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Name: P.A.DENNY, Originally the SCOTT
Name: P.C. JOHNSON
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson, shopkeeper,
Commerce, Mo.
- Saturday, August 28th 1861. " . . . The Governor
of Missouri has called out 42,000 men for soldiers.
We are thinking abiout it. Nothing passed today.
Weather fine, few boats passed. The Johnson went
down today."
- Santafee, Illinois, September 16 1861. "Since my last
we have moved to Santafee. We went to work on the 2nd day
of September selling goods. . . . " " . . . P.C. Johnson
arrived here this morning. All going off fine."
1. Name: P.D. STAGGS/INDIA GIVINS
P.D. STAGGS
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet.
Size: When new as P.D. STAGGS, 161' X 28.6' X 4.4'
1900, after rebuild as INDIA GIVINS, 161' X 29' X 4.6
Power: as INDIA GIVINS, 11's- 4 1/2 ft., 2 boilers, each 36" X 18'
Launched: 1893, effersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard.
Destroyed: 1897, sometime after, Metropolis,Ill., sank, ending P.D STAGGS
1907, Jan. 27, Hickman, Ky., burned.
Area: Nashville-Burnside on Cumberland R.
1896-97, Louisville-Kentucky R.
1897, Paducha-Danville
1900, as INDIA GIVINS, out of St. Louis
Owners: 1893, Alec Kendall and Capt. A. T. Armstrong
1896?-97, Louisville & Evansville Mail Line
1897, Apr, purchased by Capt. Tom G. Ryman
1897, Nov. purchased by Capt Douglas Jones
After sinking, purchased by Capt. Lee Howell who raised and
rebuilt her. Renamed INDIA GIVENS
1906, H.W. Sebastian, St. Louis
Companies Associated with: 1901, Calhoun Transportation Company.
Name: PACIFIC
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1880's?
Destroyed:
Area: Ohio R.
Owner: Budd, Capt. P. R.
Captain(s): Woodward, D. W.
Comments: Ultimately became a tow-boat for coal and freight
barges.
Comments: from The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Aug. 18 1897
1. Name: PALMETTO
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 136 tons.
Launched: 1848, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1852, Oct. 9, Apalachicola, Fla., sank.
Area: *1848, Mar. 26 - 28, New Orleans to Galveston, Tx.
Comments: *1848, Mar. 28, Encountered storm and had to anchor off Tex.
Coast to wait for dailight before entering Galveston harbor.
*From Journal of Paul Haralson, March, 1848.
Name: PALMYRA
Launched: 1836, Pittsburgh, Pa. area
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: PANTHER
Type: Size:
Launched: 1860S?
Destroyed:
Area: Ohio R.
Owner:
Captain(s):
Comments: Credit
Name: PARAGON:
To my knowledge, there were 4 boats with this name. Two are listed below.
The other 2, both midwest boats of later vintage (1863 and 1873) I will
enter when I get time.
Name: PARAGON
Type: Size: 173' X 27' X 9'
Launched: 1811
Destroyed:
Area: Hudson R., Albany - New York City
Owner: 1811, Hudson River Steamboat Company
Captain: 1811, Wiswell
At one time, Arthur Helme Roorbach
Comments: Source
* Name: PARAGON
Size: 350 tons
Power: Low pressure
Launched: 1819, Cincinnati, Oh.
Comments: Made run N.O. - Natchez 1819, 3/8/0
Made run N.O. to Louisville, 1819 18/10/0
Made run Louisville to Cincinnati 1819, 1/14/20??
1. Name: PARAGON
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 495 tons
Launched: 1863, Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1868, Feb. 28, struck wreck of JAMES MONTGONERY, was wrecked herself.
Area: 1864, Mar.18, Advertised Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
1868, running Memphis-St. Louis when destroyed.
Owner: Sold when launched to Capt. Donnally
Captains: 1864, Donnally
1. Name: PARAGON
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 260' X 48' X 8.'
Power: Rees engines, 22's-8 ft., 5 boilers, each 40" X 26'.
Launched: 1873, Hull at Belle Vernon, completed Pittsburgh for
Capt. C.W. Batchelor
Destroyed: 1875, Apr. 6, St. Louis, Burned.
Area: Cincinnati-New Orleans
Owners: Later, Rees and Thorn, and John J. and Thomas J. Darragh, all of
Pittsburgh.
Captains: Master, John J. Darragh
Comments: Capt. William J. Kountz purchased burned out hull and built
E.O. STANDARD from it.
Name: PARENTHIA
Type: sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 150' X 28.8' X 3.9', 154 tons.
Launched: 1854, California, Pa.
Destroyed: 1855, Dec. 7, St. Louis, burned while loading for Ill. R.
Owners: 1854-? Capt J.J. Robinson and others
Later, Wall & Wider and Reid & Vohries
Captains: 1853, master, J.J. Robinson
1855, Dec. 7, Master, W.H. Reed
Comments: Her fire also took the TWIN CITY and the PRAIRIE CITY.
Name: PARENTHIA
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 261 tons.
Launched: 1862, Freedom, Pa. For Capt. Perry Brown.
Destroyed: 1863, Jan. 14, Harpeth Shoals, Tenn., Burned by Rebels.
Owners: 1862, Capt. Perry Brown and others.
Captains: 1862, Perry Brown
Comments: Impressed into war service by Union.
: 1864, Apr., Owners collected $32,500 from U.S. for their loss.
Name: PARKERSBURG
Type: sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 204 tons.
Launched: 1857, Cincinnati, Oh.
Area: Cincinnati-Parkersburg
: 1861, sold south and went to Confederate service.
Captain(s):In Cincinnati-Parkersburg trade, James Monroe Vaughan,
with E.P. Chancellor, clerk.
