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Name: O.K.
Launched: before 1862
Area: California Delta
: 1862-64, San Joaquin and Mokelumne Rs. to Lockeford, Calf. 3.
Owner: 1862-64, Mokelumne River Steam Navigation Company 3.
Name: O'BRIAN
Type: Sidewheeler Size:
Comments: Found this one in a sketch (painting?) at this link
O'Brien:
1. Name: OAKLAND
Type: sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 142' X 26.7' X 4'
Launched: 1853, California, Pa.
Destroyed: 1859?, Dismantled
Area: At first, upper Miss. R., St. Louis - St. Paul.
1859, Upper White R.
Owners: Built for Capt. J.N. Shunk and others of pittsburgh
Later, Capts. Pete Fleming and T. J. Woods on White R.
Last owner was Thomas H. Williams of Memphis.
Captains: 1859, Thomas J. Woods
Comments: 1859, Sept. 7, Sold at U.S. Marshall's sale to meet unpaid obligations
: Mentioned in this Article
Name: OAKLAND
Launched: 1892
Area: White R.
Owner: Captain William T. Thomas
Comments: Source
1. Name: OCEAN WAVE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 205 tons
Launched: 1845, St. Louis, Mo.
Destroyed: 1851, Feb. 11, Louisville, Ky., burned.
Area: 1845, St. Louis - Keokuk
1848, Louisville - St. Louis
Captain: 1845, Barton Able
Comments: Mentioned here
: 1849, Feb. 11, Louisville, with dignitaries aboard, arrived,
lashed along side of COURTLAND, which carried Zachary
Taylor toward his inauguration.
1. Name: OCEAN WAVE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 235 tons
Launched: 1854, Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1868, Lake Pipin, Wis., burned.
Area: 1854, St louis - Ill. R. trade
1856, Various U. Miss. trade
Owner: 1854, Capt. Waldo P. Marsh
1856, Purshased by Minnesota Packet Comapny
1864, *Under flag of Northwestern Union Packet Company
Captains: 1854: Waldo P. Marsh
Comments: Short boat. hard to steer.
: Mentioned *here
1. Name: OCEAN WAVE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 89' X 15' X 3.5'
Launched: 1895, Apr. 24,
Destroyed: 1895, Greenville, Miss., burned.
Owner: L.E. Somerville, Pt. Pleasant, w. Va.
Captains: Frank Coos, Wheeling, W. Va.
comments: Was hitched to a coal tow from launch point to Greenville.
This boat was never in service.
1. Name: OCEANA
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 607 tons.
Launched: 1854, St. Louis, Mo.
Destroyed: 1860, off the lists.
Area: St. Louis-New Orleans
Captains: When new, J.T. Burdeau
: 1860, sometime in, William Eads/Edds, Sr.
Comments: 1855, Mar. 7, Landed, St. Louis See
Name: OCTAVIA
Launched: 1867
Area: U. Mo. R.?
Captain and pilots: Capt. La Barge, Joseph
Comments:
3. Name: ODD FELLOW
Type: Sternwheeler
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: OGDEN V. GIBINS
Name: OH! HUSH
Area: 1840, Missouri R. and possibly the Osage R. in Mo.
Captains: 1840, Nimrod Dickerson
Name: OHIO RIVER
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson, shopkeeper,
Commerce, Mo.
-Thursday Night, March 28th, 1861. Business dull. Weather good. River rising."
. . . ."Ohio River boat landed about 11 o'clock, put off W. Burgess and Morris
Mop.
* Name: OHIO
Size: 80 tons
Power: High pressure
Launched: 1825, Cincinnati, Oh.
Name: OHIO
Launched: 1833, May
Area: N. O. to Cincinnati.
Name: OHIO
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 121 tons.
Launched: 1849, Shousetown, Pa.
Destroyed: 1856, off the lists
Area: 1849, out of Zanesville, Oh.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: OHIO
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 348 tons.
Launched: 1849, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1857, off the lists
1. Name: OHIO No.3
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 218' X 35' X 5.5', 264 tons.
Launched: 1858, Marietta, Oh. at Knox yard
Destroyed: cir. 1868, lower end of Harmar Yard, cut down by ice, dismantled
Area: built for Marietta-Cincinnati trade
*1865, Sat. June 5, Parkersburg, W. Va., left warf
Captains: When new, J.J. Blagg, master with John Heisner, clerk
Name: OHIO, originally the CLIFTON
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 251' X 39' X 5.5'
Launched: 1879, Cincinnati, Oh.
1. Name: OHIO VALLEY/TINCLAD #10/IBEX/HARRY DEAN
Type: sidewheel, wooden hull packet/tinclad/packet. Size: 325 tons.
