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1. Name: KABEKONA
Launched: 1907, Stillwater, Minn. by Marine Engine Works (Swain owned) for Archibald Guthrie
Size: 112.6' X 22.5' X 4.'
Power: Swain ocillating engines, 8", 16" - 4ft. stroke. One boiler, 40" X 14'
Area: 1915, St. Louis running private parties for 2 1/2 yrs.
1917, Out of Dubuque, towed new sub chasers to New Orleans.
Owners: 1907-15, Archibald Guthrie
1915, purchased by Edwin C. Koenig & Andrew J. Franz, St. Louis.
1917, New Orleans, sold to others.
1919 Sold to Miller & Butterworth, Sand & gravel operators, Little Rock, Ark. who rebuilt into towboat BONNER
Comments: Archibald Guthrie was a wealthy lumberman of Minneapolis, Minn.
This was his private pleasure luxury boat. No expense was spared in building it.
Had 6 staterooms each with a private bath, leaded fleur-de-lis in each skylight.
3. Name: KANAI
Launched: 1840's mid?
Area: Sacramento R. Calf.
Comments: 1849, Aug. 31, Listed in the Alta Californian as plying trade
on the waters of the Sacramento R.
Name: KANAWHA Source
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 180.6' X 35.2' X 5.2'
Power: Engines, when new, high pressure 15's- 6 ft.
1909, replaced with non-condensing Marietta engines
10's- 17-1/2's -6 ft., 3 boilers.
Launched: 1896, Ironton, Oh.
Destroyed: 1916, Jan. 5, Little Hocking, Oh., hit steel pier at Dam 19
Overturned. 10 lives lost.
Area: Ohio R., Pittsburgh to Charleston
Captains: 1896, Ira B. Huntington
Pilot(s): 1896, James Rawley, Jr.
Name: KANSAS
Captains: 1838, Capt. Joseph La Barge.
Name: KANSAS MILLER
Launched: 1880s?
Area: Ark. R.
Comments: * 1885, July, "The bottom too near the top." So said an owner of the
KANSAS MILLER, when 2000 pounds of flour from Arkansas City, Kansas
consigned to the Kaw Agency, had to be unloaded and hauled overland
the last few miles because the river was too low.
Name: KATE
Built: cir. 1849
Destroyed: 1856, Wheeler's Landing, Trinity R. Tex.
with 1000 bales of cotton aboard
Area: 1849-52, out of Pattonia to Sabine Pass on Neches R. Tex.
Owners: Bondies-Roehte and Co.
comments: See source Article
Name: KATE
Destroyed: 1877, May, Yankton, S.D., Snagged, sank in 12' of water.
Area: 1876 or so, Mo. R., replaced the DR. BURLEIGH as ferry from Yankton, S.D.
to Green Island, Neb.
Comments: KATE's machinery came from the YANKTON
: This info from Bob Karolevitz's column The Way It Was,
believed to have been in a 1995 Yankton. S.D.. newspaper.
Name: KATE ADAMS No. 1
Name: KATE ADAMS (The 3rd one)
Launched: 1899, by Howard Yard. Size: 240' X 7.
Destroyed: 1927, Jan. 8, Memphis, burned at the levee.
Captains: *1917, June 3, when she was stranded, William Hodges
1900-02, Grant M arsh
Comments: One Source
*"Helena, The Ridge, The River, The Romance" published by
The Phillips County, Ark. Historical Society, 1978.
: Was featured in the movie Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Name: KATE BRUNER
Destroyed: 1886, Mouth of White River: Hit the wreck of LIZZIE GILL and sank.
Name: KATE CASSEL
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: hull, 141' X 29' X 5.'. 167 tons.
Power: 14's-4 ft., 2 boilers.
Launched; 1845, California, Pa.
