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Name: L. A. SHOTWELL
Comments: Beat ECLIPSE'S 4 day, 9 hr., 31 min record for run
up-river between N.O. and Louisville by 12 min.
1. Name: L.P. EWALD/SAM P. JONES
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 149' X 30' X 4'.
Launched: 1881, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1888, Jeffersonville, Ind., dismantled.
Area: 1881, Cumberland r., Nashville-Burnside
1883, Oct, local tradc out of Wheeling, W. Va.
1887, July, Evansville-Cairo trade, Diamond Island Chute, snagged
and sunk in 8'of water.
Owners: Capt. Tom G. Ryman and W.B. Bowman, Nashville, Tenn.
Captains: 1881-83, A.T. Armstrong
1887, July, when snagged pilot on watch, James Collins
1887, Fall, Mason City, W. Va. Iowa, took on load of salt for
Ohio River Salt Co.
Comments: c. 1886, renamed SAM P. JONES
: Machinery went to I.T. RHEA
*Name: L.R.K.
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull ferryboat, Combustion engine powered
Launched: At or just after the advent of combustion powered boats.
Owner: Henry Jasper King
Comments:
*From King Family records
Name: L.T. ARMSTRONG
Type: Sternwheel,wooden hull packet. Size: 154' X 29' X 4.3'.
Launched: 1888, Jeffersonville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1891, Oct. 28, House Bluff, Alabama R., burned.
Area: 1888-90, Nashville-Burnside
Owners: 1888-90, Major L.T. Armstrong and Capt. Thomas (Tim) H. Armstrong
1890-91, Capt. Thomas G. Ryman, Mobile
Name: LA BELLE
Launched: 1860s?
Destroyed: 1875, Fire at Vicksburg dock
Area: Miss. R.
Captain and pilots: Capt. Leathers, Tom
Name: LA GRANGE
Launched: 1828: in Wheeling, W. Va..
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
1. Name: LACLEDE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 197' C 25' X 5.', 239 tons.
Launched: 1845, St. Louis,Mo.
Destroyed: 1848, Mar. 10, in fire at St. Louis Docks
Owner: Capt. Cameron, John S. McCune and 7 others.
Companies Associated with: Keokuk Packet Line
1. Name: LACLEDE
Type: Sternwheel, woodenhull packet. Size: 152' X 29.5' X 4.3', 197 tons.
Launched: 1855, California, Pa.
Destroyed: 1862, Nov. 19, Chester,Ill., by stranding
Area: Principally on U. Miss. and Ill. Rs.
Owners: 1855, Capt. E.C. Hazlitt, and Mark Sterling, both of Pittsburgh,
P.A. Alford of St. Louis and T.B. Rhodes from Ill..
1862, when lost, Albert G. Trever,St. Louis
Captains: 1862 whn lost, Thomas W. Singer
Comments: Mentioned in this Article.
Name: LACON
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1860s?
Area: U. Mo. R.
Name: LACY
Name: LADY BOONE
Launched: 1832: in Wheeling, W. Va..
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: LADY BOONE
Type: Wooden hull packet. Size: *108' X 22.6' X 3'
Launched: 1881, Lead Hill Landing, Ark.
Area: 1881 U. White R.
Owners: Captain Thomas B. Stallings had her built for U. White R. trade.
Captains: 1881, Ed Warner
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: LADY CLINTON
Type: Luxury Barge
Launched: 1826?
Area: New York to Albany
Comments: Had to be towed by barge-boat.
Name: LADY FRANKLIN
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 206 tons
Launched: 1850, Wheeling W. Va.
Destroyed: 1856, Oct. 23, foot of Coon Slough at Warren Landing, snagged
and sunk. 5 lives lost.
Area: 1850, June 19 was her 1st arrival at St Paul.
Captain(s): LUCAS
1854, June, Le Grand Moorehouse
1855, Master, J. W. Marlin; clerks, Ed Halliday
and Capt. Orrin Smith
1856, Master, M.E. Lucas
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1856, Apr 18, Arrived in St. Paul
Name: LADY GAY
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 286.4 X 43.2' X 8.3', 1406 tons
Launched: 1865, Cincinnati, Oh. Cost $120,000
Destroyed: 1870, Jan. 17, 1 pm, downbound near Chester, Ill, Obstruction punctured
hull. No life lost.
Area: St. Louis-New Orleans
Owners: 1865, Capt. John A. Williamson, Cincinnati, J.D. Isham and
Capt. M.W. Beltzhoover.
Placed in service of Atlantic and Mississippi Steam Ship Company.
1866, *Arrived Cairo, Ill on the 25th Jan.
1869, May, Entered service with St. Louis and New Orleans Packet Company.
Captains: 1865, John A. Burk, A. St. Clair Thomasson
1869-??, Isaac H. Jones
Comments: was second largest tonnage steamer on Miss. R. KATE was largest.
Name: LADY FRANKLIN
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Launched: 1860, Cincinnati, Oh, for the Dean Line
Destroyed: 1867, Jan. 31, Algiers, La., burned while being repaired.
1. Name: LADY LEE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 176' X 35' X 5.5', 417 tons.
Power: 16's- 6 ft., 3 boilers.
Launched: 1871, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1882, Mar. 29, Backing from landing, 2-1/2 mi. above Sibly, Mo.
on Mo. R., big winds blew her against snag. Sank.
Army Corp of Engineers map, plate 13 has her wreck some miles below Sibley, Mo.
Area: 1871, St. Louis-Red R.
Later, St. Louis-Mo. R.
Captains: 1871, pilots, John Shouse and Andy Bunting
While in Carter Line, master was, G.F. Shields
While in Star Line, master was, Bill Ball
Companies associated with: 1871, Carter Line
1874, owned by Illinois & St. Louis Packet Company
1882, operating in Star Line
Comments: 1881, lenghtened to 227'
Name: LADY PIKE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull towboat/packet. Size: 207 tons
Launched: 1860, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1872, Oct., "lost".
Area: 1860, Cincinnati-Memphis
1864, Apr, Cincinnati-Madison
1869, towing ice barges south from U. Miss. R.
Owners: 1860, Dean Line
1864, Apr., sold to Madison Packet Co.