Launched: 1863, Marietta, Oh, Knox Yard or Harmar, Oh. Way's has both listed.
Destroyed: 1868, Sat. Jan. 4, 10:00 am, Walker's Landing 2 mi. below Gallipolis,
Oh., port boiler exploded. 5 persons lost. See Account of explosion
Area: 1863, Tramped Louisville-Nashville
1864, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
1864, Sept., Wheeling-Cincinnati
1865-67, Aug 8, Cincinnati-Memphis
Owners: 1863, Built for Capts. Chapin, Wells, and others
1865-67 The Dean Line
1864, Dec. 10, sold to U.S. Navy. Converted to Tinclad #10 and renamed
IBEX.
1865, Aug., sold to Capt. William B. Miller, Dean Line
1867, July 8, sold to other parties.
Captains: 1863 when new, Chapin
1864, Amos Davis
1865, H. Blasdel
1867, Master, Daniel F. Sayer; pilots, J.A. Levesay and B.F. Hall
1868, Jan. 4, pilot was Capt. Hiram Burch, master was Capt. Thos. Sayre
Comments: 1864, renamed IBEX by U.S. Navy
1965, renamed HARRY DEAN
Name: OIL VALLEY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull towboat
Launched: 1870
Owner: 1873, D. A. and J. S. McDonald
Comments: 1873, in flood of Monogahela R. Struck by coal barge. Sunk.
?Later recovered?.
Name: OKANOGAN
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Area: Western rivers
Comments: 1912,, at Chelan Falls Wash. on Columbia R.
Name: OLD BULLION
Area: 1852, June, Mo. R., St. Louis-Brunswick, 2 trips
Owners: 1852, James Keyte of either St. Louis or Brunswick, Missouri.
Comments; This information from correspondence between myself (Riverboat Dave)
and Site visitor Carl O. Smarley
Name: OLIAN
Launched: 1850s? Mid?
Area: 1859, U. Miss. R.
Owner: 1869, Davidson, Commodore W. F.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: OLIVE BRANCH
Type: Size: 134' X 30' X 8'
Launched: 1816
Area: New York - New Brunswick, Canada
Owner: Hudson River Steamboat Company
Comments: Source
1. Name: OLIVE BRANCH
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 283' X 42' X 8.', 697 tons.
Launched: 1863, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1871, July 22, Liberty Island below St. Louis. Hit a stump which
tore down her entire hull causing her to sink within 1 1/2 min.
Area: 1863, St. Louis-New Orleans
Owner: 1863, Capt B. Rush. Pegram and others.
1865?-18??, Atlantic and Mississippi Steamboat Company
1871, July 22, Capt. John T. McCord and others.
Captains: 1863, Capt B. Rush. Pegram
Other masters, Ben F. Taber, J.T. McCord and J.H. Jones
Comments: 1865, April, late: Cleared Memphis with 700 Union
soldiers/prisoners heading upriver and home, just before
the doomed SULTANA arrived to pick hers up.
Name: OLIVER EVANS
Launched: 1816, Pittsburgh, Pa. Size: 45 tons
Destroyed: 1817, Apr., Point Coupee, burst boiler killing 11 men.
Area: Pittsburgh-New Orleans
Owner: George Evans
Comments: SOURCE
1. Name: OLIVETTE
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 120' X 22' X 3.'
Power: Engines, 10's- 3-1/2' from the SCIENCE
Launched: 1882, Harmar, Oh, at Knox Yard.
Destroyed: 1904, Jan. 24, Pittsburgh, Allegheny R, burned at landing
Area: First 5 yrs., various trades on Muskingum out of Zanesville
1887, went to Parkerburg-Middleport trade
1887, post, Cincinnati area as pleasure boat.
Under Biddle Bros. went to Liverpool-Steubenville trade
1894-95, Pittsburgh-Elizabeth trade
Owners: Built for George Strecker and Rodrick Bros. of Marierra as low water packet.
Post 1887, purchased by J.C. Dueber for a pleasure craft
Later sold to Biddle Bros., Parkersburg.
1896, purched entire by C. W. Posey
Last owner was Samuel W. Carpenter, a marine diver
Captains: First 5 yrs., Ed Martin, Lou Myrick and James McCoy
1887, George M. McClintock
In Liverpool-Steubenville trade, Logan Noll, with Wm. Wilkin, clerk.
1894-95, Joseph. C. Ketchell; H. M. Lowe, clerk
Comments: 1896, fall, converted to towboat.
3. Name: OLIVIA
Type: Size:
Launched: 1840s?, late?
Destroyed:
Area: 1840s, late, Sacramento R., Calf.
Name: OMAHA
Area: U. Mo. R.
Comments: 1854: Florence Neb., dropped off some Mormons who were en
route to Zion, in the Great Salt Lake Valley.
1. Name: OMAHA
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 206' X 30' X 5', 307 tons
Power: 21's-6 1/2 ft., 3 boilers, each 38" X 28'
Launched: 1856, Madison, Ind.
Destroyed: 1865, Dec. 16, St. Louis, lost in ice crush.
Area: Mo. R., St. Louis to Souix City and St Joseph-Council Bluffs
Owner: *185?-59, 1/2 by Capt. Andrew Wineland and Mr. W.A. Bennett.
**1859, Nov. 25, Mr. J. Jewett Wilcox, the boat's clerk, purchased
Wineland's 1/4 interest.
Capt. P.S. Ray purchased 1/8 of Mr. Bennett's 1/4 and Mr C?ll
Avis the other 1/8.
Captain: 1850s, J.E. Barrow
**?185?-59. Capt. Andrew Wineland ?
**1859, Nov. 25 - 185?, P.S. Ray
1857, William R. Massie. Said to be his favorite boat.
Comments: Artwork and info from the gallery of Gary Lucy.
: More Artwork and info from the gallery of Gary Lucy.
: 1857, The Diary of E.F. Beadle places her in Omaha May 19,
on her return from up-country. Also in Omaha,
June 6, July 17.
Aug 7, arrived Omaha.
*From, this Source
** From St. Louis Republican
Name: OMAHA Originally the LORA
Name: OMAR, CITY OF CLINTON SHOWBOAT
Type: sternwheel towboat Size: 207' X 36' 581 tons
Launched: 1935, ?St. Louis.?
Area: 1940's Ohio R., from the mines in West Virginia up river to Pittsburgh
and down river to Cairo, IL. Barges were loaded at Huntington, WV.
Owner: The Ohio River Company
Persent: City of Clinton, Iowa.
Comments: From site visitor David Rayburn
"The Omar was donated to the State of West Virginia and the last
heard of it, it was a tourist attraction located on the Kanawha
River in front of the State Capital of West Virginia."
: From site visitor Harvey Brennan 12/05/05
". . . the "Omar" it's now named the "City of Clinton Showboat"
converted to a floating Theatre in Clinton Iowa."
: See OMAR's history
Name: OMEGA
Launched:1840's
Area: 1943 Mo. R.
Captain(s): 1843, LaBarge, Joseph
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Name: ONEIDA
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 104' X 19.7' X 4.'
Launched: 1881, Harmar, Oh., Knox yard
Destroyed: 1902, Parkersburgh, W. Va., sank and turned over.
Owners: built by machinist named Murry who came to Parkersburg, W. Va. from Oneida Co. N.Y.
He built the engines.
Area: 1880-90 period, Little Kanawha R.
Owners: c. 1899, C.H. and E.E. Varian, of Letart, W. Va., equal shares
1902, Jan. 26, D. M. Miller and M. R, Lowther, Parkersburg, W. Va.
Captains: presumably, Samuel B. Rathbone who also operated the CARRIE M. KRAFT
1884, Solly Wells
1902, Jan. 26, John Stone of Belpre, Oh.
Comments: Later in her life, this was an ill fated boat.
1895, Juliana St. Bridge, Parkersburg, speared by piling,
when river fell after Ice break up. Rolled over. Rolled over again
while being pumped out.
Later, exploded boiler while racing.
1902, Jan. 26, 7am, Creston, W. Va. cut by ice and sank.
Raised and steamed to Parkersburg where she sank
and turned over while waiting her turn at docks.
: Machinery went to the FRENCH
: Mentioned in these documents - 1, 2
Name: ONTARIO
Type: Side-wheeler Size: 150' or 170'
Launched: 1817: Sackerrs Harbor, N.Y.
Area: Lower Great Lakes
Owner: Law, George
Comments: Its machinery was designed by Robert Fulton
: Credit
Name: ONWARD
Type: towboat Size:
Launched: late 1870s
Destroyed: 1897, Burned on Monongahela river, near Glenwood.
Area: Ohio and Miss. Rs.
Owner: Jutte & Co. and Munhall Bros.
Captain(s):
Comments: Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Aug. 18 1897
* Name: OPELOUSAS
Size: 133 tons
Power: High pressure
Launched: 1826, Cincinnati, Oh.
Magic Cabin
Name: ORA ELWELL
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1900s, early to mid?