Name: PARQOUD
Launched: 1870s?
Area: Greenville to N. O.
1. Name: PAT CLEBURNE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet.
Power: 20's-7 ft., 4 boilers, each 37" X 24', 2 flues.
Launched: 1870, Cincinnati, Oh
Destroyed: 1876, May 17, Below Shawneetown, Ill. which is upriver from
Metropolis, and across from Weston Ky. boiler blew and
she burned
Area: 1870, Memphis-White R.
Later, Evensville-Cairo trade
Owners: 1870, Memphis and White River PAcket Company
Later, Evansville, Cairo and Memphis Steam Packet Company.
Captains: 1870, W.J. Ashford
1875, John Goff
1876, Dick Fowler
Comments: She was transfering an excursion party to the ARKANSAS BELLE when
Her boiler blew. Capt. Dick Fowler was asleep in his Texas deck
cabin and was burned to death. 14 lost their lives. Many others
were scalded or otherwise injured. The ARKANSAS BELLE was damaged
and underwent repairs before resuming her trade.
Name: PAT ROGERS
Type: Sidewheeler Size:
Power: 22 1/2's x 7'
Launched: 1872, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1874, Aug. 5, Laughery Creek, Burned
Area: Ohio R., Cincinnati - Louisville
Owner: U.S. Mail Line Co.
Captain(s): Dittman, Charles H., David, Charles
Pilot(s): DuFour, Charles J.
Comments: From Jerry Canavit
Reportedly, while burning, she was stuck on sandbar.
As many as 30 people died - many drowned when forced overboard.
Reportedly, Capt. Charles David was in command and DuFour was
the pilot on watch.
Her engines went to the big cotton carrier, U.P. SCHENCK
Mr. Pat Rogers was the founder of the Cincinnati Marine Railway
Co. in Anti-Bellum days.
Comments: From P.K. Kehler
The "Pat Rogers" burned in 1874 on the Ohio River. Ten people
died - their bodies were recovered from the water. One was
the body of Capt. Charles H. Dittman."
Comments: Partial Obituary of C. H. Dittman
* Name: PATRIOT
Size: 258 tons
Power: High pressure
Launched: 1825, Cincinnati, Oh.
Area: 1827, Feb. logged at Port of Cincinnati
Name: PATUXENT
Launched: 181?
Area: Baltimore
Owner: Weems Line
Captain; Weems, George
Comments: Source
3. Name: PATUXENT
Type: Size:
Launched: 1840s?, late?
Destroyed:
Area: 1849, Aug., Sacramento R.
Name: PAUL ANDERSON
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 170' X 29' X6.7'
Power: 22'S-6 1/2 ft., 3 boilers, each 40" X 26'
Launched: 1850, Brownsville. Pa. by Capt. Richard C. Gray
Destroyed: 1855, Dec. 7, St. Louis fire
Area: 2 trips Pittsburgh-New Orleans.
1851, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati,
then many trips Pittsburgh-Cincinnati-St. Louis
owners: Principal owner, Capt Richard C. Gray, with Clarke & Thaw
and R.S. Hays.
Captains: 1850, Richard C. Gray
Comments: Gen. Paul Anderson, 1782-1861, was in War of 1812 and Mexican War.
He was uncle of Capt. Gray
: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: PAUL JONES
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 232 tons
Launched: 1843, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1848, March, sank at Grand Chain, Ill
Area:
Owner: 1843, Thomas F. Eckert, Simeon Doyle both of Cincinnati and
Nathaniel Montgomery of Kentucky.
Captain(s): 1844 - 1845 or longer, James Walworth
Comments: 1848, Feb. 3, collided with MAJOR HARNOUR near Troy, Ind.,
5 dead.
1. Name: PAUL JONES
Type: Sidewheel, Wooden hull packet
Size: 172' X 34' X 6.5', 353 tons
Power: 21's- 7 ft.
Launched: 1855, McKeesport, Pa.
Destroyed: 1863, July, Big Black R., Miss, Burned to prevent capture.
Area: 1855, Pittsburgh - New Orleans; New Orleans - Camden
on the Ouachita R.
Owner: 1858, Pittsburgh concern; 1858, Keeling, Franklin
Captain(s): Bixby, Horace
: * 1850s, late, at one time during, Keeling, Frankin A.
Comments: 1962, wreck was found by divers alongside of wreck of the CHARM
: At 12 yrs. old, Clemens, Samuel took passage from Cincinnati
to New Orleans on this boat.
1. Name: PAULINE CARROLL
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 256' X 42' X 6.7', 714 tons
Power: 26 1/2's-8 1/2'. 4 boilers each 46" X 30'
Launched: 1864, Cannelton, Ky.
Destroyed: 1875, St. Louis, dismantled. Hull converted to ice barge.
Area: 1864, St Louis-New Orleans
Owners: 1864-67, May, Capt. John W. Carroll and others.
1867-69, Atlantic and Mississippi Steamship Company
1869, May-1875, St. Louis and New Orleans Packet Company
Captains: 1864, John W. Carroll 1867, Hugh L. White
1869, C.A. Yore
Name: PEARL
Type: Sidewheel packet Size:
Launched:
Destroyed:1854, Jan. 1. Below Plaquemine, La. she collided with
NATCHEZ III, and sank.
Area: Miss. R.
Name: PEARL PLANT
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 101.5' X 17.5' X 6.3', 67 tons.
Launched: 1849, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1862, Sabine R. Tex., Capt. Wingate ran her ashore and burned her
to avoid capture by Union forces.
Owners: *1852, purchased by Capt. John Clements, Neches R. Tex.
