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1. Name: M. E, ALLEN
Type: Sidewheel, woodenhull packet. Size:137.8' X 28.3' X 5.7', 198 tons
Launched: 1861, Paducah, Ky.
Area: Miss. R. out of Shreveport
Owner: Boisseau, Joseph
Captain(s): Boisseau, Joseph
Comments: Went to Confederate registry
Name: M. P. WELLS
Launched: 1880's?
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. May. 12 1897
Name: M. S. MEPHAM
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 236' X 38' X 7.5', 683 tons.
Power: 23-1/2's-8ft. 4 boilers, each 40" X 26',
Wheels: 30' dia. working 12-1/2' buckets with 26" dip.
Launched: 1864, Elizabeth, Pa. Machenery from James Rees Co.
Destroyed, 1868, Mar. 2, foot of Carr St., St Louis, burned.
Area: until 1864, mid-summer, Wt. Louis-Leavenworth trade.
1865, St. Louis-New Orleans trade
1867, Advertised regular runs, Louisville-New Orleans
Owner: M.S. Mepham & Bros., St. Louis, Mo.
Captains: 1864, A.A. Shaw
1865, A. St. Clair Thomasson
Comments: This was a fancy boat. Chickering grand piano in salon.
Oil paintings over office and on each stateroom door.
Large, carved spread eagle atop pilothouse.
Chinaware from London and White, New York.
Silver from Rogers and Smith.
Rugs, carpeting and bedding from A.T. Stewart, New York.
Bridal chamber was 16' X 8', 2 rooms connected by folding doors.
Had mahogany bedsteads, etc.
: 1867 Dec. 21, left Cairo, Ill. for round trip, New Orleans and back.
1. Name: M.S. THANHOUSER
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 120' X 49'X 3.5'.
Area: 1875, fall, Wheeling-Clarington
Owners: 1875, Steve Thompson
1877, Sheperd and Humphry when advertised for sald in 1877.
Captains: 1875, Steve Thompson with C.E. Booth as clerk
Comments: Gorden C. Green was one of her crew, Marietta-Vicksburg
towing produce, once.
Boat returned north towing a circus.
Name: M.T. BRYAN, originally the J.H. KEENE
1. Name: MABEL COMEAUX
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 145.2' X 29.8' X 5.8'
Launched: 1883, hull, cabin and framing, New Richmond, Oh.
Destroyed: dismantled to become wharfboat at Tell City, Ind.
Area: New Orleans - Upper Coast-Bayou Lafourche
Captains: E.J. Comeaux
1. Name: MABEL COMEAUX
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 178' X 36' X 6.5'
Power: Engines, 18's- 6', 3 boilers each 42" X 26'
Launched, 1891, Jeffersonville, Ind. Howard yard
Destroyed; 1909, dismantled
Area: New Orleans - Donaldsonville - New Hope
1902 was running New Orleans - Bayou Lafourche
Owners: Capt E.J. Comeaux
Captains: 1902, E.J. Comeaux
Comments: Was eventually laid up, McDonaldsonville.
Was caught there and laid over on her side.
: Was known as Fair Mabel
Name: MACHIGONNE
Launched: Late 1800's
Destroyed: Early 1900's
Area: Cosco Bay (Portland) Maine
Owner: Harpswell Steamboat Co.
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments:
Name: MADISON
Launched: 1828, in Wheeling, W. Va. by either the Bell Yard or
the Patton Yard.
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Engines and machinery probably came from the T. Sweeney Foundry.
Comment: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
1. Name: MAGENTA
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 215' X 35', 424 tons.
Power: 20-1/2's- 6-1/2 ft. 2 boilers
Launched: 1863, Mound City, Ill.
Destroyed: 1863, May 22, in bend below Dewitt, Mo.
Area: Built for Missouri R. Trade.
Owner: F. M. Dozier, C.C. Chouteau, Ben Johnson and Frank Constant.
* Name: MAGNET
Size: 100 tons
Power: Low pressure
Launched: 1823, Cincinnati, Oh.
Name: MAGNOLIA
Type: Sternwheeler Size:
Launched: 1844?
Area: Coosa R., Ga. and Alabama
Captain(s) : ?1870's? Elliot, James M. Jr.?
Comments: Made run N.O. to Natchez 1851 0/19/50
Comments: from articles on the Coosa River.
Name: MAGNOLIA
Type: Sternwheeler Size:
Destroyed: 1868, Mar. 16, Exploded at the Coal Haven Bar, at the mouth
of the Crawfish R..
Area: 1868: Ohio R., Cincinnati to Maysville
Owner: David Gibson
Captain(s):: 1868: Prather, James H.
Comments: From the Cincinnati Enquirer March 17,
1868, Thursday. Compiled by H. Martin Prather.
Name: MAGNOLIA
Click to enlarge
The MAGNOLIA at Rome, Ga.
Photo donated by Ken McCulloch
Launched: c. 1870
Area: Coosa R.
Comments: Source
Name: MAGNOLIA BELLE Originally the BORDER STAR
Name: MAID OF OSAGE
Size: 63 tons
Launched: 1842, Osage City, Mo.
Captains: Anson G. Bennett, Cote Sans Dessein, Mo.
Comments: 1844, during a major flood, went up Osage R. to Harmony Mission in Bates Co., Mo.
Only boat ever to make it that far.
: Mentioned in this Article.
Name: MAJESTIC
Destroyed: 1846, blew up
Name: MAJESTIC
Type: Ornamental sidewheel steel hull excursion boat
Size: 277' X 50' X 6.5', 40' tall, 1,453 gr. tons, 1,000 passengers
Power: 2 Caterpillar diesel engines (Model 3508). The engines are
connected through Twin Disc Reduction Gears (4.94: 1) totaling
1350 horsepower.
Launched: 1987, Pensacola, Fl. by Patti Shipyard
Area: out of Pittsburg PA: Ohio R.; Monongahela R.; Allegheny R.
Owner: Presently, (2000) Gateway Clipper Fleet, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Captain: 1999, Brian Krug, Ken Morin.
Comments: The name "Majestic" was chosen from over 27,000 entries sent
in by residents who participated in the "Name the Boat"
contest sponsored by the Gateway Clipper Fleet and KDKA Radio.
Name: MAJESTIC see KEYSTONE STATE
The only bear still made in America
Name: MAJOR BARBOUR
Area: 1848 or so, White R.
Comments: Source
Name: MAJOR BROWN
Type: Sidewheeler
Size: Length: 150'; Tons: 124
Launched: 1840's early?
Area: Rio Grande R.
Owner: U. S. Army or Mifflin Kenedy. See comments.
Captain(s): 1846: Sterling, Mark
Comments: 1846: Effected exploritory trip up the Rio Grande to check
feasibility of navigation beyond Camargo.
1846, Oct 24: became only boat of this size to ever reach Laredo.
Because of falling river level, was stuck there for
over a year. See "Source" for that interesting trip.
The source above does not make it clear whether the boat was
owned by the Army or by Capt. Mifflin Kenedy
Comments: Source Article
Name: MALTA
Launched: 1830s late
Area: U. Miss
Owner: Throckmorton, Joseph
Captains: Throckmorton, Joseph
Comments: Designed to be excursion boat. Even had inner-spring
mattresses.
Name: MALLIE RAGON
Launched: 1830s late
Area: Ohio R.
Captain(s): Booth, C. H.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: MANKATO
Launched: 1850s OR 60s
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: MAMELUKE
Launched: 1840s?
Destroyed: 1849, May 17, Fire at St. Louis docks
Area: Miss. R.
Name: MANASSAS
Type: towboat/ironclad Size:
Destroyed: Shelled by MISSISSIPPI below N. O.. Ran ashore then
drifted downriver and sank.
Name: MANDAN
Launched: 1920s?
Destroyed: 1849, May 17, Fire at St. Louis docks
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone's Lick Heritage Quarterly
Another mention
Name: MANSFIELD
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 166 tons.
Launched: 1854,Belle Vernon, Pa.
Destroyed: 1858, Aug. 16, White Cloud,Minn., snagged and lost.
Area: 1854, Cincinnati-Louisville
1856-7, U. Miss. R. at St. Paul
Companies associated with: 1854, U.S. Mail Line
Captains: 1854, Richard M. Wade
Comments: Mentioned in this Article.
Name: MANSION BELLE Originally the PUNTA
Name: MAQUOIT
Launched: Late 1800's
Destroyed: Early 1900's
Area: Cosco Bay (Portland) Maine
Owner: Harpswell Steamboat Co.
1. Name: MARBLE CITY
Type: Sidewheeler, wooden hull packet Size:173' X 41' X 7.5'
Power: 28's-8 ft., 5 boilers, each 46" X 22'
Launched: 1864, hull and framing, Metropolis, Ill., Alph Cutting's Yard,
Completed, St Louis.
Destroyed: 1873, dismantled. Cabin etc. went to building JOHN A. SCUDDER
Hull was used as coal float.
Area: Miss. R.
Owner: 1864, Memphis & St. Louis Packet Line
Captains: 1864, Tschudi, James H.
1868, shortly after, Malin, John W.
Clerk: Adrian Storm, hence:
Name: MARCELLA
Launched: 1850s?
Area: Mo. R.
