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Name: S. B. WHEELER
Type: Stern-wheeler
Size: 110'
Launched: New Brunswick
Area: San Juaquine R. Calf. San Francisco to Stockton
Comments: Shipped around Horn in bark.
Name: S.L. ELAM/GENERAL WOOD
Type:Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 181.9' X 29.8' X 6.'
Power: Compound non-condensing engines, 12's, 24's- 5ft.. Three Boilers.
Launched: 1913, Slidell, La.
Area: briefly up Red R.
Then New Orleans-Camden on Ouachita R.
1918, one trip Pittsburgh-Cincinnati as S.M. ELAM, then renamed
and remodeled for upper Ohio R. trade
After remodel, entered Pittsburgh-Cincinnati trade
* 1920 Made at least one run Ptttsburgh-New Orleans
1923, Upper Ohio R. trade.
Owners: When new, Carter Bros., New Orleans
1918, May, sold to Liberty Transit Company, Wheeling, W. Va.
1923, purchased by Pittsburgh, Wheeling and Cincinnati Packet Company
Captains: 1918, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati, William D. Kimbal then
W. Ed Dunaway
Captain(s): *1920, Robert Franklin Myers
1923, Fred Hornbrook became master
Comments: Named for Judge Elam of Natchez
: 1915, lower R. River, snagged and sank. Raised.
: Liberty Transit Co. removed her cotton guards and renamed her.
Name: S.L. ELAM
Name:S. S. MERRILL
Launched: 1860s? Early
Area: U. Miss. R.
Owner: Northwestrn Union Packet Company
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: S.B. MATTHEWS Alaskan Riverboats
Type: Sternwheeler
Launched: 1906 or so
Area: Copper R., Alaska
Name: ST. ANCE
Name: ST. ANGE
Launched: 1840s?
Area: Mo. R.
Captain and pilots: Capt. La Barge, Joseph
Comments: First steamer to reach Poplar R.
Name: ST. ANTHONY
Launched: 1840s?
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: ST. CHARLES
Launched: 1853? Dec.
Area: Miss. R. To Red R.
1. Name: ST. CLAIR/TINCLAD #19
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size:156' X 32.6' X 4.9', 203 tons
Power: 15 1/2's-5 ft. 2 boilers, each 38' X 26'
Launched: 1862, Belle Vernon, Pa.
Destroyed: 1869, Off lists.
Area: 1862, first trip, Pittsburgh-St. Louis trade, but
was bought by U.S. at St. Louis and converted into TINCLAD #19.
Owners: at launch, Capt. Robert D. Cochran and others
1856, Aug. 28, Mound City, Ill., purchased at public sale by John
H. Sterrett (or Stearne), Galveston, Tx.
Captains: 1862, George Cochran
Name: ST. CROIX
Launched: 1840s, early?
Area: 1846, U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in articles here and here
ST. JAMES See Post Card
Type: sidewheel wooden hull packet
Launched: 1865
Destroyed: 1876, sometime after
Name: ST. JAMES
Name: ST. JOSEPH/ISLAND QUEEN/MORNING STAR, (the 6th MS)
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet/excursion boat
Size: 170' X 32' X 4.9'
Launched: 1893, Madison, Ind.
Destroyed: 191?3?, Monongahela City, burned while docked
Area: 1895, summer, New Orleans-Vicksburg
1913, Aug., Monongahela R., excursions between Charleroi and
Monongahela City.
Owners: 1893-1905, early, Natchez And Vicksburg Packet Company
1905, early-08, John F. Klein
1908- , Harrison P. Dilworth
Captains: 1895, Master, Waldren, Thomas;
Pilots, A.B. Crittenden and Bob Miller
1913, Daily, Charles E.
Comments: 1905, renamed ISLAND QUEEN
1912, July, renamed MORNING STAR
Did excursions in 1897
Comments: Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. July. 12 1897
Name: ST. JOHN
Type: Size:420 X 80 ft.
Launched: 1862
Area: Hudson R. New York to Albany
Owner: Peoples Line.
Captain and pilots: Capt. "Decon" Drew, Daniel
Comments: When she went into service in 1862 she was the largest
steamboat in the world.
Name: ST. LAWRENCE
Area: Ohio R.
Comments:Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
: Was wrecked and ?nearly? destroyed in the Natchez
tornado of 1840.
: Article on Tornado
1. Name: ST. LAWRENCE
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 266.5 X 41' X 6.'
Power: Engines came from EXPRESS No. 2
Launched: 1879, Murraysville, W. Va.
Destroyed: 1895, Sept. 20, Cincinnati, by being blown inshore by strong winds,
over the top of an old wreck on which she sank.
Area: Built for Wheeling-Cincinnati trade
1884, running to Pittsburgh
*1884, Dec., schedualled to be placed in Pittsburg and Cincinnati trade.
1884, post, entered Cincinnati-Maysville trade.
Owners: * 1884, fall, sold to the White Collar Line, Cincinnati
* 1884, Dec. Big Sandy Company
Captains: when new, William H. List with C.D. List as clerk.
In Cincinnati-Maysville trade, E.S. Morgan
* 1884, Will Brookhart was pilot
Comments: Mentioned several times in this Document
Name: ST. LOUIS
Type: Ead's Turtle. Stern-wheel iron-clad. Size:
Launched: 1861
Owner: U. S. Gov.
Name: ST. LUCIE Photo
Name: ST. LUKE
Launched: 1860s?
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: 1868-75, Kinney, Joseph
Captain(s): Kinney, Joseph
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: ST. LUKE
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1850s
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: Saint Louis and Miami Packer Co.
Captain and pilots: Capt. Jud Cartwright
Name: ST. MARY
1844-49
1. Name: ST. MARY
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 204' X 35' X 4.5'
Power: 14's-6 ft., 2 boilers.
Launched: 1855, St Louis, Mo.
Destroyed: 1859, Sept. 4, Hemmes Landing, Mo. R., snagged, broke in two,
lost.
Area: principally, Mo. R., some work on Miss. R.
Captains: 1855, Joseph LaBarge
1859, Master, Mot Morrison when snagged.
Comments: 1956, June 4, left Omaha with 900 passengers bound upriver.
Some 735 were Mormons of whome only 50 took cabin passage.
The rest were deck passengers. This was largest passenger
list ever on a Western river steamboat.
Aug., returned with 22,000 buffalo robes, 2 ponies,
2 grizzly bears, 2 buffalo calves and some strange
looking birds.
: 1857, May 24, The Diary of E.F. Beadle places her stopping at
Omaha with government stores aboard, passing upriver.
Name: ST. MARY originally the ALEXANDRIA
1862-
Name: ST. MARY
1871-86 or so
Name: ST. MARYS
1867 - 72
1. Name: ST. NICHOLAS
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 264.7' X 35.5' X 7.3', 666 tons.
Launched: 1853, California, Pa. for James Wood, P.R. Friend and
P.O. Scully, all of Pittsburgh.
Destroyed: 1859, Apr. 24, Miss. R. at Island 60, 9 mi. above Helena, Ark.
blew her boilers. 60 lives lost including that of her master.
19 persons survived.
Area: Miss. R.
Owners: When new, James Wood, P.R. Friend and P.O. Scully, all of Pittsburgh.
1859, purchased by Capt. Ambrose Reeder, St. Louis and
Capt. Benjamin V. Glime of the town of Kansas for $25,000.
On first trip under this ownership was destroyed.
Captains: 1853, first master was John H. Burk
: When lost, Master was O.H. McMullen who was at the helm died in explosion.
At time of explosion James Reed the pilot was at the helm with the capt.
In the aftermath of the explosion the Captain's wife died by drowning.
Capt. Benjamin V. Glime was acting as 1st. clerk and perished 2 days after disaster.
Comments: See pilot James Reed's account of Disaster
: Assisted after the explosion by the SUSQUAHANNA
Name: ST. NICHOLAS
1856-66
Name: ST. NICHOLAS
1864-68
Name: ST. PAUL
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet.
Size: 358 tons.