1862, Purchased by Capt. David R. Wingate, Texas,
Captains: 1862, David R. Wingate
Comments: See source Article
Name: PEARL RIVERS
Area: 1870s, Sabine, Neches and Trinity Rs., Tex.
Owner: 1870s, Capt. Jules Poitevent, a Trinity R. plantation owner
Captains: Wilson Junker
Comments: Once sank on Neches R. north of Beaumont, quickly raised.
: used in building the Sabine R. jetties
: See source Article
Name: PELICAN STATE
Destroyed: 1879, Aug., driven into marshes by storm, irretrievable.
Area: 1870s, Neches R., Tex.
Owner: Captain W. E. Rogers
Comments: See source Article
Name: PEMBINA
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 264 tons.
Launched: 1857, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1872, dismantled
Area: U. Miss. R.
Owner: Northern Line Packet Company
Captain(s): 1857, Griffith
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: PENINAH
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 180' X 30.', 421 tons.
Power: 14's-4 1/2 ft., 3 boilers.
Launched: 1868, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed; 1875, Sank at Sioux City, was raised and taken to Yankton for
repairs, where she broke loose and became grounded. 3 weeks were
spent getting her back in the water only to have a cyclone tear
off her cabin.
Area: Ohio and Mo. Rs. Pittsburgh-Montana
Owner: Capt William J. Kountz
Captains: 1875, Apr. David Haney
Comments: In all, made 20 trips to Montana.
1. Name: PENINAH No. 2
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 172' X 27' X 5.6'
Power, thought to be the machinery from PENINAH above. Three 38" X 22' boilers
Launched: 1876, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1887, Nov. 7, red R. in Louisiana, Burned.
Area: Mo. R. 1877, went up tributary Marias R. for shipment of buffalo robes.
Finally went to Red R.
Owner: Capt. William J. Kountz
Captains: * 1877, Sept. 23, William J. Kountz
Comments: * 1877, Sept., was involved in the Nez Perce conflict at Crow Island on U. Mo. R.
1879, Bon Homme Landing, Snagged
1880, last time at Ft. Benton
Name:PENNSYLVANIA
Type: Probably a sidewheeler
Launched: Pre 1820
Area: Ohio & Miss. Rs.
Comments: In this article the author
has this boat as being the first to traverse the Ohio and
Mississippi Rivers. However, all other refferences I have
come upon give the NEW ORLEANS that
honor. Go figure . . .
Name: PENNSYLVANIA
Launched: 1837, Pittsburgh, Pa. area
Source: Boat Building in Pittsburgh, Pa. Area
1. Name: PENNSYLVANIA
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 205' X 33' X5.6', 242 tons.
Launched: 1847, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1852, off the lists
Owners: 1850, Stockholders, Capt. R.C. Gray, Wallingford & Co.
David Holmes, J.O.H. ScullyJames Park, Jr. and W,C, Gray
1851, Sold to Louisville-Nashville trade, Capt. Yocum
Captains: 1847-48, Richard C. Gray
Comments: 1851, Apr. 12, Lawrenceburgh, Ind., demolished the MARY PELL in collision.
Name: PENNSYLVANIA
Type: Sidewheeler, wooden-hulled
Size: Length: 247', Width: 32', Draft: 6.3', Tons: 486
Launched: 1854, Hull, Shousetown, Pa., completed at Pittsburgh
Destroyed: 1858, June 13, Boilers exploded at Ship Island between
Helena and Commerce, Mo.. 159 lives lost.
Geo. Ealer, who was piloting, survived.
Area: 1854, U.Miss. R., Pittsburgh - Cincinnati
: 1855 or so - 1858, June 13, L. Miss R., St. Louis - New Orleans trade.
Owner: 1854, ?Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet Line?
: 1858, Jan., St. Louis, Cairo and New Orleans Railroad Line (Railroad Line), ie:
Capt John Klinefelter and owners of 9 other boats.
Captain(S):1854 - 1858 Klinefelter, John
Pilot(S): 1857, Nov. 26, Brown, William T. and Geo. G. Ealer.
Comments: Clemmens, Samuel cubbed with Brown after ALEX SCOTT.
:Comments from Jerry Canavit
Comments: 1857, Nov. 26, Collided with VICKSBURG
Sources:Mark Twain Journal, Spring, 1990
Way's Packet Directory, 1848 - 1994
Name: PEOPLE'S FERRY/THOMAS H. BENTON
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull ferry
Size: 125' X 34.6' X 4.3'
Launched: 1889, Madison, Ind.
Destroyed: 1918, shortly after, burned
Area: originally, Quincy, Ill.
1906, Osage R. Mo.
1918, out of Vaidalia, La.
Owners: 1906, Sept., sold to Missouri River Packet Company
Comments: 1906, renamed THOMAS H. BENTON
Name: PEORIA
Type: Size:
Launched: 1880?
Destroyed: 1918, Crushed in ice
Area: Miss. R.
Owner: Eagle Packet Co.
Captain and pilots: Capt.
1. Name: PEOSTA/TINCLAD #36
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 151.1' X 34.2' X 5.1', 204 tons
Power: 18'S- 5-1/2 FT.
Launched: 1857, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1870, Dec. 25, Memphis, as warfboat, burned with big load of
cotton on board .
Area: U. Miss. R
Owner: 1857, owned in Dubuque, Ia.
1863, June, Bought by U.S. Navy in Dubuque
1865, Aug. 17, sold at public sale to John W. Waggoner
Captain(s): 1857,
1858, Aug. Tom Levens
Comments: Named for the indian wife of Julien Dubuque
: 1858, Aug. 25, Took Dubuque citizens to Galena to hear
Stephen A. Douglas
: 1860, Ran a 4th of July excursion to Cassville.
