and renamed ALICE.
1892, ALICE was still listed at Memphis
Area: 1872-76, Around Evansville
1877, Memphis - St. Francis R.
1882, after, served as ferry, Mound City, Ark.
Owners: 1882, after, Capt. Fogleman
Captains: 1877, J.L Randall
1877, W. P. Hill (?Hall?)
Later, Fogleman
Comments: Boats hull was refloated after boiler explosion and
renamed ALICE
Name: BUZZARD
Destroyed: Ran aground and sank
