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Name: C. B. WARNER
Type: Wooden hull packet
Area: 1879, U. White R.
1880=81 season, chartered by Capt. Albert B. Smith
Comments: Source
Name: C.C. MARTIN
Launched: 1882
Area: ?Cincinnati-Pittsburg?
Comments: Mentioned several times in this Article.
Name: C. E. HILLMAN
Launched: Between 1855 and 1865 at Wheeling, W. Va..
Captain(s):Corbett, James N.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING INTELLIGENCER, June 24, 1951
Name: C.J. CAFFERY, originally the J.H. BALDWIN
1. Name: C.O.
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 81.6' X 15.7' X 2.7'
Power: 9"-1 1/2', one boiler.
Launched: 1885, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1897, before Mar. 31, near Hickman Kt., Capsized while towing
OAKLAND, total loss.
Area: Ohio R.
Owners: 1885, Longworth family, Cincinnati, who used her for hunting
excursions.
1897, Capt. Callie French use to tow FRENCH'S NEW SENSATION
Name: C. P. BROWN
Launched: 1870's?
Area: Ohio R.
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: Note from the WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER,
June 24, 1951
1. Name: C. R. SUTER/MISSOURI
Type: Sidewheel, U. S. snag boat/packet Size: 187 X 52' X 7.
Power: Compound ocillating engines.
Launched: 1888, Pittsburgh, Pa. (Possibly launched in 1880, See)
Destroyed: 1928, July 28, Casconade, Mo., burned.
Area: Mo. R.
Owners: When new and for several years, Misouri River Commission
Captains:*When new possibly a Capt. Patterson with Capt. E. M. Baldwin pilot until 1914
in later days John S. Campbell with Gerald H. Friemouth, pilot
Comments: the boat snagged the Mo. R. under both names.
1. Name: C. W. BACHELOR
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 175' X 34'
Power: 15's- 5ft. 3 Boilers each 38" X 24'
Launched: 1879, Brownsville, Pa. at Axton Yard.
Area: Built for the Pittsburgh-Wheeling Trade
Later under Pittsburgh & Cincinnati Packet Co. ran Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
* 1884, Oct. began leaving Pittsburgh Mon. and Thurs. for Parkersburg on Tues. and Fri.
1895 went to Missouri R.
Owners: When new, Capt. Abner O'Neal and Capt. Nate Wintringer *
Later, sold to Pittsburgh & Cincinnati Packet Company
1895, sold to Capt. T.B. Simms of St, Louis
Captains: Under Pittsburgh & Cincinnati Packet Co., George O'Neal
Comments: This boat was named in honor Capt. Charles W. Bachelor of
Pittsburgh, Pa., and a native of Steubenville, Oh. 1823 - 1896
: 1879: Was using Booths "Old Reliable" Warf Boat in Wheeling, W. Va. 1879
: Mentioned in this Document
Name: C.W. COWELS
Type:Sternwheel wooden hull ?packet?towboat?
Comments: Above photo is source for this listing
Name: C. W. SOMBART
Launched: 1858?
Destroyed: 1859, June, Burned near St. Louis.
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: Sombart, C. W.
Captain(s): 1862?-65?, McPherson, Henry
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: C. W. MORSE
Type: Side-wheeler 4 decker Size:
Destroyed: post 1930s
Area: Hudson R.
Owner: Peoples Line.
*Name: CADDO
Type: Sidewheeler Size: 139' X 24' 8" X 6', 196 ton
Launched: 1839, Pittsburgh
Destroyed: 1842, Apr. 13, Red River, near Fort Towson Okla.. Sank.
Area: Out of New Orleans, Red R.
Owners: Asa Dunn and Johnson R. Davis & Company
Captains: Master, Asa Dunn
John Graham, Shreveport, La. (This captain submitted by
site visitor M. Bynum who would like further information on
Capt. Graham.)
Comments: Resently, the ship remains were found buried in the riverbed.
: *This Information from Early Steam Navigation on the Red River
: Also see, The Material Culture of Steamboat Passengers:
Archaeological Evidence from the Missouri River, by Annalies
Corbin, Roderick Sprague.
Name: CADDO BELLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 134 tons
Built: 1857, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1860, Off the lists
Area: New Orleans-Shreveport
Red R.
Comments: 1858, Red R., Sank
Name: CADDO BELLE
Type: Wooden hull packet.
Size: 125' X 25' X 3.5'
Destroyed: 1886, still registered, Apalachiola, Fla.
Area: After rebuild went to Chattahoochee R. Fla.
Owners: A.R. Ketchum and Jacob Ketchum, Cincinnati, Oh.
Captains: *1881, Henry McCormick, who commited suicide on this boat in 1881.
Comments: 1881, Mar., Cross Bayou near Shreveport, La., while tied up for debt, burned.
Rebuilt and taken to Chattahoochee R.
Name: CADDO BELLE
Type: Wooden hull packet
1. Name: CAIRO (Gunboat U.S.S. CAIRO)
Type: Recess wheel, wooden hull gunboat
Size: 175' X 50' X 7.'
Launched: 1861, Mound City, Ill.
Destroyed: 1862, Dec. 12, ascending Yazoo R.,
victim of two torpedoe type mines.
Was first of Pook's Turtles to be destroyed.
About: There were seven of these boats launched for U.S. service.
Each was the same* and each had 13 guns. Six 32 pounder smoothbores,
three 8-inch Dahlgren smoothbore shell guns and four rifled 42 pounders.
* The ST. LOUIS had one more 32 pounder instead of one of the eight inchers.
CAIRO, MOUND CITY, and CINCINNATI built at Mound city, Ill.
CARONDELET, LOUISVILLE, ST. LOUIS and PITTSBUTG at Carondelet, Mo.
3. Name: CALEB COPE
Launched: 1840's late? Size: 60 toms.
Area: 1853, Sacramento R. Calif.
Name: CALLAHAN JR.
a relatively small, wooden hulled, stern-wheeler that plied the
Chipola River between Apalachicola, Fl and Blountstown, FL in the
'20's and early '30's. In '32, her engineer was named "Jones".
He cargo was mostly naval stores, I think, speaking from memory.
Comments: This listing from site visitor John P. Roberts
Name: CALIFORNIA
Launched: 1840s?
Area: Hudson R.
Name: CALIFORNIA
Launched: 1840s?
Area: Sacramento R.
: 1853, Dec., California - Panama
Captain: 1853, Dec., LeRoy
Comments: Source
Name: CAMARGO
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Destroyed: 1874, Townsend's Ferry on the Angelina River, sank.
Area: Neches and Angelina Rs., Tex.
Owner: 1869, purchased by Capt Andrew Smyth
Soon purchased by C. H. Alexander and Co., cotton factor of Sabine Pass.
Captains: 1869, Andrew Smyth
1874, Sherwood Burch of Sabine, Tex.
Comments: See source Article
Name: CANADA
Launched: 1858, Brownsville, Pa. Size: 197' X 32' X 5', 299 tons.
Dismantled: 1870, Madison, Ind.
Area: U. Miss. R.
Owner: James Ward, 3/8; William Anderson, 1/4; Adam Jacobs, 3/8
Captain: 1857: James Ward
Comments: One of first boats in Northern Line Packet Company
: Mentioned in this Article
: Machinery went to ROCK ISLAND
Name: CANADIAN Photo of model of boat
Type: Sternwheeler Size:
Launched: 1950s? Late?
Area: "Freedomland" a New York City Theme Park
Owner: of model Ray Harrington
Comments: From Ray Harrington:"I purchased the "Eugene" at an auction
in Connecticut at a place called Johnsonville. The owner,
Ray Schmit, died of cancer a couple of years ago and then
the whole place went up for auction. Schmit had a lot of
money and his goal was to rebuild an old village on his
property. And he did. Everything from original houses and
buildings that he moved, carriages, furniture, sleds, etc.
Everything you could think that would be in a town back
in the late 1800's. He also purchased a sternwheeler from
what use to be Freedomland, an amusement park in New York
back in the 60's. He had the vessel floated up from New
York, up the Connecticut River, and then moved over about
4 miles of land. . . "
Name: CAPE GIRARDEAU, originally the CITY OF NEW ALBANY
1892-1916
Name: CAPE GIRARDEAU, originally the WAR EAGLE
1899-1910
Name: CAPE GIRARDEAU/GORDON C. GREEN/SARA LEE/RIVER QUEEN Postcard Photos
Type: Sternwheel, steel hull packet/excursion boat/tourist boat.
Size: 210' X 38' X 6.5'
Power: 18's- 8', 3 boilers, each 44" X 28' Burned coal until 4 new boilers,
oil burners, were installed in 1941.
Launched:1923, Jeffersonville, Ind. at Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1967, Sunday morning Dec. 3, St. Louis, sank dockside.
Area: 1923, Louisville-St. Louis
1924, St.Louis-Cape-Commerce trade
1925-30, made St. Louis-New Orleans Mardi Gras trips each year.
1934, took MVBL tow St. Louis-Cairo
1935-36, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati, passengers and freight
1938-39, 41 and 47, Made Cincinnati-New Orleans Mardi Gras trip
1952 - Portsmouth, Oh. was a floating hotel named SARAH LEE
Later Owensboro, Ky. was floating Restaurant named RIVER QUEEN,
did not work out. Later yet, Bradenton Fl. lavishly outfited
to be tourist attraction. Did not work out. She went to
1960, New Orleans with plans for her to be a high-class night club.
That did not happen. She went to Hannible and then across
river from that town to purvey food and drink.
1964, moved to St Louis and became a well patronized bar and
restaurant.
Owner: 1923-34, Eagle Packet Company
1935-52 Greene Line Steamers as GORDON C. GREENE
1952, sold to Portsmouth Oh. Renamed SARA LEE
1953?, or so, Sold to Owensboro Ky. Renamed RIVER QUEEN
Later, Bradenton Fl. concerns
1960, New Orleans concerns
Later, to Hannibal, Mo.
1964, St. Louis concerns
Captain(s): *1922, Robert Franklin Myers
1935 - Tom R. Greene
Comments: 1924, Apr 24, christened by Miss Christine Rowling.
: 1934, renamed GORDON C. GREEN
: 1952, Renamed SARA LEE (floating hotel) Portsmouth, Oh.
: 1953, Renamed RIVER QUEEN (floating restaurant), Owensboro, Ky.
: 1954, Boilers went to AVALON.
: Her whistle, which dates back to the CALHOUN, is in the River
Museum, Marrieta, Oh.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: CAPE CATERLIN
Launched: 1850s?
Area: Miss. R.
Owner: United States Mail Line
Name: CAPE MAY
Type: sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 124 tons
Launched: 1850, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1854, Aug. 2, Mount vernon, Ind.. Snagged and lost. 18 died.
Name: CAPITOL,
Type: Sidewheeler packet, wooden hull Size: 133 tons
Launched: 1844, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1844, Dec. 27, burned at seventy-six Landing, Mo..
Above Grand Tower. 3 lives lost.
Area: Mo. and Miss. Rs.
Captain: Birmingham
Comments: Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. July. 12 1897
Name: CAPITOL See PITTSBURGH
Name: CAPT. LYERLY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull towboat
Area: Coosa R.
Owner: Gladsden Cooperage Company
Captains: James L. Robertson
Comments: Source
3. Name: CAPT. SUTTER
Launched: 1840's late? Size: 51 tons.
Area: 1853, Sacramento R. Calif.
Name: CAPT. WEBER
Type: Sternwheeler Size:
Launched: ?1920'S?
Destroyed: 1943, Stocton, Calf. riverboat fire that took several old
riverboats.
Area: California Delta Rivers
Comments: Played the "CUMBERLAND" in the 1943 bing Crosby movie
Dixie. Source
Name: CAPTAIN MERIWETHER LEWIS
Type: Sidewheel dredge-boat Size: 285'
Launched: 1931 by Marietta Marine Works in Point Pleasant,
Virginia.
Destroyed: 1998: drydocked at Brownville, NE, where the
Brownville Historical Society maintains the boat as
a museum.
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: U. S. Army Corp of Engineers
Captain(s):
Comments: This boat was one of the last steamboats used by U.S.
Army Corp of Engineers. It could dredge to a depth of
20 feet at a speed of 150 to 200 feet per hour. In a
24 hour period it could move up to 185,000 cubic
yards of sand.
Photo of hand-made model by Nautic Art.
This model will be raffled off in May 1999. See above, photo link for more.
1. Name: CAPITOL CITY/COLUMBIA
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet.
Size: As Capitol City - 132.2' x 25.7' x 4',
Power: Engines, 12's- 4 1/2 ft., 2 boilers.
Launched: 1888, Harmer, Oh., Knox Yard. Size: 132.2' X 25.7' X 4'
Area: Gallipolis - Charleston trade, Kanawha R.
