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* Name: IBERIA
Owners: 1860s, Possibly Capt. James A. Greer and John Stinson.
Name: IDA BUDD
Launched: 1890s
Area: Ohio R..
Owner: 1890'S: Capt. P. R. Budd, of Cincinnati.
Captain(s): 1896 Woodward, D. W.
Comments: Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Aug. 18 1897
Name: IDA FULTON, originally the CONVOY NO. 2
1864-??
1. Name: IDA HANDY
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 258' X 45' X 8.'
Launched: 1864, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard,
Destroyed: 1866, June 2, St. Louis, Burned along with BOSTONA and JAMES RAYMOND
Owners: Capt. b. Rush Pegram and others, St. Louis and New Orleans.
*At one time under Atlantic and Mississippi Steam Ship Company banner.
Captains: 1864-65, Feb. B Rush Pegram
Later, John T. Moore
* Information from site visitor, Lynn Cunningham
1. Name: IDA MAY
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet Size: 157' X 32' X 4.7', 220 tons
Launched: 1858, Freedom Pa.
Destroyed: 1865, Dec. 28, Red R., sank
Area: Ohio R.. Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
Owners: 1858-62, Dec., 6/16ths, Capt John May , others, William S. Graham,
William Hamilton, C. Preston and Bernard McDonnald
1862, Dec.-1863, Nov., David Gibson
1863, Nov.-1865, USQMD
1865- sinking, Agusta Richards
Captain(s): 1858-62, May, John
Comments: 1858, Nov., Stephen C. Foster rode her from Pittsburgh
to Cincinnati.
1. Name: IDA SMITH
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull, packet
Size: 111.6' X 17.9' X 2.6'
Launched: 1884, Parkersburg, W. Va. built by Joe Gearing
Destroyed: 1902, about, Lestart, Oh., burned
Area: Ohio R. When new, Marietta-New Matamoras
Later, Ravenrock, W.Va.-Marietta
Owner: *When new, ?Arthur B. Smith?
1896, Charles Small
1902, Ralph Emerson Gaches
Captain(s): 1884, Brady Morgan, William E. Roe clerk
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
: *Named for Mr. Smith's wife.
1. Name: IDA STOCKDALE
Type: Sternwheeler, wooden hull, packet Size:
Launched: 1867, McKeesport, Pa.
Power: engines, 14's-4 1/2 ft., two boilers, 42" X 24'
Destroyed: 1871, April, Bismark, S.D., sunk by ice.
Area: 1st trip, Pittsburgh - Ft. Benton, Mont..
Owner: 1867, Built for Capt. Jackman T. Stockdale
1871, J. Wesley Jacobs
Captains: 1867, first trip, Marsh, Grant
Comments: Named for Capt. Stockdale's daughter.
1867, Under Capt. Grant Marsh, was attacked by Indians under
a bluff known as Pleanty Coal Bluff. Nevertheless made a
profit of $24,000 on voyage.
1. Name: IDAHOE
Type: Sternwheeler, wooden hull, packet
Size: 153.7' X 33.5' X4.9'
Launched: 1863, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1869, Jan. 10, Ouachita R., Columbia, La., sank and lost
Area:
Owners: 1863, original owners, Capt. J.N. Newcomb, John Swasey, David Gibson.
1867, May, Robert. A. Blanks acquired 1/2 ownership.
Captains: 1863- ?, Newcomb, J. N.
1866, Elliott, Eugene
1867, Blanks, Fred A.
1868, Blanks, J.W.
Comments: A History Channel presentation entitled "Sex in the Civil War" a
reference was made to the Idahoe being used in early 1863 to transport
"soiled doves" from Nashville to Cincinnati.
: She was chartered to U.S. Gov. to haul army supplies
to Nashville.
Name: IDAHO
Type: Sternwheel, packet and probably excursion boat
Area: St. Joe R., Idaho
Comments: Above photo is source for this listing
Name: IDLEWILD/AVALON/BELL OF LOUISVILLE
Name: ILLINOIS
Launched: 1820's?
Area: 1828 Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone's Lick Herritage
Name: ILLINOIS
Launched: pre 1835
Comments: this listing is from note sent by site visitor -
06/13/07
A letter offered last year on ebay was written aboard the Illinois:
"William Sanders, a passenger traveling to New Orleans on the steamboat
Illinois, posted at Smithland, Ky, 22 Feb. 1835."
: I doubt this is the same boat as in the above listing.
Boats just didn't last that long back then. Though it is possible.
Name: ILLINOIS
Type: Sidewheeler Size:
Launched: 1837
Area: Great Lakes
Comments: One of the largest and finest Great Lakes steamboats of
the 1830's & 40's.
: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: ILLINOIS
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet
Size: 187.5' X 37' X 6.9'
Launched: 1852, Brownsville, Pa. at Pringle Yard
Destroyed: Mound City, Ill., dismantled in early part of the war.
Area: Briefly Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
Later, Cairo - New Orleans in Railroad Line
*1853, Dec., Aspinwall, Panama - ?New Orleans?
*1864, Sept, early, traveled Morganza, Louisiana to the White River, Arkansas.
Owner(s): James Holmes, Rdman J. Grace, William B. Holmes, J.A. Hutchinson,
R.S. Hayes, and Capt. D.Y. Smithers, all of Brownsville, Pa.
Captains: Cairo-New Orleans, John W. Carroll
Name: ILLINOIS
Launched: 1860's?
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson, storekeeper,
Commerce Mo.
- Saturday, December 30th 1861. "Times have been very
quiet for several days. The armies are laying still. . . .
The Illinois went down on Wednesday last for Cairo.
Name: ILLINOIS (the 6th one) Originally the 7th REINDEER
Launched: 1888
Name: ILLINOIS
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Comments: Above post card is source for this listing
Name: IMPERIAL, the 3rd one. Originally the ALLEN COLLIER
*Name: IMPERIAL,
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull towboat. Size 222 tons
Launched: 1865, Pittsburgh
Destroyed: dismantled for machinery
Area: 1866, U. Miss. R.
Winter months of 1879-80, St. Louis-New Orleans, grain tow.
Owner: 1866, Red Collar Line out of Winona
1873-81, towed grain for Diamond Jo Line.
1881, Sold to Eagle Packet Company
* From an article by William Petersen in The Palimpsest
Name: IMPERIAL
Type: *?Sternwheel?, wooden hull packet
Size: *210' X 40.6' X 6.6'
Power: *18's- 7 ft., 3 boilers; paddlewheel?s?, 22' dia., 28' buckets
Launched: *1894, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard.
Destroyed: *1911, swamped by tugboat wake in N.O., sank. Raised
and laid up for some 16 month
*1912, June 16, burned
Area: *1894-??, Red R. - New Orleans; later N.O. - Bayou Sara
Owners: 1984, The Scovells, W.T., Mat and Noah
19?? - ?end?, Mississippi Packet Company
Captain: 1902, master, Burgoyne, John M.
Comments: Some of her equipment came from the DACOTAH
* 1.
: 1864 or 5, was first boat to travel rivers unmolested
after the Civil War.
: 1867, Sept., left Cow Island, 198 mi. below Ft. Benton,
with 275 passengers packed aboard at $130 per head and hit
sand bar after sandbar (132 of them) until 2 mo. later and
1000 mi. above St. Louis, all the passengers had deserted
her. The boat was later sold at public auction.
Name: IMPERIAL MARIAH
Launched: 1894
Destroyed: 1912, summer, snagged
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson, storekeeper,
Commerce Mo.
- Wednesday Evening, March 20th 1861. "Business very dull,
but boats are plenty. There has been a good number of
boats passed up today. Among the rest was the Memphis
with the mail, the new Gatz, Meteor, Imperial Mariah.
(The)Denning brought Joe Kelly and two other boats. . . . "
Name: IMPORTER
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1860s?
Destroyed: 1869, Beached
Area: U. Mo. R.
Name: INDEPENDENCE
Type: Stern-wheeler Size: Small
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: Elias Rector
Captain(s): 1819, Nelson, John
Comments: 1819, May, First steamer to reach upper Mo. Reached
250 mi. to Chariton Mo. with wiskey, flour and
iron castings.
Comments: from Boone's Lick Heritage Quarterly
Name: INDEPENDENCE
Type: Sidewheeler, wooden hull, packet Size: 75' X 17' X 3', 42 tons
Launched: 1863, Jefferson City (now New Orleans)
Destroyed: 1869, retired
Area: 1867-8, Shreveport-Carolina Bluffs
Owner: Capt John Henry, New Orleans
Captain(s): Henry, John
* Name: INDEPENDENCE
Launched, 1880
Destroyed: 1880, Aug., on trial run Collided with ironclad DEMOCRAT, sunk.
Area: Alabama waters
Crew: J.M. Pickens, W.M. Lowe at the wheel, J.M. Carpenter and Lon Meyer
Name: INDIA GIVINS, originally the P.D. STAGGS
Name: INDIAN QUEEN
Launched: 1850s?
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: INDIANA
Launched: 1825?
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: INDIANA
Launched: 1840s?
Destroyed: 1874 or 5
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Preformed a big rescue during a flood
Name: INDIANS
Launched: 1820's, early
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: Source
Name: INDIANOLA
Type: Stern-wheel ironclad, Union Boat Size:
Launched: 1860s, early
Destroyed: 1863 Disabled and sunk by Confeds
1. Name: INGOMAR
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 175' 40' X 7.5', 730 tons.
Launched: 1854, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1865 or so, dismantled
Owners: When launched, Memphis and New Orleans Packet Company
Captains: 1855, L. McDonough. Also from ad above, J.O. Greenlaw
1860-61, Joe D. Blake who took her Confederate.
Comments: Engines went to LOUSIANA
Name: INGOMAR
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet
Launched: 1864 as gunboat GENERAL THOMAS
Name: INLAND
Type: Sternwheeler
Comments: Seen in old photo in Cincinnati Inquirer, Sunday Oct. 10, 1999,
Tallstacks 99 Suppliment entitled "Great River Parade" of 1929.
Name: INTERCHANGE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 251 tons.
Launched: 1854, Wheeling, W. Va.
Destroyed: 1860, Oct., Newport, Ark., snagged and lost.
Area: 1859, Upper White R., Ark.
Captains: 1859?, J. W. Gilchrist
Comments: See Article
Name: INTREPID/BENTON (the 2nd one)
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Launched: 1864, McKeesport, Pa.
Destroyed: 1869, May 9, a few miles below DeSoto, Neb., upbound,
snagged and lost.
Area: U. Mo. R. St. Louis-Ft. Benton. Made 9 trips to Montana points.
Owner: 1864, Capt. Charles Stevens had her built and named her INTREPID,
but sold her, brand new, to Capt. Thomas W. Rey who
changed the name to BENTON, and loaded her out, mid-Feb.
1864, direct for Fort Benton, Mont..
: Most of her career she was run by fur traders Durfee and Peck.
Captain: 1864, Rey, Thomas W.
1865, William Howard was Master and pilots were C.J.Atkins
and John Gunsollis.
Comments: 1864, Mar. 15 - June 10. First trip to Ft. Benton was a
"record early arrival". This I suppose ment for in the
spring.
: 1865, Mar. 11, left St. Louis sheathed about her pilot house
with boiler iron to protect against Chief Red Cloud's
Sioux Indians expected to be encountered in the Dakota
Territory. It was to be an interesting trip.
She was fired upon at wooding places and ran into low
water in the Dakota Territory.
Working as part of a chain with the DEER LODGE above and
the GENERAL GRANT below, she transhipped cargo from Milk
River to Round Butte.
The DEER LODGE shuttled the cargo on up to Ft. Benton.
On this trip, The BENTON was out from St. Louis for 169
days, until Aug. 26, during which time she logged 10,000
miles.
Last trip up was in 1868 during which she was snagged
and lost at what was to become know as Benton Bend.
: Engines later went to the CHARLES DURFEE.
Name: IOLAS
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1840s early.
Area: Eastern
Captain and pilots: Capt. Woolsey, B. F.
Name: IONE
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Destroyed: *1892, Mouth of Petit Saline R. below Rocheport
Owner: Mathew Hogan
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: 1844, March 6, a flyer offered 1/8 part of boat for
sale to highest cash bidder in St. Louis.
:*From site Visitor: "I noticed that you listed the IONE in
your riverboat section but didn't mention it's fate. I have
a copy of a river chart from 1892 that marks the wreck of
the IONE at the mouth of the PETIT SALINE below ROCHEPORT,
I saw a reference to this boat in an old article which
stated that there was a substantial amount of gold onboard
that was never recovered. Have you ever heard anything
about this?" -- Tina Bozarth
3. Name: IOWA
Launched: 1840s, late?
Area: 1840s, late, Sacramento R., Calf.
Name: IRON AGE
Area: Ohio R.
Captain(s): Whysall, Job
Comments: Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Aug. 18 1897
Name: IRON DUKE
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.
Please send any information.
Name: IRON MOUNTAIN
Destroyed: 1872
Comments: Boat, crew and 55 passengers dissapeared in 1872
on Mississippi without trace. Her barges were found
drifting. Mentioned in Louis L'Amour's book "The
Haunted Mesa" pgs. 79 & 327.
: Later info this boat left Vicksburgh, northbound and that the IROQUOIS CHEEF
reported nearly running over her drifting barges a few hours later.
: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers published a report that the boat was found
two months later in a cotton field near Omega Landing - close to Tallulah,
Louisiana.
: Additional information seems to indicate that the boat was deposited not
on Omega Plantation, but on Mountain Plantation - some 20 miles north.
: See Article Here
1. Name: IRON KING
Type: Sternwheel, wood hull, packet/towboat
Size: 8.6 tons, a small single deck boat
Launched: 1875, Parkersburg, W. Va.
Destroyed: 1886, still documented at Wheeling, W. Va.
Area: Ohio R.
Owner: J.R. King, J.F. King and J.K. King
Comments: Short trade for a year or so, then used as a towboat.
: *1884, working as dredge boat
: Mentioned in this Document
Name: IRON VALLEY
Type: Towboat Size:
Launched: 1860's?
Destroyed: 1879 or so
Area: Ohio R. : Worked out of Wheeling, W. Va..
Owner: Capt W. Prince
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER,
June 24, 1951
Name: IRONSIDES Credit and Photo
Type: Sternwheel towboat Size:
Area: 1900: Ohio R., Wheeling, W. Va.
Name: IRONTON
Launched: 1890's?
Area: 1897, Ohio R.
Captain(s): T. T. Johnson
Comments: From, The Tribune Telegraph,
Wed., Aug.18 1897.
Name: IROQUOIS
Comments: Became a raft-boat
Name: ISAAC GRAY
Launched: 1850s or 60s?
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: ISAAC HAMMITT
Type: Sternwheel woodenhulled towboat
Launched: early 1860's, Isaac Hammitt yard, McKeesport, Pa.
Owner: Victor F. Wilson and/or Capt. William Dunshee,
owners of a coal mine near McKeesport PA., possibly D.B.A.
Mississippi Coal Company.
Comments: sisterboat, V.F. WILSON
Name: ISAAC NEWTON
Type: Side-wheeler Size: 345 X ? 39 ft. wheels.
Launched: 1840s?
Area: Eastern boat
Owner: Newton, Isaac
Comments: Advertised as the largest in the new or old world.
Name: ISAAC STAPLES
Launched: 1870s?
Area: Miss. R. ?
1. Name: ISABELLA
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 175' X 41' X 6.6',
Power: 18s-7-1/2 ft. Two boilers, each 42" X 30'.
Paddlewheel: 26' dia. with 13' buckets.
Cabin: by Hart and Story, New Albany, Ind.
Launched: 1849, JKeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1860, Feb. 1, burned.
Area: Went to Mobile
: 1854, returned to Miss. R. made trips to Louisville
: 1858, reportedly ran New Orleans - Shreveport. (F.L. Woodrige)
Owners: when new, Cox and Brainard, Mobile, Ala.
1854, Capt. Charles E. Marshall
1854, Oct. after, Capt. Edward Felps
1855, Capt. Edward Beebe of Selma, Ala.
Captains: 1854, Charles E. Marshall
: 1854, Oct. after, Edward Felps
Comments: Was in Indian Wars?
Name: ISABELLA
Launched: 1865?
Destroyed: 1868?
Area: : 1865, Mar. 2, near island # 76, near Caulk Neck Cut Off, now in
Lake Whittington, east of Mississippi R.. Helped rescue
survivors of the JAMES WATSON.
Also Mo. R.
Captain(s): McPherson, Henry
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: ISLAND BELLE/formerly the VIRGINIA/STEEL CITY
See VIRGINIA/STEELCITY/ISLAND BELLE
Comments: 1. Was ISLAND BELLE from 1923 - 1927
Name: ISLAND CITY
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1850s?
Destroyed: 1864, Snagged
Area: U. Mo. R.
Comments: Was in Indian Wars
Name: ISLAND MAID - originally the G.W. HILL
Name: ISLAND QUEEN, originally the ST. JOSEPH Ultimately renamed MORNING STAR
Launched: 1893
Destroyed: 191?3?, burned.
1. Name: ISLAND QUEEN
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull excursion boat
Size:281.4' X 42.6' X 8.5'
Power: 20's, 35's-9 ft., 6 boilers, each 42" X 24'
Launched: 1896, May 16, Cincinnati, Oh. by Cincinnati Marine Railway Co.
Destroyed: 1922, Nov. 4, Burned at Cincinnati along with MORNING STAR,
TACOMA and CHRIS GREENE(1st).
Area: between Cincinnati and Coney Island Amusment Park some nine to 10 miles upstream
on Ohio side. Tramped during off seasons between Cincinnati and
New Orleans.
Owner: Coney Island Company, Cincinnati
Captains: First Master, Sterling McIntyre, then James DuPuy for 28 yrs.
After that, Ben I. Pattison
1. Name: ISLAND QUEEN See Post Card Picture Page
Type: Sidewheel, steel hull excursion boat
Size: 286.1' X 45.6' X 7.3', 4,100 Passenger;
Power: noncondensing engines, 22's, 40's-9 ft., boilers heated with fuel oil the O
Wheels: 30', 16' buckets
Launched: 1925, Apr. 18, Midland, Pa. by Midland Barge Co.
Destroyed: 1947, Sept. 9, Welding accident at Pittsburgh dock caused
fuel tank explosion that demolished her.
19 crewmembers died.
Area: Summer: Cincinnati to Ohio's Coney Island.
Winter: Excursions out of towns from Pittsburgh to New Orleans
Owner: Coney Island Company
Captain(s): long time master, Charles N. Hall. Capt. Harry Doss, pilot
1947, Mate was Capt. Ernest Wagner
Name: ISLAND QUEEN, official number 656648
Launched: 1983, Memphis Queen Shipyard, for and by Captain Tom Meanley
Type: Decorative sternwheel excursion boat
Size: 85' X 25' X 5.1', 99 tons; 412 passengers
Power: 800 hp., Twin prop, Main Engines: Detroit Diesel 8V-71
Area: 1999, out of Memphis, Tenn.
Captain: 1999, James Gilmer
Owner: 19??- present (1999), Memphis Queen Line, Memphis, Tenn.
Name: ISLANDER
Launched: 1860s?
Area: 1860S?, California Delta
Name: ISSAQUENA, originally the CITY OF IRONTON
Name: ISLETON
Launched: 1860s?
Area: 1860S?, California Delta
Name: ITASCA
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1850s? Late?
Area: 1864, U. Miss. R.
Owner: 1864, Northwestern Union Packet Company
Captains): Whitten, David
Comments: Mentioned in this Mentioned in this Article about 1857 U. Miss. R.
Mentioned again, same article.
1858, raced GRAY EAGLE No. 1
