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1. Name: R.C. GUNTER Also See Post Card
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Power: machinery came from J.T. WILDER
Size: 153' X 28' X 5.2'
Launched: 1886, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Destroyed: 1907-08, winter, St. Louis, dismantled
Areas: Later went to Ill. R.
1902, spring, at Kansas City running excurssions
Owners: Built by Chattanooga & Decatur Packet Company
1896, owner by St. Louis, Hardin & Hampsville Packet Company
1901, purchased by Eagle Packet Company
Captains: 1886, R.C. Gunter
1900, Alex Lamont
1902, Harry H. Monaghan, in Kansas City
Comments: While on Ill. R. snagged and sank to within 2' of roof. Raised.
: See Documents
1. Name: R. C. GRAY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 156' X 32' X 5.2'
Launched: 1866, Shousetown, Pa.
Dismantled: 1874
Area: Tramp trade, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati, St. Louis
and often to St. Paul.
1870, Ark. R., Little Rock - Ft. Smith.
Owners: Capt. William B. Anderson, with others.
1874, Louisville & Arkansas River Packet Company operated her.
Captains: William B. Anderson
Comments: This boat was named for Capt. Richard C. Gray,
who was a principal founder of the Northern Line Packet Co.
: Way's Packet Directory mentions this boat as being a part of "Gray's Iron Line".
I suspect this was the common name for The Northern Line Packet Company - D.
Name: R. C. WOOD
Launched: 1850s?
Area: 1863, July: Miss. R.
Comments: 1863: Was troop carrier and hospital ship. Carried troops
from Helena Ark. to Memphis, TN.
: Source, Phil Di at HAPPYDI@aol.com
Name: R. DUNBAR/GENERAL CROWDER
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 160' X 29.4' X 6.4'
Power: Engines, 12- 1/2's- 4ft. Two boilers, each 42" X 18'
Launched: 1895, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1927, Jan. Slidell, Canulette Yard,
burned while being refurbished and renamed M.A. GRACE
Area: Built for upper Cumberland R. above Nashville
1914, under John Hubbard, Pittsburgh-Charleston trade
1918, As GEN. CROWDER under Liberty Transit Co., Pittsburgh-Charleston trade
1922-23, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
1923-26, Laid up at Wheeling, W. Va.
Owners: Built for Ryman Line
When Ryman Line failed purchased by Capt. Ralph Emerson
1914, sold to John W. Hubbard, Pittsburgh
1918, sold to Liberty Transit Company, Wheeling, W. Va.
1926, sold to Capt. William F. Bradford. New Orleans.
Captains: In later years as R. DUNBAR, Tom Ryman, Jr.
1918, W.L. Guthrie
1922, master, W.L. Guthrie; pilots, E. Dayton Brooks and Wm. F. Brookhart;
purser, Fred Way, Jr.
Comments: a very light drafted boat capable of big loads.
: Named for storekeeper Reuben Dunbar, at Greasy Creek, Ky.
: 1918, renamed GENERAL CROWDER
: 1922, extensively repaired, Pt. Pleasant, W. Va.
Name: R.J. LOCKWOOD
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 220' X 33'
Launched: 1858, New Albany, Ind for Capt. Lamothe for Missouri R. trade.
Destroyed: 1858, Mar. 4, New Albany, on trial trip. Cookhouse caught fire
and destroyed the boat. There were 60 or 70 excursion passengers
aboard. Boat was run ashore on Ky. side. Passengers all got off.
Owner: Capt. William P. Lamothe
Comments: Capt. Lamothe owned entire. Had no insurance.
1. Name: R.J. LOCKWOOD
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 210' X 34' X 5.', 418 tons.
Power: 15's- 5 ft., 3 boilers.
Launched: 1864, St. Louis, Mo.
Destroyed: 1865, Apr. 14, President's Island below Memphis, exploded
boilers. 25 lives lost.
Area: Mo. R.
Was Union Transport during C. War.
1. Name: R.J. LOCKWOOD
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 175' X 43' X 4.5'
Power: 15's-5ft. 3 boilers, each 36" X 24', from previous R.J. LOCKWOOD
Wheel: 17 1/2' dia. working 23 1/2' buckets
Launched: 1870, hull, Freedom, Pa. Completed, Pittsburgh
Destroyed: 1872, Feb 26, st. Louis, Lost in ice.
Area: 1870-72, Miss. R.
Owners: Contracted by Albert Conkel and William Kimber
: James Rees took over when above defaulted on payments
Captains: 1870-72, James Caghill
Companies associated with: 1870-72, was under Carter Line
Name: R. M. Johnson
Type: Size:
Launched: 1818?
Area: Miss. R.; Mo. R.
Comments: Was named after the 9th vice president of the U. S..
Was part of 1st expidition up the Mo. R to establish a
U. S. military presence at the mouth of the Yellowstone R..
Comments: from Boone's Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: R. H. W. HILL
Name: R.T. LOCKLAND
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson, shopkeeper,
Commerce Mo.
- Thursday Night, March 28th, 1861. "Business dull.