Captains: Howard Donnally
Comments: 1893, rebuilt, renamed COLUMBIA.
Name:CAPITOL CITY
Area: California Delta Rivers
Comments: Played a part in the 1933 movie Mandalay.
Source
Name: CAR of COMMERCE"
Type: side-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1820'S?
Destroyed: 1832, May 6, sank
Area: Lower Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
1. Name: CAR of COMMERCE"
Type: side-wheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 294 tons.
Launched: 1848, Murrayville, Va.
Destroyed: 1848, Dec., On the Louisville Falls (See Comments)
Area: Lower Mo. R.
Owner(s): Davis & Smith
Comments: This boat hit the rocks on Luisville Falls and was holed.
The HOMER towed her Sand Island opposite Shippingport where she sank over the cabin floor.
Nobody was hurt.
: This was the forth boat of this name.
Name: CAR OF NEPTUNE
Size: 175' x 24'
Launched: 1807
Area: Hudson R. Albany - New york
Owner: Hudson River Steamboat Company
Captain: Arthur Helme Roorbach
Comments: Source
1. Name: CARNEAL GOLDMAN
Type: Sternwheel, woodenhull packet
Size: 143' X 25.1' X 6.1'
Launched: 1885, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Area: built for the Natchez-Vicksburg trade
Made three trips weekly
Later went to Madison, Ind.
Comments: Named after a Tensas Parish, Louisiana cotton planter
: Parts went to the JOSEPH
3. Name: CAROLINA
Launched: 1840s? late?
Area: 1850s, early, U. Sacramento R., Calf.
Name: CAROLINE
Area: 1831, Ill. R.
Owner: Possibly whole or in part, Capt. Abraham Kimber, Brownsville
Source
Name: CAROLINE
Launched: 1820's or 30's
Area: Alabama R.
Owner: Peyton Bibb of Alabama
Name: CARONDELET
Type: Gunboat Size:
Launched: 1850s?
Captain and pilots: Capt. Walke, Henry
Comments: Famous run VoR, 182
1. Name: CARONDELET
Type: Sternwheel, iron hull packet. Size:
Power: Engines from BELLE OF ALTON. 1 aft stack
Launched: 1875, Carondelet, Mo.
Destroyed: 1877, Sept. 19, St. Louis docks, burned along side of
GRAND REPUBLIC while in for repairs.
Hull went to CAHRLES P. CHOUTEAU
Area: Lower Miss. R.
: Under Capts. Hicks and Grissom, Memphis-New Orleans trade.
Owners: 1876, Apr. St. Louis, David Powell purchased at U.S. marshal's sale.
1876, mid-May, St. Louis, Brown & Jones purchased at U.S. marshal's sale
for $13,000.
Later, sold to Capts. J. Frank Hicks and Alf Grissom
Captains: 1875, Jan, W. Dick Love
Comments: 1876, Jan. 26, below St. Louis, sank. thought to have hit
wheel shaft of ALLEGHENY, which sank there in 1857. Raised.
: 1876, 30 mi. above N.O. Caught in storm. Lost most of
superstructure furniture and outfit.
Name: CARRIE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 159' X 30' X 4.'
Power: 14's-4 ft., 2 boilers.
Launched: 1863, Vanport, Pa.
Destroyed: 1868, Apr. 14, near Indian Mission, Neb., snagged. She was
upbound with Govmt. supplies.
Area: Miss. and Mo. Rs.
During C. War, Evansville-Nashville
Owners: Capt. Willian J. Kountz and others.
Captains: Dan M. (Lonetree) Brady
1. Name: CARRIE
1870-?
1. Name: CARRIE
1874-1881
1. Name: CARRIE
1880-?
1. Name: CARRIE
1881-?92? out of Kansas City.
1. Name: CARRIE
1906-?
1. Name: CARRIE A. THORN
1871-?
1. Name: CARRIE B. SCHWING
1904-1912
1. Name: CARRIE B. SCHWING
1912-46
1. Name: CARRIE BROOKS
Type: Stern wheel wooden hull packet. Size: 140' X 29' X 5.'.
Power: 14's- 4' 7"., 3 boilers.
Launched: 1866, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1878, stripped for parts. Hull went to Sisterville, W. Va.
for Wharfboat.
Area: At first, Zanesville-Parkersburgh
1870, Zanesville-St. Louis with emigrants bound for Kansas.
Later, Pittsburgh-Zanesville
Briefly, Pittsburgh-Wheeling
Owners: 1878, control purchased by Capt. John A. Trimble
1878, May, sold to Capt William J. Kountz
Captains: 1866, James Darlington
Later in Pittsburgh-Wheeling runs, Harvy Darlington
Under Capt. Trimble, Pittsburgh-Gallipolis then Pittsburgh-Zanesville
1. Name: CARRIE BROWN
1890-1913
1. Name: CARRIE CALDWELL/CARRIE HOPE
1879-?
1. Name: CARRIE CONVERSE
1870-1872
1. Name: CARRIE HOPE. see CARRIE CALDWELL
1. Name: CARRIE JACOBS
1863-?
1. Name: CARRIE M. KRAFT
1882-?
1. Name: CARRIE POOL
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 118.7' X 21' X 3.7'
Launched: 1865, Evansville, Ind
Destroyed: 1870, Algiers, La. , burned
Area: 1866, New Orleans - Red R.
Owner: Had 4 or 5 owners including Red River Packet Company and
Capt. Noah Scovell
*1866, purchased by Capt. Robert Withers
1870, July 27 when burned, James M. Kane, New Orleans
Captain(s): 1866, J.F. Muse
1870, July 27 when burned, W.H. King
Comments: *Source Magic Cabin
1. Name: CARRIE S
1869-70
1. Name: CARRIE S. DOUGLAS
1883-?
1. Name: CARRIE V. KOUNTZ
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull freight boat. Size: 187' X 40' X 4.5'.
Power: Hartupe compound Engines, 12's-26's-5 ft., 3 boilers, each 36" X 26'
Launched: 1869, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1869, Mar. 28, Burned at fire at St. Louis docks.
Owner: Capt William J. Kountz and others.
Captain: Dan M. (Lonetree) Brady
Comments: Said to have one stack.
: Hull and machinery used on next CARRIE V. KOUNTZ (below)
1. Name: CARRIE V. KOUNTZ
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull freight boat. Size: 187' X 40' X 4.5'.
Power: Hartupe compound Engines, 12's-26's-5 ft., 3 boilers, each 36" X 26'
Launched: 1869, St Louis, Mo.
Destroyed: 1873, ?dismantled?
Area: Miss. R.
Eventually ran out of New Orleans to Red and Ouachita Rs.
Owner: Capt William J. Kountz and others.
Captains: 1871, Aug., pilot was Dave Hinter.
After rebuild, master, I. N. Van Hook
Comments: 1871, Aug. Snagged near wolf Island and sank near Cairo, Ill..
Rebuilt to carry cotton.
: 1873, Machinery went to E.O. STANARD
1. Name: CARRIE WILLIAMS
1867-74
Name: CARRIER
Area: 1844, was advertised by Capt. Tunstall to be going to depart Apr. 20th
for mouth of Swan Creek on White R.
Captains: Thomas T. Tunstall. of Jacksonport, Ark.
Comments: Source
1. Name: CARRIER
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 215' X 33'
Launched: 1855, Jeffersonville, Ind., by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1861, Sept. 12, St. Charles, Mo., lost.
Area: 1855, Council Bluffs and 2 trips to New Orleans
1856, Oct. St. Louis-Glasgrow
1858, May, 19, was at Dakota City. Dakota City Herald
1861, Feb., New Orleans-
Owners: 1855 built for Capt. Draffin who, after three trips, sold her for
$5,000 more than she cost.
Captain(s): 1855, Draffin
1856, William C. Postal
1858, Oct., McPherson, Henry
Comments: Also see the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
: 1858, Oct. 12, Penn's Bend on Mo. R., snagged.
1861, Feb. 21, Sank at Island 25, Miss. R. Raised.
1. Name: CARRIER
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 165.4' X 26.4' X 4.'.
Launched: 1884, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Area: 1884-85, Mo. R. *and possibly Osage R., Mo.
1885, went to Mobile, Ala.
1885, Oct., Alabama R.
Owners: early on, *Possibly Charles F. Lohman and his son Capt. Louis
Charles Lohman, Jefferson City, Mo.
Captains: 1885, Sept., Master, John Quill; clerk, H. Clay King
*This info from family records of Lee Lohman, GGG grandaughter
of Charles F.
Name: CARRIER, Originally the MATT F. ALLEN
1887-1900, Sept. 20
1. Name: CARROLL
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 185.7' X 31 X 6
Power: 13s- 4ft.
Launched: 1875, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1877, Apr. 16, Aubuchon's Woodyard, 50 mi. above
Ft. Randall, S.D., burned.
Owners: Was named for Matthew Carroll of the firm of Carroll & Steel
of Ft. Benton. Was this firm possibly the owner?
Captains: 1875, Mar. T.(Tim) B. Burleigh made boat's 1st trip direct to Fort Benton.
Was Capt. through 1876, May, at least
*1876, July, Amadee T. Papin
Comments: Boat made 9 trips to Montana.
: 1876, May 14, was first to arrive Fort Benton that year.
: * 1876, July 29, was loaded with cavalry & infantry, when they
fought a large contingent of Sioux at the confluence of the
Yellowstone & Powder Rivers.
Name: CASCADES
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Area: Columbia R.
Comments: 1952, a towboat.
1. Name: CASPIAN
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 248 tons
Launched: 1851, Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1854, Mar. 3, Red River, Snagged and lost
Area: 1851, New Orleans- Alexandria
1854, Red R. in Texas
Captain: 1851, Dunn, possibly Asa Dunn
1. Name: CASTLE GARDEN
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 162 tons.
Launched: 1853, McKeesport, Pa.
Destroyed: 1862, July 25, Mound City, Ill, Caught out and sunk.
Area: 1853, Pittsburgh-Louisville
1855, Tramp trade out of Pittsburgh
Captains: 1855: John S. Devinney
: 1960s, early, Thad L. Conant
Comments: 1862, Jan., Pittsburgh, in flood, broke loose from warf and floated
free-astray to Braden, Pa..
Name: CATARACT
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 283 tons.
Power: 21's- 7 ft., 3 boilers.
Launched: 1851, Brownsville, Pa. for Capt. E.W. Gould and C.S. Rodgers,
both of St. Louis.
Destroyed: 1859, dismantled.
Area: built for Ill. R. trade.
1857, The Diary of E.F. Beadle has her at Weston, Mo. Aug. 24.
Aug. 25, stopped at Levenworth, Ks. downbound and left at 5PM.
Aug. 27, stopped in Jefferson City, Mo.
Companies associated with: 1856, ran in Pacific Railroad Packet Line.
Owners: 1852, Capt. E.W. Gould and C.S. Rodgers
Captains: 1856, pilot was Capt. John P. Keiser at $1,000 a month.
1857, he was master pilot at $1,200 a month.
Name: CAYUGA
Name: CELEBRATION BELLE
Type: Ornamental sternwheel excursion boat Size: 189', 800 passengers
Launched: 1886, Pensacola, Fl.
Area: 1999, Moline, Ill.
Owner: 1999, Celebration Cruises
Captains: 1999, Scott Schadler, Joe Schadler
Comments: 1999, Attended Tall Stacks Celebration in Cincinnati.
Name: CENTRAL AMERICA see GEORGE LAW
1. Name: CENTRAL CITY
Type: A small boat carrying freight
Destroyed: 1884, night of July 12, run down by the CHARLES MORGAN.
No lives lost.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: CHALLENGE
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: CHALLENGE
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 147' X 39' X 4.5'
Launched: 1854, Shousetown, Pa.
Destroyed: 1860, Feb. 25, above St. Louis, snagged and lost.
Area: 1858, Pittsbutgh-St. Louis
Owners: Capt. Samuel C. Young
*Later, Capt. Horatio Nelson Crooks
Comments: primarily a freight boat.
: Mentioned in this Document
: This boat had double sternwheels.
Name: CHAMPION No 3
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 160' X 29' X 4.7'
Launched: 1856, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: After 1866, dismantled in St. Louis
Area: Used for harbor work for a time
Upper Miss. R.& Ohio R.
Owners: Originally by the Shinkle family, covington, Oh.
Later acquired by USQMD
1866, Jan. 26, sold to Capt Thomas Janney, New Orleans.
1870, In St. Louis was purchased by Capt. David Campbell and dismantled.
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson, shopkeeper,
Commerce Mo.
- Thursday Night, April 4th. 1861. "Business dull. Weather
cloudy. Steamboat Champion landed this morning about sunrise,
put off 21 sacks coffee, 5 bbls. & half bbls. molasses
for our firm. . . .
