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Name: D.A. JANUARY/NED TRACY
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hulled packet Size: 225' X 34', 440 tons
Launched: 1857, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1867, Dec. 18, Chester, Ill., snagged and lost
Area: 2. 1857-58, L. Miss. R., N.O. - St. Louis : 1.
1857, June 4, Documented passing Omaha, upbound in the
Diary of E.F. Beatle.
1858 - 1864, Mo. R., St. Louis - St. Joseph
Owner: 1862-64, pressed into U.S. service to handle sick and wounded.
: 1. 1864, June 1, U.S.Q.M.D.. Converted to hospital boat.
: 1. 1965, Mar. 14, sold back into private ownership and renamed
NED TRACY
Captains: 1. 1857-64, Patrick Yore
Pilot: 2. 1857 - ?? Montgomery, J.E.
Comments: 2. 1857, Dec, 13 - 1858, Jan 22 (New Oeleans to St. Louis,
Sam Clemens may have been steersman for Montgomery.
: See letter
1. Name: D.H. MORTON
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 173 tons.
Launched: 1856, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1859, Mar. 11, Upper Ark. R. Dardanelle, Ark., Gay's Landing,
head of Prairie Bend, burned while handling supplies for
U.S. Gov.
Area: 1857, June 22, Diary of E.F. Beadle has her arriving up to Omaha.
Name: D. T. LANE
Type: Area; Kanawha R., W. Virginia
Captains: 1900 or so, Johnson, Benjamin Franklin
Comments: This info from: Andrea Castillo Who wrote:
"Could you give me any information on how to obtain a
copy of my great grandfather's (Benjamin Franklin Johnson)
riverboat captians license. He was a pilot on the Kanawha
River in West Virginia around 1900. The riverboats he worked
on were the Iron Duke, the D. T. Lane and the LEROY.
1. Name: D VAN BUSKIRK
Type: Probably a sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 69 tons
Launched: 1872, Gosport, Ind.
Areas: 1876, listed at Evansville, Ind.
1881, inspected at Beaumont, Tex. was on Neches R.for one season.
Captains: 1881, A. A. Neyland
Comments: See source Article
Also see DECOTAH
1. Name: DACOTAH
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 90 tons.
Launched: 1857, Freedom, Pa.
Destroyed: 1862, Mar. 15, St. Joseph, Mo., tornado. 4 lives lost.
Owner: Hannibal and St. joseph R.R., St. Joseph, MO.
Name: DACOTAH
Type; Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 252' X 48' X 5.5'.
Power: 18's-7 ft., 4 boilers
Launched: 1879, California, Pa.
Destroyed: C. 1893, Jrffersonville, Ind., dismantled
Area: Maiden trip, Pittsburgh-Fort Benton, Ohio and Mo. Rs.
: Mo., Red and Yellowstone Rs.
1889, New Orleans to Ft. Benton.
Owners: Originally, Coulson Line
Later sold to Capt. Hunter Ben Jenkins and others.
1889, sold to New Orleans
1889, sold to Capt. William T. Boardman
Captains: Under Capt. Hunter Ben Jenkins ownership, George G. Keith
1889, sold to Capt. William T. Boardman
Comments: In all, made 7 trips to Fort Benton
: Machinery went to IMPERIAL
: Mentioned in this Article
: Sister boat was MONTANA
1. Name: DAKOTA
Size: 117.75 tons
Launched; 1872, Breckinridge, Minn.
Destroyed; 1876, 2 mi. below Ft. Pembina on Mo. R., burned.
Comments: 1876, documented, Galena, Ill.
Name: DAKOTA CITY
Area: 1859, June, Mo. and Big Sioux Rs., Sioux City northward.
Comments: 1859, June 30, The Sioux City Register, tells us this boat was
to start up the Big Sioux for a 4th of July trip.
Name: DALLAS
Type: Stern-wheeler Size: Small boat
Destroyed: Sometime in the seventies, near Morgan's Is.
Area: Mo. R.
Name: DAMSEL
Type: Stern-wheel, Circus boat Size: 191 tons
Launched: 1864, Wellsville, Oh.
Destroyed: 1873 or 6 snagged and run aground at the head of
Onawa bend. LaBarge on JOHN M. CHAMBERS took passengers
aboard.
Area: U. Miss. R and Mo. R.
Owner: Rice, Dan
Captain and pilots: Pilot, Charles Davis
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: DAN
Type: 1862-63, Union gunboat
Destroyed: 1863, Jan. 8, Sabine Lake, Tex., burned by Confederate forces. (See)
Area: Sabine R. Tex.
Comments: Source
Name: DAN B. HURLBURT
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 62.6' X 11' X 2.4'
Launched: 1881, Warsaw, Mo. on Osage R.
Area: 1880's early-1888, Lower Osage R., Mo.
Owner and Capt: Henry Castrop
Source: See
Comments: Mentioned in this Article.
1. Name: DAN CONVERSE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 142' X 27' X 4.10' ft.
Power: 16's- 5 ft., 2 boilers.
Launched: McKeesport, Ind.
Destroyed: 1858, Nov. 15, Amazonia, Mo., 10 mi above St Joseph Mo.
Snagged. Valued at $3,000. Boat and cargo total loss. No lives
lost.
Area: 1852, Pittsburgh-Zaneville trade. That summer, Newport, Oh.-Zanesville
Mo. R. Mountain trade
1853, Marrietta-Zanesville
Later, Pittsburgh-Zanesville into 1855
1855, Upper Miss. R. trade.
1857, Diary of E.F. Beadle has her ariving Omaha, Neb. June 12,
July 16.
Aug 21. Left Omaha downbound.
Aug. 22, Grounded on a sand bar 3 mi. below Plattsmouth.
All passengers transfered to the Watossa.
Owners: 1855, sold into Upper Miss. R. trade
Captains: 1852, Charles Gallagher, then Till Devol
1853, E.C. Granger
Later, Monroe Ayres into 1855.
Comments: about grounding and conditions aboard this boat in Aug, 1857.
Name: DAN POLLARD
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 77 tons.
Launched: 1857, McKeesport, Pa. by . *Isaac Hammitt yard.
Destroyed: 1864, Aug. 3, Cairo, Ill. snagged and lost.
Area: 1st home port, Wheeling, W. Va.
Owner: Capt Dan Pollard
1. Name: DANIEL BOONE
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The Maysville Eagle
Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky
December 11, 1845
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 169 tons.
Launched: 1844, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1853, Sept. 10, College Point, La., collision with SOUTHERN BELLE.
Area: Built for Cincinnati-Maysville trade
1849, went to Ill. R. trade
Owners: When built, Capt. Grafton Molen
1849 or so, sold to Draper & Leslie, New Albany, Ind.
Captains: When new, Grafton Molen
Comments: 1845, Carried the bodies of Daniel Boone and his wife, from Marthasville, Mo.
to Frankfort, Ky for final burial.
:1849, Feb. President-elect Zachary Taylor took this boat from Nashville to
just below Louisville.
1. Name: DANIEL BOONE
1848 - 54
1. Name: DANIEL BOONE
1854 - 59
1. Name: DANIEL BOONE
1872 - AFTER 1886
3. Name: DANIEL MOORE
Launched: 1840's late? Size: 63 tons.
Area: 1853, Sacramento R. Calif.
Name: DAN or DANIEL POLLARD
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull towboat
Launched: 1850's, early, Isaac Hammitt yard, McKeesport, Pa.
Owner: William Dunshee
Name: DANIEL G. TAYLOR
Type: Side-wheel, single engine. Size:
Destroyed: 1838, hit rocks 1 mi below Glasgow, Mo.
Owner: partial, Capt. John Cleveland.
Captain and pilots: Capt. John Cleveland
1. Name: DANIEL G. TAYLOR
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 240' X 38'
Power: 24's- 7 ft., four boilers
Area: For a time, Mo. R.
1856, late, went to St. Louis- New Orleans trade
Launched: 1855, McKeesport, Pa.
Destroyed: 1864, Louisville, Ky. burned. One life lost.
Owners: in St. Louis-New Orleans trade Capt. Robert A. Reilly and others
1864, wreck purchased by Capt. Henry Symmes for machinery
Comments: primarily a freight boat
: Named for mayor of St. Louis
: 1856, July 5, snagged and sunk,
Paine's Island, below Rochport on Mo. R. Raised
: See letters from soldiers on this boat during the Civil War
Name: DART
Destroyed: 1838, Wrecked near Glasgow or in Euphrase Bend, Mo. R.
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Name: DAUNTLESS
Launched: 1894, summer
Size: 73 tons.
Destroyed: 1896, Nov. 10, Burned.
Area: U, White R., Ark. and Black R.
Owners: Captain Will T. Warner had her built
Comments: Source
Name: DAUNTLESS
Area: Ohio R., Osage R., Mo.
Owner: 1897, July, Ailes, John
Captain(s): Ailes, John
Comments: Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. July. 12 1897
Comments: Mentioned in this Article.
1. Name: DAVENPORT
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 203' X 34.3' X 5.2', 340 tons.
Launched: 1863, Californis, Pa. under supervision of Capt. Richard C. Gray
Destroyed: 1876, Dec. 13, St. Louis, by ice. Raised and dismantled.
Area: U. Miss. R. Also ran trips to Cincinnati in winter months.
Owners: Northern Line Packet Company
Captains: 1st was Richard C. Gray
Comments:
Name: DAVENPORT/W. J. QUINLAN
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull ferryboat/excursion boat
Size: Hull: 112.5' x 36.5' x 3.5', 195 tons
Power: Engines: 14's-5 ft. (200 hp each) by the
Clinton Novelty & Iron Works of Clinton, IA.
Paddlewheel: 18.5' x 15'
Boilers:(2) 18' x 42" Marine-type/water tubes.
Coal-fired. Michaelman Boiler Co., Quincy, IL
Launched: 1904, at the Kahlke Yard by Peter Kahlke for Rock Island-Davenport
Ferry Co.
Destroyed: 1967, April 8, vagrants set her afire. Completely destroyed.
Owner: 1904,Rock Island-Davenport Ferry Co..
: 1924, William J. Quinlan
Captain(s):1911-1924, Young, Harry F. wa pilot.
1929-1942, Capt. John (Hans)Witt
1942-1946, Capt. Arthur L. Quinn
Comments: Source with much more information.
Name: DAVID BRONSON
Type: rafter Size:
Launched: 1880s?
Area: Mis. R. ?
1. Name: DAVID R. POWELL
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 258' X 38' X 7.'
Launched: 1882, Cincinnati, Oh.
Comments: this boat was occasionally chartered by Scharff & Bernheimer
to take a load south.
1. Name: DAVID SWAIN
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet
Size: 136.6' X 26' X 4.5'
Power: Swain inclined oscillating engines, 10's, 20's- 5 ft.
Launched: 1906, Stillwater, Minn.
Destroyed: 1930s, early, Vidalia, La., dismantled
Area: Under the Swains, Ill. R.
1922, after, replaced the sunken PERCY SWAIN in Vicksburg-Natchez trade
Owners: built by the Swains
1922, Sept., purchased by Capt. George Prince
Captains: Percy Swain
Comments: Was last side-wheel packet on the Ill. R.
: Was last packet in Vicksburg-Natchez trade
Name: DAVID TATUM
Area: Mo. R.
Captain and pilots: Capt. J. A. Williams.
Comments: Plied trade from St. Louis to Ft. Weston and St. Joseph.
Name: DAVID TIPTON, originally the COL. A. MACKENZIE
Launched: 1900 Destroyed: unknown
Name: DAWSON
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1901
Area: Yukon R.
Owner: The British Yukon Navigation Co.
Comments:See Yukon Boats for Other Facts
Name: DEBUQUE See PITTSBURGH
Name: DECATUR
Type: Coal burning Steamboat
Launched: 1924
Area: Mo. R.
Captain(s): 1924-29, Craig, Thomas P.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: DECOTAH
Type; Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 230 tons.
Launched: 1858, Belle Vernon, Pa.
Destroyed: 1864, Paducah, Mar. 25, burned during Confederate raid
Area: 1861, Cincinnati-Pittsburgh trade
Later, under J and H, Tennessee R. cotton trade.
Owners: Originally, Pittsburgh concern.
Later, Capt. Theodore Fink
Then, Johnson and Heydock, Cairo, Ill.
Name: DE SMET
Type: Side-wheeler, wood hull packet Size: 184.4' X 34' X 5.1'
Launched: 1872, Mound City Ill.
Area: U. Mo. R.
Owner(s): 1872-74, La Barge, Joseph
Captain(s): La Barge, Joseph
Comments: Gary Lucy artwork and comments
Name: DE SOTO
Type: Union cotton-clad Size:
Launched: 1850s?
Area: Miss. R.?
Name: DEER LODGE
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1860?
Area: Mo. R.; Miss. R.
Captains: At one tme, Grant Marsh
Comments: 1865: Hit snag after snag while en rout to
Ft. Benton on upper Mo. R.
Preceeded ill fated BERTRAND on this trip.
3. Name: DEFENDER
Launched: 1850's early
Area: 1854, Sacramento R. Calif.
Name: DEFIANCE
Launched: 1840s?
Area: San Francisco bay
*Name: DELAWARE
Launched: 1835
Owners: Elli Mills and Capt. Herman Price
Captains: Herman Price
Comments: *Source
1. Name: DELAWARE
1851-60
Name: DELAWARE
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Destroyed: 1857, Snagged near Smith's Bar in Mo.
Area: Mo. R.
1. Name: DELAWARE
1862-68
1. Name: DEL NORTE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 136' X 25' X 4.5'
Power: 16's- 6 ft.
Launched: 1846, Elizabeth, Pa., completed in Zanesville, Oh.
Destroyed, 1849, snagged on Rio Grande R. in Tex.
Area: 1846, Pittsburgh - Zanesville. Later, Rio Grand R., Tex.
Owners: 1846, Probably William F. Bowen of Zanesville, Oh.
Later sold to New Orleans partners, Ellmaker & Viosca with
William F. Bowen retaining an interest.
Captains: 1846, master, William Bowen.
Comments: Capt. William Bowen Bowen contracted to deliver her
to the Rio Grand R. in Texas and did so in a harrowing voyage.
: Mentioned in this Article.
Name: DELLS
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Destroyed: 1878, Oct. 26 snagged and exploded above Arago Neb..
Boat and cargo total loss. 2 lives lost.
Area: Mo. R.
Name: DELTA KING Delta King:An original riverboat from the 20's rehabed into a hotel.
Type: Sternwheeler Size: 285'
Launched: 1926-27, Christened 1927, May 20
Destroyed:
Area: 1927 - 1940: 10 1/2 hr. luxury cruises between San Francisco and
Sacramento World War II: Painted Gray, renamed YFB55 to serve
as anti-submarine net tender, troop barracks, troop transport
and hospital boats for the U. S. Navy.
After War: Shuttled to Canada and back looking for a home.
Presently: a floating hotel in Sacramento, Calf..
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: Sistership to DELTA QUEEN (below).
1927 - late 1930's: 10 1/2 hr. luxury cruises that included
prohibition drinking, jazz bands, gambling and fine
dining between San Francisco and Sacramento.
Stateroom, $3.50. Cargo Deck, $1.00
1952-53 or so: Served as power plant and bunk house for builders
of an aluminun smelter site in British Columbia. SEE
1960: Was in the 1960 version of The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn with Tony Randall. See ARTICLE. Also SEE
1983 -1984: lay sunk for 18 mos. then refloated and underwent
complete renovation
Name: DELTA QUEEN Photo and info
Type: Sternwheel steel hull luxury cruise boat
Size: 285 X 60' height 57.5' 87 staterooms to accomdate 174 Passengers
Launched: 1926, fabricated on the River Clyde at the Isherwood Yard in
Glasgow, Scotland, and assembled that same year in a small
yard in Stockton, California.
Area: 1927 - late 1930's: Sacramento R. San Francisco to Sacramanto
Owner:1947: Green Line Steamers
19?? - 2005?: Delta Queen Steamboat Co.
1005- present (2007), Majestic America Line
Captain(s): At various times, Way, Fredrick, Clark Hawley, Paul Underwood
1961?, Earnest E. Wagner
1977 - Master, Gabriel Chengery;
- Alternate Master, Donald J. Sanders
1999: Gabriel Chengery
Comments: Sistership to DELTA KING
1927 - late 1930's: 10 1/2 hr. luxury cruises that included
prohibition drinking, jazz bands, gambling and fine
dining between San Francisco and Sacramento.
Stateroom, $3.50. Cargo Deck, $1.00
World War II: Along with sistership DELTA KING, sge was painted
Gray, renamed YFB56 to serve as anti-submarine net
tender, troop barracks, troop transport and hospital
boats for the U. S. Navy.
After War: Purchased by Greene Line
1947, Aug. 10: On her way to the Dravo Shipyard, Pittsburgh,
for repainting and to be converted to a modern,
air-conditioned tourist boat she became the
first riverboat to pass through the Panama Canal
: Present: Year round cruises from 3 to 16 nights.
A National Historic Monument.
For more history, see DELTA KING's web site
Decorated in rare and all but gone exotic hardwoods,
brass fittings, Tiffany-style stained glass windows.
Every stateroom is an outside state-room
Until recently, when the BELLE OF LOUISVILLE fell on hard times,
the two boats raced the each year at Kentucky Derby time.
: 1999, participant in Tall Stacks Celebration.
: See her complete details HERE
History: National Historic Landmark Study
Great American Products
Name: DENMARK
Launched: 1832, Wheeling W. Va.
Comments: Source - WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: DENMARK
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 171' X 34' X5.3'
Launched: 1856, Shousetown, Pa. by and for Capt R.C. Gray
Destroyed: 1862, Oct. 8, Atlas Island below Keokuk, snagged and sunk.
Area: 1857-62, St. Louis-St. Paul
Owner: 1857, Northern Line Packet Company
Captain: 1857, Richard C. Gray
In Civil War, J.J. (Windy) Robinson
Comments: Machinery and boilers probably built by T. Sweeney & Son Foundry
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
: was part of Grant's fleet to Pittsburgh Landing, Tenn.
Name: DENNING
Destroyed: 1857, Snagged near Smith's Bar in Mo.
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson, shopkeeper,
Commerce Mo.
- ". . . Denning brought Joe Kelly and two boats. . . . "
Name: DENVER No. 1
Type:Side-wheeler Size: 225 X 33 Ft. 300 tons.
Destroyed: 1867, May 16, Burned while lying at warf at
St Joseph Mo.. Wreck was afterward built into
DENVER No. 2.
Owner: Hannibal and St Joseph Railroad Co.
Captain(s): Waddell, John.
Comments: Named for first Govenor of Colorado.
Name: DENVER No. 2
Type: Center-wheel Size:
Destroyed: 1880, May 13, sunk or crushed by ice opposite Fort
Lincoln N. Dak.
Area: St Joseph and Omaha and ferrying
Owner: Hannibal and St Joseph Railroad Co.?
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: Built from parts of Denver No. 1.
1. Name: DES MOINES
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 298 tons
Power: 3 boilers, each 44" dia by 26'
Launched: 1857, Madison Ind.
Destroyed: 1865, was off the lists, fate unknown.
Area: Miss. R.; 1864, Red R.; 1864, Nov. 22, Ohio R.
Owner: Capt. John G. Prather was part-owner.
Companies associated with: 1857-61, Keokuk Packet Company
: U.S. appropriated during Civil War to transport
troops and supplies.
Captain: 1857-61, James D. Malin
Comments: 1864, Nov. 22, Ohio R., struck and sank the KATIE at Diamond
Island. Took survivors aboard and to Evansville.
: 1865: Her machinery was placed aboard the new sidewheeler,
CORNELIA
1. Name: DES MOINES CITY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 122 tons
Launched: 1859, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1865, Jan 1, Arkansas R., snagged and lost.
Area: 1859, out of Keokuk, Iowa.
During Civil War, Arkansas R.
Captains: 1864, May, Keinser
Comments: 1864, May, was attacted by shoreline Rebel riffle fire. Hit
over 150 times. A woman passenger was shot through the
breast and later taken ashore in critical condition.
Capt. Keinser was nearly wounded by a ball that tore
his trousers below the knee.
1. Name: DE SOTO( the 3rd one)/GENERAL LYON/ALABAMA(the 3rd one)
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet/gunboat
Size: 182.1' X 35' X 7.5', 390 tons.
Power: 23's-7 ft.
Launched: 1860, Hull built Madison, Ind. Completed, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1867, Apr. 1, downbound with 1000 bales of cotton at
Grandview Reach above New Orleans, burned. No life lost.
Area: 1862, Apr. Miss. R; 1864-5, New Orleans-Red R.
Owner: 1860, Beard, Capt. HighH., of New Orleans
1861 aquired by USQMD.
1862, Apr 17, Captured, Union forces
1865, Aug. 17, Thorwegan, W.H.
1866, Nov., Purchased by Lee, Capt H.L., and others including
Capt Thorwegan.
Captains: 1860, Beard, Hugh H.
1865, Aug. 17, Thorwegan, W.H.
1865, Oct. - 1866, Nov., Harrison, William C.
Comments: 1862, Apr., Captured by U.S. Forces at Island 10 Miss. R. and
made into a tinclad.
1862, Oct. 24, renamed GENERAL LYON
1865, Aug. 17, Mound City, Ill., Purchased at public sale by
Thorwegan, Capt. W.H.
1865, Oct. 20, renamed ALABAMA
Name: DESOTO, Excursion boat, Originally the JAMES LEE
Name: DE SOTO originally the LEXINGTON
1918-
Name: DEW DROP
Type: Stern-wheeler Size: 148 tons.
Launched:
Destroyed: 1860, June. Mouth of Osage R.. Burned.
Name: DEW DROP
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 44 tons.
Launched: 1867, Catlettburg, Ky.
Destroyed: 1871, off the lists.
Area: Big Sandy R.. Also ran low water trades on U. Ohio R.
Captains: J.M. Jarred
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: DETROITER Formerly the COPPERTORY
* Name: DEWITT CLINTON
Size: 132 tons
Power: Low Pressure
Launched: 1825, Cincinnati, Oh.
Comments: Mentioned in this Document
Name: DEWITT CLINTON
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 265 tons.
Launched: 1847, Elizabethtown, Pa.
Destroyed: 1852, Jan. 25, Dismal Point, opposite Presidents Island below
Memphis, snagged and lost. 36 lives lost.
Area: 1847, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
1849, U. Ohio R. to St Louis with several parties for Calif. gold fields.
1852, Pittsburgh-New Orleans
Owners: 1847, Capt. Devinney and others in Steubenville
Captains: 1947, Devinney
Name: DEWITT CLINTON Photo
Launched:1900 - 1920?
Area: Eastern rivers
Name: DEXTER
Launched: 1860s?, early?
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Made run N.O. - Cairo 1869, 3/6/20
Made run N.O. - St Louis 1869, 4/9/0
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: DI VERNON
Type: Size: 255'
Launched: 1840s?, early
Comments: Mentioned in articles here and here
Name: DIADO
Area: 1862, Ciaro-Columbus
Comments: From site visitor Forrest Fothergil
The Civil War Journal of 2nd Liut. Rev. Victor M. Dewey
mentiones a steamer called "Diado." I have very little
information on it. All I know is it carried the 124th Ill.
Inf. Vols. from Cairo to Columbus on 7 Oct 1862. My guess is
that it did duty on the Mississippi for most of the war. The
diary is not currently available, and frankly it doesn't give
much information on the War. Most of the entries give only the
specifics of where the 124th marched that day
1. Name: DIAMOND JO
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull townboat/packet. Size: 165.5' X 32' X 4.', 242 tons.
Designed by, Capt. Hudson Porter, a ship's carpenter.
Launched: 1864, Prairie du Chien, Wis. for Diamond Jo Line
Destroyed: 1883, Dubuque, Dismantled.
Area: U. Miss. R.
1875, Fulton-Burlington
Owner: Diamond Jo Line
Captains: 1864- William Fleming, Lancing, Mi.
*For a time, Master, Joseph Reynolds (Diamond Jo);John Killeen, Mate
1875-78, Ben Conger; clerk, Al Conger
1878-83, R.F. Isherwood
* Near end piloted by Oscar M. Ruby
Comments: Was 2nd boat of the line.
: * Was briefly in the Davidson Line, under Capt. E.H. Thomas,
: * Also was briefly under the Minnesota Packet Company, then briefly
under the North Western Union Packet Company.
: 1869, Just above Dubuque, snagged and sunk. Raised.
: 1872, Below Keithsburg, Ill, hit some rocks and sank. Raised.
: Machinery went to JOSEPHINE
Source:* Much of this info from an article by
William Petersen in The Palimpsest
Name: DIANA
Launched 1828, Brush Creek, Ohio
Owner: Capt. Joseph Swager
Name: DIANA
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size:
Destroyed: ?*1836, Oct. Snagged 2-1/2 mi above Rocheport Mo. at
what is now known as Diana Bend.? Dates conflict between sources.
Area: Miss., Mo. and Ohio Rs.
Owner: Capt. Joseph Swager.
Captain(s): 4. *1838, Joseph Swager
Shallcross, John
Companies Associated with: ?American Fur Co.?
Comments: Built for Cincinnati and Louisville Packet Co. by
Capt. Swager, Joseph, one of the founders of line.
Comments: from Boone's Lick Heritage Quarterly.
: boat was built at cost of $37,000. Made $25,000 in 1st. season.
: 4. Captured reward of $500 in gold from U.S. Postal
service for being first steamboat to make New Orleans-Louisvill in under
6 days. Did it in 183?8? in 05/23/15.
Name: DIANA
Launched: 1840, after or 1850s?
Area: Ohio R. and Miss. R. and Mo. R.
Owner: Lightning Line
3. Name: DIANA
Launched: 1840's mid?
Area: Sacramento R. Calf.
Comments: 1849, Aug. 31, Listed in the Alta Californian as plying trade
on the waters of the Sacramento R.
Name: DIANA
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 296 tons
Power: 30-1/2's - 8 ft., 4 boilers, each 42" X 28-1/2'
Launched: 1845 for owner, Capt Joseph Swager
Destroyed: 1850, Jan. 23, Pilot Station, New Orleans, lost in collision
with OHIO.
Area: Louisville-New Orleans
Owner: Capt. Joseph Swager
Name: DIANA
Launched: 1849, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1864, off the lists.
1. Name: DIANA/ROSALIE JUDSON
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 257' X 37' X 7.'
Power: 28's- 9 ft. Wheels: 37' dia. w/12-1/2' buckets and 30" dip.
Launched: 1857, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1867, off the lists.
Area: 1857, Louisville-New Orleans
Owners: 1857, principally, Capt Edward T. Sturgeon
1862, Dec. 6, Sold to USQMD
1866, Apr. 14, sold to private interests and renamed ROSALIE JUDSON
Captains: 1857, 1850, Edward T. Sturgeon
Comments: 1858, raced the BALTIC
1858, June, was present and picked up survivors when PENNSYLVANIA
blew up.
1860: Drive Shaft accident aboard the Diana.
During Civil War was Union troop transport and supply boat.
Name: DIANA
1858-1863
Name: DIANA
1865-1878
Name: DIANA
1870-post 79
Name: DIANA
1894-??