Destroyed: 1864, dismantled
Area: 1854-55, Pittsburgh-Zanesville
1855- U. Miss. R. out of St. Paul
1861- , Ft. Madison-Rock Island
1863-64, U.S. troop transport
Owners: 1854, Stock Company led by Capt. Joseph McVay
1861-63, B.H. Campbell, of Galena
1863-64, Capt. Hillhouse
1864 Acquired by Wheeling group including Capt. Charles Booth,
Capt. Charles Muhleman, Jackson Harrison, Wm. Battell, and
John Mulrine.
At one time was under Galena Dubuque, Dunleigh and Minnesota Packet Company
*Jones Worden's Steamboats and Steamboating Career by Frederick J. Worden
Name: KATE HENDERSON
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 293 tons.
Launched: 1865, Belpre, Oh./Parkersburg, W. Va.
Destroyed; 1874, out of service
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: KATE HOWARD
1855-61
Name: KATE HOWARD
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 235' X 35' X 6.', 504 tons.
Power: Engines, 24's- 7', 3 boilers. Machinery from N.J. EATON.
Launched: 1857, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1859, snagged and sunk, in the Osage Chute on Mo. R. Another Map
Area: Mo. R., St. Louis-St. Joseph, Capt. Nanson with W.W. Hilliard, clerk.
: 1858, Nov. New Orleans, Bayou Sara and Ft. Adams, Capt. Gross
Captains: Joseph S. Nanson,
1858, E.F. Gross with W.W. Hilliard as clerk
1859, Aug. 4,when snagged, Joseph S. Nanson with Joe Fetco as pilot.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
: When snagged and sunk was downbound, St. Joseph to St. Louis with
tobacco and hemp.
Name: KATE KINNEY NO. 1
Launched: 1864
Destroyed: 1872, "Burned at New Albany, Indiana
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: 1864-72, Kinney, Joseph
Captain(s): Kinney, Joseph
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: KATE KINNEY NO. 2
Launched: 1873
Destroyed: 1883, "Burned at Shreeveport, La.
Area: Mo. R., Miss. R.
Owner: 1873-83, Kinney, Joseph
Captain(s): Kinney, Joseph
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: KATE KIRKWOOD
Area: 1848, White R.
Captains: 1848, May, Captain Thomas T. Tunstall
Comments: Source
1 Name: KATE ROBINSON
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 283 tons
Launched: 1863, Parkersburg, W. Va.
Destroyed: 1872, Mar. 7, Cincinnati, Burned and lost
Area: When new, out of Pittsburgh to Cincinnati and St. Louis
1866, April, advertised Direct from Pittsburgh to Council Bluffs and Omaha
1870, Cincinnati-St. Louis
Owners: Built for Capt. R, Robinson
Captains: 1863-June 68 when he retired from the river, R. Robinson
1868, Marsh Hays took over as master
1870, James Keniston
Comments: 1869, Dec., Near Grand Tower, sank on a log. Was raised
Name: KATE SWINNEY (often spelled SWEENEY)
Type: Sidewheeler Size: 328 Tons
Destroyed: 1855, Aug., sank near Vermillion R..
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: Capt. Pierre M. Chouteau
Captain and pilots: Capt. Pierre M. Chouteau
Comments: Named for Kate, the daughter of Capt. W.D. Swinney of Glasgow, Mo.
One account of boat's demise says passengers and crew were
slaughtered by Indians. Another account is below:
Comments: from article from Elk Point~Jefferson High School,
Elk Point South Dakota.
1. Name: KATIE
Type: Sternwheel wooden packet Size: 180 tons
Launched: 1864, Elizabeth Pa.
Destroyed: 1864, Nov. 22, Diamond Island, struck and sunk by DES MOINES
Area: Ohio R.
Owner: Built for Capt. William J Kountz
Comments: After collsion, DES MOINES took survivors aboard.
1. Name: KATIE
Launched: 1871
Destroyed: 1879 or so, Jeffersonville, Ind, dismantled
Area: Miss. R.
Captain and pilots: Capt. White, J. M.
1. Name: KATIE
1895-1903, sometime after
Name: KATIE P. KOUNTZ
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet.