: See letter from Union soldier Also See
1. Name: CHAMPION No 3
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull ferry
Size: 98.9' X 25.7' X 3.5'
Power: Engines, 3-3/4's- 3-1/2 ft. One boiler, 44" X 18'
Launched: 1901, Mason City, W. Va./Middleport, Oh.
Destroyed: 1935, dismantled
Area: Pomeroy-Mason City before bridge was built
Later, Proctorville, Oh.
Owners: Owned and operated by J.F. Jividen and brother Charles
Name: CHAMPION
Area: 1897, Aug., Ohio R.
Comments: Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Aug. 18 1897
3. Name: CHANCE
Launched: 1840s? late?
Area: 1850s, early, U. Sacramento R., Calf.
Name: CHANCELLOR LIVINGSTON
Type: Paddlewheeler, Coal fired Size: 156' X 34' X 10-1/2'
Launched: 1816
Area: Hudson R.
Owner: Hudson River Steamboat Company
Comments: Was last Fulton/Livingston boat launched.
Comments: Source
Name: CHANCELLOR
Area: 1884, July, Ohio R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: CHANGE
Type: Size:
Launched: 1890's?
Area: Ohio R.
Comments:Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Aug. 18 1897
Name: CHARITON
Destroyed: 1837, Wrecked, Mo. R.
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
'Name: CHARLOTTE BOECKLER
Type: raftboat Size:
Launched: 1870s?
Area: Miss. R.?
Name: CHARON
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull ferryboat
Size: 110' X 30' X 3.4'
Launched: 1889, Brownsville. Pa. at Axton Yard
Destroyed: 1920s, Dam 23. hooked a mooring pin on outside wall. Wrecked.
Area: Bellaire-Brentwood
Owner: Bellaire, Brentwood & Wheeling Ferry Co.
1. Name: CHATTANOOGA/WYETH CITY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 162.17 tons
Built: 1878, Henry's Mills, Tenn.
Area: below Chattanooga on Tenn. R.
Comments: *1881, Oct., Arthur Hall, of Guntersville, engineer got his
lower extremeties severly scalded by one of the safety valves opening.
: cir. 1888 Novice pilot put her full steam against shore. Sank.
Was raised and rebuilt as the WYETH CITY
Name: CHATTANOOGA Originally the MEGIDDO
1904-21
Name: CHATTANOOGA STAR
Type: Sidewheeler replica Size:
Area: Miss R.
Captain(s): Mike and Pete Hosemann.
Comments: 10/18/98, The CHATTANOOGA STAR is on a 6 month educational
tour of southern rivers. Check on her progress at her:
Web Site:
Name: CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW
Name: CHEESEMAN
Comments:1862, April, Tenn. R., was under command of Union Gen. Wm. T. Sherman
Name: CHEROKEE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 377 tons
Launched: 1859, New Albany. Ind.
Destroyed: 1874, off the lists
Area: 1863: Coosa R. (Ga. and Ala.)
Comments: Source
Name: CHEROKEE/CHESTER
Type: Sternwheel, steel hull packet
Size: 216.4' X 33.9' X 6.'
Power: Engines, 17's- 7ft. four boilers each 40" X 24'
Launched: 1888, Dubuque, Iowa
Area: Built for St. Louis-Memphis trade
1894, made trip St. Louis-Shreveport with groceries and hardware
1897, was running St. Louis-Ill. R.
1907, June, entered St. Louis-Kansas City trade
1910-11, winter converted to three propelor vessel
1912, Mo. R.
* 1915, Kansas City on Mo. R.
Owners: cir 1906 sold to St. Louis & Chester Packet Company
Later sold to Kansas City Missouri River Navigation Company
Finally sold to Sugar Products Co., New Orleans
Captains: 1894, St. Louis-Shreveport trip, Henry Keith
1907, in St. Louis-=Kansas City trade, William L.Thompson
1912, W.L. Heckmann
Comments: 1910-11, winter converted to three propelor vessel in New Orleans
did not work well
1911, fall, conerted to two prop vessel
: * 1915 Had been converted to excursion boat and was operating in Kansas City
1920, converted into a barge in N.O. by sugar co.
Name: CHEROKEE
Launched: ?1900-1911?
Area: California Delta
Name: CHEROKEE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Area: Coosa R.
Comments: Source
Name: CHEROKEE CHIEF, originally the ATLAS
*Name: CHESAPEAKE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size, 172' X 24.5' X 10.1', 412 tons
Power: low pressure steamer.
Launched: 1838, Maumee, Ohio.
Area: Buffalo-Detroit
Captains: 1838 or so, Jones Worden
*Jones Worden's Steamboats and Steamboating Career by Frederick J. Worden
1. Name: CHESAPEAKE
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 151.8' 26' X 4.4
Launched: 1871, Irontown, Oh. at the M. Wise & Co.yard.
Construction supervised by Capt. Uriah B. Scott
Destroyed: 1887, Apr., at Pittsburgh's shore, hull holed by run-away wagon's tongue, sank.
Owners: When new, probably Capt. Uriah B. Scott and others.
1873, Apr. sold to Parkersburg &S Ohio River Transportation Company
Later purchased by shoe store owner Steve Ball
Captains: 1871, in Portsmouth-Guyandotte trade, Capt Uriah B. Scott
1873, Apr., E.B. Cooper Parkersburg-Huntington trade
1880, Edwin F. Maddy with W.A. and L.L Maddy as clerks, same trade
Later, Steve Thompson , John Brookhart, Wheeling-Marietta trade
Comments: 1876, fall, stranded high and dry on Sand Creek below Ravenswood.
: Eventually went to running excursions, Pittsburgh
1. Name: CHESAPEAKE See Post Card Above
Type: sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 188' X 26' X 5'
Power: Coal burner. 16's- 5 ft.. 3 boilers, ea. 40" X 24', 2 flues.
Wheels, 20', 15 arms, 10' buckets.
Launched: 1883, Harmar, Oh., Knox Yard
Destroyed: 1887, Mar. 26, New Madrid, Mo., burned
Area: 1883, Gallipolis-Parkersburg. Briefly, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
1884, went to Jacksonville, Fla. ran St. Johns R. to Palatka
and Sanford.
1886, Miss. R.
Owners: 1883-86, Built for Capt. Edwin F. Maddy and others
1886, sold at public auction to Capt. W.P(F?). Hall
Captains: 1883-86, Edwin F. Maddy
*1884, Capt. Cline
1886-87, when she burned, W.P. Hall
Comments: Had 36 staterooms, 40 electric lights.
: Was a coal burner.
: had swinging stages both fore and aft, a novelty
Name: CHESAPEAKE
Type: Size: small
Launched: 1913
Area: Chesapeake Bay to Delaware Bay
Name: CHESTER originally the CHEROKEE
Name: CHICU SAN Originally the PUTAH.
Name: CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL
Type:Side-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1825
Comments: first Steamboat to be placed in service between New York
and Troy.
Name: CHIEFTAIN
Launched: 1820's?
Area: 1831, Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Name: CHIPPEWA
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 160' X 30', 173 tons.
Power: 16's- 4 ft., 3 boilers.
Launched: 1857, Belle Vernon, Pa.
Destroyed: 1861, caught fire near Montana's Poplar R..
Passengers and crew got ashore and cast her adrift
before cargo of gunpowder blew.
Area: 1857, made 3 trips to St. Paul
1858-59, U. Mo. R.
Owner: 1860, American Fur Company
Captain(s): 1860, W.H. Humphreys
1861, La Barge, John
Companies associated with: 1857, Northwestern Line
Comments: 1860, One of two, first boats ever to make it to Fort Benton.
KEW WEST was the other.
W. H. Humphreys was Capt. onthat trip.
Comments: from Boone's Lick Heritage Quarterly.
: Mentioned in this Article
Name: CHIPPEWA FALLS
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1860s?
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: 1864, in Indian wars
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: CHITINA/ STARTED AS CHITTYANA
Type: Stern-wheeler
Size: length - 110' Width 23' Draft, 22"
Weight 70 Ton, double decker
Built by Joe Supple of Portland OR.
Launched: 1907, July, on Copper River, Alaska by Captain George Hill
Area: Copper and Chitini Rs, Alaska.
Owner: Copper River and Northwestern Railway
Captain(s): Hill, George
Comments: 1907, Feb.: Boat was hauled in pieces through Keystone Canyon
and over Marshall Pass and floated down the Tasnuna
River, in the dead of winter.
Comments: For her whole story, see Yukon River Boats
1. Name: CHRIS GREEN See Pic
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet Size: 132.4' X 26.4' X 4'
Launched: 1915, Pt. Pleasant, W. Va. Gardner Docks.
Destroyed: 1922, Nov. 4, Cincinnati, Burned in dock fire along with
TACOMA, ISLAND QUEEN and MORNING STAR. See Comments.
Area: 1915, Gallipolis-Charleston
1919, entered Cincinnati-Huntington trade
Owner: 1915-1922, Nov. 4, Greene Line Steamers
Captains: 1915-1919, Feb., Gordon C. Greene
1919-22, Nov. 4, Chris Greene
Comments: The wreck was raised and turned into towboat BEN FRANKLIN NO. 2 and
later JAYHAWKER
Name: CHRIS GREEN
1. Name: CHRIS GREENE (the 2nd one)
Type: Sternwheeler, steel hull, packet. Size: 189.2' X 42' X 6.2'
Power: 16's-6 ft. from TACOMA. 4 boilers.
Launched: 1925, Charleston w. Va. (hull), completed, Pt. Pleasant, W. Va.
for Greene Line Steamers Inc. under supervision of Capt.
Jesse P. Hughes
Destroyed: 1947, Feb.withdrawn from service
1950, Oct. 22, sold to Dayton Boat Harbor, Dayton Ky., and
converted a yacht harbor club boat.
Area: 1925, Cincinnati-Pomeroy-Charleston
1934-36, Cincinnati-Louisville
1950 - Dayton Ky.
Owner: Captain Gordon C. Greene and Carrie Greenwood (Greene Line Steamers)
1950 - ?Dayton Boat Harbor?, Dayton, Ky.
Captains: 1925- Chris Greene and later Volney (Stogey) E. White
Comments: used the whistle from HOMER SMITH.
Comments: 1925, Cincinnati, Backed into and sank the GREENWOOD.
3. Name: CHRISTIANA
Launched: 1860
Area: 1860-?85?, U. San Joaquin and Tuolumne Rs., Calf.
Owner: Ling Bros.
Name: CHRYSOPOLIS (Means "Golden City") / OAKLAND
Type: Side-wheeler Size: 245 X 40 ft., 1,000 Passengers
Launched: 1860, San Francisco, for $200,000
Destroyed: 1940, scrapped out then burned.
Area: Sacramento to San Francisco, California Delta
Owner: North, John
Captain and pilots: Capt. Whitney, James
Comments: until 1930, was ferry boat between San Francisco and Oakland.
: 1861, Dec. 31, Ran Sacramento to San Francisco, CA, 117 miles:
5 hrs, 19 mins 22.03 mph avg.
Name: CHRYSTENAH
Destroyed: went aground, abandoned.
Area: Hudson R.
Owner: Smith brothers of Nyack, NY
Comments: From site visitor:
Was disappointd not to see a picture of the boat CHRYSTENAH,
owned by the Smith brothers of Nyack, NY, on the Hudson River.
The boat was named for their mother, who was a member of the
Demarest family, one of the oldest Dutch families of NY and NJ.
The boat had an oil painting of Chrystenah displayed in the
salon, which was removed from the boat after it went aground
(I think around New Rochelle) and was probably abandoned.
I have the painting in my guest room.
Mary Ann Kaucher
Name: CINCINNATI
Launched: 1845
Area: Miss. R.
Captain(s): 1847 or so, Captain, William J. Kountz, Second Mate,
1848 or so, Peppers,George H.
1. Name: CINCINNATI
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet.
Size: hull, 220' X 30' X 6.'. Overall dimentions, 249' X 58'.
Power: 24's-7 ft., 4 boilers, each 40" X 28'. Wheels, 32' 8" w/ 11' 4" buckets
Launched; 1850, Freedom, Pa., Cahrles Graham, Jr. and Co.
Destroyed: 1856, Dismantled
Area: 1850, made Trip Pittsburg-Beaver, Pa.
Otherwise through 1855, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati with occasional
Louisville-St. Louis trips.
Owners: For a time ran under Pittsburgh & Cincinnati Line colors.
Captain(s): 1850 William J. Kountz
Later, John Birmingham and Hiram Kountz
Comments: stacks towered 84.7' from water, highest on any boat till then.
Had 52 rooms and 106 berths.
Name: CINCINNATI
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 276 tons.
Launched: 1951, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1853, May, Brazos, Tex. stranded.
Comments: wandered afar and was eventually lost by stranding at Brazos, Tex.