Captain and pilots: Capt. Marsh, Grant
Comments: 1869, july 4: Was at opening of the Hannible Bridge
in Town of Kansas (Kansas City)
Name: MARIETTA/MISS STERLING 1984 Photo
Type: Sternwheeler Size: 80' X 20' Wheel 12'
Power: At launch 135hp Catepillar Diesel; present 400hp Cummings diesel
Launched: 1926, Marietta Manufacturing Company, Point Pleasant, Wv.
Destroyed: This boat is still active
Area: 1926, Monongahela R.
Owners: first owner, ?. 2nd owner, A.D. Elliot. 3rd, Sterling Oil Co.
: 1950, Crain Bros of Pennsylvania
: 1983, Tom Jones of Kanawha City, West Va.
Captain(S):
Comments: 1962, Feb. 10, First boat locked at the Meldahl Locks.
First boat locked through Hildebrand Locks on Monongahela
River.
Sold to A.D. Eliott, St. Marys, WV;
Sold to Sterling Oil Company where the name was changed
to MISS STERLING;
Sold to Crain Brothers of Pennsylvania in April, 1950;
Sold in February, 1983 to Tom Jones of Kanawha City, WV
gutted down to the haul and rebuilt to its present
glory in time for the Charleston Sternwheel Regatta
in September of 1983.
Remains unbeaten in the sternwheel races held at various
regatta's.
Thanks to Dave Comstock for the above info and photo.
1. Name: MARINER, (the 2nd one) Originally the RACHAEL MILLER
Launched: 1863, Cincinnati, Oh.
* Name: MARION
Size: 75 tons or so
Area: 1827, Feb., logged at Port of Cincinnati
3. Name: MARION
Launched: 1840's late?
Area: 1854, Sacramento R. Calif.
1. Name: MARION
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 123' X 26' X 4.5', 133 tons
Launched: 1854 Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1859, Jan. 7, Soda Lake, La., snagged and lost.
Area: 1854, Alexandria-Shreveport
Owner: 1854, Boisseau, Capt. Joseph
Captains: 1854, Boisseau, Capt. Joseph
Later, Cellos, F.W.
Name: MARION, Originally SILVER LAKE
Launched: 1861?
Destroyed: 1866, Grounded in U. Mo. R.
Area: 1860s, early, U. Mo. R.
3. Name: MARIPOSA
Launched: 1840s late?
Area: 1850, June on, San Joaquine R. Calf.
Captain: Farwell
Comments: 1851, Nov. 1, was run into by the WEST POINT. Was towed
to shallow water and refloated.
Name: MARK TWAIN
Type: Sternwheeler Size:
Launched: 1860s?
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: 1883, Seen dead against shore. Color print by K. Chin.
Name: MARK TWAIN originally BUSINESS and ultimately ALICE
1872-92
Name: MARK TWAIN originally ELON G. SMITH then CITY of ST. LOUIS
1873-?96?
Name: MARK TWAIN/HUCK FINN/SPIRIT OF JEFFERSON, Web Site
Launched: 1963 by the Dubuque Boat and Boiler Company
Area: 1963-70, New Orleans as MARK TWAIN
1970-95, Miss. R., St. Louis, Mo. as HUCK FINN
1995, Dec.- Present, Ohio R., Louisville, KY.
Owner: 1963-70, Streckfus Steamers of St. Louis, Missouri
1995-present, December, Jefferson County, Kentucky
Captain: 1999, Mark Doty
Comments: 1970, Renamed HUCK FINN
1996, April, Renamed SPIRIT OF JEFFERSON and now, along
with the historic Steamer BELLE of LOUISVILLE, the SPIRIT
operates as a nonprofit City-County agency.
Name: MARK TWAIN
Type: Sternwheel, steel hull excursion boat. Size: 120' X 33' X 6.', 400 pass.
Launched: 1964, Dubuque Boiler and Boatworks
Area: Excursion and dinner cruises out of Hannibal Mo.
Comments: Scheduled to take Presidential candidate Al Gore and his
running mate Joseph Lieberman on a 400 Mi. campaign journey
from LaCrosse, WI. to Hannibal, Mo. See
Name: MARS
Type: Sidewheel woodenhull packet. Size: 180' X 34', 329 tons.
Power: Engines, 20's- 7 ft., 3 boilers.
Launched:1856, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1865, July 18, Cogswell Landing, Mo. R., opposite the mouth of Fishing River.
Area: 1861 running New Orleand-Memphis, Miss. R.
: 1865 Mo. R.
Owners: At one time, a St. Louis group headed by Capt. E.B. McPherson and
Capt. Henry McPherson who ran her Memphis-Ohio R., then on Mo. R.
Comments: See comments from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
: 1861, June, Rebels seized her at Memphis as she was upbound from New orleans.
1862, Mar. 7, Captured from the Confederates at Island 10.
The Rebels had vandalized her. Had to undergo major repairs.
Name: MARTHA
Type:Side-wheeler Size:
Destroyed: 1849, May 17, Fire at St. Louis docks.
Area: Miss. R.
Captain and pilots: 1847, La Barge, Joseph.
Comments: 1847, La Barge took her up to Crow Creek in the Dakota
Terr. and had trouble with Yanktonai Sioux Indians.
Name: MARTHA JEWETT POLKA
Type: 1. Sidewheel wooden hull packet
Size: 1. 408 tons
Launched: 1. 1852, Hannibal, MO.
Destroyed: 1. 1859, Jan 3, Cairo, Ill., Burned and lost
Area: 1865, St. Louis - St. Joseph, Mo. bi-weekly
Owner: Zorer, Max
Captains: 1. 1856, David H. Silver
Comments: was dedicated by owner, Zorer, Max, to his "esteemed
friend," William C. Jewett
: 1. Bell went to a Presbyterian church in Cairo, Ill., 1895
Name: MARTHA STEPHENS
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 192 tons.
Power: Engines, 10's- 3-1/2 ft.
Launched: 1883, Osage, Mo.
Destroyed: Way's has her snagged at Sibley, Mo. or Turkey Island, Mo. R.
Corp. of Engineers map has her wreck near Franklin Island just down
from Boonville. Mo.
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: Henry McPherson
Captain(s): Henry McPherson
Comments: From the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
: Had cargo of sacked wheat aboard when snagged.
Name: MARTIN P. MURPHY
3. Name: MARY
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: MARY BLEES
Area: ?Miss. and Ala. Rs.?
Comments: *Info is from photo ay Mobile Ala. sent in by site visitor,
Art Green
1. Name: MARY BOYD
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 159.7' X 33.4' X 5.'
Power: 13-3/4's- 5 ft., 3 boilers and 2 flues.
Wheel: 18-1/2' working 20' buckets.
Launched: 1869,Cincinnati,Oh.
Destroyed: 1886, still documented, Mobile, Ala, maybe later yet.
Area: 1869, Memphis-Ark. R.
1876, out of Peoria
1876, Oct. out of Mobile, Ala.
Owners: 1876, Apr. purchased by Illinois Packet Company.
1876, Oct. purchased by Mobile, Ala. concerns.
Captains: 1869, R.L. Haines
1. Name: MARY BYRD
Type: Wooden hull packet
Launched: 1866
Destroyed: 1870, May 9, Kelly's Ferry, Upper Tenn. R. Don't know how.
Area: Under Fritts and Byrd, Tenn. R. trade
Under Small Bros., Ran N. Ala. trade
Owners: Capt Jacob Fritts and Col. R.K. Byrd
Later owned by the Small Bros.
Captains: Jacob Fritts
At one time C.S. Peak, when made record amount below.
Comments: First trip out sank with a group of Congressmen who were touring the South.
: 1870, sank in the "Suck" below Chattanooga.
: Said to have earned $7,777,77 in a single season
Name: MARY C
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 157 tons.
Launched: 1852, Rockingham, Iowa.
Destroyed: 1858, off the lists.
Area: 1853, was in St. Paul
Comments: possibly the boat mentioned in this Article.
Name: MARY C
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet, Size:65' X 16.5' X 3.2'
Launched: 1915, Yazoo City, miss.
Destroyed: 1918, still listed
Area: ran to Vicksburg
Captains: John J. Richardson
1. Name: MARY COOK
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 154' X 29.3' X 4.', 162 tons.
Launched: 1857, California. Pa. for Capt. Hugh Campbell and Charles S. Frisbee.
Destroyed: 1862, Dismantled
Area: ran tramp trades
1861, Jan., Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
1862, transported U.S. Troops, Kanawha R.-Louisville
Owners: 1857 when new, Capt. Campbell, Capt. Frisbee, William Nelson, all
of Pittsburgh and Ben Coursin of McKeesport.
Captains: 1857, Master, Hugh Campbell
1862, Frisbee
Name: MARY D
Launched: 1900s?
Area: 1905, Ark. R., between Ft. Smith and Muskogee.
Owner: 1905, purchased by the Arkansas Navigation Company
Comments: Credit
1. Name: MARY E. FORSYTH
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 254' X 40' X 7.', 621 tons.
Power: 25's-8 ft.. 4 boilers, each 46" X 28' 6 flues
Wheels, 30' 14 buckets
Launched: 1862, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1878, late May, enroute to Pensacola, Fl., off Chandeleur Islands,
caught in storm and lost. No lives lost.
Area: 1862, St. Louis-New Orleans
Owners: 1862, Capt. Barton Able, St. Louis
Ran under Atlantic and Mississippi Steam Ship Company banner
Captains: 1862, Barton Able
Later, H.H. Symmes
Comments: was U.S. transport during C. War.