Power: 10's- 23's- 4 1/2 ft., 4 boilers
Launched: 1871, Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1883, David Landing on Miss. R., burned with large cargo of cotton.
Area: 3 trips to Fort Benton, too big and slow for more.
1876, fall, loaded at Pittsburgh for St. Louis
Owners: Built for Capt. William J. Kountz
Comments: 1879, Oct. 15, Miss. R., Randolph Point-Island 40, sank and was raised.
: 1880, Mo. R. Snagged
Name: KATIE STOCKDALE
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet:. Size: 228' X 34.5' X 5.'
Power: Engines, 16's- 7 ft., 4 boilers.
Launched: 1877, California, Pa./Pittsburgh
Destroyed: 1890, Harmar, dismantled
Area: when new, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati trade, Saturday boat out of Pittsburgh.
Owners: When new, Capt. J.T. Stockdale, 1/4; Willis Stockdale, 1/2: Thomas S. Calhoon, 1/4.
Captains: 1877, T.S Calhoon, original pilots, James Rowley and George Hughes
*1884, (Commadore ?) Will Kraft went out as clerk
Comments: Named for the younger daughter of Capt. J.T. Stockdale
: Came out with an iron paddlewheel. Did not work. Switched to regular one.
: 1882, Feb. 3, collided with towboat B.D. Wood, sank. Raised.
: Equipment went to the new KEYSTONE STATE, Hull and cabin became excursion barge
and renamed CITY OF PITTSBURGH and later IDLEWILD, nether nam approved by U.S. Customs.
Again became KATIE STOCKDALE which sprung a leak and sank, Pittsburgh, Aug. 2, 1895.
: Several mentions in these Documents
Name: KAWIGAMOG Source
Type: Sternwheeler? Size:
Launched: Datew unknown. Built by Walton Bros., William and Edward
Area: Magnetawan R./Port Loring, Ontario Canada
Owner: Walton Bros.
*Name: KEITHSBURH
Oscar M. Ruby was once pilot on this boat.
Name: KELLEY
Type: Towboat Size:
Launched: 1879: working out of Wheeling, W. Va..
Area: Ohio R.
Owner: Capt. E. Hormbrook
Comments: Notes from WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER,
June 24, 1951
Name: *KENNA
Type: sternwheel towboat
Launched: ?St. Louis.?
Destroyed: Torn down in the '50's and the hull made into a shop platform
in Huntington.
Area: 1940s-50's Ohio R., from the mines in West Virginia up river to Pittsburgh
and down river to Cairo, IL. Barges were loaded at Huntington, WV.
Owner: The Ohio River Company
Comments: * This information from site visitor David Rayburn
Name: KENNEBEC
Type: Sidewheeler
Launched: 1821 or 2
Area: Cosco Bay (Portland) Maine
Comments: Lasted 2 seasons
3. Name: KENNEBEC
Launched: 1840's late? Size: 44 tons.
Area: 1853, Sacramento R. Calif.
1. Name: KENNEDY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet.
Size: 121.5' X 24.4' X 3.9'.
Power: Engines, 10s- 6', 2 boilers, each 36" X 18'.
Launched: 1901, Lyons, Ark.
Destroyed: 1914, Feb. 24, St. Johns R., Florida.
Areas: 1901- White R. out of Batesville
Later, Mo. R., St. Louis during 1904 World's Fair
1906 or so, went to Florida Keys for East Coast Railroad
Owners: 1901-06, the Heckmanns of Herman, Mo.
1906-14, East Coast Railroad
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: KENO Reference
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Area: Yukon R.
Owner: Present, Parks Canada
Comments: 1960: last trip on Yukon R. by a steamboat
: The S.S. Keno is now in Dawson, Yukon and maintained by
Parks Canada.
1. Name: KENTON
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 215 tons
Launched: 1860, Shousetown, Pa.(hull) Completed at Pittsburgh
Destroyed: 1870, May 5, Helena, Ark. snagged and lost
Area: 1861, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
1863-through war was in U.S. service.
After war ran Pittsbutgh-Cincinnati and New Orleans.
1868 went to Pittsburgh-Portsmouth trade
1869, went to Cincinnati-New Orleans trade
Owners: Built for Capt. Horatio Nelson Crooks and others.
1861, sold to Capt. G.W. Ebert and Standish Pepperd
1863, Oct. sold to Capt. J.H. Dunlap of Bridgewater, Pa.
1868, sold to Capt. Wash Kerr
1869, sold to Capt Henry V. Hart, Cincinnati
Comments: Mentioned in this Document
Name: KENTUCKY
Comments: See this 704 page PDF file. Warning: it takes forever to download.
*Name: KENTUCK'
Area: probably Lower Miss. R.
Owner: Benajah Bosworth of Lexington, Ky.
: * information from Ella R. Hauser, Mich..
Name: KEOKUK
1855-58
1. Name: KEOKUK
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 177' X 27.5' X 5.', 220tons.
Power: 20's-5 ft., 3 boilers each 40" X 26'
Launched: 1858, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1866, sank and was dismantled.
Area: Under G.D.D.M.P.C., LaCross-St. Paul trade
Under Davidson Line, Same trade
Owners: Built for Rapids Packet Company, Ebenezer Cook, president.
Then Galena, Dubuque, Dunleith and Minnesota Packet Company
Then Davidson Line
After C. War, ran in south.
Captains: Under R.P.C., Silas Height
Comments: *Was fast but lost speed test to KEY CITY.
*Jones Worden's Steamboats and Steamboating Career by Frederick J. Worden
Name: KEOKUK
Launched: 1860'S? Early?
Area: U. Miss. R.
Owner: Davidson, Commodore W. F.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: KEOKUK - Originally the C.K. PECK
1876-
Name: KEOKUK
1907-22
1. Name: KEY CITY
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size:230' X 35' X 5.6', 359 tons
Power: 20's- t ft., 4 boilers, ea. 42" X 16'
Wheels, 26' dia., with 12' buckets
Launched: 1857, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1870, Madison, Ind, dismantled.
Area: 1857, Galena, Dunleith, St. Paul
Owner: 1857-62 or 4, Galena, Dubuque, Dunleith and Minnesota Packet Company
1864, Northwestern Union Packet Company
Captains: 1857-62, Master, Jones Worden; pilot, Ned West
1857, Aug. 24, pilot when collided with BEN COURSIN, John P. Arnold
At one time, William R. Tibbal
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Mentioned again here, in same article.
: 1857, La Cross, Collision with BEN COURSIN, which sank.
: *Raced NORTHERN BELLE, won. Raced TISHOMINGO, won. Raced
WHITE CLOUD, won. Raced RESOLUTE, won. Raced KEOKUK, won.
: *St. Croix R., raced NORTHERNER, won.
: *Lake Pepin, Miss. R., set barge adrift to race MESSEMNGER, won.
: *MOSES McLELLAN declined a race offer.
: Raced TIGRESS, won.
*Jones Worden's Steamboats and Steamboating Career by Frederick J. Worden
1. Name: KEY CITY
Type: Ferry Size: 100' X 25' X 4.4'
Area: 1876, Dubuque, Iowa. Still there in 1886
1. Name: KEY CITY/NELLIE
Type: sternwheel wooden hull towboat
Area: 1891, Kingston Tenn.
Comments, renamed around 1910.
Name: KEYSTONE STATE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 234' X 26' X 5.7', 337 tons.
Launched: 1850, Freedom Pa.
Destroyed: 1855, May 13, Florence, Ill., burned.
Area: 1850 built for and ran Pittsburgh-Cincinnati trade.
1853 went to St. Louis-New Orleans trade
Owners: 1850: Stephen Stone, D.H. Stone, William C. Gray, Haus & Black
and William Thaw.
1853: Capt. William J, Kountz took stock in her.
Companies Associated With; 1852, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet Line
Captains: 1850, Charles Stone
*1854: (T?.)I. Haslep
Comments: Mentioned in this 1854 Journal
Name: KEYSTONE STATE/MAJESTIC
1890 - 1914
Area: 1890 - 1914: Ohio R. R.
Comments: 1913: Converted into excursion boat and renamed MAJESTIC.
: Photo and brief info.
Name: KEY WEST See CITY OF KEY WEST
Name: KEY WEST
Type: Stern-wheel, wooden hull packet. Size:169 tons
Launched: 1857, Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1862, Van Buren, Ark., burned
Area: summer season, U. Mo. R.; winter season, Ark. R. from New Orleans.
Owner: American Fur Co.: (?Colson Packet Line.?)
Captain(s): 1862, Joseph Brannon
Comments: 1860, July 2, One of the first two boats ever to make it all the way up to
Ft. Benton, Mont. The other boat was the CHIPPEWA.
Comments: from Boone's Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: KEY WEST/NEW IBERIA
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 200' X 33' X 5.4'
Area: U. Mo. R., Yellowstone R.
Owners: 1871, John Todd and Nicholas Bruson of Columbia County, Oh.;
Sanford S. Coulson, William S. Evans and David S.H. Gilmore of
Pittsburgh;
Companies associated with: American Fur Comapny and Coulson Line
Captains: 1873, Grant Marsh, pilot Nick Buison, who had the first 1st class licence
issued to navigate Yellowstone R.
: At one time, probably during Indian Wars, Josephus Todd I
Comments: 1873, U.S. Army conducted an exploritory Yellowstone. Went 460 mi. to
mouth of Powder R..
1873, May 6, Capt. Marsh took her into mouth of Yellowstone
R., up to the mouth of the Powder R. and back to
the Mo. R in just 9 days. This was an exploratory
trip in preparation for Custards stand. Yellowstone
Kelly was aboard as guide.
: In all, boat made 23 trips to Montana points, most to Ft. Benton.
: Owner John Todd was father of Josephus Todd, I, above.
Name: KEY WEST No. 2
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 206 tons
Launched: 1860, California, Pa., hull completed at Pittsburgh.
Destroyed: 1863, Oct 26, Chester, Ill, snagged and lost.
Area: Pittsburgh-Cincinnati, then Mo. R., Yellowstone R.
Owners: 1862, Apr., sold to American Fur Company for trip to Yellowstone R.
Captains: 1860-62, William S. Evans
Name: KEY WEST No. 3
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 207 tons
Launched: 1862, California, Pa.
Destroyed: 1864, Nov. 4, Johnsonville, tenn., burned to avoid capture
Owners: Capt. William S. Evans, Henry W. Oliver, Jr., Erastus St. John and
William Coulson, all of Allegheny County, Pa.; William F. McKey
of Birmingham, Pa. and Martin (Mart) Coulson of Westmoreland County, Pa.
i.e., The Coulson Line
1863, Mar. 16, sold to U.S. Navy to become TINCLAD #32
See Raising the Gunboats: for ongoing raising efforts.
Captains: 1862-63, Mar. 16, William S. Evans
Name: KEY WEST No. 4
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 91 tons
Launched: 1863, Manchester, Pa.
Destroyed: 1864, Apr. 1, Stove on a snag, lost.
Area: Ark R.
Owners: Sold to U.S. and taken to Little Rock
Name: KIMBALL
Launched: 1853, Dec.
Destroyed:
Name: KINEO
Name: KING OF THE MISSISSIPPI
Comments: I have no documentation that this boat ever existed, but
this is one great wooden wooden model of a riverboat.
Name: KINGSTON, Originally the HOLSTON
Early 1830s
Name: KIT CARSON
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 165' X 28.5' X 6.3'
Power: Engines, 22's- 7ft. 3 Boilers, each 42" X 26'
Launched: 1848, Elizabethtown, Pa.
Destroyed: 1849, May 17, fire at St. Louis docks
Area: Designed for St. Louis-Glasgow Mo. R. trade
Comments: this was a very elaborate boat, fine woods elaborate embellishments
marble counter and table tops, elegant mirrors.
Had initials KC between its stacks
: See Advertisement
Name: KITTANNING
Name: KIWANIS/EVERGREEN
Type: Sternwheel steel hull ferryboat
Size: 140' X 29' X 4.9'
Power: engines, 10's- 6 ft. Two boilers
Launched: 1923, Dubuque, Iowa
Area 1923-Cairo-Bird's Point as ferry
1930, under Green Line went to Cincinnati-Huntington trade as packet
1933, went to Cincinnati-Huntington trade
Owners: When new, Cairo City Ferry Co.
1930, purchased by Greene Line Steamers
1948, June, sold to Capt. John L. Beatty, Cincinnati, Oh.
Later sold to Merchant Paving Co.
Captins: 1933, in Cincinnati-Huntington trade 1at was Arch Edgington
Last was Wilse Miller
Comments: 1936, Dravo marine ways, rebuilt and renamed EVERGREENE
: Merchant Paving Co. Converted her to a dredge boat
Name: KLONDIKE, More Info And More Info
Type: Stern-wheeler
Destroyed: 1936, in the 30 mile section of Yukon River 30 miles
downstream from Lake LeBerge, about 87 miles downstream
from Whitehorse Lost.
Area: Yukon R.
Owner: British Yukon Navigation Company
Name: KLONDIKE II
Type: Stern-wheeler
Size: Length, 64 m (210') Width, 12.5 m (419'); Molded Depth,
1.5 m (5.75'); Loaded Draught, 1 m (40 in.);Light Draught,
6 m (24 in ); Gross Tonnage, 1226.25 tonnes (362.5 t)
Registered Tonnage, 918.45 tonnes,(1020.5 t); Cargo
Capacity, 270 tonnes (approx. 300 t)
Launched: Whitehorse, May 1937
Area: Dawson City, YukonTerritory
Owner: British Yukon Navigation Co./White Pass & Yukon Route
Comments: Official No. 156744
Crew, 23 (in 1940);
Passengers, 75 (lst & 2nd class)
Engines, 2 compound jet-condenser type producing525 H.P.
Boiler, Locomotive type (fire-tube) manufactured at the
Polson Iron Works,Toronto,1901,previously used in
Steamer Yukoner & S.S. Klondike I
#1(working pressure:129.4 kilograms/sq. cm. -
184 lb /sq. in. )
Cargo (upstream), Silver-lead ore
(downstream), general cargo (fuel, food)
Travel Time (Whitehorse-Dawson), approx. 1.5 days
(Dawson-Whitehorse), approx. 4-5 days
Comments: The S.S. KLONDIKE II is now situated in Whitehorse, Yukon,
Canada and maintained by Parks Canada.
Name: KNICKERBOCKER
Launched: 1830s?
Destroyed: 1839, Snagged
Area: St. Louis to Galena
Captain and pilots: Clerk, Mud, Jim
Comments: Mentioned in this Article, which
shows her on u. Miss. R. in 1840. One refference or
the other is wrong about her demise.
Name: KNOW NOTHING
Size: Draft, Empty hull - 6", fully loaded - 2'
Launched: 1855, At Little Rock, Ark.
Area: Miss R., Ark. R.
Comments: Named for the Constitutional Union Party whose members
answered "I know nothing" when queried about their views.
Credit
1. Name: KNOXILLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 200' X 28' X 6.5', 349 tons.
Launched: 1848, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1850, departing New Orleans, boiler explosion demolished her.
Apparently rebuilt.
1855, July 3, New Orleans, Burned. 4 lives lost.
Area: Tenn. R. - New Orleans
Owners: interests in Vicksburg and New Orleans
Captains: At one time, Chapman
Last documented captain was J. G. Harris