Name: CINCINNATI
Type: A James B. Eads gunboat
Launched: 1861
Destroyed: 1863, Apr. Union Gunboat sunk by 10 inch cannon while
attacking Vicksburgh during the battle of Vicksburg.
Comments: 1862, Confederate General Tilgham surrendered aboard
her at Fort Henry. Last boat to be sunk during the
Vicksburg Campaign.
Comments: From The Wheeling Register, Monday, March 31, 1879
Name: CINCINNATI, originally the FAVORITE
Ferryboat, Cincinnati, Oh. 1876-92.
1. Name: CINCINNATI/PRESIDENT
Type: sidewheel, steel hull packet/excursion boat/gambling boat/?hotel?
Size: When new, 285' X 45.6' X 7.3'
1933, entire superstructure rebuilt to 291.5' X 84' X 7.5', 3,100 Passengers
Power: engines, compound non-condensing, by Barnes, 22's 40's-9ft.
6 oil burning boilers
1978, converted to diesel, 3 Muray and Tregurtha, prop units, one
each side and one at stern delivering 2,000 hp.
Launched: 1924, Midland, Pa. by Midland Barge Co. (hull), completed at
Cincinnati, 1924. $417,000
Destroyed: As of 1999, Continues to operate, New Orleans.
Area: 1924-30, made Cincinnati-New Orleans Mardi Gras trips each year.
Principal business of boat was summer Louisville-Cincinnati packet trade
Owners: 1924, John W. Hubbard, Pittsburg
1933, sold to Streckfus Steamers
1981, sold to New Orleans Steamboat Company
1980 late, - 1992 or so, John Connelly, Pittsburgh businessman
LAter sold to Isle of Capri Casinos Inc.
1004 or so Printer David Campbell, Effingham, Ill, pruchased from Capri Casinos for 1 dollar.
Companies associated with: 1924- Operated by Louisville and Cincinnati
Packet Company until it ran on hard times,
then went to Streckfus Steamers.
Captains: Lax, Hilmar
For many years, Streckfus, Verne
Comments: Was first all steel excursion Steamer.
1928, May 24, collided with mv BELFONT. CINCINNATI's engineer,
Homer Johnson was killed.
1929, appeared for completion celebration for Ohio River locks.
: 1933 recieved entire new superstructure.
1942, July: ran Dubuque's last excursion before W.W. II.
: 1944, gards enclosed with glass
One source
: 1989, registered by the National Park Service as a National Historic Landmark.
: 1991, Apr 1, Davenport Iowa, opened as one of the first cambling boats in America
: Over time artist from Louis Armstrong to U2 performed on her.
: 2008, July, reported as being moved from Alton, Ill. to Metropolis, Ill to be set with wheels for a 1500 ft.
trip to a property where she will be restored.
Don't know what happened to those plans but now -
: 2008, Oct., presently being dismantled into 15 hugh pieces by an Alton, Ill.
shipyard to be reassembled and refurbished on land-locked Tower Lake, in St. Elmo, Ill.,
some 75 mi. inland where she will be used as a visitor attraction and hotel.
Campbell, still the owner, hopes to retain her Historic Registry even though she
will be fitted out with a water park and other attractions within.
Name: CINDERELLA
Launched: 1850'S?
Area: Ohio R.?
Name: CITY BELLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 215 tons.
Launched: 1854, Murraysville, W. Va.
Area: 1856-58, Galena-St. Paul
Later, Mo. R.
Captains: 1854, Kennedy Lodwick
1858, A.T. Champlin
1. Name: CITY BELLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 179' X 35' X 5.', 152 tons.
Launched: 1855, Paducah, Ky.
Destroyed: 1864, May 4, Red R. near Snaggy Point,
Was hit by shell from Rebel guns, which burst a boiler.
Capt. Tally was thrown into river and escaped to shore. Nearly
all hands were killed, as well as a number of soldiers.
Boat was pulled ashore by Rebels and burned.
Area: 1855 out of Memphis.
1864, Jan 24, arrived Memphis with 500 sick and wounded U.S. troops.
1864, March, Louisville-Mamphis
1864, Red River
Owners: 1861- end, was in USQMC service
Captains: 1864, Tally
Comments: was enroute to Alexandria with an Ohio Regiment when lost.
Name: CITY OF ALTON
Launched: 1860
Area: Miss R.
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson,
storekeeper, Commerce Mo.
- Monday June 24th, 1861. "Our town was surprised on
Saturday night by the arrival of Steamer City of Alton with
1200 soldiers. She landed about half past 11 o'clock at
night. I had not gone to bed on account of a party at
J. M. Jehlen's. It broke up about 11 o'clock and when I
came to the store I heard a steamer coming up and I awaited
its arrival for I was waiting for the Perry to ship Wm.
Burgesses goods and she came up without whistling. We still
Thought it was the Perry. I went down with my lantern and
I saw A.R. Newman come down from his store with a letter
to send to St. Louis and behold when she came in, we saw
it was a boat loaded with soldiers. As soon as the planks
were put out, they began to crowd off. Newman and I stood
close to the boat all the time they were coming off. Meanwhile
I noticed that two soldiers stood very close to us, one on
each side of Newman. When the horses began to come off,
they got so thick that we started to get out of their way.
I got up on the wood pile and Newman started to go around
the end of the wood pile, and the soldiers just laid their
hands on his shoulders and took him on the boat; they had
not more than done this when here came four or five
soldiers with M. Ellison and more prisoners. I stayed
around the warf until about 1 o'clock and I went home and
went to bed. The soldiers marched out for the camp but
found no men. They began to drop back about 9 o'clock
Sunday Night and about 10 o'clock on Monday they all got
in. They stayed asround till 12 o'clock awaiting dinner,
as they had no provisions on the boat for the reason that
they called away from Cairo on very short notice and only
brought provisions for about one day, thinking that they
could go in and take the Southern people that had formed
the company at Benton and get back in a day. A little
after 12 they all got on the boat and left for up the
river to meet a company of men that went up the river to
take a disunion flag that had been raised in the hills.
About morning they bid us adieu by firing a cannon three
times and playing fifes and drums, but before they left
their musicians went all around town and serenaded the
people at their houses that had been so kind as to feed
them. They praised the people of Commerce greatly and
particularly the ladies.
- Friday, July 12th, 1861. " . . . Soon after having
landed a regiment of troops at Cape Girardeau, the
City of Alton passed down this morning loaded with
soldiers.
- December, Sunday, 1861. " . . . About 2 o'clock this
evening I was sitting in the store when a Negro came
to the door and said 'the town is full of Seccessionists'.
I ran to the door when who should I see but Jeff Thompson
and about thrity or forty men. He immediately came into
the store and not waiting to be dinied commenced taking
all that was in shape of clothing, boots, etc., to the
amount of $300.00 and then said to his men to go into the
other store and take the ballance from him. They stayed
here about an hour when a boat came in sight, The "City of
Alton". They immediately hid themselves till the boat
came up and was almost against the shore befor she found
that Jeff was here. Some of the citizens informed her of
his presence and she began to back out and then commenced
shooting but the boat kept backing and they kept shooting
as long as she was in shooting distance. The boat went
back to Max Island and landed. The secessionists stayed
here about half an hour, after and left. Two or three
of the citizens got into a skiff and started for the boat.
She took them in and went by to Cape (Giradeau) as hard
as she could."
Name: CITY OF BATON ROUGE
Type: Size: approx. 250'
Launched: 1870s?
Area: Miss R.
Owner: Anchor Line
Captain and pilots: Capt. Bixby, Horace; Richie, George, pilot.
Name: CITY of BUFFALO
Size: 350', 2,026 tons
Type: Sidewheeler
Launched: 1857
Area: Great Lakes
Comments: Detailed description in this article
She was the last and largest of some 25 Palace Steamers built
on the Great Lakes.
*Name: CITY of CAIRO
Type: Sternwheeler, wooden hulled packet Size: 199 tons
Launched: 1856, Dyersburg, ky.
Destroyed: 1858, Apr. 12, Wabash R., Grand Chain, Ill. snagged and lost.
Area: 1856, Miss. R. New Orleans -Ouachita River to Camden
also ran Vicksburg-Yazzo R.
Owner:
Captain: 1856-58, Yocum, I.D.
Comments:
*Source: Way's Packet Directory, 1848 - 1994
*Name: CITY of CAIRO
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hulled packet
Size: 272' on deck X 41 (39' floor)
Power: 28's-8ft. 5 boilers. Paddlewheels, 32'dia. w/14'buckets
Launched: 1864, hull, Metropolis, Ill.; completed at St Louis
Destroyed: 1873, July, 7, Burned at New Orleans.
Area: 1864-71, St. Louis - Memphis
1871-73, Apr., St Louis - New Orleans
Owner(s): 1864, Memphis Packet Company
1871, Schultz, Capt. Charles S.
1873, June 23 - 1873, July 7, Fagan, W.
Captain(s): 1864, Riley, Robert K.
Comments: 1873, Apr., attatched by creditors. 1873, June 23, sold
to Fagan at N.O. U.S. Marshal's sale for $2,100.
*Source: Way's Packet Directory, 1848 - 1994
*Name: CITY of CAIRO
Type: Sidewheel wooden hulled packet
Size:271' X 44'(41' floor) X 8.5'
Power: 26's- 9 ft., 5 boilers. Paddlewheels, 34' dia. 15' buckets
Launched: 1882, Jeffersonville, Ind. at Howard Yard.
Destroyed: 1896, May 27, in great St. Louis Tornado.
Area: 1882 - 1896, usually St. Louis - Vicksburg
Owner(s): 1882, Anchor Line
Captain(s): 1882-96, Lightner, A.S.
Comments: Was awarded roof bell from EMMA C. ELLIOTT
Given by Anchor Line for making fastest run.
*Source: Way's Packet Directory, 1848 - 1994
*Name: 4th CITY of CAIRO/VICKSBURG
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hulled ferry boat
Size:117' X 27.4' X 3.4'
Power: 10" - 42", 1 boiler.
Launched: 1912, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Area: 1912-29, Cairo, Ill. and Paducah.
Owner(s): 1912, Miller, C.J. of Vicksburg
1929, Mississippi River Ferry Company
Comments: 1925 or 29, Renamed VICKSBURG, probably 1929.
*Source: Way's Packet Directory, 1848 - 1994
*Name: 5th CITY of CAIRO Originally the DAVID TIPTON
then the URSIE BOYCE
1. Name: CITY OF CHATTANOOGA
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 144' X 30'
Launched: 1892, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Destroyed: Ultimately sold to Paducah, Tenn. to become towboat WOODFOLK
Area: Chattanooga-St. Louis unproffitably
Captains: J.P. Kindrick
Comments: 1894, Sept or Oct-Jan.95, stuck high and dry on Tuscumbia Bar
: Parts of her came from towboat HERBERT
: Also See
1. Name: CITY of CINCINNATI
Type: Side-wheel wooden hull, packet
Size: 300' X 38' X 6'
Power: 26's X 10 ft. 6 boilers, each 44" X 28'
Launched: 1899, Jeffersonville, Ind. at Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1918, Jan., crushed by ice at Cincinatti docks.
Area: Ohio R., Louisville-Cincinnati trade
Owner: 1899, Louisville and Cincinnati Packet Company
Captains: 1899, Jack Lindenburn
Comments: Sister ship: CITY of LOUISVILLE (below)
: first whistle came from TELEGRAPH, but sounded too much like
the TELL CITY's. After 1907, was changed to whistle from
BONANZA.
Name: CITY of CLEAVELAND
Comments: Grand Salon
Name: CITY OF CLINTON SHOWBOAT
See OMAR
Name: CITY OF FLORENCE originally the SAM J. KEITH
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Launched, 1899, Gadsden, Ala.
Size: small
Area: Coosa R.
Comments: Source
1. Name: CITY OF IRONTON/ISSAQUENA
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Power: engines, 16's- 5 ft. from towboat KANAWHA
Launched: 1879, Ironton, Oh.
Area: Portsmouth-Huntington
Later, Cincinnati-Maysville
Then Cincinnati-Vanceburg under Morgan and Shedd
Owners: The Bay Line
Later, sold to Capts. Frank Morgan and Watt Shedd
1882, June sold to Vicksburgh & Greensville Packet Company
and renamed ISSAQUENA
Comments: Until renamed this boat had no Texas deck.
1. Name: CITY OF JEFFERSONVILLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull ferry boat
Size: 150' X 34' X 6.3'
Power: engines, 20-1/2's- 6 ft. Two boilers, each 44" X 26', from the Z.M. SHERLEY
Launched: 1891, Jeffersonville, Ind. by the Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1914, off the lists
Owners: Louisville and Jeffersonville Ferry Company.