186?9, early spring?,-72, Diamond Jo Line
Captains: early, A.C. Montfort, Capt Hamilton
Name: LADY VAN RENSSELAER
Type: Luxury Barge Size:
Launched: 1826?
Area: New York to Albany
Comments: Had to be towed by barge-boat.
* Name: LADY WASHINGTON
Area: 1827, Feb. logged at Port of Cincinnati
Name: LADY WASHINGTON
Launched: 1849, Aug. 9
Area: Sacramento
Comments: Was shipped to the California Delta
on a sailing ship and reassembled. First trip was up
the American R.. She was snagged and sunk on the return trip.
Name: LAGUNITAS
Type: Stern wheel, wooden hull Size: 250'X 36.3'X 10.7', 767 tons
Power: Poppet valve engine, 18"X 72", 400 hp.
Launched: 1903, Alemada Calf., John W. Dickie
Destroyed: 1917, dismantled
Area: California Delta
Owner: north Shore R.R., Northwestern Pacific R.R.
Name: LAKAWANA
Type: United States Steamship Size:
Comments: was active during Civil War
1865: Captured the river packet PLANTER which was taken to Key West
1. Name: LAKE ERIE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 157' X 24' X 3., 108 tons.
Power: 18's - 7 ft., 3 boilers, each 40" X 24', by Stackhouse and Nelson
Wheel: 20' working 19-1/2' buckets
Launched: 1845, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Area: 1845, Pittsburgh-Beaver, Pa. trade connecting with canalboats on
Beaver R..
1851, out of Dills Botton, Oh to Cincinnati and elsewhere towing
coal barges.
Owners: 1850, Clark & Thaw, Hays & Black and H. Clarke
1851: sold to Hugh Smith, coal mine owner at Dill Bottom, Oh.
Captains: 1850, Sharp Hemphill
Comments: Was forerunner in being used as a coal barge towboat.
1. Name: LAKE SUPERIOR
Type: side wheel wooden hull packet Size: 240' X 39' X 6'
Power: 22 1/2s-7ft. from the HAWKEYE STATE. 5 boilers each 38" x 26',
Wheels were 28' dia. with 12 1/2' buckets
Launched: 1870, Wheeling W. Va. Capt. Richard C. Gray superintended construction.
Destroyed: 1879, Mar. 4, Alton Slough, burned. thought from fire started in boat's
barbershop. Took the DUBUQUE with her.
Area: 1870-74, St. Louis-Keokuck; 1876, June, St. Paul - St. Louis
Owner: 1870-79, Northern Line Packet Company
Captain(s): 1870-74, Jonas Worden
Comments: Machenery by Robert Lea, Pittsburg. Hull by Dunlevy & Co.
Landscape paintings in cabin by Emil Bott
Name: LAMARTINE
Launched: 1848
Destroyed: 1856, late Feb, Torn from docks and swept downstream in
ice flow during Great Ice Gorge at St. Louis.
Crushed and sunk.
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: LANCASTER
1842-
Name: LANCASTER
Type: Union ram-boat Size:
Launched: 1860s?
Destroyed: 1863, Mar. Shelled in Civil War
Areas: 1862, April, Tenn. R., was under command of Union Gen. Wm. T. Sherman
Captain and pilots: Capt. Ellet, John A.
Name: LANCASTER
1866- Snagged at Smith's Island above New Haven Mo., Mo. R. date unknown.
Name: LANCASTER
1886-96
Name: LANCASTER No. 2
1848-55
Name: LANCASTER No. 3
1855-63
1. Name: LANCASTER No. 4
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size:218 tons.
Launched: 1861, Jan. Cincinnati, Oh., Mortons Boat Yard
Destroyed: 1846, Nov. 18, below Portland, Mo, struck log.
Went down in 10' of water. Complete loss.
Area: Built for Cincinnati-New Richmod trade
1862, spring, carrying troops on Tenn. R.
1864, June began to run New Orleans-Vicksburg
1864, Fall, under charter to U.S. loaded out for Mo. R.
Owners: 1861-64, when sunk, David Gibson & Company
Captains: when new, Lew Morris, of New Richmond
1864, M.J. McCullough with John Harrington as clerk
Comments: Saw lots of troop and supply handling during S,War.
Name: LANDIS
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. July. 12 1897
Name: LANSING
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull towboat/packet. Size: 83 tons
Launched: 1864, Prairie du Chien, Wis.
Area: 1864. Lansing-Prairie du Chein, Grain trade.
1867, Davenport to Le Claire, then as railroad passenger shuttle,
Port Byron, Rock Island and Davenport.
Owner: 1864-67, Diamond Jo Line.
1867, Rambo and Son (Wes and father)of Le Claire, Iowa
1874, sold south
Captain: 1867, May 13, pilot, Bob Smith, was killed in explosion.
Comments: Was 1st boat owned by Diamond Jo Line
: 1867, May 13, Hampton, Ill., Exploded boiler, killing 6 persons.
Was rebuilt into 123 ton boat and used as ferryboat at Clinton, Io.
Name: LARK
Area: Late 1800, Sabine R., Tex.
Comments: See source Article
1. Name: LAST CHANCE
Type: Sternwheel, wood hull ferry/packet/workboat.
Size: 98.2' X 17.8' X 3'
Launched: 1870, Burlington, Iowa
Power: 11's-3 1/2 ft. 1 boiler. was the last of 3 sets of engines she had.
Destroyed: 1899, near Omaha, snagged and lost.
Area: Ohio, U. Miss. and Missouri's Osage Rs.
1886-99, Sioux City, Iowa-Chamberlain, S. Dak.
Owner: 1870 - 1886, Le Clair Navigation Company
1886 - 1899, King, Capt. Henry Jasper and son M.H. King
Captains: 1886-99, King, Capt. Henry Jasper
Comments: 1872, Helped rafts over rapids above Keokuk
: Towed Floating Circus to N. O. one winter.
: At one time, delivered 8,000 barrels of Ohio River salt up the Osage R.
to Warsaw, Mo..
3. Name: LAURA
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: LAURA
Destroyed: *cir. 1881, Beaumont, Tex, sank at anchor. Never raised.
Area: Neches R., Tex.