: Was carring U.S. ordnance out of Mound City, Ill. when sunk by storm.
: Capt. C.W. Batchelor supervised building of this boat.
3. Name: MARY ELLEN
Launched: Before 1862
Area: 1862-64, San Joaquin and Mokelumne Rs. to Woodbridge, Calf..
Owner: Mokelumne River Steam Navigation Company
Name: MARY FALVEY
Area: Under John Clemens, Neches R., Tex.
Owners: Between 1852 and 57 purchased by Capt. John Clemens
Comments: See source Article
1. Name: MARY FOLEY
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 176' X 20' X 5.5', 248 tons.
Launched: 1848, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1857, off the lists.
Area: originally, New Orleans-Bayou Sara
1854, New Orleans-Bayou Lafourche trade
Owners: 1848-50, Capt. Celestin Dalfares
1850, Capt. Antoine Dalfares of Assumption Parish, La.
1853, Apr. Enrolled, No. 71, Apr. 8, by Capt. Louis
Ranson, Part-owner. (ship registers and enrollments New
Orleans, La. Vol. 5)
1854, Trudeau, Hutcheson& Co., Baton Rouge, La.
1854, Nov. Purchased by Capt. Celestine Moreau, Jr.,
Avoylles Parish, La. and others.
1855, sold to Benjamin F. Cox, East. Baton Rouge
1. Name: MARY F. GOLDEN
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 86.2' X 16.2' X 3.6'
Power: 9 1/2- 3 ft., one boiler.
Launched: 1896, Millwood, W. Va.
Destroyed: 1908, Jan. 28, Bayou Teche, burned.
Area: 1903, June, Vanceburg-Portsmouth on Ohio R.
1904, Miss. R.
Owner: 1896-1904, Frank Agnew, James Rowley, Jr. and Capt. William Pell
1904, H.A. Harvey of Harvey, La.
Captain: 1896-1904, William Pell
Name: MARY HOUSTON
Launched: 1860s?
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: 1870, June 30, Carried spectators for "ROBERT E. LEE
vs NATCHEZ" race.
: Also see NEW MARY HOUSTON
1. Name: MARY L. DAUGHERTY
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 123' X 18' X 4.5', 95 tons.
Launched: 1853, Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1859, off the lists.
Areas: 1865-66, ran up White R.
Owners: When new, John Whiteside & Co., Pocahontas, Ark.
(Jonathan A. Whiteside and Silas A. Dougherty)
1855, W.C. Johnson and others, Memphis.
1857, Edmond Castillo, New Orleans
Captains: 1855, Morgan Magness Bateman
1856, W. Stockman, while on White R. run.
Comments: 1854, Dec. 8, White R., sank and was refloated.
: Mentioned in this Article.
Name: MARY L HATCHER
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 110.4' X 17.5' X 4'
Launched: 1890, Pt. Pleasant, W. Va.
Area: Built for Big Sandy R. service.
Often ran Ohio R. during low water times.
1897, Dec. was running Syracuse-Gallipolis trade.
Captains: 1897, Dec. M.M. Brown
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Apr. 28 1897
1. Name: MARY McDONALD
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 563 tons.
Power: Engines, 20's- 5 ft., 3 boilers.
Launched: 1866, St. Louis, Mo.
Destroyed: 1873, June 12, Gilham's Landing, Mo., burned.
Area: 1867, Spr., Mo. R.
1870, trips to Ouachita R.
Owners: In part, Capt.James Gunsollis
Captains: 1867-70, John Greenough
1873, when burned, George Keith with Henry Keith, pilot
Companies Associated With: 1867, Ran in the St. Louis & Omaha Packet Company
1870, Ouachita Packet Company
1. Name: MARY MILLER
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 411 tons
Launched: 1870, Dover, Tenn.
Area: 1871, Made low water run, Louisville-Cairo
1876-78 and on, Cincinati-St. Louis trade
Owner: 1871, Mar 4-Mid June, Evansville and Memphis Packet Company
1871, Mid June-1876, March, Capt. James Paul
1876, Mar, Capt. John M. Shunk
Captains: 1871, James Paul
1876, John M. Shunk
Name: MARY MORTON
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size:210' X 32.5' X 6, 450 Ton.
Power: 17's-5-1/2 ft.
Launched: 1880, Dubuque, iowa, by diamond Jo Line
Destroyed, 1896, Oct., Crain's Island near Grand Tower, Ill, Snagged and lost.
Area: 1880, Miss. T. trades
1896, St. Louis-Memphis
Owners: 1880-1896, fall, Diamond Jo Line
1897, summer, chartered to Anchor Line
1897, Fall, Purchased by Anchor Line
Captains: 1896, Nov., Milt Harry
Comments: Given the maiden name of the wife of Diamond Jo Reynolds
: 1892, Sept 10, Clarksville Island, sank and was raised.
: Built under supervision of capt. John F. Killeen.
1.Name: MARY PATTERSON
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 125' X 23', 105 tons.
Launched: 1859, Grand Glaze, Ark.
Destroyed: 1862, St. Charles, Ark.,
Purposely sunk with two other Confederate boats to block river.
Area: Upper White R.
: 1861, May 5, Jacksonville, Ark, helped take the Jackson Guards to lower river.
Owners: 1858, Owned by J. C. Matthews and A. B. Comer
Captains: 1858, Morgan Magness Bateman
Comments: 1861, A Confederate troop and supply carrier.
: See Article
Name: MARY POWELL
Type: Side-wheeler
Launched: 1861
Area: Hudson R.
Comments: fastest on Hudson for quarter century.
Name: MARY STEPHENS
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet
Size: 191' X 28' X 6', 224 tons
Power: 20's- 7 ft.. 3 boilers
Launched: Hull laid at McNaughton & Dunlevy, West Wheeling, Va.
1847 completed by Phillips Boat Yard in Wheeling, W. Va..
Destroyed: 1855, Off lists.
Area: 1847, Wheeling - Cincinnati trade
1848, Aug. made trip Cincinnati - New Orleans.
1851, March, Louisville - Cincinnati
Owner: 1847, when launched, Capt. M. E. Lucas
1848, 1848, Mar. Norton, George W. and others.
1851, Tyler & *Ralston Co, of Wellsville, Ohio.
Captain(s): 1851, Mar. Malin, John W.
Comments: *Ralston was a millionaire banker in San Francisco, Calif.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING INTELLIGENCER, June 24, 1951
Name: MARY STEWART
Type: Towboat
Launched: 1890s?
Area: 1897, Ohio R., Green R.
Owner: 1897, Mar. Capt. Callie M. French
Captain(s): French, Capt. Callie M.
Comments: Aug. 1897, was towboat for FRENCH'S SHOWBOAT
From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Mar. 31 1897
1. MARY T./J.A. COTTON (the 2nd one)
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 185' X 34' X 8'
Launched: 1860, Howard Yard, jeffersonville, Ind.
Power: 22's-8 ft., 4 boilers, each 40" X 26'.
Destroyed: 1866, Pittsburgh, dismantled.
1867, Feb., hulk moored at McKees Rocks, Pa. was swept away
by ice.
Area: 1860, New Orleans-Vicksburg trade
1865, June, Sent to Mound City, Ill. by U.S. forces
Owner: 1860, When built, New Orleans Coast and LaFourche Transportation
Company.
1863, Mar. 19, commissioned as Confederate gunboat
1865, U.S. forces
1866, private owner or owners, possibly the below.
1867, Fisher, Capt. R. ?of Pittsburgh, Pa.?
Captains: 1860-61, Holmes, Richard
*At one time, Boisseau, Joseph of Shreveport, La.
Comments: 1863, Mar. 19, renamed J.A. COTTON. Carried Confederate mail.
Often refered to as simply the COTTON
1865, June, Alexandria, La., captured by U.S. forces.
: Machinery went to GLENCOE
: * Biography of Boisseau, Joseph
Name: MARY WILSON
Comments: 1862, July 1, Was Southern troop transport.
Transported 1st Battalion of 14th Texas Cavalry battalion from
Mobile, Ala., across Mobil bay to mouth of Tensas R. (some 14 mi.)
3. Name: MARYSVILLE
Launched: 1840's late?
Area: 1853, Sacramento R. Calif.
1. Name: MASONIC GEM
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size:125' X 26' X 4'
Launched: 1859, Evansville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1866, off the lists
Areas: The pioneer mail packet on the Green R., Evansvill-Bolling Green
1861, Jan., U. White R.
Captains: 1861, J.J. Pillisbury
Comments: Was troop transport for Union during Civil War.
: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: MATT F. ALLEN/CARRIER
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 149.5' X 28.3' X 4'
Launched: 1887 at Howard Yard, Jefferwonville, Ind. for the Lovell Line
Destroyed: 1900, Sept. 20, burned. 1 life lost.
Area: When new, Cumberland R., Nashville-Burnside.
1891, went to U. Ohio R., Wheeling-Parkersville
1896, went to U. Miss. R., out of Davenport, Iowa
1897, May 15, made first run in Clarksville Trade
1900, St. Louis-Calhoun County trade
Owners: when built, the Lovell Line
1891, Capt. Henry Kraft and others
1896, sold to Capt. Walter Blair who renamed her CARRIER
Captains: 1897, Ed D. Young
1897, See below article.