Captains: 1901, Nick Durand
Name: CITY of KEITHSBURG
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Launched: 1864, Port Byron, Ill.
Built by Kahlke Bros, and John Theissen and designed for Fort Madison-Rock Island trade.
Destroyed: 1872, Nov. 25, above St. Louis, snagged and lost.
Area: 1864 - ?, Fort Madison-Rock Island
Owners: 1864 season, B.H Campbell of Galena and Capt. B.W. Davis of Rock Island
1864, at end of season was purchased along with the NEW BOSTON by The Northern Line
Which kept both boats in same service.
Captains: 1864 season, B.W. Davis
Comments: In Fort Madison-Rock Island trade this boat was partnered with the NEW BOSTON.
Name: CITY of KEY WEST
Type: Sidewheeler
Area: Potomic R.
Comments: From Site Visitor: "Looking for information on paddlewheelers
on the Patomac River and information on the sidewheeler
City of Key West" Zeke Miller
1. Name: CITY OF KNOXVILLE
Type: sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 122' X 22' X 3'
Launched: 1854, California, Pa.
Area: 1859 or so, White R., primarilly a mail packet from Jacksonport to Pocahontas.
Owners: When new, Tennessee & Georgia railboat Company
: later, Jean Webre, Ogene Dugas and A. Dugas
: 1859. Capt. James Timms
Captains: 1st was Joseph Jaques
: later, W.D. Terrybonne
: James Timms
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: CITY of LOUISVILLE See Post Card Pictures
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet
Size: 301' X 42.7' X 7.'.
Power: Engines, 30's- 10 ft. Eight Boilers, each 42" X 26'. Later only 7 boilers.
Launched: 1894, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1918, Jan. 18, Cincinnati at L&C wharf boat by ice
Area: Cincinnati-Louisville trade
Owner: Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Company
Captain: John Brennan then James Martin for 20 yrs. and finally Clarence McElfresh
Comments: Had 72 staterooms. Her sinking closed 87 years of
river trade between.
Sistership: CITY of CINCINNATI (above)
1. Name: CITY of MEMPHIS/CONSTITUTION/CITY of MEMPHIS
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 301' X 36' X 8'
Power: 32 1/2's-8 ft.. Six boilers, each 45" X 30 ft.
Launched: 1857, Monongahela, Pa. Hull by George Cunningham
Area: 1857, New Orleans - St. Louis
1862, New Orleans - St. Louis
Owners: 1857, Kountz, Capt. William J.
1862, Nov., Bofinger, Capt. John and others.
*At one time was under Atlantic and Mississippi Steamship Company banner.
Captains: 1857, Kountz, William J.
1860, Montgomery, J, Ed
1863, Nov., Bofinger, Capt. John and others.
Comments: Most of her cabin works were salvaged from the CHRYSTAL PALACE.
1864, spring, renamed CONSTITUTION, but change was dissalowed by U.S.
Customs and she reverted to being the CITY OF MEMPHIS.
Comments: At time Ft. Sumter was first fired on, she was laid up at
Mound City, Ill..
1862, April, became a hospital boat. See
:*From site visitor Lynn Cunningham
: See letter from Union soldier
Name: CITY of MEMPHIS - Originally the VERNE SWAIN
Launched: 1913 as the VERNE SWAIN
1. Name: CITY OF MOBILE
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At Montgomery Wharf
Photo Donated by Ken McCulloch
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 176' X 34' X 4.2'
Power: Engines, 13's- 15-1/2, two boilers, each 44" X 26'
Launched: 1898, Mobile, Ala.
Destroyed: 1916, July, Mobile, Ala. wrecked in huricane then dismantled
Area: Coosa R.
Owners: Operated under the Peoples Line
Captains: G. W. Quaries
1. Name: CITY of MONROE/HILL CITY/CORWIN H. SPENCER
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hulled packet. Later an excursion boat.
Size: 275' X 45' 8'
Power: 26's- 9ft., 5 boilers. Paddlewheels, 33' dia.
Launched: 1887, Howard Yard, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1905, Oct. 12, above Jefferson Barracks, Mo., burned
Area: Miss R.
Owner: 1887, Anchor Line
: 1898, Feb. 7, Sims, Capt. T.B.
: 1904, World's Fair Navigation Company
Captain(s): 1896, Howard, Ben
1898, Feb. 7 - Sims, Capt. T.B., Pilots
Grasty, Jim and Wadlington, T.B. (Trim)
1904, Brolaski, Harry
Comments: 1889, May 27, badly dammaged in Great St. Louis Tornado
Was rebuilt and renamed HILL CITY
1898, Feb. 7, went to U.S. Marshal's sale, bought by
Capt. Simms
1900, Nov., Sank below Memphis. Raised
1903, remodeled into excrusion boat, renamed CORWIN H. SPENCER
Name: CITY of MUSKOGEE/LORAINE
Size: 125'
Launched: 1908, July, by Howard Yard. Cost, $15,000
Area: Ark.R.
Owner: 1908, Arkansas Navigation Company
Captain and pilots: Sam Clemens was pilot at one time.
Comments: Credit
: 1918, renamed LORAINE
1. Name: CITY OF NAUVOO
Type: Sternwheel, woodenhull ferry boat
Size: 89' X 21' X 3.6'
Launched: 1885, Rock Island, Ill.
Destroyed: 1943, laid up
Area: Nauvoo-Montrose, I for 56 years, a record.
Comments:
1. Name: CITY OF NEW ALBANY/NEW IDLEWILD/SPREAD EAGLE/CAPE GIRARDEAU
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 255' X 35' X 6.'
Power: 20's-7 ft., 3 boilers, each 42" X 28'
Launched: 1892, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard.
Destroyed: 1916, Oct 21, Fort Gage, below St. Louis, sunk by a storm.
Area: 1892, Louisville-Evansville trade
1893- St. Louis-Cape Girardeau trade
1897-1910, St. Louis-Alton-Grafton trade
Owners: 1892-93, Louisville & Evansville Packet Company.
1893-94 T.J. Moss Tie Company,
1894-97 Eagle Packet Company
Captains: 1894, for Eagle Packet Company, Byrd Burton;
pilot, Johm N. Hamilton
1916, when sunk, William H. (Buck) Leyhe
Comments: equipment came from the JAMES GUTHRIE
: 1893, renamed NEW IDLEWILD
: 1897, renamed SPREAD EAGLE
: 1910. renamed CAPE GIRARDEAU
Name: CITY of NEWARK Article
Destroyed: By fire
Area: Eastern river
Name: CITY OF PARKERSBURG, originally LIBERTY
1. Name: CITY OF PITTSBURGH
Type: sidewheel wooden hulled packet.
Size: 292.7' X 48.8'. Overall width, 79' 5"
Power: 26s- 10 ft., 3 Sotch boilers, each 166" X 14-1/2 " long.
Had nine 3-1/2" return flues.
1900, Boilers were replaced by 6 Western type, ea 44" X 22' long.
Wheels: 32' dia. with 14-1/2' buckets
Much equepment was from CITY OF NEW ORLEANS
Launched: 1899, Harmar, Oh at Knox Yard.
Destroyed: 1902, Apr.20, near Kentucky of Ohio R. in the Grand Chain
above Dam 53, burned. 60 lives lost including
Capt. Sylvester Doss the pilot and cub pilot Tom Smith.
Area: First round trip, Pittsburgh-New Orleans.
1899 and 1900, Pittsburgh-Louisville trade.
Ran Cincinnati-Louisville briefly.
Later ran Cincinnati-Louisville trade.
Owners: When new, Capt. John M. Phillips, Pittsburgh; Dana Scott, Zanesville;
George Wallace, McConnelsville; Charles Beckwith, Malta and A.L.
Brahm, Pittsburgh.
Comments: boat had several misshaps befor finally burning.
: See article, March 1968 issue S&D Reflector for in depth article on
boat and her demise.
: Mentioned in this article
1. Name: CITY OF PLATTSMOUTH/VIENNA
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 89.6' X 24' X 2.3', 73 tons.
or 92.6' X 24' X 3.2', Way's has conflicting info
Power: Engines, 8's- 14", 1 boiler
Launched: 1879, Plattsmouth, Neb.
or 1883 at Herman Mo. Way's has conflicting info
Destrroyed: 1889, Mo. R., 1/2 mi. below New Haven, Mo. Snagged and lost.
Area: Mo. R.
Owners: when snagged, E. Schleff and others
Pilots: When snagged, Henry Zeiblin
Comments: renamed VIENNA a year or so after launch.
: Part of cargo was salvaged
1. Name: CITY OF PORTSMOUTH
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Launched: 1873, Cincinnati, Oh.
Area: When new, out of Portsmouth
Destroyed: 1877? dismantled sometime after being caught in ice-flowing to Cincinnati.
1874, went to Cincinnati-Augusta-Higginsport trade
Owners: Built for Capt William Stricklett
1874, sold to the White Collar Line
Captains: 1874, S.W. Morgan
Name: CITY of QUINCY
Launched: 1860s? early
Area: 1864, U. Miss. R.
Owner: 1864, Northwestern Union Packet Company
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: CITY OF ST. LOUIS
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: Length: 300'; Width: 49'; Draft: 8.6'
Launched: 1883 at Jeffersonville, Id. by Howard Yard For
Anchor Line.
Destroyed: 1903, Oct. 29: Burned at dock at Carondelet, Mo
Area: Miss. R.
Owner:1883: Anchor Line
1898: Throgenan, Capt. W.H. bought her at marshal's auction
in St. Louis for $19,050.
???? - 1899: Columbia Excursion Co.
1899 - 1899: James M. Grasty
1903: McGrasty tried to sell her to New York Home Oil Co., but
sale was stopped and the U. S. Marshals sold her to Attorney
T. Marshal Miller for $3,125.
Captain: 1883: O'Neal, Capt. James
Comments: 1899 - 1903, early: Ran harbor excursions in New Orleans
1901, May: Pres. McKinley road aboard her.
1903: laid up at Carondelet, MO. where she burned at
the dock.
????: Anchor Line sold her bell to Frank Ellison.
It was placed on the QUEEN CITY.
Name: CITY of ST. PAUL, originally the MOSES McLELLAN
1855-??
1. Name: CITY of SAVANAH
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 186' X 31' X 5.'
Power: 16's -6 ft. 3 boilers, each 42" X 22'. Paddlewheel, 20'
Launched: 1889, Jeffersonville, Ind. Howard Yard.
Destroyed: 1898, Mar. 9, Memphis warf, burned.
Owners: St Louis and Tennessee River Packet Company
Chartered to: 1895, Sept., Lee Line, out of Memphis
Captains: Acquired by Capts. A.E. & L.P. Cummings to run Memphis-Vicksburg.
At one time, possibly, Moses Kirkpatrick.
Comments: 1897, Sept. 18, Shiloh Landing, 60 mi. above Vicksburg. Was Raised.
1. Name: CITY of SAVANAH
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 200' X 36' X 6.'
Power: 17'S -7ft., 3 Boilers, each 44" x 22'
Launched: 1902, Jeffersonville, by Howard Yard.
Destroyed: 1911, Dec. 5, Dog Tooth Bend, Miss. R., sank. Some 22 mi.
above Cairo, Ill..
Owners: St Louis and Tennessee River Packet Company
Name: CITY of SAVANAH Photo of one of the above boats
Name: CITY of VICKSBURG
Type: Side-wheeler Size: 300'?
Launched: Howard shipyard of Jeffersonville, Ind.
Name: CITY of WHEELING
Launched: 1853, at Wheeling, W. Va by the Phillips Works (H.W. Phillips)
Destroyed:
Area: Ohio R.
Owner: Built by Capt. John McLure, Jr.
Captain(s): 1853 or so, Mate, Peppers, George H.
Companies Associated With: Union Line
Comments: Poster/Flyer
Comments: From WHEELING INTELLIGENCER, June 24, 1951
Comments: From The Wheeling Register, Monday, March 31, 1879
1. Name: CITY of WHEELING/HARRY LEE
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 169.3' x 34.4' x 4.8'
Launched: 1899, Claringron, Ohio at the Mozena Yard
completed at Wheeling.
Destroyed: 1914, Mar. 19, Memphis, burned.
Power: Engines, 16s - 6ft., 3 boilers, each 42" X 22ft.
Engines and Boilers came from CITY OF SAVANNAH.
Area: Constructed for short trade out of Wheeling, however -
Owners: was soon purchased by Lee Line Steamers and
Renamed HARRY LEE.
Name: CITY OF WINONA/W. W. See Post Card Page
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 137' X 29.1' X 4.'
Power: Engines, 13's- 5 ft.
Launched: 1882, Dubuque, Iowa
Destroyed: 1922, spring, Brush Creek Island, Ohio R. broadsided by high swells, sank
Area: After rename, Davenport-Clinton trade for a while
While with Streckfus, U. Miss. R.