Destroyed: last known to be docked for remodel in Seattle area circa 1994;
Area: Skagit R., Pugeot Sound, Wash. State
Captain: Albert Manwarren Galligan
Comments: was converted to twin diesel engines
Name: OREGON
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1840s?
Area: Eastern boat?
Owner: Law, George
Comments: Won race with COMMODORE VANDERBILT
3. Name: ORIENT
Launched: 1840's late? Size: 47 tons.
Area: 1853, Sacramento R. Calif.
Name: ORIOLE 1863-1881
Name: ORIOLE 1863-65 Originally FLORENCE MILLER NO. 3
Name: ORIOLE 1869-??
Name: ORIOLE 18?76?,
Area: 1876, Jan, in lower coast trade out of N.O.
Captain: James T. O'Pry
Comments: possibly same boat as the one just above
: Transcribed from The Olden Times.com copy of
The Daily Picayune, New Orlens, La, Jan. 10, 1913 -
(The date above mystifies me. I can only conclude
that the issue of the Picayune from which Olden times took
this article from was a later reprint of some kind.
Way's Packet Directory has Capt. O'Pry "possibly"
aboard the 1869 ORIOLE working the Lower Coast trade in
Jan. 1876. Way's suggests that this might be another
ORIOLE. I'm betting it was another ORIOLE.)
The Explosion of the Oriole
New Orleans, June 16.--The following
is a list of the killed and wounded by the
Oriole yesterday: Dead - John Boyer,
chief engineer; Zachariah Washington, a
colored passanger; Louis Jackson, a col-
ored minister from Algiers, and two colored
women wonded. Captain Opry, com-
ding, severly bruised; Joseph
Sharp, mate and Henry Kountzie, pilot,
each with their right leg broken.
The fireman, colored, had both eyes
blinded. Four roustabouts were crip-
pled, but not seriously. J.P. Gtouere, a
passenger, was slightly injured. J.C.
Frenoulet, first clerk, and J.E. Staberial,
second clerk, were slightly injured, and
Mr. Crawford, secretary of the wrecking
association, was severly bruised. Hun-
ter, second engineer, colored, who was
missing last night was this morning
found in the hold nder the boiler, but
could not be extricated. After the ex-
plosion, which shattered the boat, a piece
of the boiler was found in a field a quar-
ter of a mile distant. The boat is a total
wreck.
Name: ORIOLE Originally BAXTER 1901-1915
Name: ORLEANS
Comments: Made run N.O to Natchez 6/6/40 1814
Name: ORLEANS
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Destroyed: 1871, Sept., Sabine Pass, Tex., Sunk by hurricane
Area: 1869-71, Aug., Neches and Trinity Rs., Tex.
Owners: 1869-71, Capt. Louis King
Comments: See source Article
4. Name: ORONOKO
Destroyed: 1838, Apr. ?21? Princeton, Miss., Collapsed her flues and exploded
Area: Miss. R.
* Name: OSAGE
Size: 144 tons
Launched: 1820, Cincinnati, Oh
Destroyed: 1824, snagged
1. Name: OSAGE
Type: Built as Ironclad Gunboat, possibly propellor driven.
Size: Originally, shallow draft at around 3'
1867, when sold to private owners, described as
180' X 48.8' X 5.4', 350 tons,
Launched: 1863, Carondelet, Mo. Built by James B. Eads.
Destroyed: May have sunk in Sodo Lake, near Shreveport, La.
Area: 1864, was hard aground on sandbar for most of this year.
1865, Apr., Mobile, Ala. Sunk in battle of Mobile and raised.
Owners: 1867, Nov. 22, sold to Capt. John Armstrong
One month later went to New Orleans Wrecking and Salvage Co.,
Captains: 1864, Thomas O. Selfridge, later a Rear Admiral
1867, Dec. - 1870, May, Greenleaf Andrews
1. Name: OSAGE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 147 tons.
Launched: 1865, Castle Rock, Mo.
Destroyed: 1874, Off the lists
Area: first home, St. Louis, Mo.
1. Name; OSAGE
Type: Sternwheel, transfer boat, wooden hull
Size: 100' X 19.8' X 3.5'
Power: 12 1/2's, 3 1/2 ft., 1 boiler, all from JOHN R. HUGO
Launched: 1900, Osage City, Mo.
Destroyed: 1917, about, dismantled.
Area: 1900-09, Osage R. Mo.
1909-17, Miss. R.
Owners: 1900-09, Osage and Missouri River Packet Company
1909 Houston Lumber Co., Vicksburg.
1909-1917, Mississippi, Yazoo and Sunflower River Transportation Company
Name: OSAGE PACKET
Launched: 1840
Area: Osage R., Missouri R.-St Louis
Captains: Benjamin B. Bryan
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: OSCEOLA
Destroyed: 1877, on way up Yellowstone R. by a tornado after
loitering at shore to round up a white stalion the
cowboys aboard had spotted. All humans survived,
but the horse went down with the wreckage.
Area: Yellowstone and Mo. Rivers.
Name: OSPREY
Launched: 1840s? early?
Area: 1846 and 185?, U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in articles here and here
Name: OTTER
Launched: 1830's or early 40s
Area: U. Miss. R.; Mo. R.
Owner: One or both of the Captains Harris.
Captain: 1843 - 45, Harris
Do not know which Harris Brother this was.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1843, Apr. 5, Arrived at St Paul, Minn.
1844, Apr. 6, Arrived at St Paul, Minn.
1845, Apr. 6, Arrived at St Paul, Minn.
Name: OTTUMWA BELLE
Launched: 1880s?
Area: Miss. R.
Captain: Capt. Hunter, Walter
Comments: 1915, brought down the last tow of logs.
Name: OUACHITA Originally the LOUISVILLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet/U.S. gunboat
Launched: 1861, New Albany, Ind.
Comments: refitted as packet VICKSBURG
1. Name: OUACHITA/FRED A. BLANKS (No. 2)
Type: Sternwheeler, wooden hull, packet
Size: 189' X 38' X 6.5' Plus cotton guards to make her 52'
overall in width.
Launched: 1890, Jeffersonville, Ind, by Howard Yard
Destroyed: As OUACHITA, 1899, Jan. 19, Memphis, Tenn., 1:30 A.M., burned.
3 died.
Hull was made into the FRED A. BLANKS in Paducah
: At VICKSBURG, 1903, laid up at South Memphis below Trainor
Ave., sank during night and was lost.
Area: 1890, N.O.-Monroe trade
Later, Memphis-Vicksburg
Owners: 1890, Capt. L.V. Cooley
Later, the Blanks Family
Later, As OUACHITA then FRED A. BLANKS No. 2, Capts. A.E. and L.P. Cummins
Captains: 1890, Cooley, L.V.
1901, Brenner, Lew
Comments: 1900 or so Bell From BALTIMORE was instaled on this boat
1. Name: OUACHITA
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hulled packet. Size: 140' X 32' X 4'
Power: Engines, 10s - 5'. 1 boiler, 44" X 28'.
Launched: 1899, Jeffersonville, Ind., by Howard Yard.
Destroyed: 1909, laid up and disposed of 5 yrs. later.
Owners: Originally, Capt. L.V. Cooley, New Orleans
: c. 1906, purchased by Alabama River Packet Company
1. Name: OUACHITA - Originally the CITY OF MUSKOGEE, then LORAINE K.
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hulled packet
Launched: 1908, Jeffersonville, Ind., by Howard Yard.
Destroyed: 1924, Sept. 12, burned.
Comments: Renamed OUACHITA, 1924, July.
Name: OUACHITA - Originally the GEORGE PRINCE
: - 1940
1. Name: OUACHITA BELLE
Type: Sidewheel wooden hulled packet. Size: 218 X 38 X 6
Launched: 1870, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1880, Nov. 3, Fox Island, sank.
Area: N.O.-Bayou Sara
Owner: 1870, Blanks, Capt. Fred A. and C.N. Breurd, New Orleans,
equal shares.
1878-80, Maj. John D. Adams.
Captains: 1871, Blanks, Fred A.; later, Libano, John C.
Capt. John W. Cannon ran her under lease one cotton season.
1. Name: OZARK QUEEN/HOUMA
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet/barge boat.
Size: As OZARK QUEEN - 133' X 25.6, 135 tons.
: As HOUMA 136' x 23.8' x 4.8'
Power as HOUMA, engines, 9 1/2s- 3', one boiler 44" X 20'
Launched: 1896, Batesville, Ark.
Destroyed: 1926, Sept. burned.
Areas: 1896 - 1903, White R., Ark., Batesville - McBees Landing trade.
1906, New Orleans - Lower Terrebonne, Sugar Refinery and Houma,
and on Bayou Lafourch Crossing. Possibly as a barge boat.
Owners: 1896 - 1904, Capt. Charles B. Woodburry
1906 - Bradford Transportation Co.
Captains: 1901 or so, Charles B. Woodbury
1903, May, Will Shipp
1906, T.W. Cook
Comments: 1904, Dec. Memphis, condemmed
: 1806, Rebuilt to become the HOUMA, Madisonville, La.