Comments: 1896, name changed to CARRIER
:May 15, 1897
From the Waterways Journal
The Steamer Carrier
Last Saturday the Steamer Carrier, formerly of Davenport, IA. Made her initial
trip in the Clarksville trade.
The carrier is owned by Captain Walter Blair of Davenport,IA and has been running
in the upper river trade for several years, sometimes as a regular packet and
sometimes as an excursion boat. Capt. T. G. Isherwood is in command and Capt.
E. D. Young is in the office, with Zolle Block as assistant. H. S. Ruby has
control of the steering apparatus and Frank Bucheite is in command of the forecastle.
Name: MATTIE WAYNE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 335 tons
Launched: 1852, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1858, dismantled
Captains: at one time, Horace Bixby
Area: 1855, Dec., badly dammaged in Great Steamboat Fire at St. Louis
: 1856, landed at St. Paul
1. Name: MATTIE M
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull ferry/towboat. Size: 95' X 24' X 2.8', 145 tons.
Launched: 1894, Memphis, Tenn.
Destroyed: 1903, Dec 10, 6 mi. above Natchez, Miss., swamped by high winds,
sank, drowning 6 of her crew.
Area: Memphis area
Owner: Dixie Transportation Company of New Orleans
Captains: When it sank, A.L. Brunson
1. Name: MATTIE ROBERTS
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 147 tons
Launched: 1863, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1875, dismantled
Area: Parkersburg-Gallipolis
McAllister ran trips to Nashville.
Owners: Big Etna Furnace Co. bought to convert to towboat
Instead sold to Capt. Jack McAllister
1875, sold to Capt. Taylor Higgins who dismantled her
Captains: Amoung others, W. T. Hayman, Charles Smith and Mel Brown
*1881, Marion Flesher
Comments: 1867, spent summer stranded in Blennerhassett Island.
* Name: MAUD S.
Type, packet
Size: small
Area: 1884, late Ohio. R.
Owners: *1884, Dec. Purchased by Captain Paden
Captains: 1884, late, Wilson
Name: MASSACHUSETTS
Launched: 1870s?
Owner: Stonington Line
Name: MAY LOWERY
Type: Stern or sidewheel, unknowen, wooden hull packet.
Size: 196' X 31' C 5', 210 tons.
Launched: 1871, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1876, Feb. 20, "New Orleans, burned.
Area: St. Louis-New Orleans
Owners: Capt William J. Kountz, D.B.A., M. Lowery Transportation Company.
Captains: 1876, W. Breathwaite of Brownsville, Pa.
Name: MAYFLOWER
Launched: 1840, Brownsville, Pa.
Area: Ill. R.
Owners: Elli Mills and Herman Price
Comments: *Source
3. Name: MAZATLAN
Launched: 1840s, LATE?
Area: 1840s, late, Sacramento R., calf.
Name: McCLAY
Area: 1861: Miss. R.
Comments: 2. - Friday Evening, March 22nd, 1861.
" . . . The McClay landed about three this evening and put
off some plows for H. Johnson."
Name: McDOWELL See AUGUSTUS McDOWELL
Name: McINTIRE
Area: 1840s, in Dresden, Oh. trade
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: MECHANIC
Type: Sternwheeler? Size: small
Launched: between 1815 and 1820, in Wheeling, W. Va..
Destroyed: ?1825: Snagged?
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Machinery and boilers by Arthur M. Phillips Works, Wheeling, W. Va..
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
1. Name: MEDORA
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 101 tons.
Launched: 1856, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1861, July 20, Jeffersonville, Ind. burned.
Area: When new, U. Miss. trade
1858, Minnisota R. trade
Owners: 1867, William Constans
Captains: 1858, Ed Mclagen
: 1861, Ben F. Beasley
Name: MEGIDDO/CHATTANOOGA
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull gospal boat
Size: 175' X 33' X 5.
Launched: 1901, Lyons Iowa, at Godfrey Marine
Destroyed; 1921, Chattanooga, sank.
Areas: 1904, after, ran out of Chattanooga
1919-20, became lat packet to make trips to Kingston, Tenn.
1921, running Chattanooga-Decatur
Owners: 1901 - ?, T.T. Nichols
Captains: 1919-20, Paul Underwood, master. Bobb Dodds, clerk. Harris underwood, pilot.
1921, Chattanooga-Decatur, master, Thomas D. Galy
Comments: 1904, May, sank on the rocks in the Big Chain, about Mile 20 on the Tenn. R.
Came out of refloating badly warped. Taken to marine way at Paducha for repairs.
Came out of repairs looking like a reall packet boat.
: See further info
1.Name: MEMPHIS
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 319 tons.
Launched: 1852, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1860, Off the lists
Area: Built for Cincinnati-Memphis trade.
Comments: 1853, Feb. 12, below Madison, Ind., sank with considerable loss
of cargo. Refloated.
: 1857, Fri. Mar. 14, left Cincinnati bound for Memphis and
Hickman, Tennessee. Account of some of this trip.
Name: MEMPHIS
Area: Miss. R.
2. - 1861, Mar. 21st, 1861. "Business very dull, but boats are
plenty. There was a good number of boats passed up today.
Amoung the rest was the Memphis with the mail, the new
Gatz, Meteor, Imperial Maria. . . ."
- Saturday Night, March 23rd., 1861. "Business brisk for
a few hours, Steamboats running pleanty. The Memphis
landed about 2 o'clock down nand put off beer and whiskey
for Newman and H.V.R.. . . . "
- Wednesday Night, March 27th, 1861. Business has been dull
today. The Str. Memphis landed this morning about sunrise
going up; put off the mail. . . . "
- Wednesday, April 3rd., 1861. " . . . The Memphis came up
this evening about 2 o'clock, put off mail and took on two
or three passengers."
- Saturday Night, April 6th, 1861. ". . . Memphis landed about 3
o'clock this evening, put off mail. . . ."
- Wednesday Night, April 10th, 1861. The Memphis landed
here this morning, put off Chas. Beatty who had been
reported dead long ago."
- Saturday Night, April 12th, 1861. " . . Business dull. River
rising. Nothinig worth notice took place during the day
till about 4 o'clock when the Memphis landed and George
W. Frickee, Elmer Hamilton and Lady Epriam Dooms and
George W. Frickee's two children took passage for Cairo
from whence they intended to take shipping for New York
and from there to San Francisco, California. . . . "
- Friday Night, April 18th, 1861. " . . . Business tolerable.
River falling. Boats are plentiful. . . . The Memphis
went up about 10 o'cloce being 24 hours behind her time. . . ."
- Wednesday Night, April 24th, 1861. " . . . Business dull.
River falling. Memphis went down today and put off freight
for Hennings and Holder, Hinton and Runfelt, Hughes and
Brock. Day went tolerable."
- Saturday Night, April 27, 1861. " . . . Memphis went down
this evening, put off a lot of freight for Max Jehlen, Ross
& Co. and Frank Hanning. . . . "
- Saturday Night, May 4th, 1861. " . . . Buiness dull. Weather
good. The Dickey came up in due time and the Memphis
went down. Weather looks very gloomy.
- Wednesday Night, May 8th, 1861. " . . . Business dull. River
on stand. Weather fine. The Steam Boat Memphis went up
this morning about sunrise, Took Dr. Robbins and Lady
on board for St. Louis. . . . "
- Wednesday Night, May 15th, 1861. " . . . Business tolerable in
bacon and butter. River rising very fast. Memphis up
today. Brought little mail. Dickey down with good mail.
Learned Southerners were taken prisoners in St. Louis."
- July 10th 1861. " . . . The Memphis came went down
about 12 o'clock today and took Ellison and family and
Mrs. Shaw for Paducah, Ky. Weather fine but very dry.
River falling.
- Friday July 12th 1861. " . . . Memphis came up today and took
A.R. Newman and his goods to St Louis. . . . "
- Saturday, November 30th, 1861. "All has been quiet here
for some time. We have a few troops once in a while. The
Memphis went down this morning with cavalry. The new
gunboats went down yesterday and layed all night at Max
Island. . . . "
Name: MEMPHIS QUEEN II, Off. No. 269760
Type: Decorative Sternwheeler, Contemporary excursion boat
Size: 64.9' X 27' X 3', 308 Passengers
Power: 300 horsepower twin screw: Port Engine:Detroit Diesel 6-71
Starboard Engine:Caterpillar 3306 (6 cyl.)
Launched: 1955 by Dubuque Boat & Boiler Co. for Capt. Ed Langford
Area: 1955-present (1999), Memphis Tenn.
Owner: 1955-Present (1999),Memphis Queen Line Web Site w/photos
Captain(s): 1955-60 Captain Ed Langford
1960-?? Capt. Tom Meanley
Name: MEMPHIS QUEEN III, Off. No. 605060 Photo, stern, Web Site and Photos
Type: Sternwheel, contemporary excursion boat
Size: 99.8' x 27' x 4.4', 86 tons, 400 passenger
Power: 1000 horsepower twin screw with true paddlewheel
Main engines: Detroit Diesel 8V-71
Paddlewheel: Detroit Diesel 6-71 powering Sunstrand Hydraulic
pump to Hagglund 6300 series rotary hydraulic motor.