Captains: 1870s, Andrew Smyth
Comments: See source Article
Name: LAURA
Launched: Built 1870s? at Arrow Rock, Mo, by Gustave Moehle and Sons.
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: LAURA MOORE
Type: Sternwheeler? Size:
Launched: 1860's, early?
Area: Coosa R. (Ga. and Ala.)
Owner: 1863: Captain J. M. Elliott Sr.
Captain 1863: Lay, Cummins
Comments: "Captain Cummins Lay took this steamboat down the entire
length of the Coosa, including the rapids known as the
Devil's Staircase to escape the advancing Union army--the
only steamboat to ever manage that run." (From the book
"Rivers of History: Life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba
and Alabama" by Harvey H. Jackson.)
Comments: Source
Name: LAURENT MILLAUDON/STERLING PRICE/GENERAL PRICE
Type: sidewheel, wooden hull towboat. Size: 182' X 30' X 9.2', 483 tons.
Power: 25's -6 ft.
Launched: 1856, Cincinnati, Oh.
Area: 1856, owned at New Orleans
1861 after, served in Porter's Red River expedition and elsewhere
Owners: 1856, Good Intent Towboat Company
1861, Confederate tinclad gunboat
1869, possibly under charter to Diamond Joe Line
Captains: 1856, w.S. Whann
Comments: 1861, Renamed GEN. STERLING PRICE
: Later captured by U.S. and renamed GENERAL PRICE, a gunboat.
: 1865, Aug. 17, Mound City, Ill., sold at public sale to W.H. Harrison
* Name: LAWRENCE
Size: 122 tons
Power: High pressure
Launched: 1824, Cincinnati, Oh.
Comments: Mentioned in this Document
3. Name: LAWRENCE
Launched: 1840's mid?
Area: 1850s, early, Sacramento R. Calif.
Name: LE CLAIRE
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1860s? at La Clair
Comments: 1866, 2nd steamer to push logs
Name: LEADER
Type: Sternwheeler Size: 144'
Launched: ?1900s, Early?
Area: California Delta Rivers
Comments: Featured as the CLAREMORE QUEEN in Will Rogers' Movie
Steamboat Round The Bend Source
Name: LEAH
Launched: 1898? Seattle, Moran Bros. 1 of 12 they built.
Area: Alaska Rivers
Name: LEANDER
Type: probably a sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Area: spent some time on The Osage R. in Mo.
Name: LEHIGH
Launched: 1841, Pittsburgh
Owners: Elli Mills and Herman Price
Comments: *Source
Name: LEANDER
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: LE FLORE
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1870s?
Area: Miss. R.
Name: LEONIA
The only teddy bear still made in America
Name: LEOTA Originally the ANNIE M
1. Name: LEROY
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet Size: 120.5' X 22.4' X 4'
Power: 12's-4 ft., 2 boilers, each 38" X 18'
Launched: 1896, Levanna, Oh.
Area: 1894, Wheeling-Parkersburg, and sometimes on Mushingum R.
Later, Wheeling-Clarington
A year or so later, Morgantown-Fairmont, on Monongahela R.
1907, Fall, Pittsburgh-Fairmont trade
1908, Excursions, Pittsburgh-Neville Island
1908 late, Winfield-Gallipolis trade
1919-20, fall, Gallipolis-Charleston
1921, jan, Wheeling-New Martinsville, W. Va.
Owners: 1894, Capt. Oscar J. Webster
Later, Capt. Thad Thomas of Clarington Oh
A year or so later, Capt. Henry Roe and others
*1904, Ohio and West Virginia Transportation Company
1908, Aug, Purchased by Green Line Steamers, Cincinnati
1919-20, fall, Capt. Jesse P. Huges
1920, fall, Wm. F. Hammell and Geo. F. Bauersmith
1921, Jan, purchased by Brady C. Litman, New Matinsville, W. Va.
1921, Nov. purchased by Capt. Harry C. Donnally and Grover Hill, equal.
1922- ?, W.F. Smith, dock owner, Pt. Pleasant, by default of hull repari payment..
Later, sold to sand and gravel co at Parkersburgh, W. Va. for use
as landing float.
Captains: 1894, Oscar J. Webster
Later, Thad Thomas
A year or so later, Henry Roe
1907, Jack Ward
*1900 or so, Johnson, Benjamin Franklin
1920, fall, William F. Syphers
Later, Ed Cline
1921, Jan.- fall, Frank Justice
Comments: 1921, late-22 early, Hull was replaced at docks of W. F. Smith,
Pt. Pleasant. Grover Hill claimed he did not order complete new hull
and refused to pay. W.F. Smith kept her in his fleet for some time.
: *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 captian's 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: LESSIE TAYLOR
Type: Sternwheeler Size: 157' X 37.8' X 7'
Launched: 1870, by Howard yard in Jeffersonville, Indiana
Destroyed: 1878, Feb. 3, sank at mouth of Atchafaylaya R.
Area: Miss. R., New Orleans to Baton Rouge-Plaquemine trade
Owner: Capt. John A. Taylor and others.
Captain(s):
Comments: She was named for the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John A.
Taylor of Opelousas, Louisiana.
Thank's to Jerry Canivit for this info.
1. Name: LEVIATHAN
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet.
Size: 307' X 49' (O.A.93') X 8.'. 987 tons.
Power: 36's- 11 ft.. 7 boilers, ea 46" x 38'. Wheels 38' dia. with 17' buckets.
Launched; 1864, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1866, Feb. 26, St. Louis, Burned. Hull converted into wharf boat.
Area: 1864, St. Louis-New Orleans.
Owners: after Capt Reader died, Atlantic and Mississippi Steamboat Company.
Captains: 1864, Ambrose Reader
Later under AMSSC, George Pegram.
Name: LEXINGTON
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Power; Engines by West Point Foundry. Vertical beam "walking beam"
48" steam cylinder, piston stroke - 11'.
Paddlewheels, 23' w/9 foot sweeps(buckets).
Boat was capable of nearly 25 miles per hour.
Launched: 1834, Mon. June 1, keel laid by Bishop and Simonson
of New York City.
1835, Mon. June 30, placed in service.