1917, excursions, Nashville, Tenn.
1920 under Klein, barging pipe , U. Ohio R.-Lower Miss. R.
1921 towing
Owners: at first, Youmans Bros., and Hodgins, Winona, Minn.
1905, Capt. John Streckfus
1917, purchased by Capt Frank T. Rounds, Owensboro, Ky.
1920, Boat broker John F. Klein
1921, spring, purchased by Capt Ralph Emmerson Gaches
Comments: built as a raft boat by Youmans Bros., and Hodgins, Winona, Minn.
1905, Streckfus rebuilt and renamed her W.W. after Capt. Walter Wisherd
Name: CITY of WORCHESTER
Launched: 1880s?
Area: Miss. R.
Name: CLAIRMONT See HELEN E Source
Name: CLAIRE E
Type: Sternwheeler, Towboat Size: small
Launched: 1926
Area: Present: Muskinfum R.,Marietta, OH
Owner: Latest known: Gene and Claire Fitch
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: "The Claire E. is just a couple of yards away from the
W. P. Snyder jr. on the Muskingum River in Marietta.
Built in 1926 the former towboat Claire E. is said to
be one of the first towboats to be converted to a home.
Gene and Claire Fitch purchased her in 1965, converted
her and then lived on the boat."
© Copyright by Franz Neumeier
Name: CLARA
Comments: 1856, late Feb, Torn from docks and swept downstream in
ice flow during Great Ice Gorge at St. Louis. Badly
damaged.
Name: CLARA CROW
Launched: ?1870'S, early?
Area: 3. 1871, California Delta, upper San Joaquin R.
Name: CLARA HINE
Launched: 1850s or 60s?
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: CLARA S
Launched: 1877, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1883, Dec. 27, Tehula Lake, snagged and sunk.
Area: 1878, New Orleans-Ouachita R.
Captains: 1877, Master, William Wenzel
1878, May, Louis Ranson
Name: CLAREMORE QUEEN
Comments: Fictional name given to the LEADER for
the filming of Will Rogers movie Steamboat Round The Bend.
Source
1. Name: CLARION
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 73 Tons
Launched; 1851, Spring, Mononfahela, Pa.
Destroyed: *cir. 1860, St. Paul Levee, sank.
Area: At first, Pittsburgh - Zanesville
Later, Pittsburgh - West Newton and up Youghiogheny R.
Later, Three trips a week, Pittsburgh-Kittanning-Catfish
1853-57 or so, St. Paul R. trade
Owners: Built for Capt. Martin Millinger
*At one time, Captain Humbertson
1853-57, * Capt. Oliver Keep and Capt. John C. Hoffman
Captains: A frist, Jesse White
1853-57, *Oliver Keep and John C. Hoffman
Comments: Took barge carrying B&O Railroad steam engine "George Washington"
to Wheeling. Engine was landed on shore near Belmont Mills
with block and tackle. This was the first steam engine
to come to Wheeling.
: *1857, Apr. 13, was second boat out of St.Paul.
: Her whistle was reported to be so large as to make her topheavy.
* Information supplied by site visitor Lil Heselton.
Name: CLARKSVILLE
Launched: 1839 or so, Wheeling, W. Va.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING INTELLIGENCER, June 24, 1951
Name: CLARA FISHER
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1840s, late?
Comments: 1848, was at Cincinnati's levee.
Name: CLAY
3. Name: CLEOPATRA
Launched: 1850's early
Area: 1854-56, Sacramento R. Calif.
Owner(s): 1856, California Steam Navigation Company
Name: CLERMONT, Originally called the "Experiment". Also refered to as the NORTH RIVER
Type: Sidewheel and sails.
Size: 149' x 18' x 7' (original size was 133' long-then modified)
Launched: 1807
Area: Lower Hudson R., Albany - New York City
Owner: Hudson River Steamboat Co.
Captains: Andrew Brink, Bartholomew, Artur Helme Roorback
Comments: from Boone's Lick Heritage Quarterly.
: Her conception and first voyages
: Named for Chancellor Livingston's home, Clermont. The
Chancelor supplied the funds to build the boat.
: See Model
Name: CLERMONT
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 79 tons
Launched: 1863, New Richmond, Oh.
Destroyed: 1867, Mar. 8 near Helena, Zurdette Chute, snagged, turned turtle, lost.
Area: White R.- New Orleans
Owners: At first, Capt. Irwin.
1864, Mar. 15, Irwin sold to Capt. Uriah B. Scott for $20,000
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: CLEVELAND
Type: Sidewheeler
Cost: boat: $22,500 Boilers and engines: $50,000
Launched: 1837
Area: Great lakes
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: CLIFFORD B. SEAY
Area: 1890s, Coosa R. (Ga. and ALA.)
Captains: At one time, Samuel A Cosper
Comments: Source
Name: CLIFTON
Type: 1863, Galveston, Tex., Union Gunboat
Comments: 1863, Sept. 1, Galveston Bay, Tex., Confederate cannon destroyed her boilers.
: Source
1. Name: CLIFTON
Type: Sidewheeler/ wood hull
Size: Length: 182'; Width: 36'; Draft: 6'
Launched: 1864, Cincinnati
Destroyed: 1869, burned at Cincinnati docks. Gunpowder magazine
exploded. Took several other boats with her.
Area: Memphis to Cicinnati
Owner: Capt. George D. Hoople and others
Captain: Hoople, George D.
Stine, Frank
Comments: Ran under Memphis and Cincinnatti Packet Co. colors under
Capt. Frank Stine.
Collided with The ROSE HITE and had to be towed back to
Louisville by the TARASCON.
1868, May 2: Burst starboard steam line. Dammaged cabin
floor. No serious injuries.
1869, May 12: She burned at Cincinnati docks. Gunpowder
magazing exploded. She took several other packets
with her.
1. Name: CLIFTON/OHIO
Type: sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 252' X 39' X 6'.
Power: engines, 20's- 7 ft. 3 boilers, each 47" X 28', six 10" flues.
Launched: 1879, Cincinnati, Oh., Cincinnati Marine Ways Co.
Destroyed: 1881, Jan. 20, Ky. R., sunk by ice. Raised and rebuilt into the OHIO
Owners: David Gibson, Capt. Wash Honshell, J.N. Willianson, T.N. Johnson and others.
Associated with: Operated in the Pittsburgh & St. Louis Packet Company
Name: CLINTON
Launched: 1828 in Wheeling, W. Va.
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: CLIPPER
1840-43
1. Name: CLIPPER
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 173' X 22'4" X 4' 8"
Power: Single compound engine, 16", 32"-6'. 2 boilers, later 3.
Launched: 1843, Pittsburgh, Pa
Destroyed: 1850, out of service.
Area: Pittsburgh-Cincinnati until outclassed by better boats.
Then tramped.
Owners: Capt. Horatio Nelson Crooks, with
*Thomas K. Litch and **Ezra Porter.
Captain: Horatio Nelson Crooks
Comments:*Thomas K. Litch was builder of the engine.
**Ezra Porter ran the boat yard at Shousetown, Pa.
: Was first western steamboat to have compound engines.
These engines became known as "Clipper Engines"
Name: CLIPPER
1859-66
Name: CLIPPER
1865-65
Name: CLIPPER
1867-82
Name: CLIPPER
1880- still active 1886, New Orleans
1. Name: CLIPPER
Type: Probably a sternwheeler, sawmill boat.
Launched: 1888, Hays Landing, W. Va. on Ohio R.
Area: Tenn. R.
Owners: variously owned, but for a time by Doss Baker, Clifton, Tenn.
Comments: eventually became 1916 CLIPPER. (see below)
: This is more than likely the same boat as the 1888 SAWMILL CLIPPER
1. Name: CLIPPER
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull Packet. Size: 135' X 23' X 5.'
Power: 8's-42" stroke. 1 boiler, 48" X 18'
Launched: 1916, Slidell, La.
Destroyed: 1928, Mar. New Orleans, in spectacular fire.
Area: 1916, Black and Ouachita Rs.
Owners: Carter Bros., New Orleans
Comments: Boat originated as the 1880 SAWMILL CLIPPER above.
Got new hull in 1916 and was extensively rebuilt,
probably using much equipment from 1888 SAWMILL CLIPPER (Above).
1. Name: CLIPPER No. 2
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 210 X 28.9 X 6.
Launched: 1846, Shousetown, Pa.
Destroyed: 1854, dismantled
Power: Compound Engines, 16's, 32's- 7 ft.
Area: Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
Owners: Capt. Horatio Nelson Crooks, George Black, Robert S. Hays,
Thomas S Clarke, William Thaw, William Bigham, Edwin R. Wells,
Thomas K. Litch, Alex Miller, and David Holmes.
Captains: Later, Pres Duvol, John Shouse.
Comments: Was the first double engine compound steamboat on western waters.
These engines became known as "Clipper Engines"
: Capt. C.W. Batchelor was pilot on her for three seasons.
Said she was hard to steer. Finally got off "to go home and die", which he didn't.
: Engineer Sam Young said she was hard to keep steam up on.
Name: COAPAH
Launched: 1850s, early.
Area: Colorado R.
Owner: Johnson, George
Name: COCOPAH
Name: COLONEL
Type: Sternwheel excursion boat Size: 152', 730 passenger
Launched: 1985, Escatawpa, Miss.
Area: 1999, Galveston, Tex.
Captains: 1999, Troy Manthey, Joy Manthey
Comments: 1999, Attended Tall Stacks Celebration in Cincinnati.
*Name: COL. A. MACKENZIE/DAVID TIPTON/URSIE BOYCE/CITY of CAIRO (the 5th.)
Type: Sidewheel snag-boat/1923, became excursion boat
Size: 160' X 33' X 5'
Launched: 1900, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: ?1930s?
Area: 1900, U. Miss. Miss. R.
1923, Memphis - White R. trade
192?4?, Missouri R.
Owners: 1900 - 1920, U.S. Corp of Engineers
1920, Katz, Meyer and Kline, John F.
1923, late, Peel and Bachelor (?Related to?), both Memphis R.R. men
192?4?, under charter to Andrew J. Franz to tramp the Missouri R.
192?, Ralphe, F.X. of Hastings, Minn.
Captains: 1900 - 1904, Sept. 22, Tipton, David
190?4? - 1920, Martin, Frank
192?4?, Master, Oakley Doolan; Capt.,Friemonth, Capt. Gerald H.;
Comments: 1904, Renamed DAVID TIPTON in honor of that captain, who
died at her wheel.
192?, Renamed URSIE BOYCE
1923, late, Renamed URSIE BOYCE
192?4?, Renamed CITY of CAIRO (the 5th one)
1924 or 5, tramped up to Jefferson City. One of the few
side-wheel excurssion boats to ply the Missouri R.
192?, Sank while laid up at Alton Slouth
192?, F.X. Ralphe took her to Mound City for repairs
where she again sank and was lost.
Name: COLONEL CROSS
Launched: 1840"s?
Area: 1846, Rio Grande R.
Owner: U. S. Army or Capt. Mifflin Kenedy?
See comments.
Captain(s): King, Richard
Comments: Transported General Taylor's troops and supplies
The source below does Not make it clear whether the Army or
Captain Kenedy owned this boat.
Comments: Source Article
1. Name: COLONEL CROSSMAN
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 200' X 38' X 6.'.
Power: 24's-7 ft., 3 boilers, each 46" X 26'.
Launched: 1857, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1858, Feb. 2, New Madrid, Mo., exploded boilers. 14 lives lost.
Area: Louisville-New Orleans.
*1857, Left St. Louis for a single trip up Mo. R. to St Joseph.
Captain: Yore, first trip.
Comments: Info below from Diary of E.F. Beadle.
1857, Mar. 20, left St. Louis for Mo. R.
Mar. 23, Stopped 7 miles above Jefferson City to wood up.
Had collision with NEW LUCY, also wooding up,
damaging that boat's pilot house.
Mar. 28, arrived at St. Joseph, Mo.
July 16, arrived up to Omaha.
Name: COL. GUSS LYNN
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 132' X 25.7' X 2.8', 82 tons.
Launched: 1959, California, Pa.
Destroyed: 1860, Apr. several mi. below Sioux City, Iowa,
Henry Chattillion Bend, snagged and lost.
Area: U. Miss. and Mo. Rs.
Owner: C. P. Budd, St. Louis, Mo.
Captain: Ben F. Beasley
Name: COLONEL HOOKER
Type Sternwheel wooden hull snagboat/packet
Area: 1881, Neches R. Tex. for one season as cotton packet
Comments: Was an old Calcasieu R. snag boat
: See source Article
Name: COLONEL LOWELL
Type: Confederate Cotto-clad Size:
Launched: 1860s?
Destroyed: 1862?, June 6, rammed and sunk in battle
Area: Miss R.