Launched: 1979 by Memphis Queen Shipyard. Hull was constructed in the
back yard and then moved to the river by house-mover. The
remainder of the vessel was built at the docks of The Memphis
Queen Line. The MEMPHIS QUEEN III took three years to build.
Area: 1979-present (1999), Memphis Tenn.
Owner: 1979-present (1999),Memphis Queen Line Web Site
Captain(s): 1979-?? Capt. Tom Meanley
1999, Dale Meanley Lozier
Comments: 1999, attended the Tall Stacks Celebration.
Name: MERIWETHER LEWIS See CAPTAIN MERIWETHER LEWIS
Name: MERRILL, See S. S. MERRILL
3. Name: MERRIMAC
Launched: 1840s, mid?
Area: 1849, San Joaquin R., Calf.
Comments: 1849, Was first steamer to go up San Joaquin R.
Name: MERRIMACK/VIRGINIA, C.S.S.
Type: Ironclad Civil War Boat
Comments: Was Union built, then captured by South and renamed
her the C. S. S. VIRGINIA
Name: MERTIE BELL
Launched: 1860s? early?
Area: Probably the Ohio R.
Comments: Source: from a web site visitor.
My Grandmother was named Mertie Belle after a paddlewheel
or steamboat. She was born in Hillsdale Michigan in
Jan 1863. Has any one heard of that boat?
From: Pat
Date: Wed Dec 16 20:51:16 1998
Name: MERWIN
Launched: 1898? Seattle
Area: Alaska
Comments: 1 of 2 built by Moran Bros.
Name: MESSENGER Fictional? in book "Steamboat Gothic"
Launched: 1849?
Area: Pittsburgh to N.O.
Owner: Griest & Swaney
Captain and pilots: Capt. Jessie Dean
1. Name: MESSENGER
Type: Sidewheel Wooden hull Packet
Size: 172' X 25' X 5.7', 236 tons.
Launched: 1844, Pittsburg, Pa.
Area: 1844-?49?Pittsburgh - Cincinnati
Owner: Capt James J. Perry and stockholders incluiding A. Nimick
and W.K. Nimick of Pittsburgh.
Captain: Perry, James J.
1. Name: MESSENGER No. 2
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 230' X 30' X 5', 368 tons
Power: 28's-7 1/2', five boilers each with 16" flues. 26' paddlewheel
with 12' buckets.
Built: 1848, Hull, Freedom, Pa. 1849, Completed and launched, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1856, Off the lists.
Area: 1849, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
Captains: 1849, Woodward, I. C.
1849, Pilots: Shouse, John, Witten, Jim
1851-53, Klinefelter, John
1854 Davis, J. B.
Companies Associated with: 1849-at least 53, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet Line
1. Name: MESSENGER
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 190' X 30.8' X 7', 389 tons.
Launched: 1852, Jeffersonville, Ind., Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1859, Aug. 30, 9 mi. above Bayou Sara, burned.
Area: 1858, Memphis-New Orleans,
Owner: 1852, Robert S. Kirke, Mobile Ala.; 1858, W.L. Miller, New Orleans.
1. Name: MESSENGER
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 154' X 35 X 5.2, 254 tons.
Power: Engines, 20's- 5 ft.
Launched: 1855, Belle Vernon, Pa..
Destroyed: 1861, Dec. 7, Rochester, Pa., lost by stranding.
Area: 1855, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati; 1857, U. Miss. R.
1859, fall, Louisville-Memphis
Captains: 1855, Capt. Martin Mellinger, Pilots, Kerr, Wash of Irontown, Oh.
and Alfred Moore of Beaver Pa..
1859, fall, Kyle, John.
Comments: *Lake Pepin, between Wis. and Minn. on U. Miss. R., Challenged
KEY CITY to race. Lost.
*Jones Worden's Steamboats and Steamboating Career by Frederick J. Worden
1. Name: MESSENGER
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 157' X 34.5 X 5, 436 tons.
Power: Engines, 16's- 5 ft., 3 boilers, 38" by 24'
Launched: 1865, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1875, Dismantled. Hull served as a barge.
Area: 1865, Pittsburgh-St. Louis; 1866, ?St. Louis?-New Orleans.
1871, Pittsburgh-New Orleans; 1875, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati.
Captains: 1865, Dean, William; 1866, fall, Dean, Jesse;
1871, Greenlee, Robert; 1875, Vandergrift, J.M..
Comments: 1873, summer, rebuilt at Brownsville, Pa., removing her
Texas deck.
Name: METEOR
Area: Miss. R.
Captain and pilots: Capt. Draffen
Comments: Plied trade from St. Louis to Ft. Levenworth, Weston,
Mo. and St Joseph.
Comments:
2. - 1861, Mar. 21st. "Business very dull, but boats are
plenty. There was a good number of boats passed up
today. Amoung the rest was the Memphis with the mail,
the new Gatz, Meteor, Imperial Mariah. Denning brought
Joe Kelly and two boats. The Ryland landed here 4o'clock
going down. Took 7 cords wood, but but off no freight."
- Saturday, June 15th, 1861. " . . . We also received news
from the Mate and Clerk of the Steamer Meteor which came
up last night about 11 o'clock that they were fighting
in St. Louis; Germans against Americans. Commerce is
perfectly quiet yet and I hope it will remain so."
Name: METROPOLITAN
Launched:1856
Area: 1857, U. Miss. R.
Owner: 1857, Northern Line Packet Company
Captain(s): 1857, Rhodes
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: METTAMORA
Launched:1870s?
Destroyed: 1875, Mo. R. near Franklin I. below Boonville, Mo.
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quaterly
* Name: MEXICO
Size: 125 tons
Power: Low pressure
Launched: 1824, Cincinnati, Oh.
Areas: 1827, Feb., logged at Port of Cincinnati
* Name: MIAMI
Size: 50 tons
Power: High pressure
Launched: 1822, Cincinnati, Oh.
Name: MIAMI Photo source
Type: Sternwheeler towboat Size:
Area: 1930, Ohio R.
Name: MICHIGAN Source Article
Type: Sidewheeler, Iron hulled, Dreadnaught Warship
Launched: 1843: built in Pittsburg, dissasembled and transported
to Eire PA for launch
Destroyed: Scrapped
Area: Lake Michigan
Owner: U.S. Navy
Captain and pilots:
Comments: Built to resemble a frigate, she was U.S. Navy's first
iron ship.
Name: MILDRED
Type: Towboat
Comments: Her whistle was from the GEORGE STRECKER, from which it was passed
on to the BESSIE SMITH, then to the LIBERTY and on to
the towboat MILDRED and finally to the BEN HUR
3. Name: MILMAN
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: MILT HARRY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 80 tons
Area: White R. and Black R.
Launched: 1877. Cincinnati, Oh. for Capt. Pete McArther
Destroyed: 1885, Mar. 6, 20 mi. above Batesville on White R., burned.
Owner: Capt. Pete McArther
Captains: 1885, briefly Capt. Thomas B. Stallings was pilot.
Comments: was named after Captain Milt R. Harry
Magic Cabin
Name: MILWALKEE
Launched: 1845, Shousetown, Pa.
Name: MILWALKEE
Launched: 1857, Cincinnati, Oh.
Name: MILWALKEE
Launched: 1870's
1. Name: MILWAUKEE
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull railroad transfer vessel/packet
Launched: 1880, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard.
Destroyed, 1896, Still listed in Dubuque Registry
Area: *1880, St. Louis-S. Dakota
*1882, ferry between Chamberlain and Pierre du Chein, S.D.
1886, Documented, Prairie du Chein
Destroyed: 1896, still listed in Dubuque registry
Owners: 1880, Milwaukee Railroad Company
*1882-87, master and pilot, Henry Jasper King
*Brule County, S.D. Historical Society
Name: MILWAUKEE CITY
Launched: 1860s? Early
Area: U. Miss R.
Owner: 1864, Northwestern Union Packet Company
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: MINER, originally the BURNSIDE
1. Name: MINER
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 299 tons.
Launched: 1866, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Area: from start, Mo. R.
Owners: when new, Capt. J.H. Porter
Later, Northwestern Fur Company
Captains: 1866, J.H. Porter
Comments: maiden trip was to Point of Rocks above Ft. Benton with 1.187
rails and 20 tons of connection bends for Union Pacific R.R.
Name: MINER
Area: Mo. R.
Owners: 1873-74, W.A. Burleigh
Captains: 1892 at time of his death, William Reid
Comments: This info from Caroline Villier, Capt. Reid's great
grandaughter who would like to know more about the Captain.
Name: MINGO CHIEF
Area: 1844, Pittsburg-Zanesville trade, Ohio R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article as possibly having the first steam
whistle on the Ohio R.
Name: MINK
Area 1857, Mo. R.
Comments: 1857, May 24, Omaha, stopped for night. Carring Gov. supplies
for Fort Pierre, 700 mi. upriver. This from the
Diary of E.F. Beadle
1. Name: MINK
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 250' X 20.5', 165 tons.
Launched: 1865, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1878, off the lists.
Area: 1865-71, Zanesville-McConnelsville, Muskingum R.
Captains: 1865-71, master, William Davis
1872-77, master, Charles C. Morgan
Name: MINK
1877-94 when renamed CLARA CAVETT
Name: MINNA
Launched: Built 1870s? at Arrow Rock, Mo, by Gustave Moehle and Sons.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
1. Name: MINNEHAHA
Type: Sidewheel , ooden hull ferry. Size: 33 tons.