Power: Engines, 18's- 8 ft., 3 boilers. came from the JOHN AULL
Launched: 1847, St Louis Mo.
Destroyed: Date unknown, foot of Mokane Bend, (also called Big Blue Bend)
Mo. R., snagged and Lost.
Area: At first, St. Louis-New Orleans
Later Mo. R.
Owners: built by Capt. George B. Cable
1851, Capt. J.H. Cole was part owner
Captains: 1851, Patrick Yore
: When sunk and lost on Mo. R., J. H. Cole was master.
Comments: 1848, Aug, Island 21, Miss. R., hit sandbar, sank, raised.
: Mentioned in this Article
Name: SAINT PAUL/SENATOR ST. PAUL Post Card Page
Type: Sidewheeler, wooden hull packet/excursion boat See postcard above
Size: Length: 1883, 300'; Width: 37'; Draft: 6.4
1903, 276' X 37' X 6.4'
Power: 22's-7 ft., 3 boilers, later 4
Wheels, 26' with 14' buckets
Launched: 1883 in St. Louis by St Louis and St Paul Packet Co.
Destroyed: 1953, Jan 19, was towed below St. Louis for abandonment.
Area: 1883 - 1886: U. Miss. R.: St. Louis To St Paul.
1886 - 1892: L. Miss. R.: St. Louis to Vicksburg
1892 - 1917: U. Miss. R.: St. Louis to St. Paul
1917 - 1937: Excursions in St. Louis
1937, summer - 1939: Excursions in Pittsburgh
1939 - 1940, winter: in ways at Puducah for re-build
1940-41, Ohio R. out of Pittsburgh, Excursions
1942, St. Louis, retired due to W.W.II. Served as U.S. Coast Guard
training ship
1943 on, Above Eads Bridge, St. Louis, used by Streckfus as floating
machine shop and warehouse
Owners: Originally, St. Louis and St. Paul Packet Company
1883 - 1886: Diamond Jo Line.
1886: Chartered to Anchor Line
1892 - 1894: Diamond Jo Line
1911 - 19?53?: Streckfus Line
Captains: 1886: Zeigler, Charles for Anchor Line
Clerk, William Howard Pritchatt
1892 - 1894: Killeen, John
1917 - 1939: Ben Winters, Oscar Olson, Thomas W. Posey
1939: Sometime after '39: Edgar F.Mabrey with Tom Posey and
Frederick Way. jr., pilots.
1941-42, Edgar F.Mabrey w/ T. Kent Booth and Clarence W. Elder
At some point as ST. PAUL, Lax, Hilmar
Comments: 1892 - 1894: During this time the Diamond Jo Line had her
in ways at the Eagle Boat Yard for over a year
for re-build. Capt. John Killeen supervised this.
1903: In Dubuque, Diamond Jo Line rebuilt her.
1917: Streckfus rebuilt her into excursion boat.
1939-40, Paducah, winter, rebuilt into excursion boat. Renamed
SENATOR
: Note from Ralph Mabrey
Name: ST. PETERS
Launched: 1836, Pittsburgh, Pa. area.
Destroyed: 1849, May 17, fire at St. Louis docks.
Area: 1836, U, Miss. R., 1837, Mo. R.
Captain(s): Pratte, Bernard Jr.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
: Mentioned in this Article
Name: SACHEM
Type: 1863, Union gunboat
Comments: 1863, Galveston, Tex. Sept 9, boilers destroyed by Confederate cannon.
: Source
Name: SABINE
Area: 1843, Fall, Sabine R., Texas
Captain: John Clemmons
Comments: 1843, Was first steamboat up the Sabine River in east Tex.
: Source
Name: SACRAMENTO
Type: Size:
Launched: 1840s?
Destroyed: 1849, near the mouth of the Lamine R. in Slaughterhouse
Bend, just upriver from Boonville Mo. on the Mo. R..
Area: Mo. R.
Owner:
Captain(s):
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
3. Name: SACRAMENTO
Launched: 1849, July.
Area: 1849 - 1850s, early, Sacramento R., Calif.
Captain: 1849, 3. Van Pelt, John
Comments: Shipped to Calif. in brigatine.
3. "More of a scow than a steamer she served
her owners well and was later sold for $40, 000."
Could this be the same boat as above??
3. Name: SAGADAHOCK
Launched: 1840s? late?
Area: 1851, late, Sacramento R., Calf.
Name: SAGAMORE
Launched: 1840s? late?
Destroyed: 1851, Nov. 1, Sacramento R. Boiler explosion while leaving
SanFrancisco Warf. 50 were killed or injured.
Area: late 1840s to end, California Delta
3. : 1851, Oct., San Joaquin R., Calf
Name: SAGAMORE
Type: Sidewheeler
Size: Length:223'; Beam:57'; Speed:20 mph..
Launched: by Delaware & Hudson Railroad System
Area: New York to Canada on Lake George
Owner: 1871-1939: Delaware & Hudson Railroad System owned The
Lake George Steamboat Co..
Present: Lake George Steamboat Co. Web Site
Name: SALADIN
Type: Side-wheeler
Launched: 1840s?
Area: Miss. R.
Captain: Coleman
Comments: Kidnapped Pres. Zachary Taylor in place of boat that
was supposed to take him ?somewhere?, just for the honor
of having transported the Pres.
1. Name: SALLIE LIST
Type: ?Sternwheel?, wooden hull packet. Size: 212 tons
Launched: 1860, Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1868, Feb. 21, Portland, Ala. - snagged and sunk.
Area: At first, Mo. R.
1862, April, Tenn. R., was under command of Union Gen. Wm. T. Sherman
1864, spring, Red R.
1864, Early June, Fired on in Yellow Bend, Miss. R., 10 shots, no one hit.
1865, Jan. 21, Lower White R., in storm at Scrub Bend.
Reported to have Lost ?port? paddlewheel.
Owners: Mobile Trade Co., sometime between 1865 and up to sinking.
Captains: 1865, Jan. 21, Morgan Bateman
Comments: Mentioned in Gen. Sherman's Memoirs
1. Name: SALLIE ROBINSON
Type: Side Wheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 160" X 33' X 5.5", 267 Tons
Launched: 1856, Cincinnati Oh.
Destroyed: Unknown
Area: Out of Yazoo R.. Also known to be on The Red R.
1863, N.O. to Baton Rouge.
Owners: Originally, in part by Capt. Dyas Power.
1861, April, purchased by Hannah Schille, N.O.
and went to Confedreacy registry.
Captains: 1856, Dyas Power of Aberdeen, Oh.
1863, Capt. Ham
Comments: Under Capt Ham she was teamed with IBERVILLE AND LAUREL HILL.
: A site visitor tells us there is a known postal hand stamp,
believed from from 1857, with this steamer's name and her master's
name, E.F. Gross.
This same site visitor also has an envelope postmarked
New Orleans, December 20,(1859?)containing a manuscript
"per stmr Sallie Robinson".
Name: SALT RIVER
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: SALUDA
Type: Side-wheel, wooden hull packet Size: 179' X 26.7', 223 tons.
Launched: mostly built at Ohio r. yard. Finished at St. Louis
Destroyed: 1852, Apr. 9, Good Friday, while leaving Lexington, Mo,
boilers exploded. See Comments below.
See Account of Explosion
Area: 1846-52, St Louis - St Joseph
Owner: Francis T. Belt
Captains: 1852, Apr. 9, Master, Francis T. Belt
Pilot, Charles S. LaBarge, brother of Capt. Joseph LaBarge
Comments: 1850, 5 mi. below Rocheport, Mo. snagged and sunk.
Raised and rebuilt.
1852, Apr. 9, Good Friday, With Mormon emigrants aboard, boat
headed for Concil Bluffs, Iowa. Upon arrival at Lexington
current was swift, pilot Charles S. LaBarge pushed her
too hard into the rapid water and her boilers blew up.
The pilot and master and an estimated 75 others died. Was worst steamboat
disaster on Mo. R..
: The roof bell from this boat was auctioned off and went to the
First Christian Church of Savannah, Missouri. The church is still in possession
of that church.