: Was diamantled to become a warfboat.
Name: PERSERVERANCE
Launched: 1820?,
Destroyed: Broken up after legal battle
Area: Hudson R.
Owner: Albany Merchants
Comments: 1st. steamboat race. Was with NORTH RIVER.
* Name: PERSERVERANCE
Size: 50 tons
Launched: 1818, Cincinnati, Oh.
Desteoyed: 1829, Ohio R. burned
Name: PERSIA
Launched: 1850's?
Area: Ohio. R.
Captain(s): 185?, Mate, Peppers, George H.
Comments: From The Wheeling Register, Monday, March 31, 1879
Name: PERCY SWAIN
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull raft boat (towboat)
Launched: 1882, Reads Landing, Minn. as the MINNIE
Power: as PERCY SWAIN, First of the Swain cross-compound engines.
Owners: 1882, Fall, hull purchased by Capt. David Swain and built upon.
Later sold to E.H. Kirchner & Sons, Fountain City, Wis.
Later sold to Memphis and renamed PROGRESS.
Comments: 1882, Fall of, MINNIE was dismantled and from deck up shipped to Devil's Lake ND.
Capt. Capt. David Swain purchased the hull and built the PERCY SWAIN on it.
Name: PERCY SWAIN
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Launched: 1910, Stillwater, Minn. by Swain's Marine Engine Works
Destroyed: 1922, July 23, Rifle Point, La.
Size: 146' X 27.6' X 4.6'
Power: Cross-compound condensing engines
Area: 1913, ran Natches-Vicksburg
Owners: 1910, Capt. David Swain
1913, sold to Royal Route Co., Vicksburg, Miss.
1923, when lost, George Prince
Comments: Considered the best sternwheeler of the Swain fleet.
Name: A PERT
Type: Size:
Launched: ?1860 or so?
Destroyed:
Area: California Delta
: 1862-64, Mokelumne River, Calf. 3.
3. Owners: ?1860 - 1862?, Capt. Allen
: 1862-64, Mokelumne River Steam Navigation Company
Name: PETALUMA #1, Originally the RESOLUTE
Name: PETALUMA #2
Type: Sternwheel Packet Size: 149' X 35' X ?, 250 HP.
Launched: 1914, James Robertson, Benicia, Calif. Cost, $19,083.91
Destroyed: 1950, taken out of service. 1951, Jan. 11, sold, final
fate unknown.
Area: San Francisco on Petaluma Creek to Petaluma Calf..
Owner: 1914-50, Petaluma and Santa Rosa R.R.
Comments: Most of machinery came from 1st PETALUMA #1
: 1947, Oct. 16, hit submerged piling, beached and refloated.
: 1950, Aug. 24, made last run. Possibly the last paddlewheeler to
ply San Francisco Bay area.
Source: Western Railroader
Name: PETER BALEN
Type: Size: 500 ton
Launched: 1866?
Destroyed: 1869, Burned
Area: Mo. R.
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: 1866, Got 40mi. beyond Fort Benton, and made a profit
of $80,000. She was worth only $15,000.
Name: PETREL, Orginally the DUCHESS
Name: PETREL, Mo. R. Chart #3 published by the Missouri River Commission in 1892
shows a PETRELL wreck at Washington Mo. I have no other reference to this boat.
1. Name: PEYTONA
Type: Siedwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 266' X 34' X 8.', 548 tons.
Power: 30-1/2's- 10 ft.. 6 boilers
Launched: 1846, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1852, dismantled.
Area: 1846, Louisville-New Orleans
Captain: John Shallcross
Comments: machinery went to TELEGRAPH NO. 3
Name: PEYTONA
Type: Siedwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 265' X 42' X 7.'. 747 tons.
Launched: 1864, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1866, Feb. 26, St Louis, Burned.
Area: 1864, Cincinnati-St. Louis and Memphis-New Orleans
Owners: 1864 when new, Capt E. Eugene Bowers
Went under Atlantic and Mississippi Steamship Company banner
Name: PHAETON
Type: Size:
Launched: 1877
Destroyed:
Area: 1879: Ohio R., daily run to Sisterville, 52 mi. downriver.
Owner: Built by Capt. John McLure, Jr. then soon sold.
Capt. Dillon
Captain(s): 1879: Dillon
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: PHIL E. CHAPPELL
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 165' X 29' X 4.5'
Power: Engines, 15's - 5-1/2 ft. Two boilers.
Launched: 1877, Grafton, Ill.
Destroyed: 1888, Mar. 10, Red. R., Sank and lost
Area: Ran Mo. and Osage rivers
Later went to Red R., Shreveport trade
Name: PHIL SHERIDAN
Type:Side-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1860s? early
Destroyed:
Area: U. Miss. R.
Owner: Cincinnati & Wheeling Line
: 1864, Northwestern Union Packet Company
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: had painting of Gen. Sheridan on mount on sidewheel covers
and an 8 sided coupulett pilot house.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
* Name: PHILADELPHIA
Size: 325 tons
Power: High pressure
Launched; 1826, Cincinnati, Oh.
Name: PHILADA
Type: Size:
Launched:
Destroyed:
Area: Miss. R.
Owner:
Captain(s):
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson storekeeper,
Commerce, Mo.
- Thursday Night, April 4th 1861. "Business dull. Weather cloudy.
. . . Philada landed here about an hour by the sun. Took
Burgess, (and) wood boat in tow. . . . "
1. Name: PHILLIP DODDRIDGE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 116 tons.
Launched: 1848, Zanesville, Oh.
Destroyed: 1852 off the lists
Area: 1848-49, Pittsburgh-Beverly, (Muskingum R.) trade.
1850, Beverly-Zanesville trade
at times did excursions, Pittsburgh-Greenwood Gardens
Captains: 1848-50, E.F. Moore
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
* Name: PHOEBUS
Size: 80 tons
Power: High pressure
Launched: 1825, Cincinnati, Oh.
Area: 1827, Feb. logged at port of Cincinnati
Name: PHILLIP SPORN
Type: Stern-wheel towboat Size:
Name: PHOENIX
Type: Side-wheeler 100' or so Size:
Launched: 1808. Built by John Stevens,
Destroyed:
Area: Delaware R. Philadelphia to Trenton
Owner: Stevens, John
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: Ran first steam trip from New Jersey to Delaware Bay.
Had sails.
Name: PHOENIX
Destroyed: 1931 or so, above Memphis, burned.
Area: At first was on Ohio R.
: 1829-31, St. Louis-New Orleans trade
Owners: 1829, Pruchased By Capt. John Simonds, JR. and others of St. Louis.
3. Name: PHOENIX
Launched: 1840s?, late?
Destroyed:
Area: 1849, Aug., Sacramento R.
1850, spring, converted to a gold dredge for work on the Yuma R..
Name: PIKE 1816, See
Name: PIKE
1852-54
Name: PIKE
1864-84
1. Name: PIKE No. 7
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet.
Size: 480 tons. Waterline to top of stacks, 69'.
Launched: 1844, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1849, dismantled.
Area: 1846, Cincinnati-Louisville trade.
Owner: United States Mail Line.
Captains: 1844-47, PIKE No. 7 was last command of Capt.
John Armstrong before he retired.
Comments: Made run Louisville to St Louis 1854, 1/23/0
: 1846, Bridge builder John A. Roebling declared her
to be the largest boat operating, in Cincinnati-
Louisville trade.
Name: PIKE No. 8
1845-1850
U.S. Mail Line
Name: PIKE No. 9
1847-50 Louisville-Cincinnati
Name: PIKE UNION No.1
1860, St Louis
Name: PIKE UNION No.2
1868, St.Louis
Name: PILGRIM
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 139 tons.
Launched: 1864, Belle Vernon, Pa.
Destroyed: 1867, Dec. 6, 30 mi. below Helena, Ark., snagged and lost.
Area: 1864, St. Louis Keokuk
1865, Pittsburgh-Zanesville
Owners: 1865, April, purchased by Capt. James C. McVay and others.
Captains: 1864, D.Z. Brickell
1865, James C. McVay
Name: PILGRIM
Type: Size: 390'
Launched: 1883
Area: Rhode Island Sound
Owner: Fall River Line
1. Name: PILOT
Type: sternwheel, woden hull packet. Size: 72 tons.
Launched: 1845, Freedom, Pa.
Destroyed: 1848, off the lists
Area: 1846, Sept., at Galena.
Owner: Capt. William J. Kountz
Comments: Said to be first boat built by Capt. Kountz.
Name: PILOT No.2
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 93 tons.
Launched: 1847, Christler's Landing, Pa.
Destroyed: 1852, Aug. 22, Wheeling, W. Va., Snagged and sunk.
Area: 1847, Allegheny R., Pittsburgh-Freeport
1850, Pittsburgh-Point Pleasant
Owners: Capt. William J. Kountz
Captains: 1850, Shunk
Name: PINOLA
Type: Size:
Launched:
Destroyed:
Area:
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments:
3. Name: PIONEER
Type: Sternwheeler Size:
Launched:
Area: San Joaquine R.
* Name: PIONEER
Size: 200 tons
Power: High pressure
Launched: 1825, Cincinnati, Oh.
Name: PITTSBURGH
Captains: 1825, Walker
Comments: An advertisment dated Feb. 4, 1825 advertised the Steam Boat
Pittsburgh for Nashville was expected to arrive in Pittsburgh
from New Orleans with a cargo of sugar.
: This information from photocopy of partial page of
Pittsburgh Gazzette, March 18, 1925.
1. Name: PITTSBURGH, nicknamed the BLACK DRAGON
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 267.9' X 30' X 6.1', 509 tons
Launched: 1851, Shousetown, Pa.
Destroyed: 1857, Dismantled
Area: 1851-57, Pittsburgh - Cincinnati.
Owner: Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet Line
Captains: 1851, William J. Kountz
1852 or so, Hugh Campbell
At one time James O'Neal
*At one time, Chief mate, Peppers, George H.
Comments: 1855, Mar 16, knocked down stacks on Wheeling suspension bridge.
*Made run Louisville - Cincinnati 1852, 0/10/23
*Made run Cincinnatti - Pittsburgh 1852, 0/1/15
Comments: *From The Wheeling Register, Monday, March 31, 1879
Name: PITTSBURGH
1861-70
Type: Union Gunboat
Name: PITTSBURGH/DUBUQUE/CAPITOL
Type: Sternwheeler
Size: 1879, as PITTSBURGH, 250' X 39.2' X 5.8'
1896, as DUBUQUE, 257.2' x 40.6' x 6.1'
1920, as CAPITOL, 256.6' X 50.7' X 6.2'
Power: 21's -7 ft., 3 boilers, each 47" X 28', 6 flues.
Wheel, 21' dia. w/ 28' buckets.
1920, as CAPITOL 22's-7 ft., 5 boilers, 250 psi.
Wheel, 25' w/30' buckets, 24" dip
4 main rudders and 2 monkey rudders.
Launched: 1879, Cincinnati at Cincinnati Marine Ways
Destroyed: 1945, summer, dismantled
Area: 1882, Pittsburgh-St. Louis
1882, St. Paul-St. Louis
1901 after, operated variously, St. Louis and New Orleans.