Launched: 1856, Wellsville, Oh.
Area: First homeport, Wheeling, W. Va.
Destroyed: 1861, off the lists.
1. Name: MINNEHAHA
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 236' X 36.5' X 6.5, 531 tons.
Power: 25's- 7 ft., 4 boilers, each 46" X 30'.
Launched: 1857, Guyandotte, Va.
Destroyed: 1865, May 13, New Orleans, burned.
Area: 1857-62, Mo. R., St Louis-St. Joseph, Mo..
1857, Diary of E.F. Beadle has her arriving Omaha, Neb, June 12 and
July 2; arriving up to Omaha, July 21.
Aug. 8, landing in Omah from St. Louis.
1862 -? possibly Paducah-St. Louis.
Owners: 1862-65, Capt. David White
Captains: 1857-?62?, C. Baker
1862, David White
1. Name: MINNEHAHA
Type: Sternwheel, Wooden hull. Size: 40' X 9' X 5.'.
Launched, 1894, Canton, S.D.
Destroyed: 1908, still documented at Sioux City.
Name: MINNESOTA
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Soze: 149 tons.
Launched: 1849, Elizabeth, Pa. under direction of Capt. Richard C. Gray.
Destroyed: 1862, off the lists.
Areas: U. Miss. R., Galena-St. Paul. Later Minnesota R.
Owners: Northern Line Packet Company
Comments:
Name: MINNIE
Area: Sabine R., East Tex.
Captains: Tom Davis
Comments: Source
Name: MINNIE BAY
Name: MINNIE H./MISSOURI
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet Size: 133' X 25' X 3', 856 tons
Launched: 1880, Reeds Landing, Minn.
Destroyed: 1889, Oct. 4, Blue Blanket Island, N.D., hit rock and was lost.
Area: 1880-89, Mo. R.
Owners: 1885?, became U. S. Army survey boat. Renamed MISSOURI.
: Later in Power Line
Captains: 1885, July 20, La Barge, Joseph
Comments; 1885, July 20, left Ft. Benton for extended survey of Mo. R.
Name: MINNI-HA-HA #1
Type: Prop or wheel?-driven steamboat commuter vessel
Size: length: ? 400 passenger
Launched: 1857, spring
Area: Lake George N.Y.
Owner: Lake George Steam Boat Co.. Incorporated in 1817 by N. Y.
State Legislature to opperate to operate commercial shipping
on Lake George. Home Page for Co.
Captain and pilots:
Comments: Was last wood-burner on the lake
Name: MINNI-HA-HA- #2 Picture and ad
Type: Sternwheeler, contemporary, steam driven, 12' dia. wheel
Size: Length: 103"; Beam:30'; Draft: 3' 6"; Displacement: 200 tons;
horsepower; 200; speed: 7 mph. Cost $270,000
Launched: A new boat, christened by Mrs. Ruth Dow: July 30, 1969
Destroyed: still in service
Area: Lake George, N. Y.
Owner: Lake George Steamboat Co. Home Page for Co.
Captains: Michael C. Keboe, William P. Dow, John Miller, Fred Dorr,
Thom Thompson, Ron Welton, Steve Boyce and Bill Connor
Comments: Built for and still running 1 hour tours on lake George.
Hull design by the H.M. Tiedemann Co of N.Y. City with
considerable discussion with riverboat authority Captain
Fredrick Way of Swickley, PA.. Engines and paddlewheel by
Fredric H. Semple of St Louis Mo.. Boiler by International
Boiler Works of East Stroudsburg, PA. Signal bells from
an old Hudson River sidewheeler that was built around 1910.
1. Name: MINNESOTA BELL
Launched: 1854
Destroyed: 1862, Mar. 28, Liverpool, Ill., snagged and lost.
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 225 tons
Area: 1854-62, St. Louis-St. Paul trade
Owner: 1857, Northern Line Packet Company
Captain: 1857, Hill, Thomas B.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: MINT
Launched: before 1849
Area: 1849, 3. Oct. started service San Francisco to Sacramento
Comments: also see, California Delta,
Name: MISS STERLING See MARIETTA
Name: MISSISSIPPI
Area: 1857, Dec. 1, The Diary of E.F. Beadle has this boat leaving Detroit
for lake Erie.
Name: MISSISSIPPI
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1850's or 60's
Area: Miss. R.
Captain: late 1860's? Peppers, George H.
Comments: Confederate boat?
Comments: From the Wheeling Register Monday, March 31, 1879.
: Wooden Model of this boat
Name: MISSISSIPPI
Comments: Union boat. Gunned ironclad Manassas in battle below
N. O.. Destroyed her.
1. MISSISSIPPI
Type: Sidewheeler, wooden hull packet
Size: 304' X 41.5' X 7', 856 tons
Power: 30s-10 ft. Five boilers, each 46" X 24'
Launched: 1864, Cincinnatti, Oh. Cost $100,000
Destroyed: 1870, Feb. 28, Waterproof, La., Snagged and sunk.
Area: 1864, Cincinnatti-New Orleans; 1866, St. Louis-New Orleans
Owners: 1868, May 25, Purchased at auction by Capt. W.R. Carter for
$17,800.
Companies Associated With: Atlantic and Mississippi Steam Ship Company
Captains: 1864-66, James Good
1866-68, Jesse Y. Hurd
1868-70, W. R. Carter
Crew; 1866, clerk - Capt. James. D. Malin
Comments: It is said that when she sank her upper decks separated from
the hull and floated on down past Natchez with all the fancy
chandeliers still burning. Many shore dwellers saw this site
Name: MISSISSIPPI See BECKY THATCHER
Type: sternwheeler Size:
Launched: 1929
Name: MISSISSIPPI QUEEN Picture and ad
Type: Modern replica of true Sternwheeler
Size: 382', 420 passenger, 6 decks, including sundeck.
Launched: 1975, Apr. 30, Christened
Area: N.O. - St Paul
Destroyed: 2010, Sold for scrap (see below)
Owner: 1998 - Present: Delta Queen Steamboat Co. Photos
Captains: 1976,
July 20 and 21, 1st shakedown cruise, Master, Capt Earnest E. Wagner
Pilots, Harry Louden, Art Zimmer.
Mates, Joseph Davidson, Willard Lockhart
, 2nd shakedown cruise, Master, Carl A. Sheldon
1978-79, First Mate, Donald J. Sanders
1979, Feb. 17 - 1994 at least, Master, Gabriel Chengery
Comments: Year round cruises from 3 to 16 nights.
Bathing Pool on upper deck Beauty Parlor Calliope Bar
Dining Room Exercise Room Forward Cabin Lounge Gift Shop
Golden Antlers Bar Grand Saloon Paddlewheel Lounge
Port Gallery Movie Theater Climate Controled Staterooms
Telephones 2 Elevators 165 Crewmembers
Also SEE
: Complete description of boat and accomodations HERE
: Sold for Scrap:
By Jerry Limone - Ambassadors International has sold the Mississippi Queen paddlewheeler for "salvage value," said company
CFO Mark Detillion during the company’s first-quarter call with investors on Friday.
The Mississippi Queen formerly sailed for Majestic America Line, Ambassadors' river cruise business that ceased operations in fall 2008.
According to the Quad-City Times of Davenport, Iowa, the boat was navigated from the Perry Street Wharf in New Orleans to the scrap yard.
Name: MISSOURI
Launched: 1820, late?
Area: 1831 & 32, Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Comments: Could this be the same boat as below? Possibly, depending upon
how long she lived.
: Mentioned in this Article
Name: MISSOURI
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: 1844, nearly broke J. M. WHITE'S 5 yr. old record by
making trip from N.O. to St. Louis and back in 4 days
and 19 hr.
1849, 4/19/0: Made run N.O. - St Louis
Name: MISSOURI (Often refered to as the BIG MISSOURI)
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 304' X 38' X 9', 886 tons
Launched: 1845, Cincinnati, Oh., Burton Hazen Yard.
Destroyed: 1851, July 8, St. Louis, Mo.
Area: 1845, St Louis - New Orleans
Owners: 1848, Messrs. Gaty, McCune and Glasby
Comments: was largest boat below the Louisville Falls until the
SULTANA came out in 1848.
: 1848, summer, St. Louis, reportedly sold at sheriff's auction
for $8,900, far below her worth.
Name: MISSOURI
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull gunboat, Confederate
Size: 188' X 50.7' X 7.5'
Power: Engines 24's 7 ft. Four boilers, each 30" X 26'.
Casemates were railroad rails
Launched: 1863 Built by Capts. John Smoker and Tom Moore for the
Confederacy
Owners: 1863, Confederacy; 1865, June 14, captured by Union forces
1865, Nov. 29, sold to J. riley for $2,300
Name: MISSOURI
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 306' X 42' X 8', 856 tons
Launched: 1864, Cincinatti, Oh. Hull by Leatherbury. Machinery by
C.T.Durmont. Cabin by Johnston, Morton & Co.
Power: engines, 30's- 10 ft., five tubular boilers, each 46" X 24'
Wheels, 37' working 15' buckets
Destroyed: 1866, Jan. 30, boilers explosion upbound on Ohio R.
at mouth of Green R.
Area: 1864, St Louis - New Orleans with trips to Louisville
Owners: *Atlantic and Mississippi Steam Ship Company
Captains: 1866, Jan. 30, Hurd, Jesse Y.
Comments: This is The MISSOURI most spoken of. She was said
to have been racing the DICTATOR when the explosion occured.
DICTATOR removed the survivors.
: Amoung the some 65 killed in the explosion were the Capt's.
wife, Catherine, his son, Pilot Henry Hurd. Severly burned
in the explosion was his son Arthur, who died Sept. 1867 of
swamp feaver. The capt. himself died Oct. 23 1867
: The clerk, James D. Malin, was spared.
: *From site visitor Lynn Cunningham
Name: MISSOURI
Type: Sidewheel railroad transfer, wooden hull
Size: 191.7' X 31.7' X 6.3'
Launched: 1879, Metropolis, Ill.
Destroyed: 1897, boiler explosion
Area: 1898, Carondolet, Mo.
Name: MISSOURI, originally the MINNIE H. (below)
Launched: 1880,
Name: MISSOURI PACKET
Launched: 1818 or 19?
Destroyed: 1819 or 20? Mo. R.. snagged and sank near Hardeman's Island
just above the mouth of the Lamine R..
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: from Boone's Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: MINNIE H./MISSOURI
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet Size: 133' X 25' X 3', 856 tons
Launched: 1880, Reeds Landing, Minn.
Destroyed: 1889, Oct. 4, Blue Blanket Island, N.D., hit rock and was lost.
Area: 1880-89, Mo. R.
Owners: 1885?, became U. S. Army survey boat.
: Later in Power Line
Captains: 1885, July 20, La Barge, Joseph
Comments; 1885, July 20, left Ft. Benton for extended survey of Mo. R.
Name: MISTLETOE
Type: Excurssion Steamer
Comments: 1924, 19" x 25" color print, signed & numbered by artist,
Diana Garrison Litter.
Name: MITTIE STEVENS Credit
Destroyed: 1869: Near Swanson's Landing, Burned. 60 lives lost
Name: MOHICAN
Launched: 1840s?
Area: Miss. R. ?
1. Name: MOLLIE ABLE
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 296' X 53' X 6, 873 tons
Power: 32's -8 ft., five boilers each 46" X 26 ft.
Launched: 1864, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1871, Mar. 8, in the Great St. Louis Tornado
Area: 1864, St. Louis - New Orleans
Owner: Atlantic and Mississippi Steamship Company
1867, June, to Martin, Walt & Co. for $35,000.
Captain: 1864, Warner, Charles P.
Symmes, Henry; later Hurd, Jesse Y.
Comments: 1867, St. Louis, Completely rebuilt. Given engines from the
CITY OF MEMPHIS
Tubular boilers were replaced with Western type boilers.
Martin, Walt & Co converted her into cotton carrier.
Was racing DAVID WHITE when WHITE'S boilers exploded.
May have been refloated and rebuilt after tornado and served
on Red R.
1. Name: MOLLIE DOZIER
Type: Sternwheeler, wood hull, packet Size: 225' X 34'
Power: 17 1/2's-5 ft. 3 boilers
Launched: 1865, St. Louis, Mo.
Destroyed: 1866, Oct. 3, snagged back of Stoner Island in chute
opposite Chamiois, Mo. Chute became known as the
Mollie Dozier Chute.
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: Capt. Frank Dozier and/or Capt. Joe Kinney
Captain: Frank Dozier, Pilot; George Keith
Comments: Rebel bushwhackers once raided the boat at a wood stop.
: *Thought to have been first paddlewheeler with steel plating
protecting pilot house. This because of hostile Indian activities.
: *Boat named for Captain's Wife.
* From Frank J. Burcham
1. Name: MOLLIE GRATZ
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 147 tons
Launched: 1867, Madison, Ind.
Destroyed: 1877, lost
Area: 1870, Louisville-Eveansville
Owner: 18??-70, Capt. James Paul
Captain: 18??-70, James Paul
Name: MOLLIE HAMBLETON, originally the FANNY
Name: MOLLIE MOHLER
Launched: 1860s?
Destroyed: 18?? Crushed and sunk by ice.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: MOLLIE MOORE
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet, primarily a frieght boat
Power: 12's-26's- 5 ft., 3 boilers set well aft.
Launched: 1870, Elizabeth, Pa. for Capt. George D. Moore and others.
Destroyed: 1881, U. Mo. R., Chamberland, S.D., Caught in low water,
rocks stabbed holes in hull. Floundered then broke
in two. Lost
Area: 1870, Pittsburg-Louisville
1871, summer, St. Louis New Orleans
Later, Mo. R.
Owner: 1870, Capt. George D. Moore and others.
1871, Summer, Capt. William J. Kountz bought interest in her.
Captain: 1870, George D. Moore, master; Sam Bowen, pilot.
Comments: Pilot, Capt. Bowen, died aboard of yellow feaver. Was buried along
shore. Erosion eventually exposed coffin. Mark Twain paid to have
proper reburial.
Name: MONITOR
Type: ironclad
1. Name: MONITOR
Type: *Towboat and or 1. freight boat.
Size: 79 tons
Launched: 1880, Lafayette, Ind.
Destroyed: 1883-84, winter, Miss. R. above Cairo, sank
Area: *?1879?, Ohio R.. Worked out of Wheeling, W. Va.
Owner: *At one time, Capt. ?A.T.? Armstrong
Uncertain which Capt. Armstrong owned. Way's lists 5.
The years are right for it to be A.T.
At one time, A. J. Doughtery
Comments: *=Notes from WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER,
June 24, 1951
: 1881, Mar. 16, inspected at Glasgow, Mo.
Name: MONMOUTH
Launched: 1830, early?
This listing is prompted by site visitor who asks,
"Do you have any information on the Steamboat Monmouth which sank in the
Mississippi in 1837? The owner's name was Mr. Eastman. I'm including this
boat in a book I'm writing and having difficulty in digging up info on it."
Denise Fleischer
Name: MONONA
Launched: 1840s, early?
Area: 1846, U. Miss. R.
Captain(s): 1846 or so, BERSIE
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: MONONGAHELA BELLE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 74 Tons.
Launched: 1854, Morgantown, Va.
Destroyed: 1859, Mar. 8, Austin, Miss., snagged
Area: 1855 - 56, Marietta-Zanesville
1858, White R.
Owners: 1858, Captain J. M. Gilchrist, of Jacksonport
Captains: 1855, Milton Seaman
1856, John H. Lyons
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: MONROE
Launched: 1820's or 30's
Area: Alabama R.
Owner: Peyton Bibb of Alabama
Name: MONROE
Launched: 1835 in Wheeling, W. Va.. by either the Bell Yard or the
Patton Yard.
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Engines and machinery probably came from the T. Sweeney Foundry.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: MONTANA
Type: Sternwheel, Wooden hull packet Size: 250' X 48.8' X 5.5', 959 tons
Power: 18's-7 ft., 4 boilers, each 42" X 26'
Wheel, 18.2' dia, 26' buckets.
Launched: 1879, California, Pa.
Destroyed: 1884, June 22, St. Charles Mo., Capricious current forced her
against a railroad bridge's supports and sank her.
She was valued at $40,000.
Area: 1879, Pittsburgh-evansville, Pittsburgh-Fort Benton
1879, after, Mo. R. and New Orleans in winter
Owner: Originally, Capt. Nicholas Buisson, St. Louis; Capt. Sallie B. Coulson,
J.C. McVey, Yankton; G.G. Evans, and M. Coulson, Allegheny, Pa.;
D.W. Maratta, Columbus, Oh.; Capt. John Todd, Wellsville, Oh.
These made up the principals of the Coulson Line.
Captains: 1st, trip, John Todd, then for Fort Benton, Nicholas Buisson
Later, Edward A. Phillips
Last Capt. was George G. Keith
Pilot when wrecked, William Rodney Massie
Comments: 1879, At Bismarck, Dakota Territory, levee, while still new,
suffered a wind storm or tornado and had most of her above-decks
blown off.
Comments: see this National Geographic Article
: Sister boat was DACOTAH
Name: MONTAUK
Launched: 1840?
Destroyed: 1849, May 17, fire at St. Louis docks.
1. Name: MONTEZUMA
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 170 tons.
Launched: 1841, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Area: Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
Captain: 1842, spring, Nelson Crooks
1. Name: MONTEZUMA
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 150' X 20' X 6', 170 tons.
Launched, 1843, Madison Ind.
Destroyed, 1852, off the lists.
Area: *1848, Mar. 24, left Montgomery, Mar. 26, arrived New Orleans.
1849, Sept., In New Orleans
Owner: 1849, Sept, Capt. John Choat and Victor T. Wilson, both of New Orleans
1850, Wilson sold his share to Andrew W. Smith, New Orleans.
Captain: *1848, Apr. Kelly
1849, John Chaot
Comments: Way's believes this might be the same boat as the one above.
*From Journal of Paul Haralson, March, 1848.
1. Name: MONTGOMERY
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. 407 tons.
Launched: 1843, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1851, Nov. 7, New Carthage, Miss., 33 mi. below Vicksburg,
burned.
Area: 1843, out of Mobile, Ala.
New Orleans-Vicksburgh
Owners: John G. Owen and F.M. Johnson both of Mobile, Ala.
Captain: 1850, Feb., J.H. Estes of Mobile.
Name: MONTGOMERY
Type: unknown. Size: 235', Upper and lower decks.
Launched: ?1848, Spring?*
Area: 1848, Mar., Alabama R. Montgomery-Mobile
Comments: this entry is prompted by the Journal of
Paul Haralson, March, 1848.
*According to Way's Packet Directory, the MONTGOMERY, above, was
launched in 1843 an burned in 1851. Yet Haralson's 1848 journal
states, "The Montgomery is a new boat & put upon the River this
season in place of the old boat of the same name."
Until more information surfaces, one guess is as good as
the next.
1. Name: MONTGOMERY
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 315 tons.
Launched: 1854, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1858, Feb. 20, Algiers, La., burned.
Area: Alabama R. Trade.
Captain: Joseph L. Harris
Name: MONTGOMERY
Launched: 1926
Area: Coosa R.
Comments: Was a U.S. Corps of Engineers boat
: Source
Name: MONTGOMERY, originally NAUMKEAG
Name: MOREN
Type: Towboat?
Launched: 1880's?
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. May. 12 1897
Outdoor 12
1. Name: MORGAN NELSON
Type: sternwheeler, wooden hull packet
Size: 120' X 21.8' X 4.4', 109 tons
Launched: 1859, Middletown, Pa.
Destroyed: 1868, dismantled
Area: Miss. R.
1862, May - 1865, June, hauled supplies up river for the
Confederate States of America Army to various points on the
Mississippi, Black, Red, Ouachita and Saline Rivers
1865 or so, Lower Ouachita and Little River
Owner: 1861, Josiah and James Dillon of Wheeling, W. Va.
*1862 or so, Capts. A.L. Witherington and Robert Withers
1861-68, went through 7 changes in ownership.
Captain(s): 1861, Joseph Richardson, of Wheeling.
1862 or so, A.L. Witherington and Robert Withers
Comments: 1861, Jan. 24, was at New Orleans
: *Source and much more on this boat.
Name: MORNING LIGHT
Launched: Between 1855 and 1865 in Wheeling, W. Va..
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING INTELLIGENCER, June 24, 1951
Name: MORNING STAR
Type: Side-wheeler Size: 230' x 34' x 5.5' 465 tons
Launched: 1856, Elizabeth, PA
Destroyed: 1859, June 21, St. Louis, Burned
Area: Mo. R.; Ohio R.; Miss. R.
Owner: St. Louis and Sat Joseph Union Packet Line
Captain(s): McPherson, H.
1858, Thomas Brierly, pilot William Massie
Comments: Plied trade from St. Louis to Lexington, Ks., Ft.
Levenworth, and and St. Joseph.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: MOSELLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 150 tons
Launched: 1838, Apr., Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1838, Apr. 25: 3 of her 4 boilers exploded at landing just above
docks at Cincinnati, after 2nd run to St Louis.
160 persons lost.
Area: Ohio R.
Captain; 1838, Apr. 25, Perin, 4. an attentive, courtious young man of
probably not over 28 years of age.
Above information from Tall Stacks On Line
Comments: 4. 1838, Apr. Portsmouth, Oh.-Cincinnati, Oh. time, 00/07/55
St. Louis - Cincinnati-St. Louis, 02/16/00
Made run Louisville - Cincinnati 1837, 0/12/0
: SEE
1. Name: MOSES GREENWOOD
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 175' X 29' X 5.6' 268 tons.
Launched: 1855, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: Way's has her off the lists in 1855, but below shows she was
still active in 1857.
Area: 1857, Diary of E. F. Beadle has her arriving Omaha, June 12,
July 8 up with supplies for Saratoga Landing just up from Omaha.
Owner: Capt Albert Thomas, Newport, Ky.
Captain: Albert Thomas
1.Name: MOSES McLELLAN/CITY of ST. PAUL
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 398 tons.
Launched: 1855, Cincinnati, Oh.
Power: 4. 4 boilers, 40" X 20' each and each having 2 14' flues
After rebuild into CITY of ST. PAUL, 21's-7 ft., 3 boilers,
each 42" X 26'
Destroyed: last known inspection at St. Paul, 1867. Don't know ultimate fate.
Area: 1855, Cincinnati-Louisville
Later, Cincinnati-Memphis into 1860.
1861, Jan., made trip to Pittsburgh with cotton.
1861, Jan., Delivered U.S. Army supplies to Camp Piatt, Kanawha R.
1864, U. Miss. R.
Owner: United States Mail Line
: 1864, Northwestern Union Packet Company
Captain: 1861, William Knight, Pilot, William F. Gregory
At one time, P.S. Davidson
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
: named for Capt. Moses McLellan
: *1862, Madison, Ind, Rebuilt and Renamed CITY of ST. PAUL
: *1866, completely rebuilt, LaCross, Wiss. Renamed CITY of ST. PAUL
: As CITY of ST. PAUL, mentioned in this Article
: *Once declined a race with KEY CITY
* These conflicting dates and locals are both from Way's Packet Directory.
*Jones Worden's Steamboats and Steamboating Career by Frederick J. Worden
Name: MT. PLEASANT
Launched: 1835? in Wheeling, W. Va.. by either the Bell Yard or the
Patton Yard
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Engines and machinery probably came from the T. Sweeney Foundry.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: MOUND CITY
Type: Union Stern-wheel ironclad Size:
Launched: 1860s?
Destroyed: 1863, Sunk in battle
Name: MOUNTAINEER
Type: sidewheeler
Size: 100'; speed: 6mph.
Launched: 1824
Destroyed:
Area: Lake George, N.Y.
Owner: Lake George Steamboat Company Home Page for Co.
Captain and pilots:
Comments:
Name: MOUNTAINEER
Launched: 1860?
Destroyed: 1869, ran aground with broken wheel.
Area: U. Mo. R.
Comments: 1867, at Souix City, Iowa, mate had black crewmewn
chase deserting, white deck hands.
1.Name: MOUNTAIN BELLE/THE PURCHASE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 140' X 27'
Launched: 1869, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1917, Wabasha, Minn., condemned and dismantled
Area: under McAllister, Ohio R., Portsmouth-Proctorville
1871, Cincinnati-Portsmouth
Owners: 1869-73, principal owner, Capt A. John McAllister
1870, became associated with Portsmouth & Big Sandy Packet Company
1872, McAllister sold his intrest to Robert Bagby
1873, sold to U. Miss. R., Hewitt & Wood, La Crosse, Wis.
Later owned by G.G. Hixon, La Crosse, Wis.
Later owned by the McDonald Bros., La Crosse, Wis.
As excursion boat, William McCraney
Comments: 1873, converted to a raft-boat
: finally became an excurssion boat at St. Paul named THE PURCHASE
Name: MOUNTAIN GIRL
Launched: 1860s?
Destroyed: 1885, Ni. 5 Collided with JAMES W. GOFF and sank with
Holland & McMahon circus on board.
Area: Miss. R.
Name: MT. VERNON
Type: sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 177 tons.
Launched: 1847, Elizabethtown, Pa.
Destroyed: 1852, off the lists
Area: built for Pittsburgh-Cincinnati trade.
1850, spring, Pittsburgh-Louisville
Owner: mostly by Capt William J. Kountz
Captains: Hiram Kountz
Name: MOUSE
Launched: 1824?
Area: New York, Hudson R.
Owner: Gibbons, Thomas
Captain and pilots: Capt. Vanderbilt, Cornelius
Name: MOVASTAR
Comments: Was racing the PRAIRIE BELL when the PRAIRIE BELL
blew up.
Name: MOXAHALA
Area: 1840s, in Dresden, Oh. trade
Owners: in part, Capt Robert Hazelett
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: MUSCATINE
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 322 tons.
Launched: 1863, Wheeling W. Va. for Northern Line Packet Co.
Destroyed: 1880, North LaCross, Wi. stranded and lost
Area: 1864, Mar 11, advertised at Pittsburgh for St. Louis and Dubuque
Owners: Northern Line Packet Company.
Captains: 1864-65, J.J. Robinson
Comments: Capt. R.C. Gray supervised building.
Name: MUSIC CITY QUEEN
Type: Ornamental sternwheel excursion boat Size: 125', 300 passengers
Launched: 1984, Utica, Ind.
Area: 1999, Nashville Ten.
Casptains; Rick Gillingham, Diana Laffoon
Comments: 1999, in Tall Stacks Celebration
Name: MUSKINGUM
Launched: 1820's?
Area: 1826, Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone's Lick Heritage
Name: MUSKINGUM
Area: 1840s, in Dresden, Oh. trade
Owners: in part, Capt Robert Hazelett
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: MUSKINGUM VALLEY
Area: 1840s, Dresden trade out of Zanesville, Oh.
Captains: William Scales
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: MYRTLE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet/barge boat. Size: 64' X 14'
Launched: 1893, Yellville, Ark. for W. C. McBee of Marion County, Ark.
Destroyed: 1895, Mar. 2, McBee Landing, White R., fire in cook room
Area: 1893 - 95, U. White R.
Captains: At first Captain John Shipp in charge and Captain Albert Cravens as pilot
Later Captain Cravens was master
1894, Captain Thomas B. Stallings
Comments: See Article
Name: MYRTLE COREY (Source)
Area: 1901 or so, U. White R.
Owners: possibly Capt. Thomas B Stallings