Name: SAM BROWN
Type: Towboat
Launched: 1880's?
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: SAM CLARKE
Launched: 1890's?
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Aug. 18 1897
1. Name: SAM CLOON
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 301 tons
Area: 1851, Sept. at New Orleans advertising to Cincinnati.
1853, ran tips up Mo. R.
Launched: 1851, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1856, Feb. 27, St. Louis, lost to ice.
Captains: 1851, Sept., James Siddal
*1854, Apr. John McCoy
Comments: 1853, Feb. 14, Spanish Moss Bend, lower Miss. R., collided with HARRY HILL
Was sunk and raised.
: Mentioned in this Article
Name: SAM CRAIG Photo Source
Type: Sternwheel towboat
Launched: 1930's
Area: Ohio R.
1. Name: SAM GATY, NEW
Type: Sidewheel, wood hull packet. Size:
Launched: 1853, St. Louis Mo.
Destroyed: 1858, June 27, near Arrow Rock Mo. suddenly veered out of
control, smashed into an obstruction, listed wildly,
caught fire and burned up within 1 hr.
Area: Mo. R.
Captains: Dozier, Frank M., when she sank.
Comments: Was in Indian wars.
Comments: Mentioned in the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
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Name: SAM J. KEITH/CITY OF FLORENCE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 160' X 32' X 5.3'.
Launched: 1882, Jeffersonville, Ind. for Capt Thomas H. Armstrong
Area: Nashville-Burnside
Owner: Capt. Thomas H. Armstrong
Later, St. Louis & Tennessee River Packet Company
Comments: Packet company renamed her CITY OF FLORENCE
Name: SAM P. JONES, originally the L.P. EWALD
3. Name: SAM SOULE
Launched: 1850's early
Area: 1856, Sacramento R. Calif.
Owner(s): 1856, California Steam Navigation Company
Name: SAM W. LINE
Area: Coosa R.
Owners: Gen. S.M. Winchester and Capt. J.E. Line
Captains: William M. Elliot
Comments: Source
Name: SAM YOUNG
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 156' X 28' X 3.7', 154 tons.
Power: engines, 18's-4 ft., 3 bnoilers, each 38" C 22', 2 14" flues.
Launched: 1855, Shousetown, Pa.
Destroyed: 1865, July 22, reported to be lost.
Area: Tramp trade out of Pittsburgh
1856-57, out of St, Paul
1861, running above Peoria, Ill. on Ill. R.
1865, reported in Memphis-Helena trade
Owners: Capt. Richard C. Gray with William H. Forsythe and Samuel G. Young
Later, had various owners.
1865, said sold to Capt A.R. Irwin for above trade.
Name: SAMUEL HOWARD
Type: Sidewheeler Size: 195 tons
Launched: 1819, Hull in Charlston, finished in Savannah, GA.
Destroyed: 1829, Dec. 7, last reported trip. 1830, reported
abandoned.
Area: Altamaha and Oconee Rs. in Ga.
Owner: Steamboat Company of Georgia
Captain:1823 - 1834, sometime between, Swymer, John
Comments: Source
Name: SAMUAL J. TILDEN
Type: Size:
Launched:
Destroyed:
Area: 1850s - 80s Tombigbee River in Clarke County, Ala.
Owner: Jordan, David S.
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: From David Upton: "I am looking for imformation on my
familys history. My great great great grandfather, David
S. Jordan, owned a river boat company. He shipped produce
and items between Mobile Alabama and the river systems to
the north of that city. His base of operations was on the
Tombigbee River in Clarke County during the 1850s-1880's.
He started with flatbottom river boats and eventually
steam powered boats. I only have two names of the boats
he owned. They were the Buenavista and
the Samual J. Tilden. He did not have a pilots licence and
he had to hire his crews instead of using his own family to
run the boats."
3. Name: SAN BLASINA
Launched: 1840s? late?
Area: 1851, late, Sacramento R., Calf.
3. Name: SAN JOAQUIN
Launched: 1850s? early?
Area: 1851, late, San Joaquin R., Calf.
Name: SANITARY STEAMERS
Comments: Hospital boats during Civil War.
Name: SARAH
Launched: 1840s?
Destroyed: 1849, May 17, Fire at St. Louis docks
Area: Miss. R.; Sacramento R.?
Name: SARA LEE originally the CAPE GIRARDEAU
1923-67
Name: SARI S.
Type: Showboat
Launched: 1961
Area: Chicago
Name: SATONA
Area: 1848. Apr. 21, left Shreveport for New Orleans.
Captain: 1848. Apr. 21, Smoker
Comments: this entry is prompted by the Journal of
Paul Haralson, April 21, 1848.
Name: SAVANNAH
Type: Sidewheeler Size: 152 tons
Launched: 1961
Destroyed: Last record, 1834, June 16, final fate unknown
Area: Savannah R.
Owner: Steamboat Company of Georgia
Captain:1823 - 1834, sometime between, Swymer, John
Comments: 1833, Mar. 4, carried largest number of cotten bales
(1829) ever recorded on one trip.
: Source
Name: SAVANNAH RIVER QUEEN
Type:Modern Excurssion paddlewheeler
Size:350 passenger, four deck sternwheel riverboat.
Area: Savannah, Ga.
Owner: Riverstreet Riverboat Co.
Captain and pilots: Capt.
1. Name: SAWMILL CLIPPER
Type: sawmill boat. Size: 111.5' X 25' X 3.4' 1880-
Launched: 1880, Wheeling, W. Va.. Size: 111.5' X 25' X 3.4'
1. Name: SAWMILL CLIPPER
Launched: 1888, Haynes Landing, W. Va.
Captain: Nathan Hanes or Haynes
Comments: Via its machinery, this boat may have evolved into the 1916 CLIPPER
Name: SCIENCE
Area: 1834, Wheeling to Louisville
Comments: Info in this entry is from the diary of an ancestor of
web site visitor Kathryn Grogman. grogman@earthlink.net
Name: SCIENCE
Area: 1879: Ohio R., working out of Wheeling, W. Va.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER,
June 24, 1951
Name: SCIOTA
Launched: 1830s, early
Area: 183?: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: SCOTIA
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 236' X 36' X 5.2', 601 tons.
Power: Engines, 20's- 4' 8". 3 boilers.
Launched: 1880, Harmar, Oh. at Knox Yard
Destroyed: 1895, Nov. 5, Cincinnati, burned
Area: At first, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
1884, Dec., Ohio R.
1894, placed in Cincinnati-Louisville trade
Owners: Ran in Pittsburgh & Cincinnati Packet Line
1895, Pruchased by Capt.John Barrett
Captains: 1880, first master was Martin F. Noll
1883, Frank Maratta
1864, J.M. Kirker
1885-88, George W. Rowley
Later, John Phillips
Comments: Mentioned several times in this Document
1. Name: SCIOTO/REGULAR 3 newspaper articles on her disastrous sinking.
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet
Size: Length: 150', Width: 22' 6"
Launched: 1875, by Bay Bros. Yard, Portsmouth, Ohio
Destroyed: 1882, July 5, late night, collided with the JOHN LOMAS and sank.
70 lives lost. Raised and Renamed REGULAR
1884 Crabb's Landing near Clarington, W. Va. sank and dismantled,
Area: Ohio R., Wheeling, W. Va.
: 1881, Oct. 21, placed in Wheeling and Sisterville trade.
: 1884, Wheeling-Marietta trade
Owner(s): 1875, June - Capt. Wm. Dillon
: 1881, June 24, purchased by Capt. Wm. Dillon of Wheeling, W. Va.
: 1882, March, purchased by the Wheeling, Parkersville and Cincinnati Transportation Co.,
Capt C. H. Booth, Pres..
: * 1884, Parkersburg & Ohio River Transportation Company
: 1884, Nov., purchased by Capt. Tom Prince, Mr. Schmulbach,
Frank Booth and Capt. Mack Gamble
Captain(s):1882, July 5, Thadius S. Thomas of Clarington.