Many tramp trips.
Owner(s): 1879-82, Ciicinnati and Pittsburgh Packet Company
1882-1901, Streckfus Steamers
1912, April: Made run from St Louis to the Shiloh Battlefield under
charter to St Louis & Tennessee River Packet Co.
Captains: original crew, Master, John Thornburg; pilots, Jo and Jim Whitten
mate, David Little
1879 - 1906: Burke, William
Capt.: 1914, Nov.: Martin, Charles R.
This pilot dropped dead at wheel. Engineer
noticed boat's strange behavior and backed her off.
Pilots: 1914, Nov.: Richtman, Jack
Comments: 1896, May, viturally destroyed by tornado at St. Louis. After tornado
her hull was taken to Dubuque and received a new upper works.
She was renamed DUBUQUE.
1901?: A 142' hole was ripped in hull. She sank.
1901, July: Raised. Strekfus Steamers took her over.
1914, Nov.: Approaching the Alton railroad bridge, her
Pilot Martin, Charles R. dropped
dead at the wheel. An engineer noticed course
change and stopped her. Off-watch pilot,
Jack Richtman was called and took over.
1919-1920, Winter: Converted to excursion boat and renamed
the CAPITOL. Ran excursions at St. Louis and
New Orleans.
Name: PITTSBURGH AND ST. LOUIS PACKET
Launched: 1820?
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: FROM THE Boone's Lick Heritage
3. Name: PLACER
Type: Size:
Launched: 1840s?, late?,
Destroyed:
Area: 1849, Aug., Sacramento R.
Name: PLANET
Type: Stern-wheeler Size: Approx 600 tons
Launched: 1856, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1864, February 1, stranded and lost at College Point, La.
Area: 1861, Miss. R. out of New Orleans, La.
Owner: 1856, Ealer, Henry E.
Captain(s):1856 until Civil War, Malloy, John; 1861, Burdeau, J.T.
Comments: Until Civil War, was primarily a freight boat.
After Confederate surrender at Port Hudson, used as a
prison transport.
* Name: PLANTER
Size: 130 tons
Power: Low pressure
Launched: 1825, Cincinnati, Oh.
Name: PLANTER
Type: Towboat Size:
Launched: 1841
Destroyed:
Area: Miss. R.
Owner: Beebee, Capt. James
Captain(s): Beebee, James
Comments: Built for towing ships back from New Orleans.
From WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING INTELLIGENCER, June 24, 1951
1. Name: PLANTER
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 199 tons
Launched: 1846, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1848, Jan. 5, at Jones' Ferry, Twelve Mile Island, while
loading grain, boilers exploded killing 5 persons.
Area: Ill. R.
Owner: 1847, bought by Capts. L.T. and F.T. Belt Captain(s): 1848, Jan. 5, Francis T. Belt
Comments:
Name: PLANTER/RIO BRAVO
Type: Size: Capacity, 2,500 cotton bales.
Launched: 1860 by the J.W. Phillips Yard at Wheeling, W. Va.
Destroyed: 1880? sunk as a breakwater below Fort Brown on Rio Grande R..
Area: Built for Southern trade.
1860, Onio R.
1863 or 5? Lower Miss. R.
1875, Rio Grande R.
Owners: Phillips, J.W., Part owner, 1862? Capt.Charles V. Wells
1880, June, U.S. War Department
Captains: 1862?, Wells, Charles V.
1875, Kells
Comments: 1862: Fitted out as blockade runner by the Phillips Yard
1865: Aug.: Sent south from Wheeling carrying 800 bales
of cotton and 350 barrels of turpentine. She was
captured by the U.S.S. LAKAWANA, sold to U.S. Gov.
for $185,500 with cargo and taken to Key West.
1875, summer: Again sold to U.S. Gov who needed a steamer for the
Rio Grande R. in Texas. They renamed her the RIO BROVO
and fitter her out as a gunboat.
More Details Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING INTELEGENCER, June 24, 1951
: Info, More Info
Name: PLATTE VALLEY
Type: Size:
Launched:
Destroyed:
Area: Miss. R.
Owner:
Captain(s):
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson storekeeper,
Commerce, Mo.
- Saturday, November 30th 1861. "Jeff Thompson came to Price's
Landing on or about the 4th of November and stopped. The
Platte Valley swore the military men took the sword from
the officers and left her. He went back to New Madrid and
has been there since."
1. Name:PLOUGH BOY
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 165' X 29', 248 ton.
Launched: 1848, St. Louis, Mo.
Destroyed: 1848, Oct. 6, above Providence, Mo., snagged and lost.
Area: St. Louis-Mo. R.
1. Name: PLOW BOY (No. 2)
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 36 ton.
Launched: 1876, Stillwater, Minn.
Destroyed: 1877, Sank near Arrow Rock, Mo. on Mo. R. Map
Area: Mo. R.
1. Name: PLOW BOY
Size: 185 tons.
Launched: 1879, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1882
Area: Documented at Memphis
1881, Ark. R.
Captains: 1881, E.B. Smith
Companies Associated With: Memphis and Arkansas River Packet Company
1. Name: PLOW BOY
Type: Centerwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 70' X 18' X 3', 29 ton.
Power: 1 engine, 7" X 12", 1 boiler.
Launched: 1884, Sioux City, Iowa.
Destroyed: 1897, Mouth of Grand R. at DeWitt, Mo. Snagged and lost.Map
Captain(s): Smith, Nicholas W.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: PLYMOUTH, A New York boat.
See this web site: Fall River and Providence Steamboat Company
3. Name: PLYMOUTH
Type: Size:
Launched: 1840s?, late?
Destroyed:
Area: 1849, Aug., Sacramento R.
Name: PLYMOUTH ROCK
Type: Size:
Launched: 1870?
Destroyed:
Area: New York to Longbranch
1. Name: POCAHONTAS
Type: Sidewheeler, wood hull packet Size: 397 tons
Launched: 1849, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1852, Mar. 14, Island 78, Miss. R., Burned Lost 10 lives
Area: U. Miss. and Ark. Rs.
Comments: 1852, Mar. 14, Collapsing flue scallded many and killed 8
1. Name: POCAHONTAS
Type: Sidewheeler, wood hull packet Size: 163 tons, 180' X 32'
Launched: 1857, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1866, Aug. 9, Near Ft. Randall, S.D. on Mo. R.
Snagged and lost while carrying Indian supplies.
Area: U. Miss., Mo. and Ohio Rs.
Captins: 1862, Staines, Henry B.
Comments: An island near sinking was named Pocahontas after this boat
Name: POINT-COUNTERPOINT
Type: Showboat Size:
Launched: Modern
Area: Pittsburgh
Name: POLAHANTAS
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson storekeeper,
Commerce, Mo.
- Saturday Night, April 21st 1861. " . . . We went to the
new church and viewed it good. We then went back to the
store and read till night and then Burke, Planert and I
took a walk down by the river. The Polahantas came in sight
and turned us back. She landed and put off Mr. Backer with
a lot of household."
Name: POLAR STAR
Type: Sidewheeler Size:
Launched: 1858?
Area: Mo. R. Miss. R. and Ohio R.
Owner: Union Packet Line.
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: 1853, July: Made a run from St. Louis - St. Joseph
0/64/0.
Depicted as "Last Boat Out" at Westport Landing in
print by Charles Goslin, a Kansas City artist.
Name: PONTIAC
Name: POOK'S TURTLES or POOKS GUNBOATS
Type: ironclad war boats
Size: 175' long with 2 feet thick sides.
About: There were seven of these boats launched for U.S. service.
Each was the same* and each had 13 guns. Six 32 pounder smoothbores,
three 8-inch Dahlgren smoothbore shell guns and four rifled 42 pounders.
* The ST. LOUIS had one more 32 pounder instead of one of the eight inchers.
CAIRO, MOUND CITY, and CINCINNATI built at Mound city, Ill.
CARONDELET, LOUISVILLE, ST. LOUIS and PITTSBUTG built at Carondelet, Mo.
Comments: Designed by Samuel M. Pook and built by James B. Eads
Name: PORPOISE
Type: Size: Small
Area: Husdson R.
Name: PORTLAND No. 1
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Comments: became tug-boat to tankers.
Name: PORTLAND
Type: Sternwheeler Modern, steel welded hull
Size: length, 219'; beam, 44'; draft, 7'; construction
steel hull, wooden superstructure;
paddle wheel: diameter, 25'; width, 26'
rudders: 7
engines: horsepower, 900; bore, 26"; stroke 108"
boiler: type, water tube; working pressure, 250 p.s.i
burners: 3
Cost: $500,000.
Launched: 1947
Destroyed: Nope
Area: 1952, Columbia and Willamette Rivers.
Owner: Oregon Maritime Center and Museum
Captain and pilots: Capt. 1952, Williamson, Robert
Comments: The Portland was the last steam-powered sternwheel
tugboat built in the United States. She worked as a
ship-assist tug from her launching in 1947 until she was
retired in 1981. Volunteers began restoring her in 1990,
and she steamed again under her own power in June, 1993.
In 1994 the Portland had a starring role in the movie
Maverick, starring James Garner, Jodie Foster and Mel
Gibson. Altered to look like a Mississippi River
gambling boat, she spent two weeks on the Columbia River
posing for camera shots in the strong current. She
ran perfectly.
She is currently on display at her Willamette River moorage
at the river wall in downtown Portland. She is steamed
up for excursions several times a year. Since she is not
licensed to carry paying passengers, the passenger list
for these outings is selected at random from OMCM members.
1952, Queen of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers.
Steamboat Portland's Home Page w/Pictures
Name: POST BOY
1. Name: POTOMAC
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 833 tons
Launched: 1. 1870, Cincinnatti Oh.
or by Phillips Works, Wheeling, W. Va..
Destroyed: 1882 or so, dismantled. Hull became salt barge and later
was turned turtle by ice, Hartford City, W. Va..
Area: 1870, Ohio R., Wheeling - Cincinnati
later, Louisville - New Orleans
1872, Miss. R., New Orleans - St. Louis
later, Ohio R., Cincinnati - Pomeroy
Owner: 1870, Fink, Capt. Theorore; later, Shunk, Capt. John N.
later, Honshell, Capt. Wash and others;
Captain(s): Late 1860's, Fink, Peppers, George H.
1872, master, Batchelor, J.W.
1881, Kirker, Will
Comments; 1870, Dec. 22, Collided with ROB'T E. LEE,
LEE had to be grounded to avoid sinking.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING INTELLIGENCER, June 24, 1951
Comments: From the Wheeling Register, Monday, March 31, 1879
Name: PRAIRIE
Launched: 1836, Pittsburgh Area
Destroyed: 1840, in tornado at Natchez
Area: Miss. R. out of St. Louis
Comments: Source Article
: 1837, May 8, Was racing BEN SHARROD when the latter caught fire.
Name: PRAIRIE BELLE
Destroyed: Blew up while racing MOVASTAR
Captain and pilots: Engineer, Bludso, Jim.
Name: PRAIRIE BIRD
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 83 tons.
Launched: 1845, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1848, off the lists.
Area: U. Miss. R.
Owner: 1845, Capt. John Vandergrift
1845, after, sold to Capt. Levi miller, Wheeling and others.
Captain: 1845, Master, John Vandergrift;
Pilots, William J. Kountz and C.W. Batchelor
1846 or so, Wall, Niebe
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: PRAIRIE CITY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 151' X 28.4' X 5.5', 198 tons
Launched: 1852, early, California, Pa.
Destroyed: 1855, Dec. 7, St. Louis by fire that started in the hull of
the PARTHENIA and spread to this boat and the TWIN CITY
Area: 1852, Pittsburgh-St. Louis trade
Owners: 1852, originally, Capt. Mark Sterling, Capt. Henry Mason and Evan Evans,
all of Pittsburgh.
1852, late, sold to Capt. Pleasant Devinny and others,
all of St. Clair County, Ill.
Captains: 1852, early, Master, Mark Sterling
1852 late- 1855, Dec. 7, Pleasant Devinny
Name: PRAIRIE STATE
Launched: 1840s?
Destroyed: 1849, May 17, Fire at St. Louis docks
Area: Ill. R.
1. Name: PRAIRIE ROSE
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet Size: 247 tons.
Launched: 1854, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1866, Jan, 12, St. Louis at foot of Biddle St., sunk by ice
Area: 1855, St.Louis - St. Paul trade
1861, Cincinnatti - Memphis trade.
1864, May - June, was up Missouri R. to Levenworth, Ks.
Owners:
Captains: 1855, Maratta in St.Louis - St. Paul trade
1861, James S. Wise
*1864, June, William Eads/Edds, Sr
Comments: *1864, June, U. S. service during Civil War. Mo. R.
: mentioned in General Sherman's Memoirs
Name: PRESIDENT
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull ferryboat. Size: 138' X 36' X 5', 285 tons
Launched: 1864, Madison, Ind.
Destroyed: 1889, off the lists
Area: 1880s, Mo. R.
Owner: 1864-89, C.B. And Q. Railroad, Burlington, Iowa
Captains: 1864, C.E. Burtcht
Name: PRESIDENT, originally the CINCINNATI
Type: sidewheel excursion steamer
Launched: 1924
Name: PRICE
Name: PRIDE OF THE RIVER
Area: 1850s?, California Delta
Name: PRINCESS
Launched: 1855?
Destroyed: 1859, Feb. 27, Exploded at Conrad's Point below Baton Rouge.
70 lives lost.
Area: New Orleans-Vicksburg
Captain: 1855-56, Truman C. Holmes
1867, Jan. William C. Wilson took command.
Comments: Made run N.O. To Natchez, 1853, 0/20/26
Made run N.O. to Natchez, 1855, 0/18/53
Made run N.O. to Natchez, 1856, 0/17/30
Made run N.O. to Donaldsville, 78mi., 1856, 0/4/51
: From Carl Brewer Carl Brewer
"I had a 4th G.Father that disappeared into the wilds of
Louisiana to Gamble in 1859, I find that a Brewer was
killed when the Princess blew up at Conrad's Point in
Feb. of that year. He left a pregnant wife and a nice
East Texas farm, no gambling man would leave a nice East
Texas farm."
Name: PRINCESS
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 156.9' X 30.3' X 4.4', 185 tons.
Power: 13's 3-1/2 ft., 2 boilers.
Launched: 1863, Freedom, Pa.
Destroyed: 1868, June 1, 1 mi. above Fire Creek above Napoleon, Mo. on Mo. R.,
snagged and lost. Was on way to Ft. Benton.
Area: 1868, St. Louis-Arkansas R.
Owners: when built, Capt. George W. Cullen and Capt. Frank Maratta
1864 sold to U.S. Navy who converted her to Tinclad # 53
1865, Sold to Capt. Ben F. Beasley
Captains: 1868, When lost, F.P. Voohries
Comments: 1864, converted to Tinclad # 53 and renamed NAIAD.
1865, Oct. 21, renamed back to PRINCESS
Name: PRINCESS, originally the SUNSHINE
Name: PRINCESS - Originally the H.W. BUTTORF
Type: Excursion
Launched: Early 1900's ?
Area: Out of Cincinnati
Name: PRINCESS
Owner: 1909, Capt. William (Billy) Bryant and family.
Comments: used to tow BRYANT'S NEW SHOWBOAT
Show you care, send a Bear!
Name: PRISCILLA
Type: Inside side-wheeler
Size: 440"
Launched: 1893
Area: New York to Boston
Owner: Fall River Line
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: See this web site: Fall River and Providence Steamboat Company
Name: PROMETHEUS
Launched: 1850s?
Area: New York to Greytown, Panama
Owner: Vanderbilt, Cornelius
Name: PROVIDENCE
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Launched: 186??
Area: Hudson R.
Owner: Fall River Line
Name: PUTAH/CHICU SAN/MANSION BELLE/SPIRIT OF SACRAMENTO
Type: Sternwheeler, California Delta Snagboat Size:
Destroyed: Sometime after 1991, burned nearly to waterline.
Comments: 1954, As CHICU SAN, Was in the John Wayne, Lauren Bacall
Movie Blood Alley
After movie, renamed MANSION BELLE and put into excursion business
out of Old Sacramento, then traveled to distant places and returned
to Old Sacramento. See ARTICLE
Name: PURITAN
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1889
Owner: Fall River Line
Comments: See this web site: Fall River and Providence Steamboat Company
Name: PUTNAM - Actually the RUFUS PUTNAM
Name: PUTNAM
Launched: cir. 1848, Zanesville, Oh. on a canal bank
Area: New Orleans, Lake Pontchartrain trade
Owner: Capt. Blue
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: PYRAMID, originally the SUNOL