Destroyed: 1840, Monday, Jan. 13, cotton bales stacked along side
decks were ignited by her hot stack. Ship went down,
killing 119 passengers and crew. Only 4 persons survived,
sea captains Hilliard and Manchester, fireman Smith and
Second Mate, David Crowley.
Area: 1835, day boat NYC - Providence R.I.
1837, NYC - Stonington
1840, Monday, Jan. 13, Long Island Sound, New York - Stonington
Owner: 1834-38, Dec., Vanderbilt, Commodore Cornelious
1838, Dec. - New Jersey Steam Navigation and Transportation Company
purchased for $60,000 and spent $12,000 refirbishing
Captain(s): 1835-40, Jacob Vanderbuilt, "Intrepid Jake"
1840, Monday jan. 13, George Child
--Capt. Vanderbilt was ill and stayed home.--
Pilot, Stephen Manchester
Comments: 1838, boiler furnaces converted from wood to coal.
: For a very good account of the LEXINGTON disaster see Clive
Cussler's book The Sea Hunters amazon.com
The information in this listing is but a small bit of the
information provided in that book.
: Crew, final run: Helmsman, Martin Johnson; Second Mate, David
Crowley. Chief engineer: Courtland Hemstead,
Stokers: Benjamin Cox, Charles Smith and two others
Head waiter, Job Sand; Chef, Joseph Robinbson.
Chambermaid, Susan Holcomb
Passengers on last run: Boston comedy actors, Charles Eberle
and Henry J. Finn. Others: Peter McKenna, businessman;
Mrs. Russel Jarvis and 2 daughters; James Bates, wife.
son and daughter; William Townsend, wife and 2 daughters;
Harrison Winslow (in his casket), his widow, Alice and
his brother John Winslow and their father, William
Winslow; Lydia Bates and friend Mary Russell; Banker,
Robert Blake; businessmen, Abram Howard, William Green,
Samuel Henry, John Lemist,
Sea captains aboard, J.D. Carver, Chester Hillard,
E.J. Kimball, David McFarland, John Mattison,
Theophilas Smith and Benjamin Foster.
Proffessor of German literature at Harvard, Dr. Charles
Follen. Adolus Harnden, courior with $20,000 in silver
and $50,000 in bank notes for Merchants Bank.
1. Name: LEXINGTON
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet
Size: 312 tons
Launched: 1850, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1855, June 30, Ohio R. at Rome, Ind. opposite Stevensport, Ky.
Boilers exploded. 30 lives lost.
Area: St. Louis-Louisville when exploded
Owners: when new, Capt. Josh V. Throop and Ben F. Egan
Captain: Josh V. Throop
Comments: Boat was upbound and under headway when her boilers blew.
The D.A. GIVEN took some survivors and wounded to Stephensport.
The JOHN C. FREEMONT took some to Louisville.
: Capt. Throop was blown from the upper deck into the
arms of the mate on the forecastle which broke his fall.
Name: LEXINGTON
Type: Timberclad in Civil War Size:
Launched: 1850s?
Destroyed:
Area: Long Island Sound.
Comments: Originally a packet, was turned into a Union gun-boat
during Civil War.
1. Name: LEXINGTON/DE SOTO
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull ferryboat. Size: 94.5' X 26' X 3.6'
Launched: 1918, Herman,Mo
Area: Mo. R. out of Lexington, Mo.
1928, began short trade packet runs out of ?Memphis?
Owners: 1918, Lafayette County Ferry Company
1928, purchased by Capt. Peters Lee, Memphis
Captains: 1918-28, run by, Albert G. Wohlt
1928, Peters Lee
Comments: 1928, renamed DE SOTO
Name: LT. MAURY
Area: 1848 or so, White R.
Comments: Source
1. Name: LIBBIE CONGER
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 168' X 29.5' X 4.5'. *324 ton
Launched: 1878, Metropolis, Ill.
Destroyed: 1896, May 27, in St. Louis tornado.
Area: 1878-96, U. Miss. R. One trip up Missouri R. to Bismarck.
Owner: 1878-96, Diamond Jo Line
Captains: in early days, John Killeen
Comments: *machinery came from JOSIE
by way of FANNIE HARRIS and CITY OF KEITHSBURG.
:* From an article by William Petersen in The Palimpsest
Name: LIBERATOR
Launched: 182?
Size: Around 300 tons
Area: * 1827, logged at Port of Cincinnati
1928, Apr., U. Mo. R.
Comments: from Boone's Lick Heritage Quarterly.
3. Name: LIBERTO
Launched: 1840s, Late>
Area: 1840s, late, Sacramento R., Calf.
Name: LIBERTY
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
1. Name: LIBERTY
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet Size: 261 tons
Launched: 1857, Wheeling, W. Va.
Destroyed: 1862, Dec. 27, Twelve Pole Creek, W.Va., snagged and lost.
Area: 1857 - Wheeling-Parkersburgh, occasionally to Cincinnati.
Owner: 1857-62, Apr., Built for Capt. Charles Booth, and others
1862, Apr. - 1862, Dec., Mason City Coal Co.
Captain(s): 1857-62, Apr., Booth, John K.
Comments: From The Wheeling Register, Monday, March 31, 1879
1. Name: LIBERTY/CITY of PARKERSBURG
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet Size: 164' X 24.4' X 5'
Power: 17's-6 ft., 3 boilers, each 42" X 22'
Launched: 1889, Harmar, Oh. for Capt. John K. Booth and others
Destroyed: 1918, early, Russell, Ky., hit half submerged barge and sank.
Area: 1889 for several yrs., Wheeling-Clarington, then Wheeling-Parkersburg
1896, Memphis-White River Trade
1902, Mobile-Demopolis, Ala. trade
1907, Mobile-Montgomery trade
1913, Spring, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
1915, Summer, Towed RICE and DORE Floating Circus to U. Miss. R..
Many tribulations.
1916, Pt. Pleasant, Kanawha R., laid up all summer.
1917, Pittsburg, ran excursions
1918, Pittsburg-Cincinnati trade
Owner: 1889-96, Built for John K. Booth and others.
1896, sold
1902, fall, sold to N.M. Jones, coal dealer at Memphis
1902 Nov., sold to Eanes and Jackson of Mobile Ala., boat owners.
1906, Montgomery Barge Line
1911, sold at U.S. Marshals sale to Capt. Ed Peppers of Bay Steamship Company.