Weather good. River rising. Boats plenty. . . . The
R.T. Lockland landed this morning about 6 o'clock, put off
five sacks coffee and one hogshead sugar for Messrs. Gaither
& Baker; three sacks coffee, 2 half barrels molasses and
one keg rice and 2 half barrels sugar for Jehlen Eversol
& Co.. . . . "
Name: R.R. DAWES
Areas: 1884, July, When he purchased, Capt. Leavitt proposed to run her
Marietta-Murrayville or Ravenswood-Parkersburg
Owners: *1884, July 5, Purchased by Capt. Charles P. Leavitt
Comments: Several mentions in this Document
Name: R. W. DUGAN
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 160' X 32' X 3.'
Power: Engines, 13-1/2's- 4 ft. (Came from SPRAY), 5 boilers, each 40" X 26'
Launched: 1873, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1878, Oct. 31, DeWitt, Mo., snagged and lost
Areas: At first, Cincinnati-Memphis
Soon was running Mo. R. St. Louis-Kansas City
1874, St. Louis-Rocheport, Mo
1876, St. Louis-Jefferson City, Mo.
Owner: Capt. Joseph Kinney acquired her early in her career.
1874, Capt. William L. Heckmann, Sr. acquired
1876, Jos. Kinney re-purchased
Captain(s): At first, Lon Bryson with Frank Bryson, clerk.
Soon after launching, Joseph Kinney
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
1. Name: RACHAEL MILLER/REINDEER (the 2nd one)/MARINER
The #35 is U.S. military designation
Type: Sternwheeler, U.S. tinclad Size: 212 tons
Launched: 1863, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1867, May 9, Onawa Bend, Mo. R., near Decatur, Neb., lost.
Area: 1865, Oct. was at Pittsburgh
Owners: 1865, Oct. 3, sold to private parties
Comments: When taken over by U.S. forceS, renamed REINDEER #35
: 1865, Oct. 3, renamed MARINER
Name: RADNOR
Launched: 1840s?
Destroyed: 1846, near the mouth of the Lamine R. in Slaughterhouse
Bend just upriver from Boonville, Mo.
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
1. Name: RAINBOW
Type: Sidewheel
Launched: 1842
Name: RAINBOW
Launched: 1846, early
3. Name: RAINBOW
Launched: 1840s. late?
Area: 1840s, late, Sacramento R., Calf.
1. Name: RAINBOW
Type: Sidewheel
Launched: 1854
1. Name: RAINBOW
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 164' X 39' X 6'.
Launched: 1879, Jeffersonville, Ind., by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1890, 1900, Sept. while laid up for low water 25 mi. below Memphis.
Area: 1881, Sept. Owensboro, Evansville, Henderson
1889, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati trade.
Owners: 1881, Sept. Louisville & Evansville & Henderson Mail Packet Company
1889, Purchased by Capt. Chris G. Young, Portsmith, Oh., for $8,000.
Later, White Collar Line bought half interest in her.
Captains: 1880, Ed Crinder
1881, Sept. A.T. Gilmore
1884, J.K. Westfall
At one time, John. K. Webster
Name: RALPH
Area: 1886, White R.
Owner: Capt William C. Shipp and or The Ralph Transportation Company
Comments: 1887-88 season, lenghtened and electric lights added.
: Source
Name: RALPH E. WARNER - originally the TOM HESS
Name: RAMBLER
Type: Size: 115 ton
Area: Miss R.
Captain and pilots: Capt. ; 1825, cub, Sellers, Isaiah
Name: RANDALL
Size: 90' X 30', 44 tons.
Launched, 1889
Area: 1892, U. White R., Batesville-Buffalo City
Captains: 1892, Will T. Warner with Captain Albert Cravens as pilot
Source
Name: RANDOLPH
Comments: Matched GENERAL BROWNS record N.O. - Louisville 1837, 6/22/0
Name: RARITAN
Launched: 1807
Area: Raritan R., Manhattan to New Brunswick
Owner: Hudson River Steamboat Company
Comments: Source
Name: RARITAN
Launched: 1840, Sharpsburg, Pa
Area: Ohio R. out of Pittsburgh
Owners: 1840, Jacob Smith, Jeremiah Butler, William Craig, S.H. Hartman,
and David O. Hopkins."
Captains: 1840, Alex Short
Source: The book The Allegheny River by Mrs S. Kussart, 1938.
Name: RAYMOND HORNER
Type: Towboat
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Mar. 31 1897
Name: RED CLOUD See Post Card
* Name: RED RIVER PACKET
Size: 120 tons
Power: High pressure
Launched: 1826, Cincinnati, Oh.
1. Name: RED RIVER
Type: Sternwheeler, wooden hull, packet Size: 155' X 28' X 3.5'
Launched: 1899, Jeffersonville, Ind., by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1907. Feb., Sank
Area: 1899 - 1904, Miss.R.; 1904 or 5, Cumberland R.
Owner: 1899, Red River Packet Company
1905, Cumberland River Packet Company
Captains: 1903, Carter, H.M.
Comments: 1903 or so, Alexandria, La., sank from overloading. Raised.
1. Name: RED ROVER
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 256' X 40.9' X 7.5', 625 tons.
Power: 28's- 8 ft., 5 boilers.
Launched: 1857, Louisville, Ky.
Area: At first, Nashville-New Orleans
1861, Columbas, Ky., then at Island 10.
1863, was at Battle of Vicksburg
Owners: 1861, Nov. 7, acquired by the Confederacy
1861, taken by Union forces (see below)
1865, Nov. 29, Mound City, purchased at public auction by A.M.
Carpenter for $4,500.
Captains: 1860, W. Strong
Sometime During Civil War, Joseph Beauchamp
Comments: 1861, hit by union cannon. Dammaged and tied to Tenn. shore.
Later taken by union boats to Cairo and repaired and taken to
St. Louis and fitted out as hospital boat. Took survivors of
MOUND CITY attack to Memphis where Sisters of the Holy Cross
offered to serve aboard. These women became the forerunners
of the U.S. Navy Nurse Corp.
Name: RED STONE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 173 tons
Launched: 1854, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1854, Apr. 12, snagged and lost.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: RED WING
Type: Sidewheel
Size:
Launched: 1840s?
Destroyed: 1848. May 17, Fire at St. Louis docks.
Area: Miss. R.
Name: RED WING
Type: Sidewheel, sooden hull packet
Size: 245' X 35' X 6.'
Power: Engines, 20's- 7ft. Four boilers
Wheels, 28' 2", 11' buckets
Area: St. Louis-St. Paul
Launched: 1870, Brownsville, hull/Pittsburgh, completed
Destroyed: c. 1882 dismantled
Owners: Keokuk Northern Line
Captains: W.P. Hight
Name: REES LEE See Post Card
Launched: 1906
Name: REGULAR see SCIOTO
1. Name: REINDEER
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size:407 tons
Launched: 1851, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1867, Nov. 12, Wood River, Ill., Snagged and lost.
Area: 1851, Louisville-New Orleans
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: 1854, Mar 13, Cannelton, Ind., flue collapsed, 38 lost lives,
Next morning the EUROPA landed her
and the MAGNOLIA towed the wreck to Hawesville where the
victins were given a mass burial. A tombstone marks the site
pictured in the S & D Reflector, Sept. 1966, Pg 29.
The hulk was refloated and rebuilt.
Made run N.O. - Cairo 1852, 3/4/4
1. Name: REINDEER (the 2nd one)
Type: Sidewheele, wooden hull packet Size: 360 tons
Launched: 1860, MArietta, Oh.
Comments: 1861, went Mobile Ala. and passed to Confederate registry.
1. Name: REINDEER #35 (the 3rd REINDEER), originally the RACHAEL MILLER
The #35 is U.S. military designation
Launched: 1863, Cincinnati, Oh.
1. Name: REINDEER (the 4th one)/PERI/MARIETTA,
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet Size: 155 tons
Launched: 1863, Cincinnati, Oh
Owner: 1865, Oct. 3, sold to private owners.
Comments: Became Tinclad #57, the PERI in war service.
1865, Oct. 3, renamed MARIETTA
1. Name: REINDEER (the 5th one)
Type: Sidewheeler, wooden hull packet. Size: 267 tons
Launched: 1865, Cincinnati. Oh.
Destroyed: 1874, off the lists
Area: went to Mobile Ala.
1. Name: REINDEER (the 6th one)
Type: ?, wooden hull packet. Size: 103' X 19' X 3'
Launched: 1878, Terre Haute, Ind. or Eveansville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1886, still on lists.
Area: Probably on Wabash R.
1. Name: REINDEER (the 7th one)/ILLINOIS (the 6th one)
Type: Sternwheeler, wooden hull packet
Size: As REINDEER, 125' X 23' X 3.3'; as ILLINOIS, 139' x 26.6' x 4,8'
As ILLINOIS, 139' x 26.6' x 4.8'
Power: The same under both names. 12's-6 ft., 2 boilers,
Launched: 1888, Dubuque, Iowa
Destroyed: 1930, Sept. 30, mouth of Wood River, Alton, Ill., Burned.
Area: 1897, Dubuque-Clinton, Iowa, tri-weekly.
Owners: 1901-13: Illinois Fish Commission
1913-?25?, Alton Div. of Naval reserves
1925-29, The new St. Louis & Calhoun Packet Company
1929-30, Sept 30, Phillips Bros.
Captains: 1897, Moore, W.M.
Comments: 1894, Coon Slough, snagged, possibly by the wreckage of the
LADY FRANKLIN and NOMINEE. Raised.
1901: condemmed and rebuilt at Quincy, Ill. Renamed ILLINOIS
: Rumor has it that when she burned, there was a moonshine still
aboard and she had been cut loose to avoid boarding by Federal
Marshals.
Name: RELAIBLE
Area: 1897: Was using Booth's "Old Reliable" warf boat in Wheeling, W. Va
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
1. Name: RELIANCE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 129.3' X 26' X 5.', 156 tons.
Launched: 1845, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1854, off the lists.