1884, Thadius S. Thomas , T.J. Martin, clerk
Pilot(s): 1882, July 5, J. B. Long and Dave Keller. The latter
was charged in accident, as was the pilot of the
JOHN LOMAS.
Comments: Was first put in mail trade between Huntington and Portsmouth
: Put in Ironton and Gallipolis trade.
: 1881, July 12, laid up to change from tubular to flue
boilers.
: 1881, Aug., went on docks for recalking. All timber was
found to be in perfect shape.
: 1882, Feb, in fog, ran into bank at Carpenter's rip,
sprung her butts, and was taken to Point Pleasant
and, again, overhauled.
: More info on disaster Here
Comments: Notes on sinking from July 5, 1882
: Capt. Thad Thomas'great-great-great grandson, Stuart R.
Haller, tells me Capt. Thomas had to sell his family's farm
in Clarington to pay the families of the people who drowned.
: About Law Suits
Name: SCOTT/P.A. DENNY
Type: Sternwheel U.S. Corps of Engineers boat/excursion boat
Size: 109'
Area: 1st 24 yrs. out of Louisville, Ky.
1954?-75, presumably out of Charleston, W. Va.
2006, Newport, KY. She is used as a classroom for school field trips.
Owners: When new, U. S. Corps of Engineers
1954, cir. Peter A. Denny, Charleston, W. Va.
1975, purchased by Captain Lawson Hamilton,
Presently, ORSANCO
Comments: 1975, renamed P.A. Denny after deceased former owner Pete Denny.
: She has traveled the nation’s waterways and participated in the
World’s Fair in New Orleans in the early 1980s.
: 1974, Made a surprise victory in the 1974 Sternwheel Regatta Race in Charleston.
: Source for listing on this boat, Tall Stacks .com
3. Name: SCOW
Launched: 1840's late?
Area: 1850s, early, Sacramento R. Calif.
Name: SCOTIA
Area: Monongahela R.
Name: SCOTTLAND
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson, shopkeeper,
Commerce, Mo.
- Monday Night, April 15th 1861. " . . . The news came to town
that Fort Sumptner was taken and Major Anderson was killed.
This raised considerable and about the time people began to
a little cool, the Steamer Scottland passed up the river
with a palmetto tree hoisted on her. This arroused the
feelings again and there was a strong talk about hailing
her and meking her take it down, but they did not talk of
it until she had gone by. Day passed off quiet. River
on stand."
3. Name: SEA BIRD
Launched: 1850's early
Area: 1855, Sacramento R. Calif.
3. Name: SEA WITCH
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: SEBASCODEGAN
Type: Size:
Launched: Late 1800's
Destroyed: Early 1900's
Area: Cosco Bay (Portland) Maine
Owner: Harpswell Steamboat Co.
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments:
Name: SECRETARY
Launched: Late 1840's?
Destroyed: 1854, Aug. 15, Boiler exploded. Do not know if this
actually destroyed the boat, but at least 1 life was lost.
Area: 1854, Aug 15, California Delta
Name: SEGWUN Web Site
Type: Sidewheeler Mailboat/Propeller driven Cruise Boat
Launched: 1887
Destroyed: Now operating as cruise boat
Area: Muskoka Lakes, out of Gravenhurst, Canada
Owner: 1878:
1970? - present: Muskoka Steamship Historical Society
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: 1958 - early 1970's: floating museum
1970's, early: restoration converted her to a propeller driven
steamer.
Name: SELKIRK
Type: Stern-wheeler
Area: Yukon R.
Owner: The British Yukon Navigation Co.
Comments: For more see Alaskan Riverboats
Name: SELMA
Type: Sidewheeler, wooden hull, packet
Size: 227 tons
Launched: 1845, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed:1850, May 29, Cahawba, Ala., lost incollision with D.B. MOSBY
Area: Went to Mobile Ala.
Comments: sent in by site visitor, Sharon Teeslink
"...is the steamship that travelled from New Orleans to Perry
Co. Mo. with the Germans who started the Missouri Synod church
in about 1847."
Name: SELMA (the 2nd one) Originally the N.W. GRAHAM
Launched: 1853, Covington, Ky.
Name: SELMA (the 3rd one)
Type: Sidewheeler, wooden hull, packet
Size: 180' X 37' X 7', 600 tons
Power: 20's- 7', 3 boilers, each 48" X 26'
Launched: 1867,Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1875, Jan. 25, sank. Was raised and dismantled at New Orleans.
Area: 1867, Mobile-Montgomery, Ala.
1868, Dec. New Orleans-Shreveport
1870, New Orleans-Opalousas and Atchafalaya Rs.
Owners: 1867, built for and owned by Capt. Thomas Rogers, of Pittsburgh
1868, bought by Capts. William T Scovell and John Couns, equal
parts.
1870, bought by Capt. Charles C. Picket
Name: SENATOR
Type: Side-wheeler Size:220 X ?? 755 tons
Launched: 1840s?
Destroyed:
Area: Hudson R. (New York City); 1850s, Sacramento R., Calif.
Owner: Daniel Drew
Captain and pilots: Capt. LaFaye
Comments: 1849: 1st. riverboat to round Cape Horn.
Took 7 months. 17 days.
: 3. 1849, late, Started service on Sacramento R.
Sacramento - San Francisco. Made trip in 1 day.
Did this for more than 30 years.
: also see: California Delta
Name: SENATOR
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 121 tons
Launched: 1845 or 6, June, Wheeling W. Va. For Capt. John McLure
Destroyed: 1852, off the lists
Area: 1846, Made trip to New Orleans and brought back to Nashville troops
for the Mexican War.
1847, Apr.-48, Galena - St. Louis
1848, Galena St. Peters
1849-50, Galena St. Paul
Owner: 1846, Capt John McLure
184?8?-52, Galena, Dubuque and Minnesota Packet Company
Captain(s): 1847, Apr. 20, E.M. McCoy
1848, D. Smith Harris
1849-50, Orren Smith
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1848, Apr. 7, Arrived at St. Paul, Minn..
Name: SENATOR
Type: Sternwheel ferryboat. Size: 115' X 28' X 4.'
Power: 9"-2 ft.
Launched: 1882, Yankton, S.D. *Cost $12.000
Destroyed: *1887, Feb 5, Carried to mouth of Jim R. by breaking ice. Lost.
Area: Yankton, S.D
Owner: Yankton Steam Ferry Company
Comments: *replaced LIVINGSTON as ferry from Yankton, S.D.
to Green Island, Neb.
Comments: This info from Bob Karolevitz's column The Way It Was,
believed to have been in a 1995 Yankton. S.D.. newspaper.
Name: SENATOR, Formerly the ST. PAUL
Type: Side-wheeler excursion boat Size:
Area: 1952, Ohio R. summer in Pittsburgh?;
Name: SENATOR CORDILL
Post Card Pictures 1, 2
Name: SENECA CHIEF
Type: Passenger barge Size:
Launched: 1825, Oct.
Area: Erie Canal
Name: SENTINEL
Name: SERENDIPITY PRINCESS,
previously the TRENT VOYAGEUR and the SERENDIPITY LADY
Voyageur
Type:Steal hulled, flat bottomed, sternwheel replica.
Power: Twin Catepiller Diesels Pro
Size: 93 x 25 x 5, 3 Decks, 267 passenger and crew
Launched: 1982 or so
Destroyed:
Area: Summer, Lake Simcoe in Barrie, Ontario, Canada,
Autum, Trent Severn Canal out of Port Severn Ontario
Owner:
Captain(s): 1998, Jones, Graham
Comments: 1998, Nov., from boat's present Captain, Graham Jones.
Original Keel was laid I believe in 1982. Vessel was named
"Trent Voyageur" Sailed the area of the Trent/Severn Canal
on multi day cruises for several years.
Was sold and subsequently operated for a short time as the
"Serendipity Lady" out of Peterborough, Ontario Cananda,
also in the same trade, until left abandoned at the wharf
and in a state of disrepair.