1. Name: COL. MORGAN
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 83 tons.
Launched: 1853, Brownsville, Pa.
Area: upper Miss. R.. Was a regular at St. Paul, 1855-58.
Name: COLORADO, might be 2. the other a Stern-wheeler
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1850s, early
Area: Mo. R./ Colorado R.
Owner: Johnson, George
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: 1865, At Omaha docks with supplies for building
railroad.
Name: COLUMBIA
Type: Stern-wheeler, Size: 90 X 16
Launched: 1850
Area: Columbia R. Astoria to Portland. *Possibly to Panama
Captains: *1853, Dec., Doll
Comments: *Source
Name: COLUMBIA (Originally the CAPITOL CITY)
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size as COLUMBIA, 156' x 24.2' x 4'
Rebuilt as COLUMBIA: 1893, Pt. Pleasant, W. Va.
Destroyed: 1908, Mar. 25, 5 AM, hit lock wall at Damn 18, lost. No lives lost.
Power: As COLUMBIA, Engines, 12's- 4 1/2 ft., 2 boilers, each 36" X 22'.
Area: at first, Charleston-Galliposis R.
1905, Marietta - Pt. Pleasant, towing owner's showboat.
Owners: 1899 - 1901, Kanawha Navigation Company.
1901, went to Charleston & Gallipolis Packet Company.
1902, June 28, sold entire to H.W. Senz, Malden, W. Va.
2 days later sold to Montgomery & Gallipolis Packet Company.
1905, Feb. 1, purchased entire by Capt. E.E. Eisenbarth.
Captains: At first, Miller Burdette
1904, Mar. 25, A.S. Leash, Red House, W. Va.
Comments: 1904, Mar. 25, wind blew her into a rock. Sank. Raised.
: Whistle went to HELEN LANE
Name: COLUMBIA
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet/excursionboat
Size: 166.5' X 33.6' X 5.'
Power: Engines, 14's- 6 ft. Two boilers
Launched: 1897, Clinton, Iowa
Destroyed: 1918, July 5, Pekin, Ill., snagged in fog. 89 lives lost.
Area: 1912-18, excursions on Ill. R.
Owners: Built for W.J. Young & Co., Clinton, Iowa
1905, Mar. purchased by Capt. Walter Blair and others
1912, Jan., sold to Capt. H.F. Meld, Peoria, Ill for $14,500
Captains: 1905, S.R. Dodds became master.
Comments: 1905, winter, Capt. Blair removed 10 forward staterooms
to make an excursion boat of her.
: 1907, Sept., chartered to participate in Roosevelt Parade, Keokuk-Memphis
Name: COLUMBIA QUEEN
Type: propeller driven steamboat style overnight cruise boat
Launched: 2000 Leevac Shipyards, Inc., Jennings, LA,
completed at Cascade General, Inc., in Portland, Or.
for Delta Queen Steamboat Co.
Size: 218' x 66', 1,599 tons. 81 passengers in cabins.
Owners: 2000- 2001, Delta Queen Steamboat Co.
2005 - ?, Great American River Journeys Co.
Seattle Office
2101 4th Avenue, Suite 2200
Seattle, WA 98121
Phone (206) 388-0444
Fax (206) 388-0445
Toll Free 800-901-9152
Comments: Though she has no paddlewheel, everything else about this boat
is truly steamboat style.
Name: COLUMBIA GORGE
Type: diesel-electric Sternwheeler
Destroyed: Still afloat?
Source
3. Name: COLUSA
Launched: 1850's early
Area: 1854-56, Sacramento R. Calif.
Owner(s): 1856, California Steam Navigation Company
Name: COLUMBUS
Launched: 1830s
Area: Misss. R.
3. Name: COMANCHE
Launched: 1850s? Early?
Destroyed: 1853, Suisun Bay, Calf. Run down and sunk by the JOHN BRAGDON
Area: 1850s, early California Delta
Name: COMET
Type: Size: small
Launched: 1812, Approx., by Fulton, Robert and Livingston, Robert
Owner: Mr. Bell
Comments: Source
Name: COMET
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 25 ton
Launched: 1813, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1814, dismantled because she was too deep and slow for
Miss R.
Area: N. O. to Natchez
Owner: French, Daniel, possibly funded whole or in
part by Capt. Abraham Kimber, Brownsville
Captain: Capt. Henry Shreve
Comments: 1814, set record for up-river trip between N.O. and
Natchez at 5 days 10 hrs.
: see Article
: Also See
Name: COMET No. 3
Comments: Credit
Comments: Made run N.O. - Natchez 1814, 5/10/0
Name: COMET
Type: Sternwheeler Size: 60' X 12'
Power: 60 hp boiler, and two 20 hp engines
Launched: 1908, July 4
Destroyed: 1908? tied up at Green River City, Co., the engines
removed, and the old hulk finally floundered there.
Area: Green River, Colorado
Owner: Green River Navigation Company
Captain: H. Larsen
Comments: Source
Name: COMMODORE PREBLE
Launched: 1840s? mid?
Area: Originally, Long Island Sound, then California Delta
Name: COMMODORE VANDERBILT
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1840s?
Area: Eastern Boat
Owner: Vanderbilt, C.
Comments: Lost race with OREGON
Name: COMMONWEALTH
Type: Side-wheeler Size: 456'
Launched: 1908
Destroyed: Post 1937
Area: Long Island Sound
Owner: New Haven Railroad
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: Was worlds longest and at $2,000,000 the most costly
boat when launched.
Comments: See this web site: Fall River and Providence Steamboat Company
*Name: COMMONWEALTH
Type: Sidewheel steel hull Excursion boat
Size: 455' 2" X 55', BWL (94'7" over guards)
Power: a 12,000 Hp compound inclined engine with feathering wheels.
Turbine and propellers were considered, but rejected for the
advantages of sidewheels.
Launched: 1907, October 12, Delivered for service June 23, 1908
Destroyed: Post 1937
Area: Long Island Sound
Owner: New Haven Railroad
Comments: Was worlds longest and at $2,000,000 the most costly boat
when launched.
: Built for night service between New York and Fall River with
1703 berths.
: Forced air draft for boilers supplied ventilation air for
first class cabins.
: Outfitted with electric lighting, pressurized fire hoses and
thermostatically controlled heat.
: Interior furnished in mixture of French, Italian Renaisance
and Venetian/Gothic styles.
: During speed trials maximum speed was 23.09 mph.
* All the above data is gleaned from a report read at the 16th
general meeting of SNAME in New York in November, 1908.
Name: CONDOR
Launched: 1880's, early
Area: Miss and Ohio Rs.
Captains: 1881, pilots F.M. Heritage and David Darst
Name: CONESTOGA
Type: Side-wheeler
Launched:1850s?
Area: Ten. R.
Captain and pilots: Capt. Phelps, Commander
Comments: Originally a packet, was turned into a gunboat for
Union Navy during Civil War.
1. Name: CONFIDENCE
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 139 tons.
Launched: 1845, West Wheeling, Oh., Garden Yard (hull).
Completed at Wheeling.
Destroyed: 1849, Nov. 16, Big Bone Island, Oh. R., collided
with the BROOKLYN. Sank along Ky. shore.
Area: 1845-47, Galena - St. Louis
1849, Louisville - St. Louis
Owners: 1847, Miller&bower;, Hannibal, Mo.
Captains: 1848, Julian H. Lusk
1849, McGuire
Comments: 1847, Sept. 13, Collided with WARD BATES.
Sank with load of groceries. Was raised.
3. Name: CONFIDENCE
Launched: 1840's late? Size: 377 tons.
Area: 1850s, early, Sacramento R. Calif.
Owner(s): 1856, California Steam Navigation Company
Name: CONGRESS
Launched: 1822, Wheeling, W. Va. by either the Bell Yard or the Patton Yard
Area: Ohio R., Miss. R.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Engines and machinery probably by T. Sweeney & Son Foundry
This boat? . . .
Made run Louisville - St. Louis 1842, 2/1/0
Made run Louisville - Cincinnati 1843, 0/12/20
Comments: More notes,
Name: CONNECTICUT
Type: side-wheeler
Area: Eastern boat
1. Name: CONNECTICUT
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 248 tons.
Launched: 1848, Shousetown, PA.
Destroyed: 1852, Oct. 29, President's Island, Miss. R., stranded and lost.
Owners: *Elli Mills and Capt. Herman Price
Captains: *Herman Price
Comments: *Source
3. Name: CONSTELLATION
Type: side-wheeler
Launched: 1840s, late?
Area: 1840s, late, Sacramento R., Calf.
Name: CONSTITUTION
Comments: From site visitor
Upon review of the "...History of the Missouri River" I find a mistake
repeated, again.
The INDEPENDENCE was NOT the first steamboat into the Missouri River as
the history books tell us. I have found evidence that the first was the
CONSTITUTION in October of 1817. This steamboat was only a couple of
months behind the Pike in arriving at St. Louis and the Constitution sold
tickets for an excersion to Bellefontaine. Although Bellefontaine
was only 8 miles above the mouth of the Missouri, I consider it far
enough for the CONSTITUTION to claim to be the first steamboat into the
Missouri River.
This information can be verified via the Missouri Gazette of October 4,
1817.
Name: CONSTITUTION
Launched: 1817?
Destroyed: 1817, Mar. 3, Sat. Boiler explosion. 10 - 12 lives lost
Area: Miss. R.
Captain: Bezeau
Comments Source Article
Name: CONSTITUTION
Type: Timber-clad Size:
Launched: 1832, summer
Name: CONSTITUTION See CITY of MEMPHIS
Name: CONTINENTAL
Type: Siedwheel, wooden packet. Size: 282' X 41' X 8.5'
Power: 26's -9 ft.. 4 boilers ea. 44' X 30'. Wheels, 34' dia., 14' buckets.
Launched; 1860, Shousetown, Pa.
Destroyed: 1873, Dec. 26, sold at U.S. Marshal's sale at St. Louis to local
wrecker. Dismantled.
Area: 1860, St. Louis-New Orleans
1862, Impressed into U. S. service See
1862, April, Tenn. R., was headquarters for Union Gen. Wm. T. Sherman
Owners: at building Capt. Ben F. Hutchinson and others.
: After war, Atlantic and Mississippi Steamship Company
: Later, St. Louis and New Orleans Packet Company
Captains: 1860, ?Ben F. Hutchenson?
1865, Master, H.G. Carson
While in S.L.N.O.P.C. service, McCloy
Comments: Devils island, below St. Louis, while in A.M.S.C. service, hit
wreck of JAMES MONTGOMERY and sank. Raised.
Name: CONVOY NO. 2/IDA FULTON/GLENMONT/NORTH STAR
Type: sternwheel, wooden hull towboat/packet.
Size: 143 or *284 tons. *After rebuild in Dubuque, 92 tons
Power: 14's-4 1/2', 2 boilers each 42' X 16'
Launched: 1863, Cincinnati, Oh.
Area: 1863, Louisville-Nashville
1967-84, U. Miss. and Monnseota Rs.
Owners: 1864, Jan. 12, acquired by U.S.Q.M.D.
1867, 75, Diamond Jo Line
1875, Sold to Capt. Charles H. Meeds
1892, As GLENMONT, Van Sant Navigation Company
1906 or so, Iowa and Minnesota Navagation Company
1911, Oct. purchased by Burlington R.R.
Captains: 1869-71, Master, Abe Mitchell; pilot, Stephen Hanks
: 1878, Charles H. Meeds
Comments: 1867, Jan., Renamed IDA FULTON
1878, ran excursions on Lake St. Croix, Stillwater, Minn.
: 1892, Prior to, rebuilt at Dubuque into a raftboat and renamed GLENMONT
: 1893, crashed into R.R. bridge at La Cross and sank. Raised at
cost of $3,500.
: 1906, Dubuque, given new hull. Renamed NORTH STAR.
: 1916, Offered for sale, home port Chicago. Owner not given.
Source: Most of this listing's info from an article
by William Petersen in The Palimpsest
1. Name: CONVEYER
Type: Sternwheel, wooeden hull ferry boat
Size: 110.2' X 30.3' X 4.4'
Launched: 1898, Middleport, Oh
Destroyed: 1905, Evansville, Ind., sank.
Area: Wheeling, W. Va.-Martin's Ferry, Oh.
Owners: Capt. Levi W. Inglebright
1904 sold to S. Semonin, Evansville, Ind
Name: COOSA, U.S.M. (AKA the USEM SUSIE)
Type: Sternwheeler
Launched: 1845
Area: Coosa R. (Ga. and Ala.)
Captain(s): 1845: Lafferty, James
Comments: First boat up the Coosa R. A U.S. Mail, cargo and passenger boat
: More about boat and Coosa R. area
Name: COOSA, Originally the CRICKET NO. 4
1863-69
Comments: 1868, as COOSA, was towboat for John Robinson's Water Carnival
Name: U.S. COOSA
Type: Sternweel, wooden hull towboat
Area: Coosa R.
Owners: U.S. Corps of Engineers
Comments: The above picture is source for this listing
: This boat was used by The U.S Corp of Engineers to tow a dredge barge.
1. Name: COOSA BELLE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 194' X 33' X 6.', 229 tons.
Launched: 1855, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1860, Apr. 25, Bridgeport, Ala, sank and lost
Area: At first, went to Alabama R. trade
1858, New Orleans-Red R.
1860, back on Alabama R.
Owners: Capt. George H. Cloudes
Captains: George H. Cloudes
Comments: This list has her being built at Wetumpka, Ala.
Name: COOSAWATTEE
Launched: 1878
Owners: 1878, Gadsden Steamboat Company
Comments: Source
Name: COPPERTORY/DETROITER
Comments: Engines eventually went to the ELIZABETH LOUISE
1. Name: CORA (No. 1)
Type: Sidewheeler, Wood Hull Packet Size: 179 tons
Launched: 1845, New Albany Ind.
Destroyed: 1850, off lists
Area: 1845 46, N.O. - Shreveport; 1849, N.O. - Ouachita R.
Captain(s): 1845-46, Kimball, F.B.
1. Name: CORA (No. 2)
Type: Sidewheel, wood hull packet Size: 140' X 24' X 5'
Power: single engine, stiffshaft, w/cylinder 18"-5 ft. 2 boilers
Launched: 1846. Rock Island, Ill.
Destroyed: 1851, May 5, below Council Bluffs Iowa, Snagged and sunk,
lost 15 lives.
Area: 1846-48, fall, U. Miss. R.; 1848, Galena-St. Peters
Owner: 1846-48, fall, Throckmorton, Capt Joseph
1848, fall, purchased by Dozier, Capt. Frank M. and others.
Captain(s):Throckmorton, Joseph
Comments: 1947, Apr. 7, arrived in St. Paul.
Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: CORA No. 2 (actually No. 3)
Type: sidewheel wood hull packet Size: 375 tons
Launched 1849, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1855, Off lists
Area: 1851, N.O.-Ouachita R.; 1855, N.O.-Vicksburg
Captains: 1855, Mosby, D.B.
At one capt. time of this boat or of CORA (No.4), below,
Keeling, Frankin A.
1. Name: CORA (No. 4)
Type: Sternwheel wood hull packet Size: 127 tons
Launched: 1856, Elizabeth, Pa.
Comments: 1856, first registered at N.O.; 1861, went to Confederate
Registry.
At one capt. time of this boat or of CORA (No.3), above,
Keeling, Frankin A.
1. Name: CORA (No. 5)
Type: Sidewheel wood hull packet Size: 52 tons
Launched: 1860, Franklin, La.
Destroyed: Off lists 1866
Comments: First documented in 1863,
Name: CORA (No. 6)
Type: sternwheel wood hull packet Size: 215 tons
Power; 15's-5 ft., 2 boilers
Launched: 1864, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: From a Cairo Mo. Newspaper: 1865, may 1at, 9A.M.,
Mo. R., near DeSoto, about 50 mi. above Omaha,
went down in 6' of water.
: The Missouri Historical Review, reported the
accident near Calhoun, Ne.
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: *1864-65, Kinney, Joseph
Captain(s): *Kinney, Joseph
Pilots: at one time William Raymond Massie
Comments: *from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
: Boilers and engines went to CORA No. 3 (below).
Name: CORA NO. 3 (Actually No. 7)(?CORA KINNEY? NO. 2?)
Type: Sidewheel wood hull packet Size: 395 tons
Launched: 1865
Destroyed: 1869, Aug. 13, snagged near the mouth of the Mo. R.
Island "Cora" formed around her hulk.
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: * in part by Kinney, Joseph
Captain(s): *Kinney, Joseph
: 1869, Aug 13, Baldwin, Ed M.
Comments: *from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: CORKER
Type: Sternwheel Wooden hull packet
Comments: Above photo is source for this listing
3. Name: CORNELIA
Launched: 1850's early
Area: 1854, Sacramento R. Calif.
Owner(s): 1855, California Steam Navigation Company
Name: CORNELIA
Type: Sidewheeler/ wood hull
Size: Length: 224.8'; Width: 37'; Draft: 5.6'; Tons: 647
Launched: 1865 at St. Louis, with machinery from the DES MOINES
Destroyed: 1870, Nov. 16, Algiers, La., burned and sank.
Area: Miss. R., St. Louis to New Orleans
1869: New Orleans to Camden Point
Owner: Captains Baker, Charles K. and Conrad, Jacob of St. Louis
Captain: Banks, J. W.
More information: from Way's Packet Directory compiled by
John Hartford, river musician.
Name: CORONA
Launched: 1878?
Destroyed: 1889, Exploded
Area: Miss. R.
Captain and pilots: Capt. Blanks
Name: CORVETTE
Type: Size: 149 tons, aprox 135' X 26'
Launched: 1830's or 40's ?, Brownsville, PA
Area: Rio Grande R.
Owner: 1846: U. S. Army? Kenedy, Capt Mifflin? See comments.
Captain(s): Kenedy, Mifflin
Comments: Transported General Taylor's troops and supplies to Camrgo
The source below does not make it clear whether the Army or
Captain Kenedy owned this boat.
Comments: Article
: More on this boat
Name: COTILE, Originally the FAIRPLAY
Name: COTTON Originally MARY T.
Name: COTTON BLOSSOM the showboat
Name: COTTON BLOSSOM PAVILION
Name: COUNCIL BLUFFS
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 153' X 33.5' X 5x4.3'.
Launched: 1857, California, Pa.
Destroyed: 1859, May 7, Pittsburgh wharf fire, burned with 9 others.
Area: 1857, The Diary of E.F. Beadle has her in Omaha, June 28.
Owners: 1857, when new Capt. Samuel Lewis and William Dilworth, Allegheny City, Pa.
Captains: Samuel Lewis, Mt. Washington, Pa.
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1. Name: COURIER
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 193.5' X 33' X 5.6'.
Launched: 1870, Harmar, Oh.
Area: 1879: Ohio R. Wheeling, W. Va. to Parkersburg, 96 miles downriver.
1886, Oct., resumed her place in Parkersburg-Wheeling trade *
Owners: 1870 - ?, Wheeling & Parkersburg Packet Company
Captain(S): 1872-76, Jack Harrison w/Martin F Noll as clerk
1879: Harrison
1882 - ?, John K. Booth w/J. Mack Gamble as clerk
Comments: From WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
J. H. Newton, History of the Pan-Handle, Wheeling, J. A. Caldwell
: 1885, carried a circus along the Ohio R.
: 1885, Fall, laid up along Kt. shore. Winter, was stranded out.
: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: COURIER
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet,
Size: 153.8' X 32.2' X 4.6'
Power: Engines, 14's- 5' from SCIOTO, 2 BOILERS EACH 42" x 20'
Launched: 1885, Bell Vernon, Pa/Wheeling
Destroyed: 1918, Ashland, Ky., dismantled
Area: 1885, when new, Wheeling-Parkersburg trade
1885, winter 1885-1886, Capt. Tom J. Prince took her to Vicksburg-Bayou Sara trade
then back to Wheeling-Parkersburg trade
1895, went to Cincinnati-Maysville trade for 22 years
Owners: When new, Capt. Tom J. Prince and others
1895, Aug. 5, Prince group sold to White Collar Line, Cincinnati.
1904, Sold to Capt Gordon C. Greene and others (The Greene Line?)
Captains: When new, master, Tom J. Prince, with T.J. Martin, clerk
Back in Wheeling-Parkersburg trade, master was Mack Gamble,
Comments: When new sunk once at West Wheeling. Raised
: When new, sunk at West Wheeling and raised.
: 1893, Nov. Little Muskingum R. Sank while discharging a passenger.
Raised.
: 1996, Nov., hit Central Bridge, Cincinnati. Sank. Raised.
: whistle was from the ST. LAWRENCE and went to the TACOMA
* Name: COURTLAND
Size: 121 tons
Power, High pressure
Launched: 1826, Cincinnati
Name: COURTLAND
Launched: 1840s?
Area: Miss. R.
1. Name: COVINGTON/TINCLAD #?
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull ferry. Size: 224 tons.
Launched: 1862, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1864, May 5, Red. R., burned to prevent capture by Confederates
Area 1864, May 8, Red R. Dunn's Bayou escorting JOHN WARNER
Owners: 1863, Feb. 13, taken over by U.S. and made into a tinclad.
Name: CRAWFORD, See T.L. CRAWFORD
Name: CREOLE QUEEN
Type: Sternwheel excursion boat Size: 190', 900 passengers
Power: 24' sternwheel, powered by diesel-electric.
Launched: 1983, Moss Point, Miss.
Area: 1999, New Orleans
Captains: 1999, Al Christian, Bert Suarez, Brian Collins
Comments: 1998 and 9, A participant in the Tall Stacks Celebration,
Paddlewheel Riverboat Festival,1998 and 99.
1. Name: CRESCENT CITY
Type: Sidewheel steamer Size: 688 tons.
Launched: 1854, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1861, off the lists
Area: 1854, St. Louis - New Orleans.
Captains: 1860, H. Thornburg. Capt. Montgomery,
Comments: 1st steamer to push coal barges to N. O. : 4 flats.
: Sam Clemens stood his first pilots watches on this boat.
Name: CRESCENT CITY - 1897-1906 Originally the EVANSVILLE
Name: CROWN HILL
Comments: post 1913, at one time was towboat for showboat GOLDENROD
Name: CRUSADER
Launched: * 1827, Cincinnati, Oh.
Area: 1827, Ohio R.
: * 1829, went up Mo. R, to Levenworth, Ks.
Comments: * 1827, logged at Cincinnati
Name: CRUSADER
Launched: 1832 or so
Owners: Robert Warth and Hereford of Gallipolis, Marietta, or Cincinnati,
Oh.
Comments: Hereford loaded up the boat to take the flour mill products to
New Orleans and never returned. Made Warth go bankrupt. This
listing comes from research of Peggy Warth.
: also see Warth and English
1. Name: CRYSTAL CITY
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 278.5 X 33' X 6
Power: 32-2/3's-8 ft., 5 boilers, 46" X 30'
Wheels, 38' with 12' 4" buckets.
Launched: 1887, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1893, Feb. 15, laid up for ice. Don't know if ice crushed
her or if it dammaged her beyond repair.
Owner: Anchor Line
Captains: 1853-??, Horace Bixby
Crew when new: Chief, William Pavy. Second Engineer, William Lund,
Comments: 1889, July 10, sunk at Ivy Landing. Raised.
: Departed ship yard on a Friday, considered unlucky to do
this and blamed for her bad luck.
: Account of one of her sinkings
1. Name: CRYSTAL PALACE/CITY of MEMPHIS
Type: Sidewheel, wood hull, packet
Size: 279.5' X 33' X 6' - Extreme width, 69'
Power: Engines, 32-2/3's-8 ft. Five boilers, 46" by 30 ft.
Paddlewheels, 38' dia. with 12' 4" buckets
Launched: 1853, Freedom, Pa. and completed at Pittsburgh.
Destroyed: 1856, New hull was built, cabin was moved to it and the boat
was renamed CITY of MEMPHIS.
Area: 1853, Pittsburg - Cincinnatti; 1854, Louisville - St. Louis
1855, St Louis - New Orleans
Owners: 1852-55, in part by Capt. William J. Kountz
Captain: 1853, Master, William J. Kountz
1855, Reilly, R. A.
Comments: see CITY of MEMPHIS for the rest of her history.
Name: CUDAHY
Type: Stern-wheeler Size: 192 X 33 ft.
Launched: 1898 in Alaska
Area: Alaska
Name: CUMBERLAND
Launched: 1839 or so in Wheeling, W. Va.
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING INTELLIGENCER, June 24, 1951
Name: CUMBERLAND
Comments: Fictional boat played by the CAPT. WEBER
in the Bing Crosby movie Dixie.
Name: CUTTER
Launched: 1863, Anoka, Minn. Aize: 92 tons.
Destroyed: 1869, Oct., Stillwater, Minn., snagged and lost.
Area: U. Miss. R. out of St. Paul
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
: From C. War Diary - 1863, Sept. 22 left St. Paul for
Winona as troop transport.
1. Name: CYCLONE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 121' X 22.6' X 4.'
Power: 14's- 5 ft.
Launched: 1891, Stillwater, Minn.
Destroyed: 1907, Wabasha, Minn. burned on the ways
Area: 1900-07, ran Wabasha-St. Paul
Captains: Milt Newcomb who probably owned her.
Comments:
