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Name: H. WEBER
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 79' X 13' X 2'
Launched: 1870, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1886, still documented, Evensville.
Area: Wabash R.
Owner: 1871, Fletcher, Andrew and Americus of Noble, Ill.
Captain(s): 1870 - 1871, Jan. Smith, Joseph
Comments: 1871, Jan., Stranded on Wabash R.. Sold while thusly situated.
Credit: Way's Packet Directory, 1848 - 1994
Name: H.B. PLANT
Area: 1884, Parkersburg, W. Va. trade
Captains: 1884, Sept., Benjamin F. Hall
Comments: Mentioned in one paragraph of this Document
Name: H. C. COLEMAN
Launched: 1880s?
Destroyed: 1884, Mo. R., near Rocheport, Mo, in the Diana Bend.
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Name: H. D. MEANS
Launched: Between 1855 and 1865 in Wheeling, W. Va..
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING INTELLIGENCER, June 24, 1951
1. Name: H. HANNA BLANKS
Type: Sternwheeler, wooden hull, packet
Size: 155' X 34' X 5.5'
Power: Engines, 14's-6 ft. by C.T. Dunmont, two boilers
each 42" X 26 ft., two 16" flues
Launched: 1880, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1889, Dec. 19, Ouachita R., sank
Area: 1884- 1889, N.O.-Ouachita R.
Owner: 1880, Blanks, Capt. Jack W.
Captains: 1884, Delahoussaye, L.P.; 1885, Cooley, L.V.
Clerk: 1884, Stonewall Hanna
Comments: Cabin by Elias Ealer
: The boat was named for Henry Blanks, owner's younger brother,
for owner's 32 month old son, and for John H. Hanna, a
New Orleans grain merchant.
Name: H. J. LEASURE
Launched: 1870's?
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Note from the WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER,
June 24, 1951
1. Name: H. K. BEDFORD
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size:149' X 27.7' X 4.1'
Launched: 1885, Jeffersonville, Ind. Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1912, early, Beans Landing, near Marietta, cut down by ice
and lost.
Area: 1885, Cumberland R. Trade
1886, low water trade out of Wheeling W. Va.
1897, Pittsburgh-Wheeling trade,
Later, Under Greene Line, Pittsburgh-Charleston
1898, Pittsburgh-Parkersburg
Owner: 1890, ?June?-1898, Green Line Steamers. Company's 1st boat.
1897, Oct., Greene Line chartered her to Louisville and
Cincinnati Packet Co.
1898-1912, Capt. Henry Kraft and Charles and C. Agustus Frantz, equal.
Captains: 1885, when new, A.T. Armstrong
1890, June, Gordon C. Greene
1897, Mary B Greene, 1st woman capt. to pilot a boat for
Louisville and Cincinnati Packet Co.
1898-1912, Kraft, Henry R.
Name: H. M. HOXIE
Name: H. M. STANLEY
Launched: 1890's?
Area: Ohio R.
Pilot(s):1897, James Rawley, Jr.
Comments: Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Aug. 18 1897
Name: H. R. BEDFORD
Launched: 1880's?
Destroyed: 1890's?
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Note from The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Aug. 18 1897
Name: H. R. THOMPSON - See
Name: H. R. W. HILL
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Destroyed: 1864, dismantled for engines for RU . . .?
Comments: Confederate boat. Captured by North during Battle of
Memphis.
Name: H.S. McCOMB/HENRY MARQUAND
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull railroad transfer boat
Size: 195.8' X 45.6'(70' overall) X 6.6'
Power: Engines, 22's- 8ft. Four boilers, 2 per side.
Launched: 1873, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1927, Mound City, dismantled
Areas: Cairo, Ill.
1925, Neeley's Landing, Mo. as loading barge by Morse Stone and Timber Co.
Owners: Built for Illinois Central R.R. for Cairo, Ill. service
Was Iron Mountain R.R. transfer for many years, Cairo.
1892, sold to Ohio Valley R.R. Co., Evansville, Ind.
c. 1925, purchased by broker John F. Kleine
Captains: 1873, McKinney
While with Iron Mountain R.R., J.J. Gillespie
Comments: Had 2 tracks stem to stern in 25" wide area
: 1896, renamed HENRY MARQUAND
3. Name: H. T. CLAY
Launched: 1840's late? Size: 154 tons.
Area: 1853, Sacramento R. Calif.
Owner(s): 1850s, California Steam Navigation Company
Name: H.W. BUTTORFF/JOHN LEE/PRINCESS
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 160' X 30' X 4.1'
Power: Engines, 13's- 4-1/2 ft.. Two boilers each 44" X 20'.
Launched:1896, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1934, Glenwood, Pa., scrapped.
Area: 1896, Nashville-Paducah
1911, Lee Line ran short trade out of Memphis.
Owners: When new, Ryman Line
1911, Jan., purchased by Lee Line, Memphis and renamed JOHN LEE
then renamed PRINCESS and converted to excursion boat
Later sold to Edgar E. Eaton, Pittsburgh
1928, taken over by Morgan Davis Dock Co., Glenwood, Pa.
Captains: James S. Tyner was master for 15 yrs.
1. Name: HAMBURG
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 206 tons
Launched: 1849, Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1858, Lake Pepin, lost to ice
Area: 1849, Dubuque-St. Paul; 1856-57, St. Louis-St. Paul
Captains: 1855, Estes, J.B.
1856-57, Rowe
1850S, sometime, Malin, John W.
1. Name: HANDY
Type: Sternwheel (1881 Ad shows a sidewheel boat), wooden hull packet
Size: 110.3' X 21.6' X 3.', 99 tons
Launched: 1873, Cincinnati, Oh.
Area: Around Portsmouth, Oh.
*1881, Dec. Vanceburg-Maysville
Owners: Redden Family, Vanceburg, KY.
Later Sold to Salt River concern.
Captains: *1881, Dec., Bruce Redden
Comments: 1886, registered at Wheeling
Name: HANDY No. 2/SPEEDWELL
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 139' X 25.6' X 4.3'
Launched: 1883, Covington, Ind.
Area: Under first owners, Ohio. R.
Under Carr, Kanawha R. Charleston-Montgomery
Owners: At first, Maysville and Vanceburg Packet Company
Later sold to L.A. Carr and others
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
1897, completely rebuilt at Middleport, Oh..
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Mar. 31 1897 and renamed SPEEDWELL
Name: HANNAH See Post Card
Name: HANNIBAL
1844-53
1. Name: HANNIBAL
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 226' X 36' X 7., 497 tons.
Power: 24's- 7 ft., 4 boilers.
Launched: 1856, Belle Vernon, Pa.
Area: Miss. & MO. Rs.
: 1857, May 31, The Diary of E.F. Beadle has arriving Omaha.
Aug. 8, arriving in Omaha from St. Louis.
: 1862, April, Tenn. R., was under command of Union Gen. Wm. T. Sherman.
Comments: The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson storekeeper,
Commerce, Mo.
- Thursday night, March 25th, 1861. " . . . The Hannibal
landed 1/2 past 3 o'clock and took wood till daylight.
Took on 18-3/4 cord wood and at day break took her leave
for New Orleans. . . . "
Name: HANNIBAL CITY
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 563 tons
Launched: 1858, Madison, Ind.
Destroyed: 1864, Sept. 4, Below Lousiana, Mo., snag ripped her entire
hull. Lost.
Area: 1858, St. Louis-Keoduk
Comments: Was Union Boat
: Machinery went to J.H. JOHNSON
: Mentioned in this Article
Name: HARRIET
Type: Sternwheeler Size:
Area: Alabama R.
Comments: 1821, Oct. 22: Became the first boat ever to arrive at
Montgomery on the Alabama River.
Clocked at 6 mph. against curent.
Sorce
:Mentioned Here
Name: HARRIET
Launched: ?1870S, early?
Area: 3. 1871, U. San Joaquine R., Calif.
Name: HARRIET BISHOP, originally the SPIRIT OF ST. CHARLES
Name: HARRISON
Type: Sternwheeler Size:
Area: ?St. Joe R.?
Name: HARRY
Launched: 1880's?
Size: Small
Comments: Mentioned in this Document
: I suspect this is actually the HARRY D. KNOX - D.
1. Name: HARRY D. KNOX
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 117' X 20.6'
Power: Engines, 9-3/4" X 3'
Launched: 1883, Harmar, Oh. at Knox Yard for Capt. O.J. Stowe
Destroyed: 1898, Dismantled
Area: 1883-85, Marietta-Beverly on Muskingum R. with Capt. Stowe,
1885- Parkersburg-Belville
Later went Parkersburg-Ravenswood with Capt. Ed Cooper
1890, Parkersburgh-Ravenswood, Capt. James Edward Wilkerson
1894, Monongahela R., Charleroi-Rice trade
Owners: when new, Capt O.J. Stowe
1884, * Purchased by James H. Owings and Capts. Hod Knowles and Al Slaven
* Capt. Charley Leavitt also had an interest
1890, owners included Wick Hayman and Lon Richie
1894, sold to Monongahela R.
Captains: 1885, Parkersburg-Belville, Ed Cooper
Later, Ed Cooper
: * 1884, July, John Brookhart was schedualed to become her master.
Later, Anthony Meldahl
On Monongahela R., Charles Menges
: At one time, Frank Cooper on Ohio R.
Comments: engines went to ferry CHAMPION No.3, boilers to ADMIRAL DEWEY
: Mentioned several times in this Article
Name: HARRY DEAN, originally the OHIO VALLEY
Name: HARRY JOHNSON See J.H. JOHNSON
Area: 1862 or so, miss. R.. Made trip Hannibal, Mo. - St. Louis
1867, St Louis - Keokuk
Captain: 1867, Ira N. Malin
Comments: Was Union boat.
*Source
Name: HARTFORD
Launched: 1840s?
Area: Miss. R. Comments:
Union gunboat, Farragut's flagship
3.Name: HARTFORD
Launched: 1840s?
Area: 1850's, early, Sacramento R.
Name: U.S.S. HARVEST MOON
Type: Sidewheeler/Union Gunboat
Size: Length,193'; Beam, 29', draft 8'; Depth of hold 10'. Complete Specs
Launched: 1863, November 22 by Joseph W Dyer, Portland, ME
Cost: $99,300
Power: 1 vertical beam engine (41" diameter; 10' stroke)
Speed: Maximum, 15 knots; average 9 knots
Destroyed: 1865, March 1, struck a Confederate torpedo (mine),
Winyah Bay 5 miles SSE of the city of Georgetown,
South Carolina.
Area: 1863 Southeast seaboard rivers
Owner: at launching, Spear, Lang and Delano of Boston
: 1863, Nov.16, Purchased at Boston by Commodore J. B. Montgomery
Captain: At sinking, John K. Crosby
Comments: Pages from Harvest Moon Historical Society's Web Site
Name: HARVEST QUEEN
Type: Stern-wheeler excursion-boat Size:
Area: 1890s, Columbia R.
Comments: 1890, clocked at 4 min for 4 mi. through a rapids at
flood stage.(?) But could do about 23 - 25 under normal
conditions.
Name: HARVESTER Source Postcard
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Name: HATCHEE PLANTER
Launched: 1845, Pittsburg area
Captains: 1847, Howell
Comments: This boat went to the rescue of passengers on the wrecked NEW HAMPSHIRE
The source for this listing is the above advertisment.
Name: HATCHER See MARY L. HATCHER
Name: HATTIE MAY
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 230 tons
Launched: 1862 or 4, Wheeling, W. Va..
Destroyed: 1866, Jan. 12, St. Louis, Mo., lost in ice crush.
Area: Ohio R.
Owner: Northern Packet Line
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING INTELLIGENCER, June 24, 1951
Name: HATTIE B. MOORE
Type: Sternwheeler wooden hull packet Size:
Area: Alabama R.
Owner: Probably The People's Line
Comments: Sister steamer TINSIE MOORE
*Info is from site visitor, Art Green
1. Name: HAVANA
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 390 tons
Launched: Hull at Parkersburg, W. Va.; 1863, Completed, Wheeling, W.Va.
Destroyed: 1869, Aug. 16, Parlor Grove near north Bend Oh., Burned
Area: Louisville-Nashville trade, and Ohio and Cumberland Rs.
Owner: 1863, Sweeneys of Wheeling; 1864, W.E. Gibson & Co. of Aurora, Ind.
Captain; 1864-69, Malin, Ira
1. Name: HAWK-EYE STATE
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: *223' x 25.3' x 5.7, 523.23 tons
Power: *22's-7 ft.
Launched: 1860, Shousetown, Pa. for Northern Packet Line by Capt. Richard
C. Gray
Dismantled: cir. 1870. Engines went to the LAKE SUPERIOR
Area: U. Miss. R.
Owner: 1860, when built, Northern Packet Line Company
Captains: 1861, Richard C. Gray
1867, Jones Wordon
Comments: Made run St. Louis - St. Paul 1868 2/20/0. This record
never was beaten.
:*National Arcives show boat as HAWK EYE STATE. The name on the
boat was HAWK-EYE STATE.
:*Sister ship to SUCKER STATE with which a speed rivalry was maintained.
: Engines went to the LAKE SUPERIOR
*Jones Worden's Steamboats and Steamboating Career by Frederick J. Worden
Name: HAZEL DELL
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 148.5'X 29.8'X 4.4'
Launched: 1857, California, PA.
Destroyed: 1866, Jan. 5, Demopolis, Ala., Snagged and lost. 4 lives lost.
Area: 1858, Louisville - Owensboro. Also went to St. Paul
1861, Pittsburgh - Cincinnati
1862, Jan. Along with MAMORA and KENTON, was Union transport for
2nd Kentucky Regiment, Charleston, W. Va. - Jeffersonville, Ind.
1862, April, Tenn. R., was under command of
Union Gen. Wm. T. Sherman on Tenn. R.
Owners: Originally by the Rees family, and James P. and Wm. F. Richardson,
All of Pittsburg.
1865, Aug., sold to Alabama R.
Captains: 1861, Metcalf
1865, I. M. Davies of Mobile, Ala.
Comments: 1864, Aug. wind destroyed stacks and parts of cabins,
overhauled, Madison, Ind.
Name: HAZEL RICE
Launched: 1890's?
Area: Ohio R., Zanesville, Ohio.
Owner: Captains Wallace and Scott
Comments: Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Aug. 18 1897
Name: HAZEL L. WATSON
Type: Propeellor driven, wooden hull packet. Size: 70' X 10' x 3'
Power: Engines, 9"-3ft.
Launched: 1901, Allegheny, Pa.
Destroyed: 1918, Feb. 10, Rice's Landing. Lost in ice.
Area: Monon and Monongahela Rivers
1909, Brownsville-Rice's Landing
Owners: 1901, Capt. John O. Watson
1907, Capt. John O. Watson and Capt. William Syphers
1809, Capt. William H. Syphers
Later, Crosan Construction Co.
Captains: 1901-?09?, John O. Watson
1809, William Syphers
Name: HEADLIGHT
Launched: 1865?
Destroyed: 1868??
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: River and Railway Transportation Company ie:
McPherson, Henry, Joseph L. Stephens and C. W. Sombart
Captain(s): McPherson, Henry
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
* Name: HECLA? HEOLA?
Size: 120 tons
Launched: 1818, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1823, worn out
3. Name: HELEN
Launched: 1850's early
Area: 1855, Sacramento R. Calif.
Owner(s): 1856, California Steam Navigation Company
Name: HELEN BLAIR originally the URANIA
1896-1920
Name: HELEN E/CLAIRMONT Source
Launched: 1913
Area: 1918 - 1930: Ohio R., Wheeling, W. Va. to Matamoras
Comments: 1934, Renamed the CLAIRMONT (Way's Packet Directory, p. 210.)
Name: HELLEN M. GOULD Originally the SPEEDWELL
Name: HELEN MAR
Launched: 1870s?
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: became a raftboat.
* Name: HELEN McGREGOR
Size: 340 tons
Power: High pressure
Launched: 1825, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1830, blew up near Memphis
Name: HELENA
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 194 x 33 x 4.5.
Launched: 1878, California, Pa.
Destroyed: 1891, Oct. 23, snagged at Bonhomme Island, sunk.
Area: Upper Mo. R., Osage R., Mo.
Owners: T.C. Powers and Bros., Powers Packet Line
1880, Benton Transportation Line?;
1887, May 6. Sold to A.S. Bryan and others, Washington, Mo..
Captain(s): Thomas C. Powers, James McGarry
: 1891, Geary W. Murray
1891, when sunk, Master, G.W. Murry; pilot, Ed Anderson.
Comments: 1880, at Milk River Landing 460 mi. below Fort Benton.
1880 at Bismark ferrying train passengers across river
to Mandan.
Transported Sioux Indians to reserations.
1884, was the first spring arrival at Fort Benton, coming
in a week ahead of others.
Comments: More About The HELENA
: Mentioned in this Article.
Name: HELENA, Originally the J.B.M. KEHLOR
renamed HELENA in 1881
Name: HELIOPOLIS
Type: Snagboat Size:
Launched: 1820s
Owner: U. S. Government
Captain and pilots: Capt. Shreve, Henry
* Name: HENDERSON
Size: 124 tons
Launched: 1818, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1825, worn out
Name: HENDERSON
Launched: 1912
Area: Columbia R.
Comments: handled 5,000 ships during W. W. II as tugboat
Name: HENDRICK HUDSON
Name: HENRIETTA
Launched: 1870s?
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: Became raftboat.
HENRY AMES
Type: Sidewheeler/ wood hull
Size: Length: 260.7'; Width: 22.4'?; Draft: 7.6'; Tons: 777
Launched: 1864 at Carondelet, Mo.
Destroyed: 1874, Aug., Waterproof, La.: Snagged and sank. 2 died.
Area: L. Miss R. St. Louis to New Orleans
Owner: Stockholders in St. Louis and Jefferson City, Mo
Captains: 1864: Crawford, Thomas L.
1873: Jacobs, J. West
Comments: 1864, June 30: Snagged and raised
1865, April, late, Cleared Memphis with 1.300 Union
soldiers/prisoners heading upriver and home, just
before the doomed SULTANA arrived to pick hers up.
More information: from Way's Packet Directory, compiled by
John Hartford, river musician.
Name: HENRY BLAKE
Area: Mo. R.
1. Name: HENRY C. YEAGER
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 260.7' X 50' X 8.'.
Power: Hartupee compound engines, 15's-33's-6 ft.
Launched: 1870, Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1880, Mar. 22, about, near Grand Tower, Ill., holed by a log while at
docks for repair. Towed across river where she sank.
Area: St. Louis-New Orleans.
Owner: Capt. William J. Kountz
Captains: I.C. Vanhook
Comments: boat was too long for Monon R. Locks.
Was of unusual design and primarily freight boat.
Name: HENRY CLAY
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1831
Destroyed: 1852, July 28, blew up during race with ARMENIA.
Name: HENRY CLAY
Area: 1857, St. Louis - St Paul
Owners: 1857, Northern Packet Company
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: HENRY CLAY
Type: sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 181' X 31'
Launched: 1858, McKeesport, Pa. for Northern Line.
Destroyed: 1863, Apr. 22, burned and lost while running batteries at Vicksburg
Area: 1858, U. Miss. R.
*1862, Mar. 30, was near Alton
Owners: 1858, Northern Line Packet Company
Captains: 1858, first season, James W. Campbell
1858-59, Charles Stephenson
1861, C.B. Goll
Name: HENRY FRANK
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 276' X 52' X 10.5'
Power: Engines, 28-14's- 9ft. Six boilersm each 42" X 28', 5 flues.
Wheel: 30' dia., working 39' buckets with 28" dip
Machinery came from AJAX
Launched: 1878, Cincinnati, Oh. at the Mack Yard
Destroyed: 1884, Oct. 2, 22 mi. above N.O., burned at Davis Creek Island Bend
Area: Miss. R.
Owners: 1878, Capt. J. Frank Hicks
Captains: 1878, J. Frank Hicks
Comments: Designed to carry cotton Memphis-New Orleans
: Named for a businessman of the South.
: 1st. trip was 1878, Oct. 28, departed Cincinnati.
: 1881, Apr. 2, took to New Orleans 9,226 bales of cotton,
the largest ever handled by a packet. Plus 250 tons of other cargo.
Name: HENRY HARLEY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 160' X 29' X 3.2'
Power: Engines, 12's- 4', two boilers, each 42" X 22'
Launched: 1898, Jeffersonville, Ind. at Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1917, Jan. 13, blown ashore in heavy ice and lost
Owners: Built for Capt. J.R. Handly and family, Nashville-Burnside
Later went to Ryman Line
Captains: first was William T. Hunter
Comments: Was laid up at Nashville when line took bankruptcy
Name: HENRY M. SHREVE
Launched:1860s?
Area: 1869, Mo. R.
Captain and pilots: Capt. H. S. Carter
Comments: 1867, spr. took 67 days to reach Ft. Benton.
Name: HENRY M. STANLEY
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 180' X 32.4' X 5.5.
Power: Engines, from JOHN HANNA
Launched: 1890, Murrysville, W. Va. at Flesher Yard
Destroyed: 1907, Sept. 3, downbound at Gallipolis Island, hit dredgeboat in fog.
Efforts to raise her were being made when she burned.
Area: At first, Cincinati-Charleston trade
1904, Cincinnati-Pomeroy-Charleston trade under Green Line.
Owners: Built for the Bay Bros.
1895, purchased by Fred M. Laidley, manager of the White Collar Line
1904, Purchased by Green Line Steamers.
Comments: 1900, Feb. 1, hit Southern Bridge, Cincinnati. Sank.
1 life lost. Raised Mar. 20.
1900, Apr. 4, Rising Sun, Ind., collided with coal tow. Sank
Apr. 10, raised.
: Whistle went to first ISLAND QUEEN. Machinery went to the GREENLAND
Name: HENRY MARQUAND, originally the H.S. McCOMB
3. Name: HENSLEY
Launched: 1850's early
Area: 1854, Sacramento R. Calif.
Owner(s): 1856, California Steam Navigation Company
Name: HERALD
Launched: 1820s?
Area: Miss. R.
Name: HESPERIAN
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 218' X 33'.
Power: 23's- 7 ft., 3 boilers.
Launched: 1857, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1860, Aug. 19, Atchison, Kans., burned.
Area: 1857, fall, St. Louis-Omaha, on Mo. R.
: 1857, The Diary of E.F. Beadle has her arriving Omaha, Aug. 15.
Companies associated with: 1858, St. Louis and St. Joseph Packet Line.
Captains: 1857, fall, F.B. Kercheval with Grant Marsh as mate.
1858, same master.
Name: HETTIE GILMORE
Name: HERCULES
Type: A small gas powered, wooden hull towboat
Area: Coosa R.
Owner: Col. R.B. Kyle's Lumberyard
Comments: Source
Name: HEROINE
Launched: cir. 1832, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1838, May, on the Red River, hit by log and sunk between Jonesburough, Tex.
and Ft. Towson, Indian Territory.
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 140' X 36'
Power: Single High-Pressure Cylinder. Stroke: 4 feet 9 inches (1.4 meters)
Paddlewheels 15'
Area: Under Owner Diller, Louisville - New Orleans
1838, Winter, running packer service between Vicksburg and ports on Red R.
Owners: When new, Jeremiah Diller, A sucessful Louisville cabinet maker.
Comments: Said to have been carrying supplies for U.S. Troops when sunk.
: Carried supplies and volunteer troops for the Texas Revolution.
: Excavation is in progeress, 03/26/06. Artifacts and models,
will be displayed at Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City, Okla.
: Source
Name: HIAWATHA
1856-1863
Name: HIAWATHA
1882-1911
Name: HIAWATHA
On the Brazos River in Brazoria County, Texas
1890-post 1902
Area: Brazos R. Texas
Name: HIAWATHA
Type: Sidewhee, wooden hull
Launched: 1904, St. Paul Minn.
Destroyed: 1918 still documented
Area: St. Paul
Name: HIBERNIA
1844-51
Name: HIBERNIA
1856-58
1. Name: HIBERNIA No. 2
Type: Sidewheeler wooden hull packet
Size: 217' X 27' X 5.4'
Launched: 1847, Shousetown, Pa.
Area: 1847, Pittsburgh - Cincinnati, 1849: Ohio R.
1852 - Missouri R. out of St. Louis
Owner: 1847, David Holmes, William Frampton, George R. Massey
William Bingham and M. Klinefelter, all of Pittsburgh
and Thomas Arbuckle of Brooks County, Va.
1849, Capt. C.W. Batchelor acquired stock
Captains: 1847, John Klinefelter,
1849-52, C.W. Batchelor
1852, Herman Price
Comments: 1854, Feb. 3, Was in St. Louis ice jam. Do not know if this
destroyed her.
: From Wheeling Daily Gazett, Feb. 7, 1849
: 1849, made record run Cincinnati - Pittsburg in 46hr., 15min..
Wheeling - Pittsburg 9hr., 29min..
: "This boat figures in the famed Wheeling Bridge case as her
stacks were damaged by striking that structure, thereby setting
off the fireworks which resulted in a case before the U.S.
Supreme Court.
Attorney Edwin M. Stanton, later Lincoln's Secretary of War,
was aboard at the time the smokestacks were struck and many
felt he ordered the collision to produce an actual grievance."
: 1849, July, Pittsburgh, Pa, pilot Jesse Klinefelter died aboard as she
was landing with cholera aboard.
: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: HIBERNIA
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 135' X 25' X 4.'
Power: Engines, 12's- 4 1/2', from the J. M. CAMDEN, 2 boilers
Launched: 1881, Rock Castle, W. Va.
Destroyed: 1899, Oct. 29, after being tied up at mouth of Yazzo Canal,
Kleinston, Miss., burned.
Area: 1881, Gallipolis-Marietta
: 1885, Gallipolis-Parkersburg
: Later ran out of Kentucky R. with BLUE WING
: Later under Parisot Line, Belzoni trade.
: Under Capt. Britton, A few trips on Sunflower R.
Owners: Late in her life, Parisot Line.
Later still, Capt. James Britton
Captains: 1881, Alf Day. Later that year and through 1883, W.A. Maddy
: 1885, G.B. McClintock with J.M. Deem as clerk
: Later on Kentucky R., Joel Wall and possibly Elmer E. Varian
Comments: After 1885 went through several sales until Parisot Line purchased.
: Mentioned in this Document and in this Article
* Name: HIGHLAND LADDIE
Size: 80 tons
Power: High pressure
Launched: 1924, Cincinnati, Oh.
Name: HIGH FLYER
Launched: 1850s?
Area: Miss. R.
Owner: United States Mail Line
* Name: HIGHLAND LADDIE
Size: 80 tons
Power: High pressure
Launched: 1824, Cincinnati, Oh.s
Name: HIGHLAND MARY
Launched: 1848
Destroyed: 1856, late Feb, Torn from docks and swept downstream in
ice flow during Great Ice Gorge at St. Louis.
Crushed and sunk.
Area: U. Miss. and Mo. Rs.
Captain(s): 1849 - 50 or so, Mark Atchison
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
: 1849, Apr. 9, Arrived at St Paul, Minn.
: 1850, Apr 19, Arrived at St. Paul, Minn.
Name: HIGHLAND MARY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 142' X 31' X 5.5'
Power: Engines, 5.5 condensing by Griggith & Wedge, Zanesville, Oh.
Scotch Marine Boiler
Launched: 1894, Harmar Oh. by Knox Yard
Area: Built for Pittsburgh-Zanesville trade. Made only on trip that trade.
1894, summer, went to excursions, Zanesville
Owners: Capts. William W. Richardson, George Wallace, Dana Scott,
Lou Myrick, John rice and Charles S. Beckwith
1894, Sept. sold to Magdalena R., South America
Comments: Was towed to South America across the gulf by tug B.D. WOOD
Name: HIGHLANDER
Size: 120 tons
Power: High pressure
Launched: 1829, Pittsburgh
Area: 1829, Nov. 10th - 17th, ran Ohio R., Cincinnatti - Pittsburg
Comments: See letter excerpt.
Name: HILL CITY
Type: sternwheel wooden hull packet
Area: Coosa R.
Captains: William M. Elliot
Comments: Source
Name: HILL CITY Originally the CITY OF MONROE
Name: HILTON
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Apr. 28 1897
Name: HINDOO
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 199 tons
Launched: 1849, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1855, Jan. 28, Ste. Genevieve, Mo., snagged and lost.
Area: Pittsburgh-St. Louis
Owner: *1945-52, sometime between, Capt. Hugh Campbell
Captains: *1945-52, sometime between, Hugh Campbell
Comments: * From Campbell family records.
Name: HINDS
Launched: 1830s, late?
Destroyed: 1840, Friday, May 8, by tornado in Natchez
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: Source Article
Name: HIRAM POWERS
*Name: HOLSTON/KINGSTON
Launched: 1830s early.
Owners: said to have been purchased by Cherokee businessman
Joe Vann of Webber Falls on upper Ark. R. who
changed the name to KINGSTON
Comments: Said to have been used by John Ross During the
"Trail of Tears".
1. Name: HOLSTON
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 89 tons.
Launched: 1864, Kingston, Tenn. For U.S.Q.M.D.
Destroyed: 1870, Dec. 10, Luna Landing, Ark., sank in 40' of water.
Owners: 1863-66, Apr., United States Quartermaster Division
1866, Apr., purchased by John L. Doss & Co.
1870, when she sank, owned by Muscatine, Iowa interest.
1. Name: HOMER C. WRIGHT
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 86.8' X 18.5' X 3.4'.
Power: 7"- 3 1/2 ft., 1 boiler
Launched: 1920, Tuscumbia,Mo.
Destroyed, 1827, Foot of Rutger st. St. Louis, Mo., sank.
Area: Mo. R., Osage R., Mo.
Owners: Union Electric Co., St. Louis
later, New St. Louis and Calhoun Packet Company.
Comments: The Union Electric Company built Bagnal Dam on Osage R. in Mo.,
creating a power plant as well as the nearly one-hundred mile
recreational Lake of the Ozarks. This boat is said to have done
ferry service for this company. (Dave)
: Mentioned in this Article.
1. Name: HOMER SMITH/GREATER PITTSBURGH
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull ecxursion boat
Size: 235' X 40' X 5.9'
Power: compound non-condensing engines, 16's, 32's- 8ft.
Launched: 1914, Jeffersonville, Ind bu Howard Yard.
Destroyed: 1931, Apr., Pittsburgh, burned
Area: 1915 excursions on lower Ohio.
Also tried Louisville-Cincinnati trade
1916, ran a New Orleans Mardi Gras trip
Also ran an Easter cruise, Pittsburgh-New Orleans
1916 - 1928, Ohio R., Pittsburgh and/or Point Pleasant, Oh..
Later, became a regular excursion boat out of Pittsburgh.
1924, excursions out of Pittsburgh
Owners: Built for the Security Steamboat Company. Point Pleasant, W. Va.
1928, purchased by Pittsburgh Amusement Company. Renamed the GREATER PITTSBURGH
Captains: 1915, Peter Holloway. Capt. Henry Holloway was pilot until 1924 when she was sold.
1916, W.C. Lepper, Jr.
Later, Jack Smith , son of Homer Smith, was master
Comments: 1928, sold to Pittsburgh and renamed.
: 1,800 LB. roof bell came from GUIDING STAR.
: Watchmen was jailed for arson in her burning. Not proven. He was released.
Name: HOPE
Launched: 1810?
Destroyed: 1810? Broken up after legal battle.
Area: U. Hudson R.
Owner: City of Albany, N. Y.'s merchants.
*Name: HOPE
Launched: 1810s, late?
Destroyed: 1824 Bankruptcy records state the HOPE sank in the
Mississippi River near New Orleans, possibly exploded.
(Lexington, KY newspaper report)
Area: Miss. R., probably Nashville-New Orleans
Owner: Capt. Collin Bosworth. (1820 New Orleans Census)
Captains: Probably Collin Bosworth
: *Information from Ella R. Hauser, Mich..
Name: HOPE
Area: 1840s, out of Zanesville, Oh.
Captain: Reeves
Comments: built by Capt Reeves said to be the first steamboat built at
Zanesville, Oh.
: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: HOPE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 107' X 20' X 3.5'
Power: 10 1/4's-3 1/2', 1 boiler, 42" X 22'.
Launched: 1877, New Albany Ind.
Area: later, under Capts. August Wohlt and Wm. L. Heckman, Mo.R. out of
Hermann, Mo.
Owners: New Albany, purchased by Hermann Ferry and Packet Co.
Later sold to Memphis area, still there in 1892.
Name: HORICON II
Type: Sidewheeler
Size: Length: 230'; Beam:59'; Speed:21 mph.
Area: Lake George N.Y.
Owner: Delaware and Hudson Railroad through The Lake George
Steam Boat Co. Lake George Steamboat Co.
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: Was either built or purchased by the D&H; Railroad, which
owned the L.G. Steamboat Co. between 1871 and 1939.
Name: HORIZON
Launched: 1850'S?
Area: Ohio R.
Captain(s) 1861, Mate was Peppers, George H.
Comments: From The Wheeling Register, Monday, March 31, 1879
Name: HORNBROOK
Type: Towboat Size:
Area: 1879: Ohio R.
Owner: Capt. E. Hornbrook
Captains: * 1882, Feb., Newt Flesher
Comments: Notes from WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER,
June 24, 1951
: Mentioned in this Document
Name: HUCK FINN
Type: Replica, Diesel Size:
Launched: Modern
Area: St. Louis
Name: HUDSON
Comments: ?1832, Made run from White River to Helena (75mi.)in 12 hrs.?
Name: HUDSON
Launched: 1846
Destroyed: 1851, off the lists.
Name: HUDSON
Launched: 1857
: 1861 went to Confederate service
Name: HUDSON
Launched: 1863
Destroyed: 1878, off the lists
Name: HUDSON
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 200' X 33.6' X 6.2'
Power: Engines, 19's- 6 ft.
Launched: 1875, Murrysville, W. Va./completed at Wheeling
Destroyed: cir. 1885, parted out to new HUDSON (below)
Area: 1875, Ohio R. Wheeling-Cincinnati
1879, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
Later, Paducah-St, Louis
Owner: When new, Parkersburg and Ohio River Transportation Company
1879 sold to Capts. J.N. Williamson and Wash Honshell and others.
Later, Capt. J. Frank Ellison
Captains: 1879, Phil Anshutz
*1885, Tom Hunter
Later J. Frank Ellison, Paducah
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: HUDSON
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 225' X 37' X 6., overall width was 43'.
Power: Engines, 20's- 6 ft., 4 boilers
Launched: 1886, Freedom Pa./Pittsburgh
Destroyed: 1904, June 25, Cincinnati, sank while laid up.
Raised and docked. 1905, Feb. 5, burned there while laid up.
Area: built for Paducah-St. Louis trade
Later went to St. Louis-Grafton, then Pittsburgh-Cincinnati trade
Owners: Built for Capt. J. Frank Ellison
1897, *Chartered to Coney Island Packet Co of Cincinnati.
Captain(s): 1889, J. Frank Ellison
early 1897, Agnew, Robert R.
: From May 29, 1897, Sweeney, John
: Some info from The Tribune Telegraph,
Associated with: 1889 or so, Pittsburgh & Cincinnati Packet Line
1. Name: HUGH MARTIN
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Launched: Kingston, Tenn., Cabin built at Jeffersonville, Ind
Destroyed: 1875, Aug. 14, Washington Landing,
boilers exploded killing Capt Fitts and 3 others
Area: designed for Kingston-London trade, Tenn. R.
Owners: built by Capt Hugh Martin
Soon purchased by Allison Bros.
Sold to Capt. Jacob Fritts and Col. R.K. Byrd
Comments: Allison Bros. managed to put her high and dry on a sandbar.
Name: HUGO
Area: Osage R., Mo.
Owners: 1870s?, possibly by Charles F. Lohman and his son Capt. Louis
Charles Lohman, of Jefferson City, Mo
: This listing from family records of Lee Lohman, GGG grandaughter
of Charles F.
Name: HUNGARIAN
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 279 Tons.
Launched: 1850, Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1859, Dismantled. Machinery went to A.O. TYLER
Area:Tramp trades, Cincinnati-St. Louis - New Orleans
Owners: Owned and operated by Capt. David Collier
Comments: Horace E. Bixby got his first pilot job on this boat.
Name: HUNTSMAN
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1860s?
Destroyed: Grounded
Area: U. Mo. R.
1. Name: HUNTSVILLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 205' X 29' X 6', 344 tons
Launched: 1845, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1854, Aug. 21, Ste. Genevieve, Mo., snagged and lost.
Area: Mo. R.
Owners: 1845, Capt. Charles W. Harrison, James Pell, L.H. Flernoy,
(all of Paduka) George P. Frazer, Jefferson County, Ky, and
George Warren, Alabama.
Captains: Charles Pell
1. Name: HUNTSVILLE No. 2
Type: Stern-wheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 261' X 40' X 9' 898 tons
Launched: 1853, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1855, Mar. 24, Hamburg, Tenn.,Tenn. R., burned with 4,000
bales cotton.
Area: Miss. R.; 1855, Tenn. R
Owners: 1845, Charles W. Harrison, Charles Pell
(both of Paduka) George P. Frazer, Jefferson County, Ky, and
George Warren, Texas and William McClure of Tuscumbia, Ala.
Captains: 1854, Feb. 18, C.W. Harrison
1855, Mar. 24, Pell
1. Name: HUNTSVILLE
Type: Stern-wheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 159' X 33' X 4.5', 358 tons
Launched: 1864, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1873, Aug. 26, Red River, broke tiller, hit bank, sank
w/180 head cattle. Some cattle lost, no people lost.
Area: New Orleans-Shreveport
Name: HUNTSVILLE
Type: Sternwheel packet
Area: Tenn. R.
Comments: Above picture is source for this listing.
Name: HURLBURT
Area: At one time Osage R., Mo.
Captains: At one time, Robert Melville Marshall
Mentioned in this Article.