Area: Went to New Orleans
1847, went to Galveston, Tx.
*1848, Mar. 29, went Galveston to Huston, Tex.
Owners: 1845, In part by Capt William Moore
1847, sold to S.W. Tichenor, Galveston.
Captains: 1845-47, William Moore
Comments: *From Journal of Paul Haralson, March, 1848.
Name: RELIANCE
Launched: 1885
Name: RELIANCE See Post Card
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Launched ??
Name: RELIEF
Launched: 1848, Irontown, Oh.
Area: 1840s, in Dresden, Oh. trade
Owners: in part, Capt Robert Hazelett
Captains: Thompson
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: RESOLUTE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 203 tons.
Launched: 1857, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1859, Apr. 10, Ark. R. between Van Buren and Ft. Smith, Ark.
Snagged and lost.
Comments: *Lost race with KEY CITY
*Jones Worden's Steamboats and Steamboating Career by Frederick J. Worden
Name: RESOLUTE/PETALUMA #1
Type: Sternwheel Packet Size: 134' X 29' X 5.5', 250 hp.
Launched: 1883, Turner Yard, Benicia, Calif.
Destroyed: 1914, Mar. 24, in night, Petaluma warf, burned and cast
free to save warf.
Area: 1908, Petaluma Creek, Calif.
San Francisco on Petaluma Creek to Petaluma Calf..
Owner: 1884 - 1911, Petaluma Transportation Company
1911 - Petaluma and Santa Rosa R.R.
Comments: 1911, renamed PETALUMA
machinery was salvaged and used on the second PETALUMA
Source: Western Railroader
1. Name: RETURN
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 152' X 28' X 5.5', 220 tons.
Launched: 1852, California, Pa.
Destroyed: 1859, July 27, DeValls Bluff, Ark., lost.
Area: 1852, Upper Ohio trades.
Owners: 1852, Capt. William Stoops and others
Later, Capt. J.R. Jones
Possibly at one time, Edward James Hulings and his brother
Captains: 1852, William Stoops
Later, J.R. Jones
1. Name: REVENUE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 143' X 22' X 4.9', 236 tons.
Launched: 1844, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1847, May 24, Ill. R. near Peoria, burned.
Area: Tramp trades to Ark. R.
1845, was up Wabash R.
cir. 1846, Ohio R.
Owner: * Capt. A. Bartlett
Captains: 1844, when new, Master, Captain A. Bennett of Wheeling, W. Va.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article as possibly having the first
steam whistle on the Ohio R.. Way's Packet Directory says this
whistle was installed by engineer, J.S. Neal, the first whistle
heard on Western Waters.
: *The article above names the owner as A. Bartlett of Wheeling, W. Va.
Way's Packet Directory says the first master was Capt. A. Bennett.
Take your pick.
Name: REVENUE
Area: Arkansas R.
Name: RHODE ISLAND
Launched: 1870s
Area: Rhode Island Sound
Owner: Stonington Line
3. Name: RIALTO
Type: Size:
Launched: 184Os?, late?
Destroyed:
Area: Sacramento R., Calf.
Name: RICHMOUND
Type: Size: 153' x 29' X 10'
Launched: 1813
Destroyed:
Area: Hudson R.
Owner: Hudson River Steamboat Company
Captain and pilots:
Comments: Source
Name: RICHMOUND
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1840s
Destroyed: 1869, burned.
Area: Miss. R., Louisville to N.O.
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt. Townson, Capt. "Stut" Neal?
Comments: Carried Gen. Montgonery's, R. body down Hudson 43
years after he died.
Name: RICHMOUND
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packeT. Size: 79' X 25' X 3.'
Comments: This boat was originally the G.F. TRUESDELL
a recess wheel ferry at New Richmond. Not enough business there.
Boat was converted to sternwheel and eventually documented, New Orleans
: Mentioned in this Article as possible replacement for the R.R. DAWES
Name: RIO BRAVO See PLANTER
Name: RIVER BELL Photo
Type: Replica of sternwheeler, excursion boat.
Size: 125' X 35' X 4.5', 78 gr. tons, 400 passenger.
Power: 2 Detroit Diesel engines (Model 8V-71), connected through Allison
Reduction Gears (3:1) totaling 460 horsepower.
Paddlewheel is decorative.
Launched: 1965, Dubuque, Iowa
Area: 1978 - Present (1999, Sept.), Out of Pittsburgh, Pa..
Owner: 1978 - present, Gateway Clipper Fleet
Name: RIVER QUEEN
Type: Sidewheeler Size: 181'
Launched: 1864
Destroyed: 1911 by fire
Area:
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: Was the presidential boat for Presidents
Lincon and Grant.
Name: RIVER QUEEN, originally the CAPE GIRARDEAU
1923-67
Name: RIVER QUEEN (replica)
Type: now a Museum Size: 3 decker
Launched: 1961, Dec.
Comments: This entire entry is suspect.
Name: RIVER QUEEN
Type: Ornamental sidewheel excursion boat Size: 93.5', 350 passengers
Launched: 1986, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Area: 1999, Covington
Captains: 1999, Alan Bernstein
Comments; was in first (1988) Tall Stacks Celebration.
1999, In Tall Stacks Celebration
Name: ROANOKE
Type: Size:
Launched: 1835? By either the Bell Yard or the Patton Yard in Wheeling, W. Va..
Destroyed:
Area: Ohio R.
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments:Engines and Machinery probably by T. Sweeney & Son, Wheeling.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
* Name: ROB ROY
Size: 240 tons
Power: High pressure
Launched: 1823, Cincinnati, Oh.
1. Name: ROB ROY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 151.6' X 31.5' X 5.4', 199 tons.
Power: Engines, 15's- 5 ft. Two Tubular Boilers.
Launched: 1864, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1871, off the lists
Area: 1864, Dec. loading at Pittsburg for New Orleans
1865, made trips up Red R.
1866, trip, Aurora, Ind.-Pittsburg
1868, Evansville-Owensboro trade
1868, Dec., went to Arkadelphia, Ark under Capt. Kane
Owners: 1868, sold to Capt. James M. Kane, St. Louis
Captains: 1864, for Pittsburgh-New Orleans trip, Kenniston
1866, from Aurora, Ind.-Pittsburg, Charles Beers
1868, James L Magennis
Name: ROB ROY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size:
Launched: 1864
Destroyed: 1871, off the lists
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: ?1882 - 84?, McPherson, Henry
Captain(s):?1882 - 84?, McPherson, Henry
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: ROB ROY See Post Card
Launched: 1866, Madison, Ind.
Destroyed: 188? retired after engine cylinder head was knocked out
3. Name: ROE
Launched: 184Os?, late?
Area: Sacramento R., Calf.
Name: ROB'T E. LEE
* Name: ROBERT BURNS
Size: 125 tons
Power: High pressure
Launched: 1826, Cincinnati, Oh.
1. Name: ROBERT CAMPBELL
Type Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 268 tons.
Launched: 1849, Hannibal Mo.
Destroyed: 1853, Oct. 13, St. Louis wharf fire, burner and lost.
Owners: 1853, Pierre Chouteau, Jr.
Captains: 1849-50, William Eads
1849 William Rodney Massie
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: ROBERT CAMPBELL, JR.
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 226' X 41' X 6', 421 tons.
Launched: 1860, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1863, Sept. 28, Milliken's Bend on way to Vicksburgh,
caught fire and burned. Lost 22 persons.
Area: when new, St. Louis-New Orleans
1863, Sumer, Capt. Joseph LaBarge attempted to take her to Fort Benon but
turned back at Yellowstone R. because of low water.
Owners: 186? -63, Capt. Joseph LaBarge and others, possibly including Capt. John McCloy
1863 ?late summer?, sold to Capt. McCloy and others.
Captains: When new, John S. Shaw
1863, summer, Joseph LaBarge
Name: ROBERT DODDS
Launched: 1880s?
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: became raft-boat
Name: ROBERT EMMETT
Type: Size:
Launched: 1835?, in Wheeling, W. Va. by either the Bell Yard or
the Patton Yard
Comments: Engines were probably made by T. Sweeney and Sons, Wheeling.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: ROBERT EMMETT
1846-47
1. Name: ROBERT EMMETT
Type: Stern wheel wooden hull packet. Size: 43 tons.
Launched: 1864, Memphis, Tenn.
Destroyed: 1864, Nov. 3, St. Aubert's Island, Mo. R. Snagged, lost.
No lives lost.
Captain: Keko
Comments: When lost was transporting Col. Poser's Regiment of 350 men
: Wreck location also described as about 20 mi. above Herman, Mo. and as DeWitt, Mo
Name: ROBERT EMMETT
1890-past 95
Name: ROBERT FULTON Photo:
Type: Size:
Launched:
Destroyed:
Area:
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments:
1. Name: ROBERT MITCHELL
Type: Sternwheel, woodenhull packet Size: 270' X 41' (37' floor) X 8'
Launched: 1871, Cincinnati, Oh.
Power: 24-1/2's-8 ft., from ALICE V. 4 boilers, ech 40" X 28', 2 flues.
Destroyed: 1880, Nov. 3, hit submerged object and sank. Was raised and
removed to Cincinnati and dismantled.
Area: 1871, Cincinnati-New Orleans
1874, Louisville-New Orleans
18??-76, Cincinnati-New Orleans
Owner: 1871-74 Capt. Henry A. Jones and Thomas Sherlock
1874, Evansville and New Orleans Packet Company
18??, Capt James Paul, entire.
1877, Aug. Capts. Dam Moore and Frank Stein bought control
Capt. John A Williamson and M.V. Daly also owned in her.
Companies associated with: 1880, Southern Transportation Company
Captains: 1871, Richard M. Wade
1874, Gus Fowler
18??, James Paul and Lew Kates
1877, John A. Williamson?
Comments: 1876, Apr., brought to Cincinnati from New Orleans 315 live
alligators ranging fron 6" to 14' long.
: It is thought a wheel shaft from sunken PENNSYLVANIA did her
in.
1. Name: ROBERT MORRIS
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size:232 tons
Launched: 1845, Elizabethtown, Pa.
Destroyed: 1851, dismantled.
Area: Pittsburgh - St. Louis
Owner:1845, Capt. Hugh Campbell
Captain: 1845, Hugh Campbell
Comments: Machinery from VALLEY FORGE
: Machinery went to ST. JAMES
*Name: ROBERT PEEBLES, may have been J.R. PEEBLES
Area: Miss and Oh. Rs.
Captains: 1882, pilot, David Darst and F.C. Heritage
1. Name: ROBERT R. ANDERSON
Type: Wooden hull packet
Size: 135.4' X 34.8' X 4.'
Built: 1879, Whitesbutg, Ala./Nashville, Tenn.
Area: North Ala. trade, Tenn. R.
*1883, Guntersville-Decatur
Owner: Capt. S.C. Capehart
Comments: 1885, Fall, Fletcher's Ferry, struck by storm and nearly wrecked
Name: ROBERT THOMPSON
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 65' X 11' X 3'
Power: 1 double flue boiler, 1st on the river. By Arthur Phillips
Launched: 1821, Hull at location where Wellsville, Oh. now stands. Cabin
at Steubenville, Elijah Murray's boat yard
Destroyed:
Area: Miss., White and Ark. Rs.
1821, Pittsburgh to Louisveille,
1822, a trip, Steubenville-Fort Smith, Arkansas, transporting 300 tons
of army stores
Owner: built for Capt. George A. Dohrman
Later sold to Louisville group for $2,500
Captain: Master, George A. Dohrman, with Jacob A. Dohrman, clerk, and
Peter A. Dohrman, Pilot.
Comments: 1822, Apr. passed Little Rock, to dock at Fort Smith,
with a load of provisions for the garrison. Credit
: Source Article and a bit of her history
Name: ROBINSON'S FLOATING PALACES, see Showboats
Name: ROCK CITY
Type:
Size: 250 Tons, length-127', width-28', draft-10", 16 staterooms.
Launched: 1857, Little Rock, Ark.
Destroyed:
Area: Miss. R., Ark. R.
Owner:
Captain(s):
Comments: Credit
1. Name: ROCK ISLAND
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull ferry
Launched: 1857, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1882, removed from documentation
Area: operated at Rock Island, Ill.
1. Name: ROCK ISLAND
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 200' X 32'
Launched: 1870, Madison, Ind.
Destroyed, 1873, Sept., St. Louis, dut down by ice.
Area: 1873, St. Louis-Cincinnati
Owners: Keokuk Northern Line
Captains: 1873, B.Bradbord
*At one time piloted by Oscar M. Ruby
1. Name: ROCK ISLAND originally the AUGUSTA
1870-c.1922?, Ferryboat, Davenport-Rock Island
Name: ROENA
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet
Source: Post Card
Name: ROLLA
Launched: 1830s?
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: ROLLA
Type: Double barge showboat Size:
Launched: 1840s?
Area: Miss. R., Ark. R.
Comments: 1850 aground at Webbers Falls, on Ark. R. Credit
Name: ROOSEVELT, formerly the VERNE SWAIN/ROSE ISLAND/CITY OF MEMPHIS
See VERNE SWAIN
1. Name: ROSA LEE See Post Card
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 225' X 36' X 7'
Power: engines, 32's - 7' from FRANK PARGOUD
Launched: 1887, Paducha, Ky.
Destroyed: 1892, Nov. 10. Memphis, burned
Owner: when launched, The Lee Line
Captains: When launched, possibly Joseph Fowler
1. Name: ROSALIE M.
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 66' S 14' X 5.'
Power: 10's-3ft. 1 boiler, 60" X 14'
Launched: 1906, Vicksburg, Miss.
Destroyed: 1908, Feb. 20 mi. below Vicksburg, sank.
Area: 1907, Vicksburg, short trades.
Owner: Capt. Tom Morrissey
Captain(s): 1907, Master, Harry Bumgardner: pilot, Aubry D. Haines.
Comments: from site visitor Ben Denison
Harry Bumgardner worked aboard two snagboats, the J.S. Wright, and
the McComb. They worked the Mississippi River from Natchez to Alton
Ill. If anyone has any info would sure appreciate knowing about it.
1. Name: ROSE BUD
Type: sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 177.4' X 31.3' X 4.'.
Power: 13's-5 ft., 2 boilers.
Launched: 1877, California, Pa.
Destroyed: 1896, June 16, Bismarck, S.D., settled on submerged piling in
R.R. warehouse as river level fell. Sank.
Area: Mo. and Yellowstone Rs.
1888-89, L. Mo. R.
Owners: when launched, S.B. Coulson, William S. Evans, D.H.S. Gilmore,
D.W. Maratta and Capt. James McVay (the Coulson Line)
1884 or 5, Purchased by Block "P" Line.
1889 or 90, sold to Benton Pascket Company
*At one time either owner or Capt. , W.B. Wait
Captains: 1887, Josephus Todd I
Comments: this boat was the last of the "Coulson Line" fleet.
: 1882, sank at Claggett
: 1886, Aug. sank at Rocky Point
: boat made over 50 trips to Fort Benton.
1880, 83, 86 and 87 was first boat to arrive there in spring.
: She was equiped with electric lighting
* From King Family history
Name: ROSE DOUGLASS
Launched: pre 1857 as per query
Captains: 1857, possibly James L. Magennis
Comments: The source for this listing is the query.
Name: ROSE HITE Reference
Type: Size:
Launched: 1860s?
Destroyed:
Area: Miss. R.
Owner:
Captain(s):
Comments: Was struck by the CLIFTON. Don't know how much damage the
ROSE HITE sustained.
Name: ROSE ISLAND/CITY OF MEMPHIS/ROOSEVELT, originally the VERNE SWAIN
* Name: ROTARY
Size: 30 tons
Power: High pressure
Launched: 1825, Cincinnati, Oh.
Name: ROWENA
1847-50
Name: ROWENA
1858-63
Name: ROWENA
1864-67
Name: ROWENA
ROWENA At Burnside Landing
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 147.7' X 25.1' X 5.'
Power: Engines, 10's- 3-1/2 ft.. Three boilers each 38" X 18'
Launched: 1904, Burnside Ky.
Destroyed: 1931, late, Grassy Creek Shoals near R. Dunbar's Landing, sank
Area: Upper Cumberland R.
Sometimes on Ohio R. during low water
1917, Sept., Louisville-Evansville trade
Owners: originally, Burnside & Burkesville Packet Company
Last owner, Cumberland Transportation Company
1931, Burnside, purchased by broker John F. Klein
Comments: Klein was attempting to take her to Louisvill when she sank
Name: ROWENA LEE
1890-1902
Name: ROY L
Type: Size:
Launched: Built 1870s? at Arrow Rock, Mo, by Gustave Moehle and Sons.
Destroyed:
Area:
Owner:
Captain
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: ROYAL
Type: Sternwheel, woodenhull packet. Size: 86.6' X 24' X 3.'
Launched: 1884, Hermann, Mo. for Wohlt Bros.
Area: Mo. R.
Owners: Originally the Wohlt Bros.
Later, the Heckmans
Captains: at one time, Wm. Lewis Heckman, Sr.
Coments: Once went to Arlington, Mo. on Gassconade R., highest any boat
ever went.
Name: ROYAL, originally the T.N. BARNSDALL
1. Name: ROYAL ARCH
Type:Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 212 tons
Launched: 1852, West Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1858, Nine Mile Island below Dubuque, snagged and lost.
Area: 1850s, U. Miss. R.
1854, Davenport-Galena-Dubuque trade
1858, Out of Rock Island, Ill, for Rock Island R.R.
Owner: 1852, Capt. Adam Poe and others of Georgetown, Pa.
1854, Galena & Minnesota Packet Company
Captain: 1852, Poe, Adam
1854, Gleim, E.H.
1858, Smith, J.J.
Comments: 1852, Nov., Buffington Island, Ohio R., sank. TASCARORA hit
wreck and also sank.
: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: RUBY
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet Size: 110' X 22' X 2.8'
Launched: 1899, Rush Point, La.
Area: 1899, Shreveport-Garland City; 1900, summer, excursions to
Ruby Park 5 mi. above Shreveport.
1900, fall, Black River, hauling seed for Baton Rouge oil mill.
Owner: 1899, Maikell, Capt. William
1900, fall, Guss
Captain: 1899-1900, fall, Capt. William Maikell
1900, fall, Capt. Guss
1. Name: RUBICON
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 200'X 36'X 6.', 637 tons.
Power: Engines, 20's-6-1/2ft. Three boilers, each 30" X 26ft.
Launched: 1866, Pittsburgh, Pa. Built for Capt. William B. Haslett and others.
Destroyed: 1873, Dismantled. Hull was then used as a barge.
Area: Designed for St. Louis-Omaha trade. Also run in U. Mo. R.; Miss. R.
1866, Capt. Horace E. Bixby took her to Milk River on U. Missouri but had
to turn back due to low water.
1871, Entered Vicksburgh-Greenville trade.
Owner: Capt. William B. Haslett ane others.
Captains: First crew: Capt. William B. Haslett, master;
George M. Haslett, 1st. clerk; George Nease, 2nd clerk
and John Shoemaker, engineer.
: At one time, Grant Marsh was pilot, probably under Bixby.
Comments: Downbound on first trip hit Wheeling bridge. Knocked down stacks,
injuring 5.
: 1871, Given cotton guards at St. Louis.
Name: RUFUS KING
*Name: RUFUS PUTNAM
Built: 1822-23, Marietta, Oh. by Caleb Barstow
Size: 75' x 18', 60 tons.
Destroyed: 1825, Dec. 28, Point Chicot on the Mississippi River in present-day
Chicot County, Arkansas, snagged and sank.
Owners: 1822-23, Oliver Dodge and Capt. John Green
: 1825, purchased by David G. Bates of Galena, Illinois
Area: 1823 - 24, Ohio R.
: 1825, Upper Miss. R.
Comments: More about this boat in this Document
: also see
: Namesake was Gen. Rufus Putnam
*Name: RUFUS PUTNAM
Built: 1835, by James Whitney at Marietta, Ohio
Destroyed: 1838, sunk, approximately 15 miles north of Deweyville, Texas,
Hwy 12 and the Sabine River.(See)
Area: U. Miss. R.?
: 1839, sold alien (Mexico?) I suspect this boat actually went to Sabine R. Tex. Dave.
Captains: When new, Bosworth
: Machinery was salvaged from its wreck, presumably on Sabine R., Tex. for sawmill use
in Orange County, Tex.
1. Name: RUTH (1st boat named RUTH)
Type: sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 270' X 46' X 8.'. 702 tons.
Launched: 1863, Jan. 1
Destroyed: 1863, Aug 4, Confederate mail runner, saboteur burned her. See
Area: Miss. R.
Owner: Was almost from first in U.S. service
Comments: Both wheelhouses painted with painting of Ruth, the Daughter-in-law
of Naomi, gleaning in the harvest field after the reapers of Boaz.
1. Name: RUTH (2nd boat named RUTH)
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 309' X 48.5' X 9.5', 1,681 tons. 4 decks
Power: 30's-10 ft. from H.R.W. HILL
Launched: 1865, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard.
Destroyed: 1869, Mar. 13, Paw Paw Island, 30 mi. above Vicksburg, burned.
No lives lost, but some 200 head of cattle were burned or drowned.
Area: L. Miss. R.
Owner: Was under Atlantic and Mississippi Steam Ship Company banner
Captains: Has these masters; John A. Duble, Ben Taber, B. Rush Pegram
Comments: Made run N.O. - Donaldsonville 1865, Nov., 0/4/43
1. Name: RUTH (5th boat named RUTH)
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 136.5' X 24.5' X 4.4', 4 decks.
Launched: 1893, Marietta, Oh. Knox Yard.
Destroyed: 1918, Jan., Ohio River Damn 13, MeMechan, W. Va. lowt in ice.
Area: Ohio. R.
1896, Jan.-Sept, Pittsburg-Charleston
OwnerS: 1910, May 31 - 1918, Jan, Capts. Fred Hornbrook and Fred Kimpel
and others.
Captain(s): 1896, Jan.-Sept, Ira B. Huntington
Comments: 1897, July, was towboat for FRENCH's NEW SENSATION Showboat
The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. July. 12 1897
: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: RUTH (5th boat named RUTH)
Type: Steernwheel wooden hull packet. Single decker at start, later had
cabin added
Size: When built 136.5' X 24.5' X 4.4'
: 1910, Pt. Pleasant, Lenghtened to 153' X 30' X 4.5
: 1912 , there abouts, a texas deck was added.
Power: 12's-5 ft., 2 boilers each 44" X 20 ft.
Launched: 1893, Knox Yard, Marrietta, Oh.
Destroyed: 1918, Jan., McMechan, W. Va., Ohio R. Dam #13, lost in ice.
Area: 1893, Ironton, Oh, local trades.
1896, Jan - Sept., Pittsburg - Charleston
1896, Oct. 21, Wheeling-Sisterville Trade
1912, Evensville - Paducah trade
1916, Pittsburgh-Parkersburg, later Pittsburgh-Charleston trade
Owners: 1893, built for Bay Line
1906, May 1, Capt. J. Mack Gamble became sole owner.
1910, May 31, Sold to Capt. Fred Hornbrook, Capt. Fred Kimble,
Rose L. Williams and Harry Donnally, equal shares.
Captains: 1896, Jan-Sept., Ira B. Hunington
1896, Oct, 21. master and pilot, Michael B. Davis
1. Name: RUTH (7th boat named RUTH)
Type: Steernwheel wooden hull packet.
1906, there abouts, a texas deck was added
Size: 136.7' X 26.7' X 3.6', 141 tons.
: 1910, Pt. Pleasant, Lenghtened to 153' X 30' X 4.5
: 1912 , there abouts, a texas deck was added.
Power: Cross Compound engines, 10" and 16"-6 ft., one boiler
Launched: 1904, Clarington Oh.
Destroyed: 1918,Columbia, S.C., wrecked
Area: 1904, Sisterville-Wheeling
1906, Apalachicola-Flint R. Bainbridge, Ga.-Apalachicola, Fl. 172 mi.
1913, Santee and Congaree Rs.
Owner: 1904, built for Bay Line, Ironton Oh.
1906, Callahan Line, Bainbridge, Ga.
1913, Columbia Railway and Navigation Company of Columbia, S.C.
Captains: 1904-06, Oct, 21. master and pilot, Michael B. Davis
Comments; Many details pictured in S&D; Reflector, June 1969 issue
Name: RYLAND See E.M. RYLAND