Was Purchased in 1995 by PMCL and underwent an extensive
refit where she was widened, lenghthened, repowered, and
completely re appointed throughout.
Name: SHALLCROSS See NEW SHALLCROSS
1. Name: SHAMROCK
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 164' X 26' X 4.6', 139 tons
Launched: 1848, Newport Ky.
Destroyed: 1851, June 29, Lake Bistineau, La., burned
Area: 1850, Dec., Port Caddo - New Orleans
Owners: 1850, Nov. 15, 1/2, by Capt. George G. Remer
1850, Dec. 23, 3/4 sold to John G. Kendall
1851, Apr. 1/2 sold to Capt. Ebenezer Watson Linn
of Brookville, Ky.
Name: SHARK
Type: Stern-wheel, man powered Size: small
Area: Miss. R.
Name: SHAWNEE
Name: SHELBY
Comments:
Made run N.O. - Natchez 1817, 3/20/0
Made run N.O. - Louisville 1817, 20/4/20
1. Name: SHENANDOAH
Type: Sidewheel packet, wood hull, Size: 179 tons
Launched: 1848, Brownsville PA
Destroyed: 1856, Feb. 27, Torn from docks and swept downstream
in ice flow during Great Ice Gorge at St. Louis.
Destroyed.
Area: 1848 - 50, Pittsburg - St. Louis; 1853 - 54, St Louis - St Paul
Captain:1848 - ?56?, Bowman, George
Comments: 1849, Oct. 9, knocked her stacks down passing under draw
bridge in Louisville Canal
Name: SHEPHERDESS
Comments: Broke the TECUMSCH's record
of 9 days New Orleans to Louisville.
Source
Name: SHERLOCK
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Launched: 1800s
Area: Ohio R.
Name: SHOSHONE
Name: SHREVE
Type: Stern-wheeler
Launched: 1860s?
Area: U. Mo. R.
Comments: Possibly the same boat as below.
Name: SHREVEPORT
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1860s?
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: 1863, summer, LaBarge, Capt. Joseph N.
Nanson, Joseph S.
Captain Nanson, Joseph S.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: SIDNEY/WASHINGTON
Type: Sternwheeler
Size: 221.3'X 35.5' X 5.5'
Power: 17's-5 ft., 3 boilers
Launched: 1880, Murraysville, completed Wheeling, W Va.
Destroyed: 1938, dismantled
Area: 1880 - 1882?: Wheeling - Cincinnati
1882? - ????: Under owner Diamond Jo Line: U. Miss R.: St Louis
- St. Paul
???? - ????: Under owner Strekfus Line: New Orleans in winter
Owner: List, William M.
1897?, Diamond Jo Line
1901, Strekfus Steamers
Captains: 1880, William M List
Strekfus, Roy
As WASHINGTON: Lax, Hilmar
Comments:1882, Mar. 10 at Goose Island on Ohio R.: Burst steamline.
4 dead, 16 scalded.
1882?: Sold to Diamond Jo Line.
????: Sold to Strekfus Line. Converted to excursion boat.
1913: First to enter the new Keokuk lock under Capt Roy
1920 or 21: Completely rebuilt and renamed WASHINGTON
Way's Packet Dir. p 481.
Name: SIDNEY P. SMITH
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Launched: c. 1870
Destroyed: sometime after 1873
Area: Coosa R. Georgia and Alabama
Comments: Source
1. Name: SIGNAL/Union Tinclad #8
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 190 tons
Launched: 1862, Wheeling, W. Va.
Area: 1964, May 5, Red R., Dunns' Bayou, escorting JOHN WARNER when captured
by Confederates.
Owners: 1862, Sept. 22, sold to U.S. Navy. Converted into tinclad.
Name: SILVER BOW
Type: Side-wheeler
Owner: St. Louis & Omaha Packet Co.?
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: 1869, at Fort Levenworth
Name: SILVER CITY Originally the TYRONE
Name: SILVER CLOUD
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 155' X 33.5' X 5.3', 236 tons.
Power: Engines, 16's- 5', 3 boilers.
: 1865, converted to sidewheeler and redocumented, same name.
Launched: 1862, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1866, Oct. 2, Buffalo Bayou, Tx., snagged and lost.
Comments: Became U.S. tinclad #28
Comments: 1865, Aug 17, sold at public auction to J.H. Sterne for $11,000
Name: SILVER CLOUD
Comments: * 1866, Nov. Is said Capt. Spencer was having built by Mr. Parsons
Name: SILVER CLOUD
1878 - 1887
Name: SILVER CLOUD No. 2
1863-1869
Name: SILVER CRESCENT
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 123.3' X 22.9' X 3.9', 125 tons.
Launched: 1882, Clinton Iowa
Destroyed: 1909, Winona, Minn., dismantled
Area: 1892, Davenport-Burlington
1895-1908, Keokuk-Quincy trade
Owner: 1892, purchased by Capt. Walter Blair
Captain: 1892, Walter Blair
1895, S.R. Dodd
Comments: Originally a raft boat
1. Name: SILVER HEELS
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 187' X 29' X 6.', 267 tons.
Power: 20's- 6 1/2 ft., 3 boilers, each 40" X 26'.
Launched: 1857, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard.
Destroyed: 1860, Oct. 2, Carrollton (New Orleans), sunk in storm.
Area: Early, Mo. R.
1858 on, Miss. R.
Owners: Built for St. Louis & St. Joseph Line
1858, Nov., sold to New Orleans Coast & Lafourche Transportation Company
1860, Jan., sold to Capt. Charles Cane Pickett and others, Pointe
Coupe Parrish, La..
Captains: 1860, Master, John J. Brown
Comments: 1857, The Diary of E.F. Beadle places her in Omaha, May 19,
and July 16
1. Name: SILVER HEELS
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Also said to be a small towboat
Area: Marietta-Zanesville, 1 trip.
: Otherwise, mostly Little Kanawha R.
Launched: 1858, Hooksburg on Muskingum R., Oh. for Capt. Isaac N. Hook
Destroyed: 1868, Oct. 14, below Vanceburg, Ky., sunk in some 50' of water in violent storm
Owners: When new, Capt. Isaac N. Hook
1868 when sunk, the Little Family, Portsmouth, Oh.
Name: SILVER LAKE
Launched: 1860s?
Area: U. Mo. R.
Captain and pilots: Capt. Grant Marsh
Name: SILVER MOON
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1850s? late.
Destroyed: 1869, late, on rocks at Louisville.
Area: Miss. R.; Ohio R.
Name: SILVER STAR
1856-60
Name: SILVER STAR
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 67.7' X 10' X 4.22'
Launched: 1877, Mason City, W. Va.
Destroyed: still documented, Cincinnati, 1896
Comments: *1885, Feb. 19, Stone River at Charleston, South Carolina, sank.
Apparently was raised.
1. Name: SILVERTHORN (one word)
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Launched: 1972, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Area: When new?, Evansville-Nashnille trade
1880, Jan., Memphis-Hales Point
Owner(s): 1877, Evansville & Memphis Steam Packet Company
1883, fall(?), sold to New Orleans concern.
Captain(s) When new? Josh T. Throop
1877, George S. Throop
Comments: This boat was named for Col. Silverthorn, the river editor of the Evansville Journal.
: 1883, summer, given cotten rails in Paducah, then went back south.
: *1875, sank to her hurricane deck, raised.
Name: SILVER WAVE
Type: Side-wheeler Size: 63 tons
Launched: 1888
Destroyed: 1897, July 21 fire at dock at Portsmouth, Oh.
Area: Miss. & Ohio Rs.
Captain(s): 1870's?, Blair, Walter,
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. July. 12 1897
Name: SIOUX CITY
Type: Sidewheeler
Size: 162.5' X 30' X 3.4'
Power: 13's - 4' two boilers.
Launched: 1870, California, PA.
Destroyed: 1873, Mar. 19, Swept away by ice gorge and destroyed.
Area: Ohio and Mo. Rivers.
Owner(s): 1870, Capt. Edmund B.(E.?) Cooper, James A. Sawyer, Andrew M.
Haley, all of Sioux City Iowa.
: 1871, Feb., St. Louis and Arkansas River Packet Co.
: 1872, spring, J. H. Durfee of Leavenworth, Kan. and others
Captain(s): 1870, Cooper, Edmund B. (E.?)
: 1871, Johnson, T. P.
: 1872, spring, McGarry, James
Comments: SIOUX CITY
1. Name: SIR WILLIAM WALLACE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 153' X 35' X 5.2', 255 tons.
Launched: 1855, California, Pa. For Hugh Campbell
Destroyed: 1866, Mar. 27, Mobile Ala., Burned.
Area: 1855-60, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati-St. Louis
1860-62, engaged in U.S. troop movement at various times.
1862-64, Out of Memphis
1864- Cincinnati-Memphis
1865, taken to Mobile, Ala.
Owner: 1855-62, Hugh Campbell, 7/8; Charles S. Frisbee, 1/8
1862-65, Capt. W.G. Stewart
1865, Apr. Capt. George H. Alcoke of New York, 1/2;
Captain: 1855- ??, Hugh Campbell
1862-64, G. W. Stewart
Name: SITKA
Type: Side-wheeler Size: 37'
Launched: 1847?
Destroyed: 1847, Dec. 5, sank in San Francisco Bay
Area: Sacramento R.
Owner: Capt. William A. Leidesdorff
Captain: William A. Leidesdorff
Comments: The first steamboat to make an appearance in the
California Delta. Was off-loaded in pieces from the
Russian bark Naslednich and reassembled at Yerba Buena
(San Francisco). In November of 1847, sidewheeler
made its way up the Sacramento River to John Sutter's
New Helvetia, taking six days and seven hours to make
the voyage. She was sunk by a south-eastern the next day.
3. Name: 6th JUNE
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: SKYLARK
Type: Size:
Launched:
Destroyed:
Area:
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt. Pilot Jesse Jamieson
Comments:
Name: SLICER
Type: Size:
Launched:
Destroyed:
Area: Miss. R.
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt. Pilot Jesse Jamieson
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson, shopkeeper,
Commerce, Mo.
- Wednesday Night, March 27th, 1861. "Business has been dull
today. . . . I heard from Grasndfather today by Slicer. . . . "
Name: SMELTER
Type: Tow boat Size: Small
Launched: 1837
Destroyed:
Area: U. Miss. R.
Owner: Harris, Daniel Smith , Capt. and his brother,
Harris, Robert Scribe, Capt.
Captain and pilots: Capt. Harris, Daniel Smith
Comments: Also a scenic excursion boat on U. Miss. R..
Mentioned in this Article
Name: SMOKY CITY
Type: Size: small
Launched: 1840s?
Destroyed:
Area: Miss. R. & Ohio Rs.
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. June. 12 1897
Name: SONORA
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 220' X 32' X 5.5', 363 tons.
Power: Engines, 21- 1/2's-7 ft., 3 boilers.
Launched: 1851, St. Louis, Mo.
Destroyed: 1856, Feb. 26, Portland, Mo, Mo. R., sank in ice, lost.
Area: St. Louis-Mo. R.
1853, ran trips up Red R.
Captains: St. Louis-Mo. R., Joseph LaBarge
Red R., William Terrell
Comments: 1916, Machinery and brass removed
: 1927, wreck still visible at low water
: 1940, U.S. dredge KEOKUK removed wreck
Name: SOPHIA or SOPHIE
Launched: 1840s, late?
Area: 1840s, late, Sacramento R.
Owner(s): 1856, California Steam Navigation Company
1. Name: SOUIX CITY
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 162.5 x 30 x 3.4.
Power: Engines, 13's- 4 ft. Two boilers.
Launched: 1870, California, Pa.
Destroyed: Mar. 19, 1873, about eight miles below Fort Sully, an ice
gorge crushed her.
Area:
Owners: 1870: Capt. Edmund B. Cooper, James A. Sawyer, and
Andrew M . Haley of Sioux City, Iowa:
1871, February, St. Louis & Arkansas River Packet Co..
1882 J.H. Durfee, Leavenworth, Kan., and others.
Captains: 1870, Capt. E.R. Cooper
1871, Feb., Capt. T. P. Johnson
1882, Capt. James McGarry
Comments: More on this boat
Name: SOUTH WESTAR
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: Pacific Rail road Packet Co.
Captains: Capt. John Porter.
Comments: Plied trade from St. Louis to Jefferson City to connect
with trains for Kansas, Fr. Levenworth, Weston,
Atchinson and St Joseph.
Name: SOUTH WESTER
Launched: 1850s?
Area: 1860, Mo. R
Captain(s): DeHaven, David
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Name: SOUTHERN BELLE
Area: Miss. R
Comments: Made run N.O. - Natchez 1853, 0/20/3
Name: SOUTHERNER
Launched: 1850s?
Area: Miss. R.
Owner: United States Mail Line
Comments: Made run Louisville - St. Louis 1855, 1/19/0
Name: SOUTHLAND, ORIGINALLY THE NASHVILLE
1910 - 1932
Name: SOVENIR (sp?)
Area: 1832, Dec., Ill. R., returned troops from Black Hawk War
to Hennepin, (Ill.?)
Source
Name: SPEEDWELL/HELEN M. GOULD/LOUCINDA See Postcard of SPEEDWELL
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: When new, 140.7' X 25.5' X 6.5'
After 1910 complete rebuild, 150' X 30' X 4.5'
Power: Engines, 12's- 6ft.. Two boilers, each 43" X 22'
Launched: 1897, Middleport, Oh.
Destroyed: 1918, Jan. 30, Cincinnati, wrecked by ice
Area: for Carr, local trade on Kanawha R.
1901, Charleston-Gallipolis
1902, briefly, Portsmouth-Cincinnati
Then Madison-Louisville
1910 after, mostly Cincinnati-Madison
Owners: When new, Carr Milling Co.
1902, purchased by Capt. Sam Parsons who renamed her HELLEN M. GOULD
Acquired by Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Company
Captains: 1901, Ralph Emerson
Comments: 1910, was completely rebuilt by L&C and renamed LOUCINDA
: 1914, became stranded high and dry on sandbar for several months
: After ice took her, the hull was recovered and built into the ANDES
Name: SPIRIT
Type: Sternwheeler, modern excursion boat
Size: 130 - 145 passengers
Area: Little Rock, Ark.
Name: SPIRIT of CINCINNATI, originally the BELLE of the LAKES
Name: SPIRIT OF JEFFRERSON, see MARK TWAIN
Name: SPIRIT of PEORIA Web Site
Type: Sternwheeler, modern excursion boat
Size: 100' X 35'. Wheel: 21'. Bow Stages: 35'. Stackight: 47.5'
Draft: 4.5'. Passengers: 409.
Power: Paddle Driven by 2 locomotive electric motors powered by
2 Caterpiller 3412 Genset engines.
Launched: 1988, Paducha, KY by (James) Jumer Boatworks
under the direction of Capt. Robert Anton.
Destroyed:
Area: Ill. River, Gragfton to Starved Rock. Home port is Cityfront,
Peoria, IL.
Season: Memorial Day to Labor Day. Private charters: Mar. - Dec.
Owner: 1988: Jumer's Boatworks, Peoria, Ill.
19??: East Peoria Steamboat Company, the riverboat gaming
license holder for Peoria, and owner of the Par-a-Dice
gaming boat, Peoria, Ill., who allowed her to just
sit dockside and deteriorate.
19??: The city of Peoria, Ill., who further allowed her
to deteriorate for 5 yrs.
1994-96: Leased by Lowel (BUD) and G. Alexander Greives.
1996: G&G; Packet Co. (Lowel (BUD) and G. Alexander Greives.)
Captain(s):1988-93: Robert Anton
:1994-98, July: Jim Mattox
1997 - G. Alexander Greives,
1999, July Harold Breitenbach
Engineer: 1998-99, July: Harold Breitenbach
Comments: 1998: First Mate: Daniel Downard. Second Mate: Orlando Lowe.
: 1997: G&G; started $600,000 remodeling project
Name: SPIRIT OF SACRAMENTO Originally the PUNTA
Name: SPIRIT of ST. CHARLES/HARRIET BISHOP
Type: Ornamental sternwheel excursion boat Size:99', 400 passengers
Launched: 1987, Utica, Ind.
Area: 1987,
1999, St Paul Minn.
Captains: 1999, William C. Bowell
Comments: renamed for Minnesota's first school teacher
: 1995, attended Tall Stacks Celebration
1999, attended Tall Stacks Celebration
Name: SPORT
Area: Osage R. Mo.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article.
Name: SPRAGUE Source photo See Post Card Also see
Type: Sternwheel towboat
Size: Hull, 275'. W/wheel, 318'
Launched: 1902, by Iowa Iron Works in Dubuque, Iowa.
Area: Ohio and Miss. Rs.
Captains: Albinus J. McKean (from his G, G, grandson)
: at one time, Carter Sewell Smith
Comments: Largest towboat ever made
: 1904, Moved 56 coalboats and 4 barges at once.
: 1926, moved 11,000,000 gal of oil in one trip.
: 1948: Converted to museum/showboat for Vicksburg
Name: SPRAY
1. Name: SPREAD EAGLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 210' X 36' X 6.', 389 tons
Power: Engines, 22's- 7 ft., 3 boilers, each 40" X 24'
Launched: 1857, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1864, Mar. 20, 3 mi. above New Haven, Mo., Pinckney Bend, Mo. R., sank.
This bend in the river became known as Spread Eagle Bend.
Area: Mo. R. entire career.
Owner: Built by Capt. Ben Johnson who sold her upon arrival at St. Louis
1857-?? American Fur Co. possibly in partnership with Capt. Joseph LaBarge
1864, Mar. 20, Capt. Wharton, Thomas H. Voorhees, Mrs. Saltmarsh and
engineer John Orum.
Captains: 1857-??, Capt. Labarge, Joseph
1861, William Rodney Massie
Comments: Plied trade from St. Louis to Omaha, and Council Bluffs IO.
1862, June 6: Raced EMILIE on Upper Mo. from morings
near Ft. Berthold in Dakota Territory.
Rammed EMILIE'S bow to keep her from winning. Lost by 4 days.
: Capt. Massie said years later that her that her wreck lies
burried in sand a mile from the river.
: From Diary of E.F. Beadle: 1857, May 18, Omaha, This evening at about dark,
the steamer Spread Eagle passed up without stopping. She was in employ
of the fur company or the government and her only load was supplies for the North.
Name: SPREAD EAGLE See Post Card
Launched: 1880s?
Destroyed: 1918, Jan., crushed by ice.
Owner: Eagle Packet Co.
1. Name: SPRINGFIELD Originally the W.A. HEALY
3. Name: SPRY
Launched: 1840s, late?
Area: 1840s, late, Sacramento R.
Name: S.S. BROWN Source
Type: Sternwheeler Size:
Launched: 1906, Pittsburgh
Destroyed:
Area: Miss. R.
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: Taken to Memphis during 1st year. Engaged only in Southern
trade after that.
1909: renamed
(Way's Packet Directory, p. 407 - 408)
Name: STAR
Launched: 1840s, late?
Area: 1840s, late, Sacramento R.
Name: STAR of the WEST
A nickname given the 1852 ALLEGHENY
1. Name: STAR of the WEST
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 435 tons.
Launched: 1855, McKeesport, Pa.
Destroyed: 1858, St. Louis, burned.
Area: Mo. R., St. Louis-St. Joseph
Captains: 1856, Dix
Comments: 1957, Mar. 22, 7 mi. above Jefferson City, Mo. - according
to this Diary, she was aground with others on a sandbar.
Got free the next day. Mar. 27 she put into Weston, Mo.
and St. Joseph, Mo., the upper end of its trip,
at 9PM that evening.
1. Name: STATE OF MISSOURI
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 252' X 56' X 6.5'
Launched: 1890, Madison, Ind.
Destroyed: 1895, Jan. 12, hit rocks on shoreline and went to kindling.
4 persons lost. Pell was pilot on watch, reading newspaper.
A cub was at wheel.
Area: Cincinnati-New Orleans trade.
Owner: 1890 Memphis and Cincinnati Packet Company
1857, sold to Louisville parties for $8,700
Captain: 1895, Master, Joe Conlin; Pilot, Jim Pell, Jr.
Comments: 1894, Feb. 20, Watson's Landing, sank and was raised.
1. Name: STATESMAN
Type: Sidewheeler, wooden hull packet Size: 247 tons
Launched: 1851, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1859, off lists.
Area: 1852, Mar, Ohio. R.; 1857, Henderson trade
Owner: 185?-57, Capt. Malin, John W.
1857, sold to Louisville parties for $8,700
Captain: 1851, Gormley; 185?-57, Malin, John W.
Name: STEAMBOAT THEATERS
Type: Size:
Launched:
Destroyed:
Area:
Owner: 1836, Chapman's, William first;
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments:
Name: STEEL CITY/ISLAND BELLE, formerly the VIRGINIA
Name: STELLA WHIPPLE
Type: Size:
Launched: 1850s or 60s?
Destroyed:
Area: U. Miss. R.
Owner:
Captain:
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: STELLA WILDS See Post Card
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Launched: 1886, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1900, 23 mi. below Natchez, burned
Name: STERLING
Owners: 1869, July, under charter to Diamond Jo Line
Comments: There is no reference to this boat under that name.
In the article I have the boat is refered to as the "STERLING",
but she might well have been the GENERAL PRICE (See)
Name: STEUBENVILLE
Type: Size:
Launched: Between 1815 and 1820 in Wheeling, W. Va.
Destroyed:
Area: Ohio R.
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: Machinery and boilers made by Arthur M. Philips,
Wheeling, formerly of Stubenville, Oh..
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: STOCKDALE
Type: Size:
Launched:
Destroyed:
Area: 1879: Ohio R. Using The People's Warf Boat in Wheeling, W. Va.
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
1. Name: STONEWALL
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 224' X 42.5' X 6.8'
Area: Out of St. Louis
Launched: 1866, Jeffersonville Ind. by Howard yard
Destroyed: 1869 Oct. 27, just after supper, 45 mi. above Cairo, Ill.,
at Neelys Landing, burned. Some 209 people drowned.
Owners: Capt. John Shaw and Dennis Long, Louisville, Ky.
Captains: 1869, when burned, Thomas Scott was master.
Comments: Was headed south to enter New Orleans-Grand Encore trade.
Had too many deck passengers and large load of freight.
Pilot Ed Fulkerson tried to run her ashore but wound up on a
bar with water all around burning boat.
Within hour of burning the wrecking boat SUBMARINE No.13
passed her by without stopping.
Three hours later BELLE MEMPHIS gave assistance.
: Captain Scott, his first clerk and the mate were amoung the dead.
: Hull was turned into a wharfboat at St. Louis
Name: STONINGTON
Launched: 1870s
Area: Rhode Island Sound
Owner: Stonington Line.
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Name: STORM
Launched: 1840s?
1. Name: SUBMARINE No. 4 (Eads')/BENTON (the 1st BENTON)
Type: Sidewheel wrecking boat/U.S. Gunboat
Size: 184' X 75' X 8'
Power: 20's-7 ft.
Launched: 1850s, late
Destroyed: 1865, scrapped
Area: Miss. R.
Owner: When built, Eads, James B. of St. Louis
: 1865, Mound City, Ill. Sold at sale to Jacobs, D. for $3,000.
Captains: 1862, Bixby, Horace
Comments: Converted to U.S. Gunboat. Forward plating, 5/8" iron.
Mounted 16 guns. Thusly weighted, drew 9'. Said to be the
most powerful weapon on the Mississippi. She was very slow
and known as "Old War Horse". Saw pleanty of action.
1. Name: SUCKER STATE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 230' X 36' X 5.5', 394 tons.
Power: 22's-7 ft.
Launched: 1860, McKeesport, Pa., construction supervised by Capt. Richard
C. Gray for Northern Line Packet Company
Destroyed: 1872, Alton Slough, burned
Area: Built for St. Louis-St. Paul trade.
Owner: Northern Line Packet Company
Captains: 1860, Master, T.B. Rhodes; Pilots, Capt. James B. Ward and Lud Blakeslee
1862-63, Master, James B. Ward
1866-69, Master, W.P. Hight
1870, Master, Ben A. Conger
At one time, J.J. Robinson
Comments: 1867, St. Louis-St. Paul, 2 days 23 hours 48 min.
: 1866 and 1869, 1st boat through Lake Pippin for St. Paul
: maintained a speed rivalry with sister ship HAWK-EYE STATE
Name: SULTAN
1845-47
Name: SULTAN
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 185' X 31' X 6.5', 349 tons.
Power: 24's- 8 ft., 3 boilers.
Launched: 1854, McKeeport, Pa.
Destroyed: 1858, Apr. 2, above Ste. Genevieve, Mo., burned with loss
of 23 lives. Enroute St. Louis-New Orleans
Area: 1856, advertised bi-weekly, St. Louis-Omaha.
: Also made frequent trips, St. Louis-Cincinnati.
Captains: 1856, John McCloy
1858, when destroyed, Phill C. Hannam.
Comments: 1857, May 29, The Diary of E.F. Beadle has her arriving
Omaha at bedtime.
Name: SULTANA
Comments: Made run N.O. - Louisville 1837, 6/15/0
Made run N.O. - Natchez 1844, 0/19/45 and 5/12/0
Made run N.O. - Louisville 1844 5/12/0
Made run N.O. - Donaldsville 1854, 0/5/42
Name: SULTANA See Post Card
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 1,719 TONS. rated to carry 376 persons.
Launched: 1865, early.
Destroyed: 1865, 2 AM April 27, overloaded, going up river from Vicksburgh
overloaded with Union soldiers who had been released from,
Andersonille prison, her boilers exploded. She
burned and sank in a group of islands called the "Hen
and Chickens" above Memphis. 1,547 died.
Area: Miss. R.
Captain(S): Mason, J.C.
Comments: Arrived in Memphis at 7 P.M. and got back
underway around midnight with 2,400 released Union
soldiers/prisoners home from Memphis, and 180 civilians.
An article on this disaster and a picture.
More articles and pictures on the disaster.
The Sultana Tragady, a book by Jerry O. Potter.
Name: SUMTER
Type: Confederate cotton-clad.
Launched: 186s, early.
Area: Miss. R.
Name: SUNFLOWER
Destroyed: ????, DEC. 2
Captain: Capt. Asa Hardy
Name: SUN See Poat Card
Type: sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Launched: 1898, Hockingport, Oh.
Destroyed: 1909, Apalachicola, Fl., stranded
Name: SUNFLOWER
Area: Under John Clemens, Neches R., Tex.
Destroyed: 1867, Trinity R., Tex. Patrick's Landing, north of Swarthout, sank.
Owners: *between 1852 and 57 purchased by Capt. John Clemens
*1860, purchased by Capt. William Neyland
*1867, purchased by Capt. D. E. Connor, Trinity R., Tex.
Comments: During Civil War was a Confederate tender and blockade-runner at Sabine Pass.
Name: SUNNY SOUTH, originally the ELECTRA
Launched: 1897
Name: SUNOL/PYRAMID
Type: Sternwheeler, wood hull packet Size: 135' x27.5'x7.8', 294 tons
Power: Steam reciprocating engine, 250h.p.
Launched: 1890
Destroyed: Off records 1946
Area: San Francisco Bay area
Owner: 1890 - 1924, Alden Brothers Ferry Company
1924-46, Leslie Salt Company
Captains:
Comments: 1924, Renamed PYRAMID
1. Name: SUNSHINE
Type: sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 354 tons.
Launched: 1860, Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1864, July 13, St. Louis, burned, it is thought by dreaded
Rebel Steamboat Burners.
Area: 1861, St. Louis-St. Paul
1861, Sept. went to Mo. R.
Owner: 1860-??, Capt. Willard
1861 late, Glasgow, Mo., captured by Confederates
1863, Recaptured by North.
Captain: 1860-??, Willard
1861, pilot, Absalom Grimes
*1862, during Civil War George Vickers and Jum Reed were the pilots
*1864, June 4, M. E. Dill
1. Name: SUNSHINE/PRINCESS
Type: sidewheel, wooden hull ferryboat/excursion boat
Size: 175' X 37' X 5.8'
Power: Engines, 18's- 6 ft. Three boilers each 42" X 26'.
Launched: 1888, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1928, Jan., Jeffersonville. Ind., burned while laid up
Area: 1888-1907, Louisville-Jeffersonville
1907, went to Pittsburgh, excursions
1921, excursions out of Louisville and other places
Owners: Louisville & Jeffersonville Ferry Company
and a subsidiary Fern Grove Amusement Co.
1907, purchased by Capt. William McNally
1920, Purchased by John W. Hubbard/River Excursion Company, Cincinnati.
Comments: 1907, altered by narrowing of guards rebuilding side wheelhouses
: 1918, added a texas deck and double swinging stages
: 1923, Aug. 21, name changed to PRINCESS
1. Name: SUNSHINE
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 200' X 38' X 5.'
Power: Engines, 16's- 6-1/2'. Three boilers.
Launched: 1892, Nov. 12, Wheeling W. Va.
Destroyed: 1904, May 10, at Bourrows Landing near Tiptonville, Tenn, burned.
1 life lost. Boat valued at $30,000, cargo at $40,000.
Area: A first Wheeling-Parkersburg, One trip a week to Pittsburgh.
Proved too big for that trade.
Went to Pittsburg-Cincinnati trade
Also made some Kanswaha R. trips.
Under C.P.B.S.& P., made some trips to Memphis
One summer, teamed with NEW SOUTH, Cincinnati-Coney Island excursions
Owners: ?190?? - 1903, The Cincinnati, Portsmouth, Big Sandy & Pomeroy Packet Company
Captains: At first J. Mack Gamble
1894, when aground, Capt. James Wright was watchman.
* 1896, A.C. Hazlett
1904, May when burned, Sterling McIntyre
Comments: 1894, summer, was aground at Big Knob Shoals on Kanawaha R.
: 1898, May, hit log near Owensboro and had to run ashore.
Was pumped out.
Name: SUSQUEHANNA
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 289 tons
Launched: 1851, Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: off the lists in 1860.
Area Cincinnati-New Orleans
Captains: cir. 1956, O.C. Williamson
Comments: 1859, Apr. 24, went to the aid of the exploded ST. NICHOLAS
Name: SURPRISE
Launched: 1817?
Area: Baltimore
Owner: Weems Line
Captain; Weems, George
Comments: Source
Name: SUTER, U.S.S.
Type: Snasgboat
Launched: early 1910s?
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: U.S. Gov.?
Captain(s): Spahr, Andrew Jackson (Bud)
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: SWAN
Comments: 1861, seen at Booneville Mo.
Name: SWAMP FOX
Launched: 1853?, Dec.
Area: Miss. R.
Captain and pilots: Capt. Pitchup
Name: SWIFT A New York Boat
Comments: See this web site: Fall River and Providence Steamboat Company
1. Name: SWIFTSHURE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 90 tons.
Launched: 1835, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1842, off the lists.
Area: built for Louisville-Cincinnati trade.
1836, Cincinnati-Maysville
Owners: When new, in part, Jacob Strader
1836, sold to Grafton Molen and others
Captains: when new, John Blair Summons
Name: SWIFTSURE
1840-
Name: SWIFTSURE No. 3
1844-1847
Name: SWIFTSURE No. 4
1846-51
Name: SWITZERLAND
Type: Ram; Size:
Launched: 1860s?
Destroyed:
Area: Miss. R.
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt. Ellet, Charles
Comments:
