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1. Name: J.A. WOODSON/W.H. GRAPEVINE
Type: sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 142' X 30' X 3.7'.
Power: Engines, 10s-4'. 2 boilers.
Launched: 1881, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1897, above the elevator at Columbus, snagged and sunk.
Raised and taken to Mounbd City, Ill, rebuilt and renamed
W.H. GRAPEVINE.
Area: at first, Little Rock - Pine Bluff.
Later, U. White R.
Owners: 1892, leased to White River captain Charles B. Woodbury
Captains: 1882 - 84, L.P. Drake
1897, David Silver
Comments: Named for the mayor of Little Rock, Ark.
: 1887, Dec. 18, Free Nigger Bend, Ark R., sank and raised.
: 1894, June 2, Perrine Landing, White R., sank and raised.
Name:J.B. ADAMS
Area: 1862, April, Tenn. R., was under command of Union Gen. Wm. T. Sherman
Name: J. B. SCHUYLER
Area: Albany?
Owner: Hancox, J. W.
Captain and pilots: Capt. Hancox, Commadore J. W.
Comments: Day boat
1. Name: J.B.M. KEHLOR/HELENA/GRAND REPUBLIC
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet.
Size: as KEHLOR, 265' X 49' X 8.'
as HELENA, 260' X 50' X 8.5'
Power: Single engine, stiff shaft compound. 2 batteries of boilers, each 38" X 24'
Launched; 1877, Belle Vernon, Pa. by Spear Yard.
Area: St. Louis-New Orleans
Owners: 1877, Capt. William J. Kountz
Captains: 1878, maiden trip, Master, Daniel Michael Brady, E. Liverpool, Oh.;
pilots, Marsh Hays and Jacob Poe
Comments: Was often referred to as the Alphabet Kehlor. Primarily a freight boat.
: was so slow the St. Louis Republican went into great detail about her
race with the East St. Louis grain elevator.
: 1881, rebuilt and renamed HELENA.
: 1886, renamed GRAND REPUBLIC
Name: J. C. RISHER
Name: J.C. RAWN
Type: probably a sternwheel, wooden hull towboat
Captains: 1939, Dec. William McKinley Wright, Huntington W.V.
Comments: Capt. William McKinley (Mack) Wright was related to Captain William Penn Wright.
: Source article and pictures
1. Name: J.C. SWON
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 678 tons.
Launched: 1856, Louisville, ky.
Destroyed: 1867, June, Dismantled, hull went to wharf boat, Columbus, Ky,
1872, Wharfboat went to Mound City, Ill.
Area: Before and after C. war, St. Louis-New Orleans
Owners: 1856-C.War, Railroad Line
After C. War-1867, Atlantic and Mississippi Steamship Company
Captains: 1855-C.War, I.H. Jones
Comments: This boat named after Capt. John Coburn Swon
1. Name: J.C. WARNER
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 142' X 31.6' X 4.6'.
Power: 13s- 4 1/2 ft.. 2 boilers
Launched: 1883, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Destroyed: Pre 1898 when engines went to JOE WHEELER
Area: Chattanooga-Kingston
Owners: When new, Capt. J.C. Kendrick
Winter 1886-87, sold to Tennessee River Transportation Co.
Comments: Mentioned in this Document
Name: J. DON CAMERON
Type: Stern-wheeler
Launched: 1877, May, Jeffersonville, Ind. @ Barrymore Boat Yard,
Destroyed: 1877, May 17, on first trip. No lives lost. Boat and cargo a
total loss. Several lawsuits came from this disaster.
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: U.S.
Comments: Boat was built for the government for the
Yellowstone R. and had no Mo. R. pilot aboard while she
was transporting baggage and private property for the
Fifth Infantry from Fort Levenworth Ks. to Fort Keogh on
the Yellowstone R.
: A 1878, Jan. 17, newspaper dispatch indicated sunken boat was purchased
by N.C. Davis whose intention it was to raise entire boat from
bottom of Mo. R.
(Don't know if this happened, D.)
Name: J. D. AYERS
Type: towboat
Launched: 1900s, early
Area: Miss. R. St Louis to New Orleans?
Comments: 1929, Sept., Near Redman's Point: A barge she was pushing
hit what is thought to be remnants of the W. R. ARTHUR
and sank.
More information: from Way's Packet Directory, compiled by
John Hartford, river musician.
Name: J. D. LEROY
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson storekeeper,
Commerce, Mo.
- Thursday night, March 28st, 1861. " . . . The
J.D. Leroy landed going down about 5 o'clock, put off
G.W. Watson with a lot of oats and beer for John H.
Jehlen and Derouse. . . . "
Name: J. D. McDONALD
Size: 106'
Launched: Late 1800 or early 1900s
Area: 1911, California Delta
Name: J. D. PERRY
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson, shopkeeper,
Commerce Mo.
- Thursday night, March 21st, 1861. " . . . The Memphis
Packet J, D. Perry Came down this evening about 5 o'clock
and put off the mail and 4 bbls. whiskey for J.T.
Anderson and a lot of goods for Herring. . . . "
- Tuesday night, March 25th. "The J.D. Perry came up the
Mail about one o'clock today. The weather being rainy,
there was little trade done in the P.M."
- Thursday Night, March 28th, 1861. " . . . The J.D. Perry
landed going down about 5 o'clock, put off G>W> Watson with
a lot of oats for John H. Jej;en and Derouse.
- Monday Night, April 1st, 1861. "Business has been dull.
All the town folks went to Benton, Circuit Court being in
session. The Perry landed about 2 o'clock and put off the
mail two or three passengers and took one for Cape
Girardeau. . . ."
- Monday, April 8th 1861. "Business Dull. Weather bad.
Steamboats plenty. The Perry was the only boat that
landed during the day. She put off the mail.
- Thursday Night, April 11th 1861. "Business dull.
Weather rainy. River rising. Health good. Boats plenty.
The perry went down this morning, put off mail and sone goods
for H. Volmer. . . . "
- Thursday Night, April 18th 1861. "Business tolerable. River
falling. Boats cery plentiful. Ryland went up this morning.
Perry down. . . . "
- Monday Night, April 22nd 1861. "Business tolerable.
River falling. . . . . Perry came up about 1 o'clock, but
had nothing for this port. . . . "
- Thursday Night, April 25th 1861. Business dull. River
rising. Perry went down today and put off freight for
Hennings and Holder, Hinton and Runfelt, Hughes and Brock.
Day went off peaceable."
- Monday Night, April 29th 1861. Business dull. No news of
importance. Perry wnet up about 11 o'clock, but no news."
- Thursday Night, May 2nd 1861. "Business very good. Weather
pretty but cold. River about on a stand. Ryland went up and
Perry wnet down today. No mail came. Reason we do not know.
- Monday Night, May 6th 1861. "Business dull. nothing of
notice passed on during the day. Perry went up in the
morning, took on Mrs. Swinney. . . ."
- Thursday Night, May 9th 1861. "Business tolerable. River on
stand. Weather fine. Perry went down about 12 o'clock, put off
potato slips for Jhob Marach.
- Monday Night, May 13 1861. "Business very dull. River
rising. Weather rany. Perry went up today. No news of
impordtance."
- Wednesday Night, May 22nd 1861. Business dull. River
falling. Weather fine. Prospect for war good. All are
Preparing to fight. Perry went down today. Brought goods
for Newman with Newman and Johnson."
- Wednesday, May 29th 1861. "A week has passed since my last
and nothing has transpired of note. . . . Weather rainy
today. Nothing doing. Perry went down. . . . "
- Saturday, June 29th 1861. Nothing was done yesterday.
This morning we learned that five of Allen's Negros had run
away and several of the boys were down after them this
morning. They found that there had been two skiffs stolen
last night and supposed they had crossed the river. Several
of the boys went over the river and Ben Walker and Thom.
Rhodes concluded to go to Cairo. About that time the
J. D. Perry came up and brought 400 guns and ammunition
for Paul Abbey. She took all of Newman's wood, something
like 20 oe 30 cords nd these three boys above named went down
on her about half past 12. At 3 o'clock they raised the Union
flag pole in town."
- Sunday, June 30th 1861. About night last evening a comany
of men came in from Hamburg to guard Abbey. Guess it rained
slowly nearly all night. This morning the J.D. Perry came up
and brought Ben Allen from Cairo. He heard nothing of his
Negros.
- Santa Fe Illinois, October 16 1861. " . . . On tuesday
morning the Argo put off some freight for us consisting of
ten bbls. salt, one sack coffee, 1 doz. brooms, 1 box black
pepper and other articles. She had only left the landing when
the Perry landed in and took then to Cairo. The cause we
know not but are induced to believe that it is the prejudice
of Noah C. Johnson, he being in command. The same boat tood
several other loads of freight that the Argo put out. . . ."
Name: J. D. PETERS
Launched: 1850s? Late?
Area: California Delta
Comments: Also see: 3. Steamboats in the Valley
Name: J. D. SMITH
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson, shopkeeper,
Commerce Mo.
- Sunday Night, April 28th 1861. "News still more alarming
about the war. . . . The J.D. Smith was observed to go
down this morning about 8 o'clock. About half past eleven
she went up and in the latter part of the day she went down
again. the reason for this we cannot account for. . . . "
1. Name: J.H. BALDWIN/C.J. CAFFREY
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 173 tons.
Launched: 1861, Louisville, Ky.
Area: 1861, built for Louisville-Cumberland trade
1865-July, '66, St. Louis-Johnsonville
Owners: 1862, Wiley Simms and A. Hamilton Co., Nashville steamboat agents
for $12,0000.
1864, Mar. 21, sold to U.S.Q.M.D.
1865, Johnsonville Packet Co.
1866, taken by sheriff
1867, Aug. sold to U.S. to work improvements on U. Miss. R.
1874, Weyerhaeuser and Denkmann converted her to sternwheel and
used her as raftboat until 1892.
Captains: 1861, McGuire.
Comments: 1862, Spring, captured by U.S. and sold to Nashville interests.
: 1865, Oct.4, redocumented as C.J. CAFFREY
: C.J. Caffrey, Esq. was operating as Johnsonville Packet Co.
1. Name: J.H. JOHNSON (Often called the HARRY JOHNSON)
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 244' X 40.5' X 6.', 546 tons
Power: Engines, 26-1/2's- 7ft. Four boilers, each 46" X 24'
Machinery came fron the HANNIBAL CITY
Launched: 1863, Madison, Ind.
Destroyed: Over winter 1876-77, dismantled.
Area: *1862 or so, miss. R.. Made trip Hannibal, Mo. - St. Louis
*1867, St Louis - Keokuk
Owners: Keokuk Packet Company and later Keokuk Northern Line
Captains: Over life of boat included S.S. Matson, F.S. Lee, Samuel Gray
*1867, Ira N. Malin
Comments: Capt, J.H. Johnson was called Harry Johnson
: 1874, Apr. 1, above Hannibal, Mo. hit Wabash R.R. bridge. Sank. Raised.
: *Was a Union boat durine Civil War
: Machinery went to the GOLDEN EAGLE
1. Name: J.H. KEENE/GROS VENTURE/M.T. BRYAN
Type: Originally a gasoline powered boat. Converted to steamboat
by Capt.W.L. Berry and others and renamed M.T. Bryan after president of
Cumberland River Improvement Asso.
Launched: 1903, Chamberland, S.D.
Destroyed: 1922, Oct. 5, Eddyville on Cumberland R., burned.
Area: later, Wabash R. to Nashville hauling corn
Captains: Wabash R. - Nashville, Master, David Martin; Pilots, R. Smith
and Tim Armstrong.
1. Name: J. H. MENGE/M.A. BURKE/JOHN. W. HUBBARD
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 188' X 38' X 5.8', w/cotton guards, 50' wide
Power: Gillett and Eaton compound engines, 13's, 26's- 8 ft.
3 44" X 30' boilers
Launched: 1910, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: Allowed by Green Line Steamers to beach out at the upper end
of Jeffersonville where she littered the landscape for several
years.
Area: 1911, spr. New Orleans-Ouachita R. then N.O.-Vicksburgh
1914-15, Memphis-Vicksburg
1916-19, Mobile, Alabama and Tombigbee Rs.
1919, briefly, New Orleans-Vicksburg trade
1919, Oct. 28-1929, Louisville-Cincinnati trade.
Owner: 1916, Owen F. Burke of Mobile, Ala.
1919, steamboat broker John F. Klein purchased.
1919 late, sold to Louisville and Cincinnati Packet Company
1932, went to Green Line Steamers, Inc. who never used her.
See "Destroyed", above.
Captains: 1914-15, Master, Capt. Ed Nowland, Jr.
with, Capt. Thomas Morrissey, as captain.
1916, Owen F. Burke
Comments: 1916, renamed M.A. BURKE
1919, Mound City, Rebuilt greatly altered. Cotton guards were
removed. Boiler deck lowered.
1920, Feb. Renamed JOHN W. HUBBARD
Name: J.H. McCONNEL
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: J. H. OGLESBY
Launched: 1850s?
Destroyed: 1859, Wrecked near Euphrase Bend, Mo. R.
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Name: J.J. CADOT (Possibly the J.J. CADETT? Source)
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 109.6' X 18.9' X 4.5', 62 tons.
Launched: 1859, Gallipolis, Oh.
Destroyed: 1867, off the lists.
Owners: 1866-67, Capt P.D. O'Neal
Comments: Also see
Name: J.J. WARREN
Area: 1870s, Sabine, Neches and Trinity Rs., Tex.
Owner: 1870s, Capt. Jules Poitevent, a Trinity R. plantation owner
Comments: See source Article
Name: J. K. GRAVES
Launched: 1870s?
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: Became raft-boat
Name: J.L. DYKES, See JAMES L. DYKES
1. Name: J. McKEE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 140 tons.
Launched: 1850, McKeesport, Pa.
Destroyed: 1858, Feb. 7, Island 92, Miss. R., collision w/CHEROKEE
Area: 1850, Pittsburgh-McKeesport trade
1852, Keokuk-Davenport
Owners: 1852, Capt Leroy Dodge
Captains: 1852, Leroy Dodge
*at one time pilot, Oscar M. Ruby
Comments: Named for founder of McKeesport, Pa.
1. Name: J. M. CONVERS
Type: Sidewheel packet, wood hull
Size: 417 tons, 225' X 35' X 6'
Power: 25s- 7 ft.
Launched: 1856, Courson Yard, McKeesport, Pa.
Destroyed: 1857, Mar., at Fairy Island
Area: 1856, Mo. R., St Louis - St. Joseph, Mo.
Owner: J.M. Convers,
Captain: 1856, George W. Bowman
Comments: Named for Capt. J.M. Convers, owner and capt.
of the riverboats J. M. WHITE.
: Machinery went to towboat CONESTOGA.
Name: J.M. SHARP
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hulled packet
Size: 147' X 29' X 6.5', 218 tons
Launched: 1859, Jeffersonville, Ind.
: 1850, Dec., enrolled in Confederacy list At New Orleans
Destroyed: 1871, retired
Owners:
1. Name: J. M. WHITE
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 233 X 33 X 7.6'
Power: 25's-10', 8 double flue boilers.
Launched: 1842, Hull, Pittsburgh, Pa. and completed, St. Louis, Mo.
Destroyed: 1843, Mar 28, snagged above Cairo, Ill.. 1 woman drowned.
Area: Miss. R., St. Louis - New Orleans
Owners: J.M. Convers, J. M. White, merchant and H.H. Beebe,
all of St Louis.
Captain: J.M. Convers
Pilots: 1843, George Cable and Nathan Way.
Comments: This WHITE was named for the Merchant J.M. White of
Made only 4 trips St. Louis - New orleans befor being
snagged and sunk.
1. Name: J. M. WHITE
Type: Sidewheeler wooden hulled packet
Size: 200' X 30.5' x 7.6', said to be 230' oversall and 62' wide,
498 tons
Power: Engines 30's- 10 ft., 7 2 flue boilers,
two 30' paddlwheels with 12 buckets ea.
Launched: 1844, early.
Destroyed: 1848, Pittsburg, dismantled. Machenery went to AUTOCRAT
Hull became warf boat at Memphis until it burned in 1850.
Area: Pittsburgh-New Orleans
Owners: Capt. J.M. Convers, J. M. White, merchant and E.N. Beebe,
All of St Louis.
: 1846, Sept. 26,Capt J.C. Swon
Captain: 1844 - ?1846? J.M. Convers
1845, John. W. Tobin. Note on this entry
Pilots associated With: 1844, Nathan Way and Isaiah Sellers
Comments: At the time, fastest steam craft in world. Wheels were
placed sternward about 25 feet back from center. Center
was the custom.
1844, made trip from St Louis to N. O. and back,
2,436 mi. in approx. 1 week
Made run N.O. - Cairo 1844, 3/6/44
Made run N.O. - St. Louis 3/23/9
1. Name: J. M. WHITE
Type: Sidewheeler, wooden hulled packet
Size: 312.7' X 47.9' X 11.5 amidship and 17.5' at bow and stern
321' overall and 91' wide overall.
: had 23 staterooms and two plush bridal suites
: its helm wheel was 12 feet in dia.
: her stacks extended 81' from the waterline
and topped by ornate feathers extending another 8'
Power: 43's- 11ft. 10 boilers, each 42" dia. by 34', two 16" flues.
2 Paddlewheels with 19' buckets with 8' dip
Launched: 1878, April 3, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1886, Dec. 13, Burned at Blue Store Landing,
Pointe Coupee parish, ?LA? Reference
Area: Miss. R.
Owner: 1878, Greenville and New Orleans Packet Company
composed of Capt. John W.Cannon, John W.Tobin,
R.H. Woodfolk, Samuel S. Brown, N.M. Jones, Capt. J.M. White
Captain(s): John W.Tobin, Anthony G.Medine
Comments: beat the upstream record of the Robert E. Lee
to a point below Vicksburg, Miss..
: Soaring main cabin was fronted by 12 doors decorated
with brilliant stained glass, and the daylight shining through
them created a scintillating show of colors. The
doors were veneered in rosewood and walnut burl,
and were engraved in gold. The seven 16-burner
gold-gilt chandeliers were the most costly and
elegant light pieces on any vessel in the country.
A silver Reed & Barton water cooler held center stage
at one end of the Main Cabin, where the purser had his
office: at the other end was the lace and floral
Ladies' Salon. there were jewel-toned carpets and
parquet floors, as well as fine furniture, silverware
and Haviland china.
: Boat chartered for double wedding.
Name: J.N. HARBIN
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 154' X 19' X 3.5'.
Power: 10's- 4 1/2 ft., 1 boiler.
Launched: 1895, Brownsville, Pa., Axton Yard
Destroyed: 1911, Aug. 25, Lake Landing, Miss., stranded, sank,
and dismantled a month later where she lay.
Owner: Arkansas River Packet Company
Comments: Named for Captain John N. Harbin, long time treasurer of
Ark. Riv. Packet Co. who died in Oct. of 1902.
*Name: J. N. McCULLOUGH
Area: 1868, Apr. 23 left wharf, Parkersburg, W. Va.
Captains: 1868, Apr. 23, Geo. Moore, with Dan Moore, clerk
Name: J.O. WATSON
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 85' X 18.7' X 3'.
Launched: 1902, West Brownsville, Pa., Axton Yard
Destroyed: 1916, Mar., Wellsburg, W. Va., Turned turtle in storm. Lost
Area: 1902-04, Monon R., Lock 4-Donora. Later, Charlerou-Rice's Landing
1904-1908, May, Morgantown-Fairmount.
1908-1913, Towboat out of Monongha, sometimes with excursion barge.
Owners: 1902, Capt. John O. Watson
1908, May, sold to Capt. Elmer E. Varian, Pt. Plesant, W. Va.
1913, Mar., sold to west Va. & Pittsburgh Coal Co., Wellsville, W, Va.
Captains: 1902, John O. Watson
Later, Robert F. Eberhart
1808, Elmer E. Varian
Name: J. R. HOYLE
Area: 1866, Aug. entered U. White R. trade/
Captains: 1866, Aug., Jim Kinman
Comments: Source
3. Name: J.R. McDONALD
Launched; 1900s? before 1906
Type: sternwheeler
Area: San Joaquin R., Calif.
Comments: 1906, Probably the last paddlewheeler to Firebaugh, Calf.
On this trip she was stranded by low water and it took
some doing to get the dam officials to release enough water
to refloat her.
Name: J.R. PEEBLES, see ROBERT PEEBLES
1. Name: J.R. WELLS - See JOHN R. WELLS
Name: J.S.
Type: Sternwheel, wood hull packet/excursion boat
Size: 175' X 33' X 5 1/2 '
Power: 16's - 4', 2 firebox boilers.
Launched: 1901, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard for
Capt. John Streckfus
Destroyed: 1910, June 18, burned at Bad Ax Island while on excursion
trip from LaCross, Wiss. to Lancing, Iowa.
Area: U. Miss. R. Packet, Davenport - Clinton. Ecxursions,
Owner: Capt. John Streckfus
Captain(S): Capt. John Streckfus
Comments: A passenger confined in brig set fire that burned her.
The fire killed prisoner and a lady passenger.
All others were set shore on Bad Ax Island.
Name: J. S. "DELUX", See QUINCY
Name: J.S. LEWIS, originally the VESTA
Name: J.T. STOCKDALE
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 188 tons
Launched: 1863, W. Brownsville. Pa.
Area: 1863, loaded for Cincinnati
Owners: When new, Capt. J.T. Stockdale
1863. Nov 13, sold to U.S. and called the STOCKDALE
1865, Sept. 1 Sold back to private sector.
Captains: 1863. Oct. for Cincinnati, B.M. Laughlin
Comments: Named for captain Jackman T. Stockdale
: 1865, Renamed CADDO
Name: J. W. CHEESMAN
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 165'X33'X5.5', 215 tons
Launched: 1856, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1864, Nov. by Rebels after capture. See below.
Area: At first U. Miss. R.
During Civil War the Yazoo R.
1864, Apr., Tenn, R.
Captains: Andrew Wilson Cincinnati-upriver trade upon whose death was replaced by
Jacob Ketchum of New Richmond, Oh.
1864, Nov., Thad Wirthlin
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson, shopkeeper,
Commerce Mo.
- Wednesday Night, April 3rd, 1861. "Business dull and
weather rainy. J.W. Chessanan (sp) landed about 4 o'clock
this morning and put off Mrs. Virginia. . . ."
: 1864, Nov. 3, atempting to run Rebel battery a shot severed steam line.
Boat was disabled and captured by Rebels.
Crew was taken prisoner and didn't return to Cincinnati until Mar. 3, 1865.
: PRIMA DONA and VENUS were also in this battle.
Name: J. W. SCHULTZ
Launched: 1860's
Area: Ohio. R.
Comments: Note from the WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER,
June 24, 1951
1. Name: J.W. SPENCER
Type Sidewheel ferry
Size: 131' X 35' X 5.'
Launched: 1882, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Area: Went to Upper Miss. R
Served as local ferry at Jefferson City, MO 1886-1896
1896, still listed in St. Louis
Name: J. W. VAN SANT
Type: Stern-wheeler Size: 100'
Launched: 1869
Area: Ohio. R.
Owner: The Weyerhaeusers
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: Became a raft-boat
Name: JACINTO
Type: Size: 146'
Launched: 1889
Destroyed: 1932, Broderick, Calif. riverboat fire that took a score
of old riverboats.
Area: California Delta
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: Mentioned in this article
: Was in the Mickey Roonie talkie version of Huckelberry Finn.
3. Name: JHAYS
Launched: 1840's late? Size: 42 tons.
Area: 1850s, early, U. Sacramento R. Calif.
Name: JACOB RICHTMAN
Owner: Richtman, Jacob
1. Name: JACOB STRADER
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 347' x 38' x 8., 905 tons.
Power: When neww60's- 10 ft., 2 boilers, each 11' X 38' Low pressure,
30lbs. or less
1860, original boilers were replaced with 16 flue boilers
63" X 38'.
Launched: 1853, Cincinnait, Oh.
Destroyed, 1866, July, Madison, Ind., dismantled
Area: 1853- Cincinnati-Louisville
Owner: when new, United States Mail Line
Packet Line?.
Captains: 1853, June 7 when new, and until shortly before his death,
1858, Mar. 3, John Blair Summons was master;
pilot, Charles Ditman
1858-1861, Mar. 17, Charles Dittman
1861- David Whitten
Comments: Was troop carier during C. War. carried wounded
: Machinery went to the RICHMOND
: Written up in S&D; Reflector, Mar. 1966, pgs. 16&17.
: Named after Jacob Strader, Esq. 1795-1860.
Name: JACOB TRADER
Type: double sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 238 tons.
Launched: 1856, Hampton, Ky.
Destroyed: 1859, May 8, Cincinnati, burned and lost
Area: U. Miss. R.
Owner: LaCross and Minnesota Packet Company
Davidson, Commodor W.F.
Captain:
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: JAMES BATTLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 225' X 35' X 7.5'
Power: Engines, 24's - 7ft.. five Boilers.
Launched: 1859, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1867?, New Albany, dismantled
Area: 1860, Sept. New Orleand-Vicksburg-Upper Bends
1863, Mobile-Montgomery trade
Owners: 1865, Oct., sold to private owners,
1863, * Possibly Capt. James A. Greer and John Stinson.
Captains: 1860, Sept. J.H. Estes
1863, James A. Greer
1867, pilots, W.H. Daniel and David Scott
Comments: 1864, Sept., This boat and the ALICE VIVIAN headed for Cuba with loads of
Confederate cotten. Both were captured 50 mi. off Key West by the DESOTO.
Back in Key West, they were unloaded then taken to New Orleans and turned
over to the USQMD and served Union throughout the rest of war.
: 1867 made run New Orleans - New Albany in record time, 16 days 5 hrs.
Name: JAMES CHRISTOPHER
Destroyed: 1866, Jan. ?16?, 100 mi. above Savanna Ga. on Savanna R.,
burned with 222 bales of cotton aboard.
Source: Above clipping
1. Name: JAMES D. PARKER
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size:185' X 36' 5.5', 505 tons
Power: Engines, 16's 5-1/2 ft., Three boilers.
Machinery came from the EMMA FLOYD
Launched: 1872, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1882, Mar, 5, hit dam at head of Louisville-Portland Canal
Owners: Memphis & Ohio River Packet Company
Captains: 1874, Robert W. Wise
1878, Charles B. Russell
Comments: Named for Capt. James D. Parker of Cincinnati
1. Name: James G. Blaine
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 162' X 34' X 5.5'
Power: Engines, 18's- 5 ft., 3 boilers
Launched: 1882, East Riverside/Brownsville
Destroyed:1902, Brownsville, beached during a flood. Dismantled.
Area: *1884, Oct., Monongahela R. Owners: Pittsburgh, Brownsville and Geneva Packet Company
*1884, Oct. Capt. Michael Cox
Comments: 1890, July, Morgantown, struck a rock. Sank.
: 1896, Jan. wind blew her into a stump. Sank.
: 1900, Feb. 12, sank. June 28, Monessen, Pa., sank.
: Machinery went to COLUMBIA.
: Mentioned once in this Document.
Name: JAMES GUTHRIE
Launched: 1850s?
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: 1854, Push barges 10 coal barges to N. O.
: See note from site visitor, Carole Absher
1. Name: JAMES GUTHRIE (nic. the Dandy Jim)
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 244'; X 37.5' X 5.8'
Launched: 1877, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: dismantled around 1892
Area: Louisville - Henderson
Owners: 1881, Louisville & Henderson Mail Line
Captains: 1881, David L. Penny
c. early 1880s?, Richard Ballard
Comments: Equipment went to CITY of NEW ALBANY
: See Ad
Name: JAMES H. TROVER (?Same as Trover?)
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Destroyed: 1867, Eastern Montana Terr., lost a boiler pump, was
shut down and caught immobile against a bank. The
stream abruptly altered its course and left her high
1. Name: JAMES HOWARD
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 320' X 53' X 10.' Carried 3,200 tons.
Power: Engines, 34-5/8- 10ft. Six 4 flue boilers, each 46" X 30'
Wheels: 39' dia. with 16' buckets.
Launched: 1870, at Howard Yard. Cost, $180,000.
Destroyed: 1881, Dec., St. Louis, burned at dock with large cargo of sugar from New Orleans aboard
Owner: Built for Capt B. Rush Pegram and others
1878, sold to Anchor Line
Captains over her life: Capts. B. Rush Pegram, James O'Neal, James H. Pepper, Joseph W. Bryant
Comments: 1871, Jan. 21, Cincinnati, her public inspection drew some 40,000 visitors
up one gangplank and ashore on a second.
: 1873, Sept 9, Commerce, Mo., fire discovered in hold.
Was purposely scuttled to save her.
: Biggest cargo, 1875, 7,701 bales of cotton, a record for all boats at the time.
: Nicnamed "Oil Cake Jim"
Name: Jas. H. Lucas
Captains: Capt. Andy Wineland, Master
Comments: Made run St. Louis - St Joseph 1856, July 0/60/57
Name: JAMES KENT
Launched: 1820s?
Area: Eastern boat
Name: JAMES L. DYKES
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Area: Tenn. R.
Name: JAMES L. GRAHAM
Type: Probably a sternwheeler. A wooden hull packet.
Area: Sometime between 1866 and 73, Neches R., Tex.
Owners: Between 1866 and 73, Captains William and Napoleon Wiess
Captains: Napoleon Wiess
Comments: See source Article
1. Name: JAMES LAUGHLIN
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 188 tons
Area: Memphis-Napoleon, White R.
Launched: 1853
Destroyed: 1856, Sept. 13, Memphis, Tenn. Sank. Lost 6 liives.
Captains: J.T. Shirley
Name: JAMES LAUGHLIN
Captains: 1913, Brinkley Source
Name: JAMES LEE
1879-94
1. Name: JAMES LEE/DESOTO
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 230' X 43' X 7.'
Power: Engines, 24's- 8 ft. five boilers each 44" X 30'
Launched: 1898, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1918, Jan., Memphis, lost in ice
Area: Memphis-Friar's Point
1914or 17 on excursion boat DESOTO out of Memphis
Owners: Built for the Lee Line
Captains: Memphis-Friar's Point, John J. Darragh
Comments: 1914 or 17, Memphis, converted to excursion boat DESOTO
: Roof bell went to Thompson Bros. Plantation in Arkansas
Name: JAMES M. DONAHUE
Type: Sidewheel, wood hull
Size: 208'X 37.4'X 9.6', 730 tons
Power: Vertical beam engine 48"X 132", 950 hp
Launched: 1875, San Francisco, william E. Collyer
Destroyed: 1924, dismantled
Area: California Delta
Owner: San Francisco & Northern Pacific, California Northwestern,
Northwestern Pacific R.R.s
1. Name: JAMES N. TRIGG
Type: Sternwheel, woodenhull packet.
Size: 158.2' X 28.2' X 4.1'
Power: Engines, 14's-5ft. 2 boilers/
Launched: 1910, Decatur, Ala.
Destroyed: 1921, Guntersville, Ala., Caught in storm. Wrecked.
Area: Tenn. R., Chattanooga-Kingston trade.
Owners: Tennesse River Navigation Company.
Captains: 1921, Paul Underwood
Comments: See for photo and more
Name: JAMES M. WHANN
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING INTELLIGENCER, June 24, 1951
Name: JAMES MONROE See
Name: JAMES O'HARA
Size: 200 Tons
Area: Miss. R., Ark. R.
Comments: 1829 Took recruits and 100 Cherokee emigrants to Fort Gibson.
: Was the biggest recorded steamboat to have plied the
Arkansas R.. Credit
Name: JAMES RAYMOND
1. Name: JAMES REES
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 302 tons.
Launched: 1862, Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1876, dismantled
Areas: when built, Pittsburgh-Elizabeth
1866 on, Wheeling-Clarington
Owners: built for the Pittsburgh & Elizabeth Packet Company
1866, sold to Wheeling & Sun Fish Packet Company
Comments: equipment went to the TELEGRAM
Name: JAS. T. STAPLES
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Comments: Above picture is sourse for this listing
Name: JAMES W. GOFF
Launched: 1880s?
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: Collided with MOUNTAIN GIRL.
Name: JAMES WATSON
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 200 tons
Launched: 1863, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1865, Mar. 2, sank near island # 76, near Caulk Neck Cut Off,
now in Lake Whittington, east of Mississippi R..
20 soldiers and 3 ladies, 2 children, 5 civilian men and
5 deck hands lost.
Area: 1864, Vicksburg-Memphis in U. S. Troop and supply service
Owner: Capt. James Watson
Captain: James Watson
Comments: The ISABELLA and WILLIAM BUTLER were on hand to take survivors.
Name: JAMES WATSON
Area: 1870s, Osage R. in Mo.
Name: JAMES WOOD
Launched: 1856, California Pa.
1. Name: JAMES WOOD
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hullo packet
Size: 257' X 37' X 7.', 585 tons
Launched: 1860, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1862, Feb. 23, intentionally burned to avoid falling into Union hands
Area: Nashville-New Orleans with JAMES JOHNSON and RED ROVER
Captains: 1860, W. Boyd
Comments: Fire was set by Charles Gallagher, father of Capt. T.M. Gallagher
Name: JAMES Y. LOCKWOOD/SARI
Type: Showboat
Area: Miss. R./ Chicago
Comments: 1961, became Showboat SARI
Name: JANE FRANKLIN
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 196 tons.
Launched: 1851, Freedom, Pa.
Destroyed: 1859, off the lists.
Area: Marietta, Ga.-Cincinnati, and tramp trade
Owners: originally by Capt. George Benedict and others.
Comments: once collided with BEN COURSON
Name: JASON/HERBERT E. YOUNG
Type: Sternwheel, steel hull towboat. Size: 180,
Power: 2,000 hp
Owners: Union barge
1951, Madison Coal & Supply, Carleston, WV
Captains: 1940's, Ash, Leon
Comments: 1950, renamed HERBERT E. YOUNG
Name: JAYHAWKER, originally the CHRIS GREEN (the 1st one)
1915-1922
1. Name: JEANIE DEANS
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 485 tons
Launched: 1852, McKeesport, Pa. and completed at St. Louis
Destroyed: 1856, Feb. 26, Torn from docks and swept downstream in
ice flow during Great Ice Gorge at St. Louis.
Crushed and sunk.
Owner: St. Louis and Keokuk Packet Line
Captain(s): Malin, John W.
1. Name: JEANIE DEANS
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet
Size: 244.7' X 39.8' X 6', 503 tons.
Power: engines, 23's- 7 ft., Four boilers, each 46" X 24'. 5 flues.
Launched: 1860, Madison Ind. and completed at St. Louis
Destroyed: 1866, may 12, Carondelet, Mo., Burned at Marine Railway dock,
taking dock with her.
Area: St. Louis-Keokuk. Wintering on lower Miss. R
Owner: 1860, Capt. Joseph Brown.
Name: JEFF DAVIS
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: JENNIE STINSON
Type: Wooden hull packet
Area: 1879, U. White R.
Captains: 1879, Silas Daughtery
Comments: Source
Name: JEANNETTE
Type: Sternwheel, woodenhull packet Size: 145 tons
Launched: 1854, Elizabeth, Pa.
Area: 1859, Mobile - Bladen - Cullem Springs
Captains: H.R. Johnson
: * at one time, possibly Hugh Campbell
Comments: * From Campbell family records.
Name: JEANETTE ROBERTS
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull towboat/packet. Size: 111 tons.
Launched: 1857, Rock Island, Ill.
Destroyed: 1870, Dismantled
Area: 1857, St. Paul-Minnesota R.
1867-70, Sometime between, U. Miss. R. towing grain for Diamond Jo Line.
Owners: 1857, In part, Louis Robert (no s)
1867-70, Sometime between, Diamond Jo line
Captains: 1857, F. Aymond
Comments: Jeanette Roberts (with s) was eldest grandchild of Louis Robert
Name: JEFF THOMPSON
Name: JEFFERSON
Launched: 1818?
Area: U. Mo. ant the Miss. R.
Comments: Was part of expedition with the WESTERN ENGINEER to
establish a u. S. Military presence at the mouth of the
Yellowstone River.
Comments: from Boone's Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: JEFFERSON
Launched: 1832: In Wheeling, W. Va..
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: JENNIE D., Originally the W.A. HEALY
Name: JENNIE LEWIS
Launched: 1864:
Destroyed: 1869, Burned at St. Louis
Area: Mo. R., St. Louis/Glasgow/Cambridge trade.
Owner:
Captain(s): 1864?-65?, McPherson, Henry
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: JENNIE WADE Web Site
Launched: 1970, Gettysburg, Penn.
Destroyed: Being restored by Wayne and Beverly McClain
Comments: This boat was built to be an ammusement park ride in Gettysburgh. PA.
She was named after the only woman killed in the battle of Gettysburg.
Name: JENNIE WADE
Type: Contemporary sternwheeler
Launched: 1969, Salem Ohio for amusement park in Gettysburg, Pa.
Area: 1969-77, Amusement park, Gettysburg, Pa.,
1977-91. abandoned in some woods near Gettysburg, PA.
Comments: This boat has been renovated and is seeking help to make her a working
historic paddlewheeler
See ABOUT BOATS - J
*Name: JENNY LIND
Pilot: 1854, Oscar M. Ruby trained to be pilot on this boat.
1. Name: JENNY WHIPPLE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 135 X 30, 138 tons.
Power: 15-1/2's--3-1/2 ft., 3 boilers
Launched, 1857, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1866, off the lists.
Area: Built for Chippewa river trade.
1858-59, Ark. R.Miss. R.
1861, Fort Madison-Rock Island trade
Owners: 1861, Capt. J.W. Campbell and Capt. Hillhouse
Captains: 1857, Chippewa R., Charles C. Gray
1859-59, Ark. R. to Memphis, Ad Storm,
1864, for U.S. trip with 7th Infantry Volunteers,
Burlinghton-St. Louis, Jones Worden.
*At one time Oscar M. Ruby was pilot
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson, shopkeeper,
Commerce Mo.
- December 19th 1861. "Times have been perfectly quiet here
since my last. Mr. Gaither got back from Saint Louis,
Missouri on Tuesday a week ago after having been gone nearly
two weeks and brought no goods; however, they came down on
the "Jennie Whipple" but the officers would not permit them
to be put off here. Mr. Baker got on board the boat and went
to Cairo but could get no permit there to land them there so
he went to Cape Girardeau and had them land there. He walked
home yesterday and the goods have nopt come as yet but we are
looking for them continually. Our countryis in a very bad
condition. We are getting into a bad scrape with England.
. . . weather fine and dry. Times dull."
1. Name: JERRY OSBORN No. 2
Type: Batwing (uncovered sidewheels) wooden hull packet.
Size: 115.4 X 15.8' X 2.5'
Launched: 1878, Ashland, Ky.
Area: Parkersburg
Comments: Boat was designed for the Big Sandy R. and drew only 10" of water.
: Mentioned several times in this Document
Name: JERSEY
Type: Ferryboat Size: 78' X 32' X 7'
Launched: 1812
Area: eastern boat, probably Hudson R.
Owner: 1812, Probably Hudson River Steamboat Company
Comments: Source
Name: JESSE JK. BELL
Name: JESSIE
Type: Towboat Size:
Launched: 1880's?
Area: Ohio R.
Comments:From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Feb. 24 1897
Name: JESSIE BLAIR (Source)
Type: Strernwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 52' X 12'
Power: gassoline powered
Area: 1900-01, White R., Ark.
Captains: 1900-01, Heniken
1. Name: JESSE LAZEAR
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 72 tons.
Launched: 1854, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1858, Jan. White R. Ark. snagged and lost
Owners: 1856 & 57, Captain John D. Adams
Comments: Mentioned in this article
1. Name: JIM MONTGOMERY
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 92.6' X 17' X 2.9'.
Launched: 1883, Pt. Pleasannt, W. Va.
Area: Ohio R.
Owners: 1884, Parsons & Stone
1899, March, sold to Capt. Ralph Emerson Gaches.
Captains: 1890, Haz Albro
Comments: Way's has this boat originally named DOC HOY
: Mentioned in these Documents
Name: JIM WOOD
Type: Stern-wheeler
Area: 1884, Ohio R.?
Captain or owner, Capt. James Wood
Associated with: 1884, John A. Wood & Son, coal shippers
Comments: Ultimately became a tow-boat
Source: Several mentions in these Documents
Name: JO DAVIES
1. Name: JO HORTON FALL/VALLEY QUEEN
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 158' X 28' X 4.'
Power: Compound engines, 9's, 18's- 5 ft. 2 boilers, each 38" X 24'.
Launched: 1913, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1934, on Mo. R. trip at Omaha, Neb. sunk and lost
Area: Under Ryman Line and under Nashville Nav. Co., Cumberland R.
1921, Nov. went to Greasy Creek
1926, short trades to Caruthersville. Mo. and elsewhere
Owners: Built for Cumberland River Steamboat Company, ie, Capt. Tom Ryman, Jr. and others
The Nashville Navigation Company later took her over.
Later still went to Capt. Peter Lee and renamed VALLEY QUEEN, an excursion boat
Captains: 1921, Charles Hill
Comments: 1915, fall, Capt. Ryman, Jr. was shot and killed aboard this boat. See
: Capt. Peter Lee converted her to an excursion boat.
1. Name: JOE KINNEY
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 231' X 38.4' X 6.8', 739 tons.
Power: Engines, 22's- 7 fr. 3 Boilers
Launched: 1872, Madison, Ind.
Destroyed: 1882, Glasgow Bridge, Glasgow, Mo. on Mo. R.,
Tiller line parted, struck bridge, stove in her side, sank, lost
Area: St. Louis - Mo. R.
Owners: Kansas City Packet Company
Captains: George G. Keith
Comments: Was carring 4,500 sacks of wheat when sank. Cargo was lost.
* Name: JOE NEWMAN
Area: 1881, Sept. 22, said to be leaving the Parkersburg trade
Comments: Thus far I find no other reference to this boat - D.
1. Name: JOE WHEELER
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 155.8' X 33.5' X 3.5', 65 TON.
Power: Engines, 13's-4 1/2'2 boilers, each 38" X 20'
Launched: 1898, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Dismantled: 1919
Area: until 1907, Joppa, Ill. to Chattanooga, Tenn., then Chattanooga to Kingston
1901 or so, U. White R.
Owners: At first, Tennessee River Transportation Co.
Captains: 1901 or so, Thomas B. Stallings, White R.
Comments: Her machinery came from the J.C. WARNER
: When dismantled, her parts went to tow boat CAPTAIN LYERLY
: Mentioned in this Article. Also See for picture and brief article.
Name: JOE WILLIAMS
Type: COAL TOWBOAT Size:
Launched:1870's?
Name: JOEL C. MARBABLE
Launched: 1883
Area: Coosa R. (Ga. and Ala.)
Comments: from Articles on the Coosa River.
1. Name: JOHN A. SCUDDER
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 302' X 50.5' X 8', 48' floor.
Launched: 1873, Cincinnati, Oh. at Mack Yard. Completed in St. Louis.
Destroyed: 1885, dismantled. Hull became wharfboat at Vicksburg.
Power: 28's-8 ft., 6 boilers, each 38" X 26'. 6 flues. Boilers said
to have come from U.S. Gunboats SANDUSKY and MARIETTA.
Wheels: 32' dia. with 14 buckets.
Area: 1873, Designed to be a cotton carrier, Memphis-New Orleans trade.
1884, went to St. Louis-New Orleans trade for Anchor Line
Owners: 1873, in part, Capt. A.J. Carter
Captains: 1873, A.J. Carter
1884, W.W. Baker
Companies associated with: 1884-85, Anchor Line
Comments: 1878, Nov. 28, arrived, New Orleans with 4,484 bales cotton,
10,055 sacks cotton seed, 1,069 barrels cotton seed oil,
3,059 sacks oilcake and hulls. Her largest freight trip.
: Much of cabin material came from MARBLE CITY.
: Upon retirement from Anchor Line, John A. Scudder received
a pair of binoculars.
: had a fandy five tone whistle.
Name: JOHN A. SUTTER
Launched: Late 1840s
Destroyed: 1850, June, Exploded on a run to Maryville, Calf..
Area: 1849, LATE, California Delta
Owner:
Captains: 1849, Warren
Comments: 3. Named in honor of military General John A. Sutter
Name: JOHN ADAMS
Destroyed: 1851, Snagged and sank
Area: Miss. R.
Name: JOHN ADAMS FLOATING THEATER
Name: JOHN ATKINSON
Name: JOHN AULL
Launched: 1840's?
Destroyed: 1845, Sank Near Arrow Rock, Mo. on Mo. R.
Area: Mo. R.
Owners: 1. Built by Capt. George B. Cable
Comments: This listing prompted by this article, Boone’s Lick Heritage
1. Name: JOHN BELL
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 209 tons
Launched: 1855, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1863, Sept. 24, St. Charles Mo.
Comments:
3. Name: JOHN BRAGDON
Size: 273 Tons.
Area: 1853, California Delta
Captains: 1850s, early, Lysle
Owner(s): 1855, California Steam Navigation Company
Comments: 1853, Ran down and sank the COMANCHE In Suisun Bay, Calf.
Name: JOHN BULL
Type: Sternwheeler Size:
Comments: Sorce
Name: JOHN C FISHER
Launched: 1890's?
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Apr. 28 1897
Name: JOHN C FREEMONT/HORIZON
Type: Sternwheel woodenhull packet
Size: 150' X 39.5' X 6., 315 tons
Launched: 1854, California. PA.
Area: Ohio R.
Owners: as FREEMONT, Capt. Jackman T. Stockdale
Captain(s): 1855 or so, Mate was George H. Peppers
Comments: The Wheeling Register
: 1855, Jan. near Vevay, Ind., collided with SWITZERLAND
1. Name: JOHN D. GRACE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 166.4' X 33' X 5.6'
Power: 14's-6 ft., 2 boilers each 44" X 22'
Launched: 1917, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1930, Dismantled
Area: 1917, New Orleans-New Iberia
Owners: 1917, Bradford Transportation Company
Later, Sherburne Transportation Company
1830, early spring, Purchased by Capt. W.A. Bisso of Bisso Towboat Co.
Pilots: 1921, June, Hymel and Pintado, partner pilots for 25 years.
Comments: Was immortalized by Roark Bradford in a series of magazine,
roustabout stories.
: Engines went to towboat TYLER.
Name: JOHN D. LEWIS
Type: Towboat Size:
Launched: 1890's?
Destroyed: 1897, Feb. 17, Burned
Area: Ohio R.
Owner: 1897, Feb., Capt. J. F. Beatty
Captain(s): 1897, Feb., Beatty, J. F.
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Feb. 24 1897
Name: JOHN D. PERRY
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 220' X 33' X 6.'.
Launched: 1858, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1869, Apr. 6, White R., Devalls Bluff, Ark., Caught fire and burned.
Power: 20's-7 ft., 4 boilers, each 38" X 26'.
Area: 1858, St. Louis-Mo. R.
1860, New Orleans to Red R. to Alexandria, La.
1868, White R., running excursions.
Owners: Nanson, Joseph S.
1869, Capt. Pat H. Wheat of Devalls Bluf, Ark.
Captains: 1858-60, Nanson, Joseph S.
1860, William Kimbal
*1863-65, Jones Worden, during Civil War service.
1865 or so, Alex Zeigler
Companies Associated With: St. Louis and Memphis Packet Company
*1863-67 or so, Memphis Packet Company
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
: This was a Union boat during the war. Conflicting or inaccurate
information places her in either the Memphis Packet Company
*Jones Worden's Steamboats and Steamboating Career by Frederick J. Worden
1. Name: JOHN D. SCULLY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 215' X 34.6' X 4.5'.
Power: 15's-4 1/2 ft., 3 boilers, each 38" X 26'.
Launched: 1878, Rees Yard, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1895, Aug. 20, Carrollton, La., burned.
Area: Under Capt. Kountz, miss. R.
Under Capt. Scoval, Red R. and New Orleand-Bayou Teche
Owners: Built fopr Capt. William J. Kountz
Later purchased by Capt. W.T. Scovell, New Orleans.
Captains: 1895, M.W. Wood
Comments: was primarilly a freight boat.
1894, received new hull at New Orleans.
Name: JOHN F. ALLEN
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 130.9' X 37.6' X 4.5'.
Launched: 1884, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1896, Oct. Yazoo R. near L'Argent, Miss.
Areas: 1884,
Owners: when built, Yazoo & Tallahatchie Packet Co. (Capt. Woodburry)
1886, May, sold to Captain Pugh, of Yazoo City, Mississippi.
Captains: 1884, Charles B. Woodburry
Companies Associated With: *Yazoo & Tallahatchie Packet Co.
1. Name: JOHN F. TOLLE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 237' X 51'
Power: Compound Hartupee engines, 15's-33's-6 ft., 3 boilers.
Launched: 1871, Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1877, Nov. 10, grand Gulf, Miss., burned with 23.000 bushels of wheat on board.
Area: Miss. R., St. Louis-New Orleans.
Owner: Capt William J. Kountz
Captains: D.M. Brady
Comments: primarily a freightn boat. Single stack was near stern.
: Once Collided with wreck of BILL HENDERSON
Name: JOHN DRENNAN
Launched: 1850, after
Captain: 1850s, Malin, John W.
Comments: See
Name: JOHN FITCH
Launched: 1886
Area: Delaware R.
Owner: Fitch, John
Captain and pilots: Capt. Fitch John
Comments: Used a mechanical oar system.
Name: JOHN FOWLER
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 147.5' X 28.5' X 3.5'.
Launched: 1886, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard.
Destroyed: 1892, still listed
Area: Cumberland R., Nashville-Burnside trade
Owners: When new, Alex Kendall and Arch P. Green
Captains: included W.A. Crawford and A.T. Armstrong
Name: JOHN GILBERT
Launched: 1880s?
Area: Tenn. R.; Miss. R.
Name: JOHN GOLONG
Launched: 1850s?
Destroyed: 1862?, near the mouth of the Lamine R. in Slaughterhouse
Bend, just upriver form Boonville, Mo, on the Mo. R..
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Name: JOHN H. DOUGLAS
Launched: 1870s?
Area: Miss. R.
1. Name: JOHN H. HANNA
Type:Sternwheeler, wooden hull, packet
Size: 181.2' X 38' X 6.5'
Launched: 1876, Madison, Ind.
Destroyed: ?1888, Dec. 24, Plaquemine, La., burned, lost 22 lives?
Area: 1876, N.O.-Ouachita R.
Captains: 1877, Blanks, J.W.
1885, Blanks, F.A.
Name: JOHN J. ROE
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Destroyed: Sank in Madrid Bend
Comments: A very slow boat.
1862 Supported Ulysses S. Grant's forces at battle of
Shiloh on the Tenn. R.. Grant Marsh was her mate.
Boat yook 600 wonded soldiers back down river.
Clemens, Samuel was a cub pilot under Marsh, Grant
on this boat.
Name: JOHN J. ROWE, tow-boat (?Same as JOHN J. ROE?)
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Comments: Seen towing 18 coal barges on Ohio R. in a fairly
modern photograph.
Name: JOHN J. SEAY
Area: Coosa R., Alabama and Georgia
Comments: from Articles on the Coosa River.
Name: JOHN K. SPEED
Launched: 1880's?
Area: Ohio R.?
Captain(s): Mid 1890's, Leonard, Jack
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. May. 12 1897
Name: JOHN KYLE
Launched: 1860s? EARLY
Area: 1864, U. Miss. R.
Owner: 1864, Northwestern Union Packet Company
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: JOHN L FERGUSON
Type: Recess wheel, wooden hull ferryboat See Ferryboats
Size: 111.6' X 25.6' X 3.6'
Launched: 1876, Grafton, Ill.
Destroyed: 1886, Still documented
Area: Operated at St. Charles, Mo.
Comments: Picture above is anotated "at Jefferson City, Mo."
1. Name: JOHN L. RHOADS/CHAS. C. CARROLL
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 222' X 36' X 5.'
Power: 16's-5 ft., 3 boilers, each 38" X 26'
Launched: 1875, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1886, Sept. 15, Chapman's Landing, Mo., snagged and lost.
Area: 1875-78, Pittsburgh-St. Louis (28 round trips),
Pittsburgh-New Orleans (2 round trips)
1878-86, Mo. R.
Owners: 1875-78 or so, Capt John L. Rhoads and others of Pittsburgh
1878 or so, purchased by Capt. David Silver and others
1878 or so-86. Sept. 15, Missouri River Transportation Company
Captains: 1875-78, Sometime between, John M. Vandergrift
1875-78 or so, John L. Rhoads
-86, sept. 15, David Silver
Comments: 1877, June, Falls at Louisville, sank and raised
1878 or so, renamed CHAS. C. CARROLL
Name: JOHN LEE, originally the H.W. BUTTORFF
Name: JOHN LOMAS Articles on accident
Type: Excursion Boat Size: 160 X 24
Launched: 1881, Pittsburgh Area
Area: 1882, July 4, Ohio R. Wheeling, W. Va.
Owner: 1882, July 4, Capt. Inglebright
Captain(s): 1882, July 4, Capt. Inglebright
Pilot(s): 1882, July 4, J.B. Long
Comments: Built for Monongahela pool (whatever that is)
: Purchased by Capt. Inglebright for Wheeling to
Martin's Ferry trade.
: 1882, July 4, Collided, head on, with sidewheeler SCIOTO.
SCIOTO sank. LOMAS was damaged but managed to
help SCIOTO'S survivors.
Along with the pilot of the SCIOTO, this boat's pilot,
J. B. Long, was charged in accident.
: More on this law suit
Name: JOHN M. CHAMBERS
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 174' X 32' X 4.7'
Launched: 1875, Mound City, Ill. for Capt. Joseph LaBarge and others.
Destroyed: 1884, July, snagged, burned and lost
Area: 1875, St. Louis - Missouri R. trade. Made at least one trip to
Ft. Benton.
1878, New Orleans - Bayou Teche trade
Owner: 1875: Capt. Joseph LaBarge and others.
1878, Capt. Lloyd T. Belt
Captains: 1875-78, Capt. Joseph La Barge
1880, T.R. Muggah
Comments: Took on passsengers from the sinking circus boat
DAMSEL on Onawa Bend on Mo. R.
Name: JOHN PORTER
Type: Towboat, Presumably a sternwheeler
Area: 1878, Miss. and Ohio Rs.
Owner: 1878, Cumberland Tow Boat Company
Captain: 1878, S.J. Bickerstaff
Comments: This information is from a site visitor: Darl Stephenson
" . . was involved in the great 1878 Yellow Fever scare up and down Miss.
and Ohio. Reportedly brought Yellow Fever to the city of
Gallipolis in SE Ohio. My research has shown that the whole thing
was probably bogus. Lots of people died of something, but probably
was not Yellow Fever."
"She was valued at $40,000 and "was one of the finest on the river."
Her rocker shaft, which she broke at Gallipolis, is on display in
the city park there along with the names of the "victims."
Sources of this info are Hardesty's History of Gallia County, 1882
and the Cincinnati Commercial for July through Oct. 1878."
1. Name: JOHN QUILL
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 168' X 35' X 4.9'
Launched: 1907, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1928, Feb., towed from Mobil to Twelve Mile Island on what was
termed her last trip.
Area: Mobile, Tombigbee and Alabama Rs.
Owners: built for Capt. John Quill and Moore, Mobile, Ala.
Comments: 1916, June 12, Warrior R., hit rock and sank in 15' of water.
Name: JOHN R. HUGO
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull towboat/packet.
Size: originally 100' long. Later enlarged, 127' X 27' X 3.'
Power: 12's-3 1/2ft., 1 boiler.
Launched: 1879, Evansville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1900, May 22, Florence, Neb., burned.
Area: 1879-1889, Ohio R.
1889 or so went to Osage R., Mo.
Owners: 1889-1900, Osage and Missouri River Packet Company
Captains: while in OMRPC, Robert M. Marshal and Henry Castrop
1900, William L. Thompson
Comments: Using steering oars, Capt. Thompson and Hal Thompson floated burned
out hull to Osage City, Neb. where machinery was placed on new boat,
OSAGE.
: Mentioned in this Article.
1. Name: JOHN R. WELLS
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull towboat/packet. Size: 110.6' X 20' X 4.'
Power: 10's- 4ft. 1 boiler.
Launched: 1897, Tuscunbia, Mo. for Anchor Milling Co.
Destroyed: 1920, Jan. 30, Pelican Bend near St. Charles, Mo., sank
Area: Osage and Mo. Rs. Lynn Creek, Mo to St. Louis
Owners: 1897-1909, Osage and Missouri Packet Company
1920, Jan. 30, when sank, Stanton and Jones
Captain: 1897-1909, John W. Adcock, first master and pilot until sold.
At one time, Capt. P.F. Hauenstein.
Comments: Mentioned in this Document
Name: JOHN RAINE
Launched: 1850s?
Area: Ohio R. and Miss. R. and Mo. R.
Name: JOHN RANDOLPH
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Comments: Collided with BRILLIANCE. BRILLIANCE sank.
1. Name: JOHN S. BRANSFORD
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 150' X 30' X 4'
Launched: 1872, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yards.
Area: 1875, in Louisville, Evansville & Henderson trade.
1880, running Ohio and Upper Cumberland Rs.
1885 Was at Memphis as part of Capt. Milt Harry's
White River fleet.
Owners: 1875- ? Louisville, Evansville & Henderson Mail Line.
1878 went to The Peoples Line.
1878, June, Alex Kendall of Nashville purchased
at U.S. Marshals sale.
Captains: 1875, Frank O. Smith
Comments: Named after a Col. in the Civil War.
1878, Oct. Sank on log at Puppy Creek Bar. Raised.
1880, Aug. sank on snag on Wabash R. Raised.
1. Name: JOHN S. HALL
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 137' X 35', 110 tons
Launched: 1864, Brownsville, Pa.
Area: 1864, advertised first trip leaving mid-Sept., from Pittsburgh
to St. Louis and St. Paul
1864, winter, in U.S. service, principally on Cumberland R.
Captain: 1864, John Woodburn
1. Name: JOHN S. HOPKINS
Type: Sternwheel wooden hulled packet. 200' X 35.3' X 6'
Power: 16's- 7', 3 boilers, each 44" X 20'
Launched: 1880 (hull), Sewickley, Pa., Completed at Pittsburgh
Destroyed: 1917, Jan., Green River, burned while laid up.
Area: Mowt of her years, Evansville-Paducah
Owners: At first, Evansville, Paducah and Cairo Mail Line
Captains: at first, Joe and Dick Fowler
H.C. Gilbert, of Evansville was master for many years
: 1912, J.B. Thomas of Evansville
Comments: 1882, damaged by fire, rebuilt.
: 1912, Capt. Thomas converted her to excursion boat.
1. Name: JOHN SHALLCROSS
Type: Sidewheel, woodenhull ferry. Size: 273 tons.
Launched: 1863, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1877, Dismantled
Area: 1863-65, Louisville-Jeffersonville on regular schedual
Comments: 1865, Jan. from 1. Way's
". . . was carried down on the falls and lodged in the
Indiana Chute. The many passengers aboard were skiffed
safely ashore safely enough. A rising river floated her,
and she drifted through the chute and was captured below
safe and sound. She ran there until dismantled in 1877."
Also See NEW SHALLCROSS and The Captains Shallcross
1. Name: JOHN T. MOORE/ENDEAVOR
Type: Sternwheel, iron hull packet. Later converted to sidewheeler
Size: As JOHN T. MOORE, 176.6' X 42' X 7.1'
As ENDEAVOR, 234.8' X 41.8' X 7.1'
Launched: 1871, Cincinnati, Oh. Hull said to cost $30,000. Entire boat $80,000
Area: Built for New Orleans-Red R. trade
*1875, went to Tenn. R. trade
Owners: Built for Capt W.T. Boardman, New Orleans
Later ran in Carter Line
1873, Sept., was in hands of U.S. Marshal at New Orleans
Comments: somewhere between 1886 and 92 was lenghtened and became the sidewheeler ENDEAVOR
: 1896, New Orleans, still documented
1. Name: JOHN W. HUBBARD, originally the J.H. MENGE
Launched: 1910, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
1. Name: JOHN WARNER
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 220' X 35' X 6.', 391 tons
Power: 24 1/2's-7 ft., 3 boilers each 38" X 28'
Launched: 1856, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1864, May 5, Red River, Dunns Bayou, *shelled by Rebels. Sunk.
Area: Mo. R., Red R.
1857, June 4, The Diary of E.F. Beadle has arriving at Omaha, Neb.
Captains: ?Capt. Warner?
Comments: *She was in U.S. service, downbound from Alexandria, La. with a
load of confiscated cotton and under escort by the SIGNAL and the
COVINGTON. The COVINGTON was burned and the SIGNAL was abandoned
to the Rebels. See this account
Name: JOHNSTON
Launched: 1818: In Wheeling, W. Va..
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: JONATHAN PADELFORD
Type: Sternwheel excursion boat. Size: 125', 250 passengers
Launched: 1970, Dubuque, Iowa
Area: 1999, St Paul Minn.
Captains: 1999, Jim Kosmo
Comments: One of the few truly authentic sternwheelers on Miss. R.
Name: JOSEPH KINNEY
Launched: 1870's?
Destroyed: 1882, Wrecked near Euphrase Bend, Mo. R.
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Name: JOSEPH L. STEPHENS
Type: FERRY BOAT Size:
Launched: 1871
Destroyed: 1887
Area: Mo. R. Boonville, Mo.
Owner: Porter, Capt. John
Captains: Porter, Capt. John, Wilson, R. C.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: JOSEPH H. OGLESBY
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 225' X 35', 399 tons.
Launched: 1856 , Cincinnati, Oh. for Capt. Henry A. Ealer and others
Destroyed: 1858, Aug. 28, Above Glasgow, Mo. Euphrase Bend, Mo. R.,
snagged and lost.
Area: 1856, Louisville-New Orleans
1857, June 10, Mo. R., According to The Diary of E.F. Beadle,
arrived Omaha. Was her first trip to Omaha. Gave
manditory party.
Captains: 1957, Capt. Joseph H. Oglesby
A full line of quality suppliments
Name: JOSEPH WALTON
Type: Towboat Size:
Launched: 1890's?
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Mar. 31 1897
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Apr. 28 1897
Name: JOSEPH B. WILLIAMS ("BIG JOE")
Launched: 1870s?
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: became a barge-boat
* Name: JOSEPHINE
Area: 1827, Feb., logged at Port of Cincinnati
Name: JOSEPHINE
Launched: 1830s?
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: JOSEPHINE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet/snagboat
Size: 178'X 31' X 4'
Power: 15's-5 ft., 2 boilers
Launched: 1873, Freedom, Pa. (hull), completed at Pittsburgh, Pa..
Capt. Grant Marsh superintended construction.
Destroyed: 1907. March 8, Running Water, S. Dakota, lost to ice.
Area: 1873, U. Mo. R.: Yellowstone R.
1874, Mo. R., Fort Benton Service
1875, back on Yellowstone conducting exploration of that river.
Owner: 1873-1880s, mid, J.S. Coulson, Eliza Coulson, Sallie B. Coulson,
(see Coulson Line)
James C. McVay, and Fanny Maratta.
1880s, mid, government service
1907 or so, sold to Capt. Joseph Leach
Captain(s): 1873, Marsh, Grant.
: 1891, Gould
: At one time, probably during indian wars, Josephus Todd
Comments: Named for Daughter of Gen. Davis S. Stanley.
: 1873, went up Yellowsotone R. for Custer's Seventh Cavalry
: 1875, Marsh, Grant took her 483 mi. up the
Yellowstone R., farther than any steamer has ever gone since,
to Hell Roaring Rapids above Pompey's Pillar, 483 mi. above
river's mouth.
: 1875, Transported Canadian troops bound for Alberta and Saskatchewan.
: 1876, Went to Sioux Wars. Transported troops of Custer, Terry,
Crook, and Gibbon.
: Altogether she made around fifty trips to Montana, most to Ft. Benton.
Comments: I have listed her above as a also having been a snagboat.
This because of a post card in my files. See
Comparing the artist's conception above and this post card
it looks as though they were the same boat.
: Machinery was salvaged and went to a Yukon R. Steamer
1. Name: JOSEPHINE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet/towboat.
Size: 155.2' X 28.8' X 5.5'. 244 tons.
Power: 16s'-4 1/2 ft., 2 boilers
Launched: 1878, Dubuque, Iowa.
Destroyed: 1896 or 99, Dubuque, dismantled.
Area: 1878-1880s Fulton, Ill.- Burlington, Iowa trade
Owner: 1878-?80?, Diamond Jo Line
Captain(s): 1880s, Al Dawley
Comments: received machinery from and succeded DIAMOND JO in Diamond Jo Line
: Named for wife of L.D. Richardson, long time representitive of Diamond jo Line.
Name: JOSIAH H. BELL
Type: *Sternwheel, wooden hulled packet/gunboat/blockade runner
Size: *171' X 30' X 6.7', 412 tons.
Power: Upright steam engine and three boilers.
Launched: *1853, Jeffersonville, Ind. at the Howard Yard.
Destroyed: 1865, Sabine R. 4 mi. south of Orange, Tx., scuddled and
stripped of engines to avoid being captured by Union.
Area: 1853, possibly made a round trip St. Louis-St. Joseph.
1854, was running Trinity R., Tex. in cotton trade out of Galvenston, Tex.
1859, Sabine R., running ties and rails for Texas and New Orleans Railroad.
1863, Sabine R., served the Confederacy as a cottonclad gunboat See
with one 64-pound rifled cannon mounted on it.
Owners: Robert Mills of Galveston, Tx.
Captains: *Before 1859, Tom Peacock
1862, Charles Fowler
Comments: Named after Josiah Hughes Bell, friend of owner Robert Mills.
: Source for most of above. Also See
1. Name: JOSIE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet/towboat. Size: 146.2' X 28.6' X 4.8'.
Launched: 1873, Madison, Ind.,
Destroyed: 1895, sometine after, Cape Girardeau, Mo., burned.
*Or 1901, L. Miss. R. snagged and burned.
Area: 1873, principally on U. Miss. R.
*Frequently towed grain to New Orleans.
*1880-??, general towing in St. Louis area.
*1901, L. Miss. R. towing hardwood logs from
downriver ports to St. Louis.
Owners: *1873, St. Louis and Keokuk Packet Company
1873 or*75-80 Diamond Jo Line
*1880, sold to Eagle Packet Company
Captains: after Eagle Packet Co. purchased, Master, Henry Leyhe;
pilot, Warren Renfrew.
later, Sam Shrodes.
Comments: Peters Towhead, below Memphis, Under Eagle Packet Co., Collided
with L.E. PATTON, was run ashore and sank. Raised.
: *Engines originally in CITY of KEITHSBURGH then in
FANNIE HARRIS.
Later received engines from JOE GALES
:* From an article by William Petersen in The Palimpsest
1. Name: JOSIE L.K.
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull ferry. Size: 71.5" X 14.5' X 3.5'
Launched: 1884, Chamberland, S.D. *for Capt. H. J. King
Destroyed: 1920, Apr 1, Yankton, cut down by ice.
Area: 1886-1920, Yankton, S.D.
*1885, July, was running excursions out of Chamberland, S.D. to American
Island, a natural park on an island in the Mo. R.
Owners: *1884, Capt. Henry Jasper King
King sold the boat to the city of Yankton, S.D.
1900-24, Capt. Joseph Giesler
Captains: 1884-??, Henry Jasper King
**1900-20, Joseph Giesler
Comments: Named for Josie L. King, daughter of Capt Henry Jasper King
: **Replaced the SENATOR as ferry from Yankton, S.D.
to Green Island, Neb.
: * From King Family history
: **From Bob Karolevitz's column The Way It Was,
believed to have been in a 1995 Yankton. S.D.. newspaper.
: Portions of the above are from this Article by Bob Karolevitz
contributed by Mark Frazier
Name: JOSIE SILVEY (Source)
Launched: Pre 1896
Area: 1896-97 season, U. White R., Ark.
Name: JUANITA (possibly JUNIATTAH)
Area: 1830s Ohio R.
Comments: This listing generated by site visitor Carol Gromer
who wrote:
"I am looking for information about a steamer which worked on
the Ohio River in the 1830s. My family was on board a
vessel which they record as "Juniattah." The spelling in the
rest of the reference isn't good; so, I would think the name
might actually be something like "Juanita" maybe."
Name: JUANITA
Area: Under John Clemens, Neches R., Tex.
Owners: Between 1852 and 57 purchased by Capt. John Clemens
Captains: at various times, John Clements and Peter D. Stockholm
Comments: See source Article
Name: JUBILEE
Area: St Louis trade
Captain: 1828, Pilot, Sellers, Isaiah
1. Name: JUDGE FLETCHER (No. 1)
Type: siedwheeler, wooden hull, packet Size: 260 tons
Launched: 1860, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1869, early, Red R., hit a rock
Area: 1860, N.O.-Red R.; 1866, summer, N.O.-Ouachita R.
Owner: 1860, Kouns Line
1868, early, Capt. Harrison L. Watts
1868, Oct., Edgar Nott, of New Orleans
Captains: 1866, Tobin, John W.
1868, Watts, Harrison L.
Under Nott's ownership, Phelps, James E.
At one time, Keeling, Frank
1. Name: JUDGE FLETCHER (No. 2)
Type: Sternwheeler, wooden hull, packet
Launched: 1877, New Albany, Ind.
Area: 1877, Took Gen. Philip Sheridan up to visit the battlefield of
Custer's Massacre.
Owner: Under charter to Capts. Davidson, W.F. and
Davis, John B.
Captains: above and
1. Name: JUDITH
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 184.4' X 33.2' X 4.4'
Power: Engines, 14's- 5ft., 2 boilers.
Launched: 1881, Mound City, Ill.
Destroyed: 1888, July 29, Brickhouse Bend, Mo. R. snagged and lost.
Owners: Originally, Northern Pacific R.R.
Later owned by Benton Transfer Company who rebuilt her into a packet.
Later purshased by Capt. John E. Massengale and Augustus Block
Captains: When lost, Charles W. Able with John Gillham as pilot
Comments: Originally was NORTHERN PACIFIC No. 2, railroad transfer boat.
: Carried a large cargo of wheat when sunk.
Name: JULIA
Launched: 1846, Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1850, Sept. 14, Bellefontaine Bend, Mo. R. snagged.
Name: JULIA
Launched: 1848, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1860, dec. 17, Arkansas R., snagged.
Name: JULIA
Launched: 1859, Wheeling W. Va.
Destroyed: 1862, out of service.
Comments: ?Mentioned in this Article?
Name: JULIA
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 158 tons.
Launched: 1863, Manchester Pa.
Destroyed: 1867, May 10, within 4 mi. of Mankato, Minn., snagged
Area: 1863-65, Pittsburgh-Zanesville
1864, Summer, U.S. Service, Blennerhassett Island-Pittsburgh
Owners: 1863-65, Capt. William Coulson
1865, sold to Northwestern Line
Captains: 1863-65, William Coulson
See Coulson Line
Name: JULIA
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 241' X 41' X 7.', 263 tons
Launched: 1863, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1876, Jan. St. Louis, dismantled.
Area: St. Louis-New Orleans trade
Owners: 1863, Capt George Pegram and others
Entered into Atlantic and Mississippi Steam Ship Company service
Later, in Anchor Line
1873, purchased by Capt W.C. Blake
3. Name: JUlIA
Type: Sidewheel Wooden hull, Size: 170'X 38'X 10', 520 tons
Launched: 1870,
Power: Steam reciprocating engine, 200 hp
Destroyed: 1888, Feb. 27, boiler explosion
Area: California Delta
Owner: Central Pacific R.R., Southern Pacific R.R.
1856, California Steam Navigation Company
Name: JUlIA originally the BELLE of CALHOUN
1895-1930-31 winter
Name: JULIA No. 2
Type; Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 322 tons.
Launched: 1865, Wellsville, Oh.
Destroyed: 1879, Dismantled
Area: 1865-72, Out of Zanesville, usually to Pittsburgh.
1872- Cincinnati-Kanawha R.
Under Lovel, Cumberland R.
Owners: 1865-72, Capt. William Coulson and others
1872, Capt. R.V. Reynolds
Later, Capt. J.W. Lovell
Captains: 1865-72, Calvin R. Stull
1872, R.V. Reynolds
Later, J.W. Lovell
See Coulson Line
Name: JULIA BELL SWAIN, originally the CHARLES E. CESSNA
Name: JULIA BELL SWAIN, 1971
Type: Sternwheeler / Steel hull
Size: Length: 108'; Width: 22'; Engines: 12's-5 ft. from the ferry
City Of Baton Rouge. One water tube boiler.
Launched: 1971 by Dubuque Boat and Boiler Co. for Capt. Dennis Trone
Area: Peoria, Ill. R. day trips
Chattanooga: 2 day trips to Starved Rock State Park
Owners: 1971 - ?: Trone, Capt Dennis
Presently: Great River Steamboat Co.
Captain(s):
Comments: Named for and christened by Julia Bell Swain Shelton, for whom the original boat was renamed in 1917
Name: JULIA DEAN
Launched: 1850 as was another boat of the same name, firing much historical
confusion as to which boat was where and when.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article as having the first steam horn.
Name: JUSTICE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 75 tons.
Launched: 1851, West Newton, Pa.
Area: 1851, Youghiogheny R.
1852, Ohio R., Wheeling-Wellsville
1866, U. White R.
Owners: 1851, John and F. Steiner, of West Newton, PA.
1854, sold to U. Miss. R.
Captains: 1852, Ohio R., Murdoch
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