1912, John W. Hubbard of Pittsburgh
Captain(s): 1889-96, John K. Booth
1912, Capt. Henry R. Kraft, and son, Capt. Harry Kraft took
her to Pittsburgh to be rebuilt.
Renamed CITY of PARKERSBURGH
1913, Master, William English. Pilots, John L. Kerr and Ed
McLaughlin.
1915, *Potts,
1918, Capts. Robert Hasley and J. Orville Noll
Comments: 1906, Sept., Mobile, Ala., badly dammaged in hurricane, rebuilt.
: 1912 or 13, After another rebuild, Dravosburg, Pa., renamed
CITY of PARKERSBURG
: 1913, Feb. 4, hit coffer dam and sank. Refloated and repaired.
Crew Oct., 1913: chief, George Knox; purser, Ed Dunaway;
mate, Jeff Frame.
: 1915, Mar. 25, hit obstruction and sank. Refloated and repaired.
: 1915, Sept. Ran onto sandbar and stayed there for three days.
: 1919, Boilers went to packet KENTUCKY
Name: LIBERTY, originally the T.N. BARNSDALL
Name: LIBERTY, originally the BELLE of the BENDS
Name: LIBERTY
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet
Size: 128.4' X 20.5' X 4.2'
Power: Came out with rotary engines featuring feathering wheels. Did
not work well (only 7-8 rpm). Radial wheels were placed. No beter.
Shortly later engines were replaced with ones from FLEETWING. these
had been stored for many years. Now she had:
2 11'-4ft and 2 boilers, each 48" X 18'.
Launched: 1900, Middleport,Oh.
Destroyed: 1913, her machinery used in GOLDEN FLEECE
Area: 1900, Ohio R.
At times Green R., Morgantown-Boling Green
1905, Pittsburgh, Excursions on Monongahela R.
1906, Alton Ill., excursions
Owners: 1900, Capt Asa Booth
1902, sold to J.J. Wilhelm, a Wheeling saloon owner.
1902, Dec., sold to P.J. Roush, Edwin E. Rouch, Longdale of
W. Va, and John J. Dower of Graham Station w. Va.
1903, May, sold to Harry Maddy and Samuel A. Dunbar, of Gallipolis.
1903, July, sold to the Charleston Steamboat Excursion Company,
Charleston W. Va.. D.W. Patterson.
1905, Spring, Purchased by John F. Klein, boat broker.
1906, sold to Capt. William M. Sauvage, Alton Ill.
1907, went to Capt. Harry Davis, Brookport, Ill.
Captains: 1903, July- Robert F. Wilson
1906, William M. Sauvage, Alton Ill.
1907, Harry Davis, Brookport, Ill.
Name: LIBERTY See Post Card Picture Page
Type: Sternwheel Wooden hull packet Size: 141.8' X 28.7' X 5'
Power: 12'S- 5 ft. from T.N. BARNSDALL/ROYAL/LIBERTY (the 4th LIBERTY).
Launched: 1912: Clarington, Oh. for the Booth family of Clarington.
Destroyed: 1938, Kanauga, Oh., Dismantled. Engines went to VALLEY BELLE
Area: 1912-18, built for upper Ohio R. Wheeling-Clarington trade.
: 1918- Wheeling-New Matamoras, then Parkersburgh; Sept.,to McConnelsville;
Dec. to Pittsburgh- McConnelsville.
1921- Gallipolis-Charleston, then Pittsburgh-Wheeling
1929- Pittsburgh-Charleston
193? Was towboat for GOLDENROD showboat.
Owner: 1912- ?? the Booth family
1936-1938, July 27 when sold for debt, Walter Webster.
Captains: 1912-??, S.W. Litten
1932- Master, Walter C. Booth; Pilot, Wilsie Miller
1938, Raike, Ben
Comments: Opperated for approxinately 30 years.
1936: Was last commercial packet to abandon Pittsburgh as home
port.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
: From a book titled "Sternwheelers on the Great Kanawha River"
by Gerald W. Stuphin and Richard A. Andre:
"Its hull was built from trees personally selected by
Walter C. Booth from the forest in back of Clarington. From
1912 to 1929 when the Liberty came to the Kanawha River, it
operated in a variety of trades on the upper Ohio River. It
was brought to the Kanawha to work the "huckster trade"
bringing chickens and eggs from the farms in the valley to
the markets of Pittsburgh.
:1936, caught in lower Ohio and stripped by vandals of whistle,
bell and fittings and such.
1. Name: LIBERTY No. 2
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 225' X 35', 373 tons
Power; engines, 22's- 7 ft., 3 boilers.
Launched: 1861 in Wheeling, W. Va..
Destroyed: 1871, Mound City Ill., Dismantled, engines went to R.R. transfer
boat J.C. McMULLIN.
Area: 1861, Wheeling - Parkersburg, then ran as a U.S. transport.
1864, Louisville-Memphis
1866, Same
Owner: 1861, Probably Capt. Charles Booth, maybe with others. This boat
was built to replace the first LIBERTY, which was owned by
him and others.
Captain(s): During Civil War, Mate was George H. Peppers and
Capt. was John K. Booth
: 1866, Sam Archer. Also this year, James Rice
Comments: Whistle came from the BESSIE SMITH which got it from
the GEORGE STRECKER. After that it was passed
on to the towboat MILDRED. Source
Comments: Notes from WHEELING INTELLIGENCER, June 24, 1951
Comments: From The Wheeling Register, Monday, March 31, 1879
: 1867, wind blew her ashore where she was holed by a log and sunk.
Was refloated.
Name: LIBERTY No. 4
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet/towboat
Owners: 1882, Capt. Joe Burnsides
Captains: 1881, Mar., Pilot, F.C. Heritage
1882, Jan., Captain was F.C. Heritage
Comments: Also see
Name: LIBERTY, 1909, originally the T.N.BARNSDALL
Name: LIBERTY BELL Photo
Type: Replica of sternwheeler, excursion boat
Size: 125' X 35' X 4.5', 87 gr. tons, 400 passenger.
Power: 2 Caterpillar 3306 diesel engines connected through Twin Disk
Reduction Gears (2.9:1) totaling 400 horsepower.
Paddlewheel is decorative.
Launched: 1965, Dubuque, Iowa
Area: 1976 - Present (1999, Sept.), Out of Pittsburgh, Pa..
Owner: 1976 - present, Gateway Clipper Fleet
1. Name: LILI
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull lighthouse tender
Size: 178' X 28' X 4.'
Launched: 1875, Louisville Ky.
Destroyed: 1911, Nov. 24, head of Centaur Chute, Mile 40, Mo. R. snagged And lost
Area: At first Ohio R. service
The rebuilt LILI went to U. Miss. R and Missouri Rs.
Captains: When new on Ohio R., Owen B. Jolly
1875, Nov. William R. Hoel replaced Jolly
Later went to Capt. George Vandergrift until Nov. 5, 1885 when he resigned.
Capt. Charles Dufour then took command.
On Miss. and Mo. Rs. Captain Willian Eagon was master
Comments: 1888, burned off upper works in fire which destroyed two other packets.
Completely rebuilt hull and all. Texas deck added.
Old hull went to Madison for wharfboat.
: 1911, Oct. 17, snagged near St Albans, Mo.
Name: LILLIE LU
Area: Tombigbee R., Fulton-Mobile
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Tombigbee River from Fulton Ms. to Mobile Ala. sometime just after the Civil
War. We found a grave of the Captains Wife and would like to find out more
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Name: LILLY BELLE Article and Photo
Type: Sternwheeler Size:
Launched: 1958
Owner: Ike Hastings
Captain: Ike Hastings
1. Name: LILLIE M. BARLOW
Launched: 1890S?
Area: 1890s, Cane. R., Miss.; 1901, Red R.
Captain: 1901, under charter to Maikell, Capt. William
Comments: Once sank at Derry's Landing.
Name: LITTLE EAGLE No. 2
Destroyed: 1894, was flipped over by a twister and sank
Captain and pilots: Capt. Marsh, was Capt. when sank.
Comments:
Name: LITTLE QUEEN
Launched: 1890's?
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. May. 12 1897
Name: LITTLE REBEL
3. Name: LINDA
Launched: 1840's mid?
Area: 1850s, early, Sacramento R. Calif.
Name: LITTLE SANDY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 94' X 16' X 3.'
Launched: 1880, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1896, still on the lists.
Area: 1890, Racine - Middleport trade on Ohio R.
Captains: 1890, Sam DeWolf
Name: LIVE OAK
Area: Miss. R.
Captain and pilots: Capt. 1865, Atkins, Carrol J.
Comments: 1865, boat was called ashore by lady and passengers were
robbed by her confederate companions.
Name: LIVINGSTON
Type: ferryboat
Area: 1877-81, Mo. R., replaced the DR. BURLEIGH as ferry from Yankton, S.D.
to Green Island, Neb.
Later, moved to Running Water, S.D. ferry crossing.
Owner: Capt. Grant Marsh
Comments: 1881, was caught in ice, washed over railroad tracks and deposited
on dry land. was later repaired and refloated.
: This info from Bob Karolevitz's column The Way It Was,
believed to have been in a Yankton. S.D.. newspaper.
*Name: LIZZIE CALDWELL
1. Name: LIZZIE CASSEL
Type: Stermwheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 141' X 24' X 4.'
Power: Engines, 12's- 4 ft.
Launched: 1873, Marietta, Oh. (hull)/ completed, McConnelsville, Oh.
Destroyed: 1895, sank of old age, scrapped out for $20
Area: Muskingum R.
Captains: When new, Jesse John Barr, McConnelsville-Zanesville trade
Later, William Davis, Lou Myrick, Ed Martin,
A.J. Hahn, and John Rice
Comments: Whistle is in Ohio River Musuem, Marietta, Oh.
: Mentioned several times in this series of Documents
Name: LIZZIE GILL
Type: Sidewheeler. wood hull
Size: Length: 242'; Width: 49'; Draft: 7' Wheels: 30', 13 buckets
Launched: 1850's
Destroyed: 1866, early Jan. at mouth of White R.
Area: L. Miss. R.?
Comments: Named for Lizzie Tate Gill, as was the LIZZIE TATE, below.
More information: from Way's Packet Directory, compiled by
John Hartford, river musician.
Name: LIZZIE TATE
Launched: 1850's
Area: L. Miss. R.?
Comments: Named for Lizzie Tate Gill, as was the LIZZIE GILL, above.
Name: LIZZIE TOWNSEND
Type: Towboat Size:
Launched: 1882 by William Dillard
Destroyed: 1904, June 23, by fire
Area: Ohio R., Wheeling, W. Va.
Owner: Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Railroad
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: LIZZIE WARDEN
Area: 1870, Mo. R. 1st ferryboat between Yankton and Green Island Neb.
Comments: said to be able to carry 20 loaded agons and their horses.
This info from Bob Karolevitz's column The Way It Was, believed
to have been in a Yankton, S.D. newspaper.
3. Name: LOLA
Launched: 1840s, Late
Area: 1840s, late, Sacramento R., Calf.
Name: LOLA J.
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Area: Coosa R.
Comments: Above picture is source for this listing.
1. Name: LONE STAR
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 112' X 26' X 4.7', 126 tons.
Launched: 1854, Louisville, Ky.
Owners: 1854, Built for Capt. J.S. Smith and partners, Jefferson, Tx..
1856, Amite Pressed Brick Mfg. Co., New Orleans
1857, May, sold to James N. Sherry, New Orleans.
1860, Jan., bought by Gilbert V. Gamble, East Baton Rouge Parrish, La.
1861, went to Confederate registry
1. Name: LONE STAR
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 121 tons.
Launched: 1859, Monongahela, Pa. by James Rees & Sons Yard
Destroyed; after a few trips in Tx., snagged and lost.
Area: 1859, built for Trinity River service in Texas.
Owners: 1859, 2/3 - James Rees, 1/3 - Charles Gearing
1. Name: LONE STAR
Type: ?Sternwheeler?, short trade packet
Size: 68.4' X 19.3' X 3.2'
Launched: 1868 at Lyons, Iowa
Destroyed: 1886, Still listed
Area: 1868, Ohio R. Iowa trade
Owner: 1868-76, Capt. Sam Mitchell
1876 - , Gross & Company, sand dealers at
Davenport, Iowa.
Captain(s): 1868-76, Capt. Sam Mitchell
Comments: 1876, converted to a towboat
: There is some thought that links this boat with the following
boat, but we have found no verifiable information that they
were the same boat.
Name: LONE STAR See for more comments.
Launched: 1890, Rock Island, Ill. at Kahlke Yard.
Area: 1957 - 1966 around the Davenport/Rock Island area hauling materials
for Builders Sand & Gravel Co.
Owners: 1890, built for Goss & Company
1900, Goss & Co. became Builders Sand & Gravel Co. and
Continure to opperate the LONE STAR.
Comments: 1890, She was lengthened at Rock Island, Illinois and
re-enrolled with a new official number, 141082
1922, the Kahlke Yard rebuilt her completely - keeping her old
engines. Was assigned another official number, 222089
1957, her worn out hull and was completely replaced at the
Kahlke Yard, along with a major reconditioning.
1967 she failed a USCG inspection and her owners decided to
retire her and replace he with a new deisel boat.
1960s, She was one of only three remaining Western Rivers
steam towboats and the only remaining example of
a wooden-hull boat built in the traditional Western
Rivers fashion. Though enlarged, Lone Star retains much
of her original fabric from 1868 and most of her
appearance from her last major rebuilding in 1922.
1967, Augast, She was cooled down for the last time
The crew on her last trip was Glenn Johnson, master and
pilot; William Horlas, engineer; Mrs. Eleanor Johnson,
cook; Dick Schmidt and Louis Chapman, firemen-deckhands.
: The LONE STAR was acquired by the Buffalo Bill Museum at
LeClaire, IA by the LeClaire, IA Business Mens Association (for
$1.00) and hauled out on the Mississippi River bank where she
is currently maintained for public viewing.
1. Name: LORA/OMAHA/GENERAL PERSHING
Type: sternwheel, wooedn hull packet
Size: 150' X 30' X 4.5'
Power: Engines, 12's-6-1/2', two boilers all from the FLORA CLARK
Launched: 1900, Stillwater Minn.
Destroyed: 1921, Nov., Pt. Pleasant, W. VA., laid upo at docks and never ran again.
Area: Briefly at first, U. Miss. R.
Then ran excursions at St, Paul and other places
Under Heckman Family was on Mo. R., St. Louis-Arrow Rock,
and excursions out of Kansas City
1912, New Orleans-Red R.
1918, late, moved to upper Ohio R. and ran Pittsburgh-Charleston
Owners: At some time in early 1900s, The Heckman family
1908, owned by the Eagle Boat Company Store, St. Louis, Mo.
1912, Aug. 3, acquired by Carter Packet Company, New Orleans
1918, May, sold to Liberty Transit Company, Wheeling W. Va.
Captains 1918, May, Fred Ketchum for trip from N.O. to Wheeling
1921, W.L. Guthrie, master and Fred Way Jr., clerk.
Comments: Originally had no texas deck.
: 1908 St. Louis, completely rebuilt
: 1912, Carter Packet Co. replaced entire cabin and 80 percent of hull.
: 1914, May 30 won staged race with the MARY S. BLEES
: 1918, Summer, Clarington, Oh., converted from cotton packet configeration
for U. Ohio R. service and renamed GENERAL PERSHING
Name: LORENA
Type: Size:
Launched: 1895
Destroyed:
Area: Ohio R.
Owner: Captains Wallace and Scott,
Captain(s):
Comments: Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Aug. 18 1897
Name: LORENA Web Site
Type: Sternwheel Excursion Boat
Size: 104', 59 ton, 100 passenger
Power: diesel
Launched: 1949 as a stripped-down tow boat
Area: Zane's Landing, Zanesville, Ohio on Muskingun R.
Captain(s: 1998: Bill Stickel
Comments: Runs Excursion and dinner cruises mid-May through mid-Oct.
Riverside Park Dock, P.O. Box 168
Zanesville, Ohio 43701 / 1-800-246-6303
:Commemorative pottery reproduction
: This LORENA is named for a famous Civil War love ballad
written in 1857. Song
Name: LOT WHITCOMB Source
Type: Side-wheeler Size: 160 X 24
Launched: 1850
Area: Columbia R.
1. Name: LOTAWANNA
Type: Sternwheeler, wooden hull, cotton packet, 2,200 bales
Size: 155' X 35' X 5', 479 tons
Power: 16 1/2's - 6ft., 3 boilers, 40" X 24', 4 flues
Launched: 1867, Marietta, Oh.
Destroyed: 1874, Feb. 23, at Rounds raft, Red R.
Area: 1874, Red R.
Owner: Capt. H.J. Brinker
Captains: 1874, when sank, White, John H.
*At one time Keeling, Frankin A.
*At one time Blanks, Fred A.
Name: LOTUS
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: tow boat for saw-mills
Name: LOUCINDA Originally the SPEEDWELL
Name: LOUIS A SHERLEY
Post Card Picture
3. Name: LOUISA
Launched: 1840s, Late>
Area: 1840s, late, Sacramento R., Calf.
Name: LOUISE
: Mo. R. Chart #3 published by the Missouri River Commission in 1892
shows a LOUISE wreck at Washington Mo. I have no other reference to this boat.
Comments: Way's Packet Directory, 1848-94 lists 4 boats by the name of LOUISE.
This boat is not one of them.
Name: LOUISIANA
Destroyed: 1849, No. Exploded leaving dock in ?
Name: LOUISIANA
Area: Miss R..
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson storekeeper,
Commerce, Mo.
- Thursday Night, March 28th, 1861. "Business dull. Weather
good. River rising. Boats plenty. The Louisiana went up
last night at 11 o'clock, put off S. Burgess and Morris
A. Little. . . . "
1. Name: LOUISVILLE/OUACHITA/VICKSBURG
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hulled packet
Size: 220' X 38' X 8', 572 tons
Power: 28's- 7 ft., 5 boilers
Launched: 1861: New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1869, July, burned at Cairo, Ill.
Area: Miss. and Ohio Rs.
: 1861, N.O.-Louisville trade
1863, Yazoo R.
: 1866, Summer boat, N.O. - Ouachita R.; during season was cotton
carrier, N.O.-Vicksburg
Owner: 1863, Converted to gunboat by Confederates.
1863, May 18, Captured by U.S., renamed OUACHITA and pressed into service.
1866, April, Sold to Head, Daniel T., of New Orleans.
1868, Feb., Work, George P., of New Orleans.
Captain(s): 1861, Feb 9, Capt. Hollcroft.
1866, John W. Tobin, LATER J.M. White
1868, Blanks, Fred.A.
Comments:1863, renamed OUACHITA after captured by U.S. and converted to gunboat.
1866, renamed VICKSBURG
: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA, WHEELING INTELLIGENCER, July 9, 1959
Name: LUCILLE NOWLAND/ABIGAIL
Type: Sternwheel packet, Wood hull Size: 170' X 33' X 5'
Power: 12's-5 ft. two 44" X 20' boilers
Launched: 1898, Axton Yard, Brownsville Pa.
Destroyed: As LUCILLE NOWLAND, 1911, Dec., Eveansville, Ind. upper
works burned.
: As ABIGAIL, 1915, Feb. 15, Cedar Farm Landing, Ind.,
burned.
Area: Miss. and Ohio. Rs.
Owners: 1898, Memphis and Arkansas River Packet Company
: 1910, July, Noll, Martin F.
: 1912, Hornbrook, Fred
Captains: 1901, Downs, Matt; Robinson, J. D.
: 1810, Dec., Knox, Charles W.
: 1912, Hornbrook, Fred
Pilots: 1901, Hodge, Clarence, Downs, Rees V.
Comments: 1912, March, hulk was towed to Howard Yard at Jeffersonville,
Ind. where it was rebuilt into the ABIGAIL.
: 1914, summer, Nashville, Tenn., Ran excursions.
: Source: Way's Packet Directory, 1884 - 1994
Name: LUCY K. McALLISTER
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Name: LUCY MAY
Launched: 1857, pre
Area: 1857, U. Miss. R.
Owner: 1857, Northern Line Packet Company
Captain(s): 1857, Jenks
Comments: Mentioned in this Article and in This One
Name: LUCY TROXLER
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1. Name: LUCY WALKER
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 182 tons.
Launched: 1843, Cincinnati, Oh. for Joe Vann
Destroyed: 1844, Oct. 25, boiler explosion. 18 lives lost.
Area: built for Webber Falls-Louisville trade.
Owner: Joe Vann
Captains: first trip, Halderman
Second trip, Joe Vann. Pilot, *possibly Resin Jameson
Comments: Joe Vann was among fatalities, his body never found.
Eight were unidentified and buried at Fairview Cem.,
near New Albany.
: Joe Van was a Cherokee of Webber Falls on upper Ark. R.
: Lucy Walker was famed racehorse purchased by Joe Vann.
Name: LUELLA
Launched: 1850,
Captain: 1855, Feb. 28, Ed Booker
Area: as per ad below, heading for White R.
Comments: Source is this ad from Memphis Daily Eagle and Enquirer from The Olden Times.com
February 28, 1855
Name: LUELLA
Launched: 1860,
: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson storekeeper,
Commerce, Mo.
- Friday, August 2nd 1861. "Business tolerably good.
Weather warm and dry. war times hot. . . . It is rumored
that there are fifteen thousand troops at New Madrid, we
also learned there were some troops at Northfork below
Bird's Point, the Ferry Boat Luella went up this morning
and took Burke with his company."
- Wednesday, August 14th 1861. "Since my last, times have
been very exciting. some of our best citizens have been
taken to camp. . . . On monday evening the Steamboat Luella
came down from Cape Ggirardeau with about two hundred
U.S. soldiers. The went out to Benton and are there yet. . . ."
1.Name: LUELLA
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size:258 tons.
Launched: 1866, Jan. Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1868, Dismantled.
Area: At first, Pittsburgh - Nashville, then Mo. R.
Owner: In part, Capt. William J. Kountz
Captain: 1866, Grant Marsh
1867, Capt. Hazlett took her Pittsburgh-Fort Benton
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Comments: 1856, late Feb, Torn from docks and swept downstream
in ice flow during Great Ice Gorge at St. Louis.
Forced ashore slightly only damaged.
1866, June 17, Capt Marsh Grant tied her up at
Fort Benton.
Comments: Made 3 trips to Fort Benton.
: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson storekeeper,
Commerce, Mo.
- Friday, August 2nd 1861. "Business tolerably good.
Weather warm and dry. war times hot. . . . It is rumored
that there are fifteen thousand troops at New Madrid, we
also learned there were some troops at Northfork below
Bird's Point, the Ferry Boat Luella went up this morning
and took Burke with his company."
- Wednesday, August 14th 1861. "Since my last, times have
been very exciting. some of our best citizens have been
taken to camp. . . . On monday evening the Steamboat Luella
came down from Cape Ggirardeau with about two hundred
U.S. soldiers. The went out to Benton and are there yet. . . ."
Name: LUNINARY
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size; 260' X 42' X 7.', 1,023 tons.
Power: 25's-8 ft., 4 boilers, each 44" X 26'
Launched: 1863, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1867, Mar. 8, below Helena Ark., snagged and lost.
Area: 1865, St. Louis-New Orleans
Owner: In U. S. Service as troop/supply carrier. See
1865, Atlantic and Mississippi Steam Ship Company
1866, Anchor Line
Captains: 1866, Anchor Line, William Blake
Comments: 1867, Jan. was in ice bound, dammaged.
1867, Mar. 8, took survivors of CLERMONT sinking from shore near
Helena, Ark..
Name: LUNA
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 561 tons.
Launched: 1864, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1866, Feb. 26, St. Louis, burned with LECIATHAN and DICTATOR
Owner: Atlantic and Mississippi Steam Ship Company
Captains: Patrick Yore
Name: LUTHER TROXELL, Originally the T.L. BROWN
Name: LYNX
Launched: 1844
Area: U. Miss. R.
Captain: 1846, Mar., Mark Atchison
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