Name: DIANNA
1880-??
1. Name: DICK BROWN
Type: Stern-wheel wooden hull packet
Size: 132' X 24' X 4.5'
Power: Compound engines, 8-1/2's 15's- 15 ft. by Marietta Mfg.
Launched: 1893, Harmar, Oh. by Knox Yard
Destroyed: 1900, June 23, Sedamsville, Oh., sank
Area: When new, local trade out of Huntington, W. Va.
Later, Cincinnati-Kentucky R.
Owners: The Browns
Later sold to the White Collar Line, Cincinnati
Comments: Machinery went to the ROBERT TAYLOR
1. Name: DICK FOWLER
Type: stern-wheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 175' X 31' X 6.5'
Power: Engines, 16's- 6'. Three Boilers, each 42" dia. by 26 ft.
Launched: 1892, Evansville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1911, Nov. sank in wind storm.
Area: 1893-1912, Cairo-Paducah
Owners: The Fowlers of Paducah, Ky.
1911, June, Purchased by Capt. Ralph Emerson
Captains: Ben Howard
1905, R.D. Crider
Comments: Bell was from W.P. HALLIDAY. Whistle from the IDLEWILD.
: Speed trials -
Cairo-Evansville, 14 hr., 7 min. beating the IDLEWILD by 42 min.
1896, Apr. 10, raced SPREAD EAGLE, Paducah-Cairo. Won by 9 min.
After that she wore antlers on her roof with a sign "Take Them If You Can."
Nobody did.
Name: DICKY or DICKEY
Type: Size: 255'
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson, shopkeeper,
Commerce Mo.
- Saturday night, March 23d, 1861. " . . . The Dicky came
up with the mail about 5 o'clock."
- Tuesday Night, March 26th., '. . . The Dickey landed about
half an hour after dark going down, put off the mail and
John Jehlen with a lot of groceries, also groceries for
Woods and Newman. . . . "
- Tuesday Night, April 2nd, 1861. "Business dull. Weather
rainy. The Dickey came down about 2 o'clock, took Hess
Isobel on for Hickman, put off mail and shoved out upon
the bossom of the deep.
- Saturday Night, April 4th, 1861. "The Dickey and (E.M.)
Ryland both landed at the same time about 4 o'clock. . . . "
- Tuesday Night, April 9th, 1861. "River rising. Boats thick.
Dickey landed 3 o'clock, put off some freight and mail. . . . "
- Tuesday Night, April 16th, 1861. "Business dull. River on
stand. Boats plenty. Intelligence came thismorning on the
Dickey that it was a mistake about Anderson being killed, but
true that Fort Sumpter had been taken and its inmates being
taken prisoners.
- Tuesday Night, April23rd, 1861. "Business tolerable.
River faling. Some boats running. Dickey landed down
about 6 o'clock, put off Mr. Eversol and Mrs. Swinney.
Bad news with reguard to war."
- Saturday Night, April 27th, 1861. "Business has been
tolerable good today. River falling. Weather rainy. Boats
running. Dickey went up about 11 o'clock today with a
number of emiguants on her from the South, they being sent
from there because they would not join the army. . . ."
- Saturday, May 4th, 1861. "Business dull. Weather good.
The Dickey came up in due time and the Memphis down,
weather looks very gloomy."
- Tuesday Night, May 7th, 1861. "Business dull. Weather fine.
River on stand. Diockey went down this afternoon. . . ."
- Wednesday Night, May 14th, 1861. "Business Dull. River
rising. Weather fine. Dickey sailed."
- Wednesday Night, May 15th, 1861. "Business tolerable in
bacon and butter. River rising very fast. Memphis up today.
Dickey down with good mail. Learned the Southerners were
taken prisoners in St. Louis."
- Sunday Night, May 16th, 1861. ". . . Dickey went up today,
weather rainy most of the day but cleared in the evening
fine and nice. . . ."
Name: DIME
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: DISCOVERY III
Type: Sternwheeler replica
Size: Beam 34', length: 156', Draft 3', #passengers 900
Speed: 14 knts. 3 enclosed decks, 1 open deck, 2 galleys,
9 rest rooms, 1 gift shop
Launched: 1987 Power 2, 540 h.p. 12V71 Detriot Diesels
Area: Alaska
Captain and pilots: Capt. Jim Binkley, Skip Binkley, Jim Binkley
Jr., Johne Binkley
Comments: For more on Alaskan Riverboats, see Alaskan Riverboats
Name: DIRECTOR
Launched: 1850s?
Area: Panama; ?
Owner: Vanderbilt, Cornelius
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Name: DISPATCH
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet Size: 45 tons
Launched: 1846, Freedom, Pa.
Destroyed: 1854, off the lists
Area: 1848, Jan., tri-weekly, Pittsburgh-Monongahela City, Pa.
Owner: 1846, first owners, Andrew Leach, Jr., William Bell, Thomas Smith and
George Bradshaw, all of Allegheny City, Pa.
Captains: 1848, Jan., John Nelson
Comments: Boat became associated with Leechburg coal mine above Elizabeth
and towed coal barges.
1. Name: DIURNAL
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 170' X 24' X 5.' 199 tons.
Power: Engines 18's- 7ft, from the LOUIS McLANE. Three Boilers, each 40" X 24'
Launched: 1850, Nov.Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1863, Sept. 12, St. Charles, Ark., burned.
Area: When new - 1857, Pittsburgh-Wheeling
Owners: 1852, Capt. Thomas D. Calhoon, Georgetown, Pa. and others
1857, Capt, James H. Sholes and others
Later Capts. John and David McDonald and others
Captains: When new, Willis S. Conwell
1854, A.S. Shepard
Comments: Was run as towboat for coal under Capts. John and David McDonald
1. Name: DIURNAL
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 200'X 31.3' X 4.
Launched: 1879, Harmar, Oh/Wheeling W. Va. for Capt. John K. Booth
Destroyed: 1885 - Grassy Flats, above Louisville, sank and lost.
Area: 1879: Ohio R., Wheeling, W. Va. to St Mary's
Wheeling-Parkersburg
Owners: When new, Capt. John K. Booth,
1884, 1/4, Capt. J. Mack Gamble
Captain(s): 1879, A.B. Booth, Muhleman
: 1884 or 5, Master, J. Mack Gamble, *possibly with Capts. Ike Fisher and Mike
Davis as pilots.
Companies Associated with: 1879 or so, Wheeling & Parkersburg Packet Company.
: 1885 or so, chartered to Louisville & Evansville Packet Company
Comments: Notes from WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
: Mentioned in LDS Document and Here
Name: DIXIE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 130.8' X 24.4' X 4.2', 106 tons.
Launched: 1860, Cincinnati, Oh.
Area: 1865, Shreveport-Jefferson connecting with the BART ABLE for New Orleans
Destroyed: 1871, out of service.
Owners: When new, Capt. S. H. Parisot and others
1865, Capt. J.D. Wilbanks
Later, various owners
Comments: Was Confederate transport during Civil War. See
: see Note
Name: DIXIE
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Area: Coosa River
Comments: Above picture is the source for this boat's listing.
Name: DIXIE Web Site
Type: Sternwheel steel hull paddlewheeler Size: 78' X 25' X 22", 35 tons
Launched: 1929, North Webster, Indiana
Area: Boat has operated on Webster Lake, North Webster, Indiana
since it was built. There is no way out of the 1,000 acre lake.
Owners: 1929-39 Joseph Breek; 1939-49, Jay Knapp; 1949-59, Earl Ungeright
1959-1981, Ernest "Tag" Huffman; 1981-87, Walter Nellessen;
1987-92, Greg Van Pelt; 1992- present, Dan Thystrup
Captains: 1959-80, Tag Huffman; 1983-86, Steve Huffman
Comments: The Dixie is still operating as an excursion. In the early
years the Dixie had a small grocery store aboard and
delivered mail to residents opposite the town side of
the lake. The Dixie was converted to diesel-electric in
1949. A large electric motor powers the chain driven
paddlewheel. (when chain-driven sternwheelers first
appeared in the 1890's they were called "Bicycle boats").
Name: DIXON PHOTO BOAT
Area: 1900-10 aprox., out of Memphis on Miss. R.
Owner: Jesse Dixon or Dickson
Comments: This info from site visitor Glen B Nicholas
1. Name: DR. BUFFINGTON
Type: Sidewheeler, Wooden hull packet Size: 175 X 32 X 5
Launched: 1857, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1862, Dec. lost on White R. (See ** below)
Area: 1857-61, New Orleans - Grand Encore; 1861, N. O. - White R.
Owner: 1857, Buffington, A. J. of New Orleans
*1860, Avant, Nathan T. of Union, Ark.
*1860, Dec. 4, Buffington, A.J., again.
1861. Witherington, A.L. of Carrollton, La.
Captain: 1858, Moore, L.T.
*1860, March, 28, - 1861 Avant, Nathan T.
*1861, Witherington, A.L.
Comments: From site visitor:
*"I have a letter from the National Archives addressed to
my Mother in 1940 when she was asking for information
on the Dr. Buffington. They replied that the Doctor
Buffingtion was built in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1857. A.J.
Buffington was the original owner. On March 28,1860,
Nathan T. Avant of Union Co. Arkansas became the owner
and master. On December 4,1860, A.J. Buffington was
again the owner and Nathan T. Avant was master.
**The Doctor Buffington may have been one of six vessels sunk
by Confederate forces in December,1862, to obstruct the
channel of the White River and also to prevent capture
by the Federal forces.
I have spoons off of the Steamer Doctor Buffington.
I would like to find out more if possible but have been
hitting dead ends.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks",
Sarah Jane Brown
Comments: Also mentioned here
Name: DR. BURLEIGH
Area: 1876 or so, Mo. R., replaced the BELLE of LEXINGTON as ferry from
Yankton, S.D. to Green Island, Neb.
Later, Pierre du ?Chaine?sp.
1877 or so, returned to 1875 work, temorarily.
Comments: This info from Bob Karolevitz's column The Way It Was,
believed to have been in a 1995 Yankton. S.D.. newspaper.
1. Name: DR. FRANKLIN
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 280 tons.
Launched: 1843, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1846, Mar. 8, New Orleans, burned.
Area: Cincinnati-New Orleans
Captains: Master, John Blair Summons, Jr.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: DR. FRANKLIN
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 156' X 24' X 4.1', 149 tons.
Launched: 1847, Wheeling, Va., Dunlevy and McNaughton Yard.
Destroyed: 1854, May 7, McCartney, Wiss., Collision with GALENA
Area: U. Miss. R.
1847, Wheeling-Cincinnati
1847- Galena-St. Paul trade
Owner: 1847, Built by Capt. John McClure of Wheeling
1847, fall, sold to Galena, Dubuque and Minnesota Packet Company
1854, Galena & Minnesota Packet Co.
Captains: 1847- Master, M.W. Lodwick brother of Kennedy Lodwick; clerk, Russel BlakelyKennedy Lodwick
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: DR. FRANKLIN No. 2
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet
Size: 173' X 26.5' X 4.3'
Launched: 1848, Wheeling, Va.
Destroyed: 1853, July 7, St. Louis, burned.
Area: U. Miss. R.
Owner: 1848, Built by Capt John McClure of Wheeling
1848 or 49, winter, sold to The Harris Bros., Smith, Scribe and Meeker.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
: 1852 boiler explosion on Mo. R.? See query about it.
Please let me know if you know anything about this incident.
Name: DOCTOR MASSIE
Area: Under John Clemens, Neches R., Tex.
Owners: *between 1852 and 57 purchased by Capt. John Clemens
Name: DONALD B
Type: Sternwheeler Size:
Area: Kentucky
Comments: 9/3/98, There is a rumour that this National Historic Landmark
sternwheeler may soon be put up for sale.
The only bear still made in America
1. Name: DORA
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet/ferryboat. Size: small
Power: 17" X 34", 1 boiler
Launched: 1872, by J.D. Hibbler and Capt. August Wohlt
Destroyed: 1877, after, Madison Crossing, 17 mi. above St. Louis, burned
when an oil lamp exploded.
Owners: originally, J.D. Hibbler and Capt. August Wohlt
after sinking, sold to Washington Ferry Company, Washington, Mo.
Comments: 1877, Jan. 22, Mouth of Charlotte Creek, Mo. sunk by ice, raised.
Name: DORA CABLER
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: unknown
Launched: 1877, Cincinnati, Oh. for Capt James W. Lowell
Area: Built for and remained in Cincinnati-Evansville trade
Owners: Capt James W. Lowell
Captains: 1879, Master, Thomas H. Armstrong
Comments: had machinery and calliope from JULIA NO. 2
: see Ad
Name: DORRANCE
Area: 1862, May 3 was used to transport the 2nd. Alabama Light Artillery Brigade
from a factory at the mouth of Dog River to Ft. Gaines.
Source: The History of Lumsden's Battery, by Dr. George Little and James R. Maxwell
Name: DORTHY
Type: FERRY BOAT Size:
Launched: 1887. in Boonville, Mo., by builder John J. Walther.
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: DOTTI G.
Type: Sternwheel excursion boat Size: 68'
Launched: 1984, Utica, Ind.
Area: 1999Aurora, Ind.
Captains: Conrad Gerdes
Comments: 1999, Took part in Tall Stacks Cellebration.
Name: DOVER
Area: Pittsburg; Allegheny R.
Captain(s): Marsh, Grant
Name: DREW
Type: Side-wheeler
Launched: 1864?
Owner: Drew, Daniel
Comments: 2 storey Main saloon
1. Name: DUBUQUE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 230' X 35' x 5.5', 602 Tons.
Power: 20's- 7 ft., Wheels were 26' with 10' buckets
Launched: 1867, Hull at Wheeling, W. Va.. Completed at Pittsburg for
Northern Line Packet Company
Destroyed: 1879, Mar. 4, Alton Slough, burned with LAKE SUPERIOR while
being readied for spring season.
Area: U. Miss. R.
Companies associated with: Northern Line Packet Company
Keokuk Northern Line
Captains: 1867, April, Master, Capt. J.W. Parker
*At one time piloted by Oscar. M Ruby
At one time, Thomas B, Hill
Comments: Hull by Dunlevy & Co.. Engines by Snowden & Co.
Cabin landscape paintings by Emil Botts.
Capt. Richard C. Gray superintended construction.
: 1867, May 4, first trip, hit Rock Island bridge crippling
starboard engine and sustaining other damage.
Name: DUBUQUE/CAPITOL orginally the PITTSBURGH
:1879-
Name: DUCHESS
1846-50
Name: DUCHESS
1853-66
Name: DUCHESS/PETREL
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 226 tons.
Power: Machinery from the JACOB POE
Launched: 1862, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1864, Apr. 22, Yazoo R., captured and burned by Confederates
Owners: Built for Capt. John H. Rhoads.
1862, Dec. 22, Cincinnati, taken over by U.S.
Captains: When new, on first and only up-river trip as a packet,
Pittsburgh-Cincinnati, J.H. Lightner
Comments: U.S. renamed this boat, tinclad PETREL
Name: DUCK
Launched: Pre 1877
Area: 1877, U, White R., then Black R.
Captains: 1877, John T. Warner
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: DUFFY
Click to enlarge
From
The James E. York Post Card Collection
Name: DUKE of ORLEANS
Comments: Made run N.O. - Louisville 1843, 5/23/0
Name: DUNCAN S. CARTER
Type: Side-wheeler Size: 221' X 33', 428 tons.
Launched: 1858, Mound City Ill. by Howard Yard
Power: 20-1/2's- 7 ft., 3 boilers.
Destroyed: 1859, Aug. 28, Augusta Bend on down-trip from Weston
Mo. to St. Louis. Snagged. Boat and cargo total loss.
Boat valued at $44.000.
Area: Mo. R. trade.
: 1858, St. Louis - Leavenworth, Ks.
Owner: Capt. William Pierre Edds/Eads, Jr. and Eardly O. Sayle
Captain: William Eads/Edds
Comments: Built for Kansas and Leavenworth, Ks. trade
From the Missouri Republican, Feb. 22, 1858
Name: DURA
Type, Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 70' X 14'
Area: cir. 1893 - Sabine R., Tex.
Owner: Capt. George Wolford
Later, Capt. John G.White
Comments: See Article
Name: DUROCK
Type: Side-wheeler
Destroyed: 1852. Snagged at St. Charles Bend
Area: Mo. R.
Captain(s): McCloy, John
