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1. Name: T.C. TWITCHELL
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 494 tons
Launched: 1854, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1862, off the lists
Area: St. Louis-New Orleans - Capt. H.G. McComas
Louisville-New Orleans - Capt McFall
Owners: 1860, Dec. purchased from U.S. Marshalls by Capt. William Edds
for $5,000.
Name: T.C. WALKER
Type: Sternwheeler
Launched: 1860s? early?
Area: 1860s, California Delta
1. Name: T.D. DALE
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 111.6' X 19.7' X 3.2'.
Power: Engines, 9"- 3-1/2'
Launched: 1884, Harmar, Oh.
Destroyed: 1902, dismantled at Parkersburg.
Area: Short trade on uper Ohio R.
: 1885 or so, occasional trips to Marietta-Zanesville, Capt. O.J. Stowe.
: Also ran Cinciannati-New Richmond, Capt. Ott Hissom.
: Was a local out of Wheeling for a time.
: Late 1890s-1902, Charleston-Winfield
Owners: 1890s early, Capt. Ott Hisson
: 1890s, late, bought by L.A. Carr of Charleston, W. Va.
: 1900, purchased by Austin Beaver of Racine, Oh.
: 1902, purchased by Capt. Gorden C. Green who dismantled her for her machinery.
Captains: 1885, O.J. Stone
: Later Capt. Hissom
Comments: Named for president of Ohio Trust Co., a Marietta oilfield opererator.
: Mentioned in this 1884 Article
: Machinery went to the EVERGREEN and later to GREENDALE
Hull became a barge on the Big Sandy R.
Name: T.E. MORRISON
Type. Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 54' X 10'
Launched: 1896
Destroyed: 1896, Buffalo R., sank.
Area: Upper White R.
Owner: Captain Albert Cravens
Name: T.J. POTTER
Source: Photo
Name: T. J. SMITH
Area: Neches R., Tex.
Built: 1857, Town Bluff, Tyler Co. Tex.
Destroyed: Last reported in 1863 as inoperative and docked
for repairs at Lake Charles, La.
Owners: When new, Henry Force and Henry Clay Smith of Orange, Tex.
Captains: Henry Clay Smith
Comments: Built to be mail packet between Orange and Sabine Pass, Tex.
: See source Article
1. Name: T.L. BROWN/LUTHER TROXELL See for picture and more
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 139.5' X 21.6' X 3.4'
Launched: 1913, Chamberlain, Tenn.
Area: Tenn. R.
Owner(s): Dykes and Covington
: 1925, Capt. Paul H. Underwood, Cahattanooga, Tenn.
Comments: Had full cabin and 9 staterooms.
: 1920, was in litigation charged with illegally tansporting liquior.
: 1920, renamed LUTHER TROXELL.
1. Name: T.L. CRAWFORD
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 155 tons
Launched: 1858, Warsaw, Mo. on Osage R.
Destroyed: 1860, snagged near the mouth of the Lamine R. in Slaughterhouse
Bend, on the Mo. R., just upriver from Boonville, Mo.
Area: Osasge and Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
: Mentioned in this Article.
1. Name: T.N. BARNSDALL/ROYAL/LIBERTY Is this a Post Card of this ROYAL??
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 130' X 26' X 3.7'
Power: 12's-5 ft. 2 boilers, each 42" 20'
Launched: 1890, Belle Vernon, Pa.(hull), completed at Marietta, Oh.
Destroyed: 1912, Clarington, Oh., dismantled, stripped of fittings.
1913, Beverly Canal, hull with cabin still in tact
lodged across the canal during flood. Lost.
Area: 1890-92, Marietta-St. Marys then Marietta-Raven Rock, W. Va.
1892-, Marietta-New Matamoras; fall, Cincinnati-Chilo under charter.
Later this year settled into Merietta-Sistersville trade
1895-1904, occasional trips in Marietta-Zanesville trade.
1890-1912, Wheeling-Clarington
*1900 or so, Kanawha R., W. Vir.
1904, Oct. went to Wheeling-Clarington trade
Owners: 1890, Capt. Dode Berry of Williamstown, W. Va. and others
1899, three quarters by H.L. Richie, Portland Oh. and Henry C. Roe
Eventually, Henry C. Roe, entire.
1901, owned briefly by L.D. Davis and John M. Norton,
both of Irontown, Oh..
1901, Dec., Roe bought her back, entire.
1903, Jan., sold to Admiral J. Merrill of Marietta, who took
partners, W.R. Grimes and George W. Horne, both of Marietta.
1904, Oct., Went to Ohio and West Virginia Transportation Company
1904, Nov., sold to Clarington Packet Company
1909, Nov. 22, sold to Frank Humphrey, Clarington, Oh., entire.
1909, Dec. 11, purchased by Liberty Packet Company
Captains: 1890, Berry, Dode of Williamstown, W. Va.
1892, Roe, William E.
1904, June 20, Beaver, George S. 1905,- ??, Clark, E.J.
Comments: 1904, June 20, Above Waverly, Oh., hit log and sank along the
Ohio shore. Was refloated.
1904, Dec 31, was renamed ROYAL
1909, Dec. 11, renamed LIBERTY (the 4th one)
1912: Engines went to LIBERTY (the 7th one)
Comments: Mr. T.N. Barnsdall was an oilfield operator attracted to the
Sistersville area when oil was struck near there.
Name: T. P. LEATHERS ("T. P.'S MULE")
Type: Size:
Launched: 1870s?
Destroyed:
Area: Miss. R.
Owner: "Leathers, Thomas P.
Captain(s): Capt. Leathers, Thomas P.
Comments: Source, His last boat.
: Mentioned in this Article
Name: T.S. CONLEY
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 142.3' X 30.6' X 5.6', 215 tons.
Launched: 1859, Parkersburg, Va.
Area: when new, New Orleans-Red R.
During Civil War, still N.O.-Red R.
Owners: 1861, Phillip O'Neal and Nathan H. Dumphre
During Civil War, operated by the Kouns Line
Captains: when new, R.B. Roberts
1861, J.C. Shute
Comments: 1864, after Civil War was used to transport former
prisoners toward home. See
Name: T.T. HILLMAN
Type: Strernwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 196 tons.
Power: 10-1/2's- 4 ft.
Launched: 1875, Paducah, Ky.
Destroyed: 1882, Aug. 23, Miami Bend, Mo. R. snagged on a bar and lost.
Area: Built for Cumberland R. trade
Later, Cairo-New Madrid, Mo., Mo. R.
Owners: 1882 when lost, Capt. J.A. Stine
Comments: 1881, Jan.20, Cairo, Mo., sunk by ice, refloated.
1. Name: TACOMA See Post Card Page
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 180.2' X 30' X 5.1'
Power: 16's- 6 ft., 3 boilers, 40" X 20'
Launched: 1883, 1st trip Sept. 28
Destroyed: 1922, Nov. 4, Cincinnati, Fire that jumped from MORNING STAR
to other boats at dock.
Area: Out of Cincinnati for 39 years
Owners: 1883-90, Ohio River Packet Company (David Gibson and N.C. Vanderbilt)
1890 or so - 1901, Apr. 14, Tacoma Transportation Company (Capt. Martin
L. Hissem, Pres., of California, Ky.)
1901, Apr. 14, Cincinnati, Portsmouth, Big Sandy & Pomeroy Packet
Company (White Collar Line)
1904, Capt. Gordon C. Greene 5/16, Capt. William e. Roe 1/4,
Capt. Martin F. Noll 1/4, also Junius Greenwood and
Capt. Jesse P. Hughes all partners. (Greene Line Steamers, Inc.)
Captains: 1883, Sept. 28, pilot first trip, William Cliff
later and for many years, Jesse P. Hughes
Comments: 1897, rebuilt and rechained at Cincinnati Marine ways
1908, new hull and boilers
: Her machenery was rebuilt and went to the CHRIS GREENE
: This boat was in continual operation as a packet for 39
years without changing apprance or name,
probably a record for stability.
Name: TAGLIONI
Launched: 1840s?
Destroyed: 1849, May 17, fire at St. Louis docks.
Area: U. Miss. R.
Name: TAILSMAN
Type: Stern-wheeler Size: Small
Launched: 1830s?
Destroyed: 1848, exploded
Area: Sanganon R. Ill.
Comments: Young Abe Lincoln pointed out channel to Capt.
1. Name: TAHLEQUAH (No. 2)
Type: Sternwheeler, wooden hull, packet
Size: 149' X 31' X 5, 338 tons
Launched: 1846, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1876, off the lists
Area: 1846, out of N.O.
1869, N.O. - Ouachita R.
Owner: Original owners, Capt. John Woodburn and others
1868, Oct., Charles A. Beard bought control.
1869, Capt. G.P. Work
Captains: 1868, Blanks, Fred A.
1869, Capt. G.P. Work
Comments; Engines went to FLORENCE MEYER
Name: TAILSMAN (replica)
Launched: Contemporary
Area: New Salem Ill.
Name: TARASCON Reference
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 250' X 38' X 6.'.
Power: 22's-7 1/2 ft.
Launched: 1863, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1879, dismantled.
Area: 1863, entered Evansville trade, Tenn. R.
1864, Gulf Coast to Lake Pontchatrain
1865, Summer, said to be the largest boat to ply the Alabama R.
1866, Louisville-Mempis trade then Louisvilole-Evansville trade
Owners: built for Louisville & Henderson Mail Line
Captains: 1866,, J.A. Lusk
1870, William Strong
1876, David Penny
Comments: 1875, Sept. 12, below Salt R., sank in shallow water. Was raised.
: Towed either the CLIFTON or the ROSE HITE to Louiville after
the two collided
Name: TAWAH Raising the Gunboats
Type: sternwheeler? Size: 114'
Launched: Brownsville, PA
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: See link above for ongoing raising efforts.
Name: TAYLORS FALLS PRINCESS
Type: Contemporary, aluminum steel hulled Sternwheeler
Size: 80' X 23' X 17", 30 tons, 250 passengers
Power: 1 200hp. Perkins Deisel
Launched: La Cross, WI
Owner: Taylors Falls Scenic Boat Tours, Web Site and photo
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments:
Name: TECHE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 190' X 38' X 5.5'
Launched: 1886, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard for Bayou Teche
Packet Company
Destroyed: Reported to have burned
Area: 1893, New Orleans - Jeanerette - Franklin - Pattersonville.
1896, New Orleans - Bayou Teche
Owner: Bayou Teche Packet Company
Captains: 1886, Lloyd T. Belt
1893, Will T. Jones; clerk, George W. Belt.
1896, April, C.J. Blanchard
Comments:
* Name: TECUMSEH
Size: 212 tons
Power: High pressure
Launched: 1826, Cincinnati, Oh.
Comments: Made run N.O. - Natchez 1828, 3/1/20
Set record N.O. - Louisville 1828, 8/4/0.
This record was broken in 1833 by the SHEPHERDESS
Another mention
3. Name: TEHEMA
Launched: 1850s,? early?
Area: 1850s Early, San Joaquin R., Calf.
1. Name: TELEGRAM
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 158 X 31 X 4.5, 418 tons
Launched: 1858, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1861, May, Algeria, La. Burned
Area: 1858, Cincinnati-New Orleans, Capt Chandler; N.O.-Ouachita R.,
Capt. Fanning and Later, N.O. - Ouachita R., Capt.
Tobin then Capt. Stewart.
Owner(s): 1858, Capt. Joseph P. Chandler and others.
Captain(s): 1858, Chandler, Capt. Joseph P.
Later, Capt. Henry Fanning Stewart, then John W. Tobin
then, Capt H.F. Stewart.
1. Name: TELEGRAM
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size:147.2' X 25' X 4.4'
Power: Engines, 17's- 6 ft., came from the JAMES REES
Launched: 1876, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1889, dismantled
Area: 1876: Ohio R., making daily, 28 mi. run between Wheeling, W. Va.
and Clarington.
Owners: Built for Capt. Steve Thompson, James H. Gatts, Capt. Charles Booth
and Ruben and Thad Thomas
*1885, Dec. 4, 1/3 interest purchased by Capt. John K. Booth
Captain(s):1876- Steve Thompson
* 1884, James H. Gatts on Ohio R.
1886, John K. Booth with E.K. Booth, clerk
Comments: Notes from WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, and from The Daily State Journal
June 24, 1951
: Machinery went to the 1889 LIBERTY
Name: TELEGRAPH No. 1
Captain and pilots: 1849,(Feb. 17?) Jacob Hazlep
when navigating through ice flow. Credit
Name: TELEGRAPH No. 2
Launched: 1840s?
Area: 1849, Ohio R.
Comments: From Wheeling Daily Gazett, Feb. 7, 1849
1. Name: TELEGRAPH No. 3
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hulled packet. Size: probably 298' X 36'
Power: 30-1/2's- 10 ft. from PEYTONA
Launched: 1853, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: Dismantled
Area: 1853, Cincinnati-Louisville
Owner: United States Mail Line
Captains: 1853, Jan., Master, Moses Anders
1853, Apr., Master, Byington; pilots, Samuel Hildrith and frank Bacon
Comments: Made run Louisville - St. Louis 1853, 0/9/52
Name: TELEGRAPH
Type: Siedwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 287' X 41.2' X 5.1'
Power: Engines, 22's- 8 ft., 3 boilers each 47" X 30', 5 flues each.
Launched: 1887, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1891, Harmar, Oh., dismantled
Owners: Built by Cincinnati, Big Sandy and Pomeroy Packet Company
Captains: 1877, James Campbell
Comments: When built this hull was new but the cabin was from
the former (1864) TELEGRAPH
Name: TELEPHONE See Post Card
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 150' X 25'
Launched: 1878, Apr., Ironton/Portsmouth
Destroyed: 1885, Jan. 2, Hockingport, Oh., sunk by ice
Area: 1878 season, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
Then Wheeling-Charleston and later Gallipolis-Charleston
Later resumed Wheeling-Charleston trade
Owners: when new, Capt. Edwin F. Maddy and his brothers.
1878, Dec., sold to Kanawha Valley Packet Company
Captains: J.B. Dudding with George S. Dudding, *the captain's son, as clerk
*1884 or 85 a Captain Kinnaird was to take command
with Howard Donnaly, clerk.
1.Name: TELEPHONE/EMMA MARIE
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 150' X 25'
Launched: 1894, Knoxville, Tenn.
Deatroyed: Ran through 1908 and possibly later became a combination packet/towboat
Area: 1900, May, Capt. Hornbrook took her to U. Ohio R.
Owners: Built by Capt. J.E. Newman, Knoxville.
1900 purchased by Capts. Fred Hornbrook and Sam Williamson
Later sold to A.G. Jackson and C.L. Williams, Parkersburg.
Later, Capt. Louis Tanner, Ashland Ky. purchased 1/2 interest.
Captains: 1902, Dec., M.R. Lowther
Comments: 1902, Dec. 23, Little Kanawah R. at Big Ripple, snagged and sunk. Raised.
: 1906, rebuilt at Catlettsburg, Ky. and renamed EMMA MARIE.
Name: TELL
Area: * 1827, Feb. logged at Port of Cincinnati
1.Name: TELL CITY
Type: Stermwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: When new,191' X 35' X 5.2'
: 1911, Point Pleasant, W. Va., rebuilt and measured 190 X 38' X 5.2'
Power: engines, 17's- 7ft. three boilers, each 44" X 26'
Launched: 1889, by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1917, Apr. 6, below Lock #14, Ohio R., in backing from Little
Hocking Landing rubbed against beartrap of lock and began taking on water.
Was forced ashore on other side of river so hard her stacks fell.
She settled quickly.
Area: Louisville-Evansville trade
1916, went to Pittsburg-Charleston trade, Ohio and Kanawha Rs.
Owners: Built for Louisville & Evansville Mail Line
1916, Spring, Purchased by Capt. Fred Hornbrook and others
Captains: 1901, master was Fred Zoll
1917, Apr. 6, master was Charles H. Ellsworth
Comments: 1898, Sept. Louisville-Portland Cana;, was her only sinking. Pumped out.
: Pilot house became summer house in yard of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bent overlooking
the river at Little Hocking, Oh.
Name: TEMPEST
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1840s? late?
Area: U. Mo. R., U. Miss. R.
Captain(S): 1846 or so, Smith, John J.
Comments: Was in Indian Wars.
Mentioned in this Article
Name: TEMPLE OF AMUSMENT
Type: SHOWBOAT Size:
Destroyed: 1902, in a collision with SPRAGUE
Area: MISS. R.
Name: TEMPLE of the MUSES
Type: Showboat
Name: TENNESSE
Area: 1907: Between Kansas City and St. Louis
Owner: The Kansas City Transportation and Riverboat Co.
Comments: William Volker was a Principal in the Kansas City
Transportation and Riverboat Co.
Name: TENINO
Name: TENNESAW
Area: Sabine R., Tex.
Commnets: See source Article
* Name: TENNESSEE
Size: 416 tons
Launched: 1819, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1823, Snagged
Name: TENNESSEE
Launched: 1840s
Area: Miss. and Ark.Rs.
1. Name: TENNESSEE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 170' X 32' X 5.5'
Power: Engines, 14's- 5ft. Two boilers
Launched: 1897 at Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1908, Sept 11, Little Blue Bend, Mo. snagged.
Owners: built for St. Louis and Tennessee River Packet Company
1907 or so, sold to Kansas City - Missouri River Navigation Company
Area: when new, Nashville-Evansville trade
Catains: in Nashville-Evansville trade, Shep Green
1901, May, S King Hale was master.
1908, when snagged and lost, W.G. Earp was master.
Al and Art Thompson were pilots.
Comments:1907, Was in parade of boats, St. Louis-Memphis,
when President Theodore Roosevelt went down Miss. R.
: 1907, July, caught in storm and went into Eads Bridge, St. Louis.
Badly damaged.
Name: TEXAS, U.S.S.
Comments: I'm not sure which of the boats is in this picture
is the U.S.S. TEXAS, C.1900 Whichever, the other is THE WHISPER.
Name: 35th PARALLEL
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 149 tons.
Launched: 1859, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1863, Mar. 13, Tallahatchie, R, Miss.,
burned to avoid capture by North
Area: 1859, New Orleans-Ark. R. to Fort Smith.
Owners: Capt, Levi Chapman and Capt. Phillip Pennywitt
Captains: 1859, Levi Chapman
Comments: At outbreak of C. War was turned into Confederate
cotton-clad.
: 1862, Left Little Rock April 27, arrived Memphis on May 29,
2nd Battalion of 14th Texas Cavalry. ALONZO CHILD took
1st Battalion.
Name: THOMAS COLLYER (sic)
Launched: Pre 1850
Area: 1850, Washington D.C-Mount Vernon
1. Name: THOMAS E. TUTT
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 200' X 35' X 5.5', 351 tons.
Power: 22's- 7 ft., 4 boilers.
Launched: 1855, Cincinnati, oh.
Destroyed: 1864, Dec. 9, Cumberland City below Nashville, burned in U.S.
service by command of C.S.A., General, Lyons.
Area: 1856, weekly St. Louis-Brunswick
Captains: 1855-56, P.M. Dozier
Comments: Mentioned in this Article.
Name: THOMAS H. BENTON Originally the PEOPLE'S FERRY
3. Name: THOMAS HUNT
Launched: 1840's late? Size: 413 tons
Area: 1850s, early, Sacramento R. Calif.
Name: THOMAS HUNT
Comments: Possibly same as above.???
Name: THOMAS JEFFERSON
Launched: 1810s
Destroyed: 1819, Snagged
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: Accompanied WESTERN ENGINEER up Mo.
Name: THOMAS MOSES
Name: THOMAS SWANN
Launched: 1852? in Wheeling, W. Va.
Area: 1853: Ohio R.
Owner: 1853: built by Capt John McLure, Jr.
Captains: John McLure, Jr.
Companies Associated With; The Wheeling Union Line,
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING INTELLIGENCER, June 24, 1951
Name: THOMAS P. RAY
Size: small
Area: 1856 - Nov. 1858 at least, Upper White R.
Owners: before 1856, Jan. 6, Capt. Oaty P. Dowell
1856, Jan. 6 - 1856, Nov. 22, Jesse Mooney, Marion County, Ark. &
Capt. Francis A. Maffatt.
1856, Nov. 22, purchased by George Pearson of Marion County, Ark. for $2,500
Captains: before 1856, Jan. 6, Oaty P. Dowell
1856, Jan. 6 - Nov. 22, Francis A. Maffatt
Comments: At one time, Batesville Ark. blown from moorings and sank in 8' of water.
Quickly raised and Repaired.
: Much more in this article
1. Name: THOMAS POWELL
Type: Paddlewheeler, wooden hull, packet
Size: 104.4' X 20.2' X 3.8', 109 tons
Launched: 1865, Covington, Ky.
Area: 1865, New Orleans - Donaldsonville - Lafourche, twice weekly.
Owner: 1867, sold to Capt. Joseph A. Riuz, then again Dec. that year to
Capt. Theophile Dinvant.
1869, Capt. Joshua Wiley, of Vicksburg and John King
1871, May, sold by U.S. marshal to Miss C.J. Edwards for $700
Captains: 1865, Joseph Dalferes
Comments: Site visitor Dori Fulk believes that during the Civil War this
boat did some time as a Union Army hospital ship, probably in
the area of the James River. Dori's ancestor, Lorenzo FULLER,
was steward on her in 1864-5.
Name: THOMPSON DEAN ("de big Dean")
Type: Stern-wheeler.
Launched: 1872, Cincinnati
Destroyed: 1882?
Area: Miss. R.
Owner: Anchor Line
Captain(s): Miller, William, Mate, Peppers. George H.
Comments: From the Wheeling Register, Monday, March 31, 1879.
: Engines went to WILL S. HAYS
Name: TIDE (Towboat)
Launched: 1881, Pittsburgh area
Comments: Mentioned in this Document
1. Name: TIDAL WAVE/GRAND PACIFIC
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull towboat/packet. Size: 160' X 36' X 5.'. 476 tons.
Power: 14's-6 ft., 3 boilers, ea. 38" X 22'
Launched: 1870, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: *1884, Apr. 27, wind blew her into pier of Burlington bridge.
She broke in two and was lost. no lives lost.
Area: 1870, New Orleans-Red R.
1872-77, U. Miss. R.
*1876-77, U. Mo.R. to mouth of Yellowstone R. amidst Indian Wars.
Owners: 1870 when new-72, John Kouns, W.T. Scovell, W.C. Newton, H.H. Bailey and
James Newton, the latter 3 of Gallipolis, Oh.
1872-7?Diamond Jo Line
*1877, Yellowstone Transportation Company
*1877, sold to Davidson Line
*1884, St. Louis and St. Paul Packet Company (called White Collar Line)
Captains: *1873, spring, Alexander Lamont
*1873, later, Abe Mitchell
Comments: *1876 rebuilt into 800 ton craft at
La Cross boatyards.
: c.1883, renamed GRAND PACIFIC
* From an article by William Petersen in The Palimpsest
Name: TIGER Source
Type: Towboat Size:
Launched: 1836, in Wheeling, W. Va.
Owner: Capt. James Beebee
Captain(s):Beebe, James
Comments: Built to tow ships back to New Orleans from the Gulf of
Mexico.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: TIGER
1. Name: TIGRESS
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet/towboat. Size: 178' X 32' X 6.', 321 tons
Power: 18's-6 1/2 ft., 3 boilers.
Launched: 1858, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1863, Apr. 22, running Vicksburg batteries, holed by cannon
ball. Beached on Lousiana side. Lost.
Area: during cotton season, Ouachita R.-New Orleans. Tramped north in summer.
Owners: Capt. Alfred B. Hopkins and William Hopkins, Marion County, Va. and
Jonathan Aumiller, Meigs County, Oh..
: 1862 Under U.S. command
Captains: 1858, Alfred B. Hopkins
Comments: 1862: Apr. 6: Took Gen. Grant and his staff upriver from his
estate to the Battle of Shiloh.
During trouble on Tenn. R., was Grant's dispatch boat between
Cherry mansion, Savannah, Tenn. and Pittsburgh Landing.
: Once raced the KEY CITY, lost.
1. Name: TIME and TIDE
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 161 tons
Launched: 1847, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1853, Mar. 21, St. Louis, stranded and lost
Area: 1847, St. Louis - Galena - St. Peters
1848, St. Louis - Naples, connecting with a new railroad.
Owners: 1847-53, Gould, E.W. and Rodgers, C.S.
Captains: 1847-53, Gould, E.W. and Rodgers, C.S.
Comments: See this account of The Race
1. Name: TIME and TIDE
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 1853, when built, 128' X 26.7' X 4.1', 130 tons
1862, rebuilt, 143.5' X 27' X 4.8'
Launched: 1853, Freedom, Pa.,
Destroyed: 1864, May, New Orleans, burned.
Area: 1855-6 was at St. Paul; 1857-9, Minnesota R.
1861, Nov., New Orleans
Owners: 1853, in part, Capt. E.W. Gould, St. Louis and stockholders there.
1861, Nov., Hiern, Mary
1861, Dec., Owners in Terrebonne and Jefferson parishes, La.
1862, Aug. William Taylor
1862, Dec., Isaac Russel of New York City.
Captains: 1847-53, W.E. Gould
: 1850, St. Louis. census listed M. Able, age 29, born Ill.
and as pilot, J. Hargrove, age 33, born Iowa.
1857-8, Lewis Robert
1859, Robert Nelson
1861, Dec., James Taylor
Name: TIMOUR
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 232 tons
Power: 1851 after rebuild, engines 19's-7 ft., 3 boilers
Launched: 1849, St. Louis, Mo
Destroyed: 1854, Aug., blew up 3 mi. below Jefferson City, Mo. killing
19 people including the Capt., pilot and clerk.
She was taking on wood, and many passengers
were ashore picking wild flowers.
Area: 1849, Made trips up Mo. R. with Capt. Miller
Owners: When exploded, Capt. Edmund F. Dix, Charles F. Eckler and others
Captains: 1849, Miller
Comments: 1849, May 17, badly damaged in The Great Steamboat Fire at
St. Louis docks.
: 1851, Rebuilt.
: 1852, collided with and wrecked the FLORA.
Name: TINSIE MOORE
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet Size: 165.6' X 35' X 5'
Launched; Hull, 1890, Brownsville, Pa.; completed at Wheeling
Area: 1895, Sept. Alabama R., weekly to Mobile, Selma and Montgomery
Captains: 1892, Oct. Vick, James D., of Monroe County, Ala.
Companies associated with: The People's Line
Comments: *In Oct 1895 brought down a load 0f 1804 bales of cotton to
Advertisement in Oct. 9, 1892, The Daily Register
Mobile, Ala. says "Elegant Electric Light Freight and
Passenger Packet" A. J. Welch, Clerk.
: Sister Steamer, HATTIE B. MOORE
*Info is from site visitor, Art Green
Name: TIOGA
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 170 tons
Launched: 1840, Wheeling, W. Va.
Destroyed: 1849, Dismantled
Area: 1840, Pittsburgh - Cincinnati
1841, Made Mo. R. trip to present site of Kansas City.
1845, April, Was at Pittsburgh the day of a big fire. Took news
of blaze to Wheeling, W. Va..
Captain(s): 1840, Henry Mason
1841, Master, David Blashford; Pilot, C. W. Batchelor
Sometime later, As a clerk, L.T. Belt started his career on
her.
1. Name: TISHOMINGO
Type: sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 188 tons.
Launched: 1852, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1860, off the lists.
Area: Louisville-Memphis and Louisville-Henderson.
Later, U. Miss. R.
1853, Ohio and Tenn. Rs.*
1857, Winter, St. Louis-St. Paul
Captains: 1863, Apr., A.J. Brisco*
*Piloted at one time by Oscar M. Ruby
Comments: 1856, Galena, sold for debt.
: Challenged KEY CITY to race. Lost.
: Named for Indian prince of Choctaw tribe.
* Source in above ad.
Name: TOBACCO PLANT
Launched: 1840S, EARLY
Area: 1846, Mississippi. and St. Croix Rs. St. Louis to Ft. Snelling
Comments: Mentioned in this Source
Name: TOM BAYNE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Source: Post Card
Name: TOM GREEN Post Card of main salon
Name: TOM HESS/RALPH E. WARNER
Launched:
Destroyed: 1895, U. White R., by fire
Area: 1888-89, White R.
Captains, 1892, John T. Warner, was also owner.
Comments: 1892, Capt. Warner renamed her RALPH E. WARNER
: Source
Name: TOM JASPER
Launched: 1860s? early
Area: 1864, U. Miss. R.
Owner: 1864, Northwestern Union Packet Company
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: TOM REES
Launched: 1880's?
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Mar. 31 1897
Name: TOM RODGERS
Launched: 1880's?
Destroyed: 1887, near Arrow Rock, Mo. on mo. R.
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Name: TOM SAWYER
Type: Ornamental sternwheel excursion boat Size: 116', 300 passengers
Launched: 1966, Dubuque, I.
Area: 1999, St Louis
Captains: 1999, Gary Desnoyer
Comments: 1999, attended Tall Stacks Celebration.
1. Name: TOM STEVENS
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 134' X 28' X 3.5', 170 tons.
Power: 12's- 4 ft., 2 boilers
Launched: 1866, St. Louis, Mo
Destroyed: 1878, dismantled
Area: Mo. and Osage Rs.
: Winter months, St. Louis-White R., Ark.
Captains: 1868, July, Master, John H. Burk; pilots, Frank A. Murry and
Thomas H. Bigger
Comments: 1868, July, Made trip Fort Benton-Great Falls, Mont.
: Once went up Osage r. to Fort Scott, Kans. in an attempt to
collect the $1,000 reward offered by that town for reaching it
by river. Got to within sight of town befor trees stopped her.
: 1873, Feb. 5, was sunk by ice Osage Chute at mouth of Osage R.
Refloated.
Mentioned in this Article.
Name: TONSINA
Type: Sternwheeler
Size: 120'
Power: 2-300HP engines with oil fired boilers. 16-1/2' Wheel.
Launched: 1909: Copper River, Alaska
Area: Copper R., Alaska.
Captain(s): Bailey and Pinkerton
Comments: She was carted on wagons and sleds overland and assembled
on the bank of the Copper River.
Comments: For more, see Alaskan Riverboats
Name: TRAPPER
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: 1840, American Fur Company
Name: TRAVLER
Area: 1831, Ill. R.
Owner: Possibly whole or in part, Capt. Abraham Kimber, Brownsville
Source
Name: TRAVELER
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
*Name: TRENT
Area: Miss. R.
Owners: 1861-63, Boisseau, Capt. Joseph
Captain: 1861-63, Boisseau, Capt. Joseph
Comments: A Confederate boat during 1861-63, at least
:* This listing from Biography of Capt Joseph Boisseau
4. Name: TRIBUNE
Type: Designed by Samuel Walker of Elizabeth, PA.
Area: 1838, Apr. 25, left Cincinnati on Ohio R
Captains: 1838, April, James Boyd, of Pittsburgh, Pa.;
pilots, Brothers Sam and A.D. Reno
Comments: On this day left Cincinnati expecting to partake in a race with the
MOSELLE, which unfortunately blew up.
1. Name: TRIBUNE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 251 tons.
Launched: 1849, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1849, Nov. 2, Bayou Goula, La., burned.
Captains:
Name: TRILLIUM
Destroyed: Sunk, raised and completely restored
Comments: Now a Historic Vessel
Picture
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1.Name: TRIMBLE
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull ferry boat. Size: 110' X 30' X 3.5'
Launched: 1895, Madison, Ind., Jefferson Boat Works
Destroyed; 1928 or 9, Dismantled.
Area: oHIO r., Madison, Ind. to Milton Ky.
Owners: over the years, C.L. Melcher, J.D. Taylor, Clarence Hisle, John
Niehouse, Capt. John W. Hughes, D.T. Voiers, Harry Voiers
1921, Capt. George W. Monroe became sole owner.
Comments: Much of boat went into building the MARGARET J.
Name: TROPIC
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 225 X 23.', 242 tons.
Launched: 1853, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1857, Oct. 14, 1/2 mi. below Waverly, Mo. Mo. R.
Snagged and lost. Estimated loss of life, 12 to 15.
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: Nanson, Joseph S. Nanson
Captain Joseph S. Nanson
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: TROVER (?Same as JAMES H. TROVER?)
Comments: 1866, May, was racing ABEONA to Ft. Benton on Mo. R..
3. Name: TULARE
Launched: 1870s, early
Area: 1871, California Delta, Empire City - Mumford
Owner: 1871, California Pacific Railroad
Name: TUSCARAWAS
Area: 1840s, Out of Zanesville, Oh.
Captain: William Scales
Comments: Once made a trip to Coshocton, during high water.
Mentioned in this Article
Name: TUSCARORA
Comments: Made run N.O. - Natchez 1834, 1/21/0
Name: TUSCUMBIA
1846-52
Name: TUSCUMBIA
1862-65
Name: TUSCUMBIA
Type: ? wooden hull packet. Size: 86.4' X 14.6' X 2.8'
Launched: 1881, Ashland, Ky.
Area: reported, 1881, Osage R. Mo.
1886, documented in New Orleans
Comments: Mentioned in this Article.
Name: TWENTIETH CENTURY
1. Name: TWILIGHT
Type: Sidewheeler wooden hull packet. Size: 180' X 32', 230 tons
Power: Engines, 16's- 4-1/2 ft., 2 boilers.
Launched: 1865, St. Louis, Mo.
Destroyed: 1865, Sept 10, near mouth of Fire Creek above Napoleon, Mo. snagged and sunk.
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: 1865, McPherson, Henry W./C. W. Sombart/John P. Keiser
Captain(s): 1865, William Massie, master, also Henry McPherson, and possibly John P. Keiser
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: TWILIGHT
Type: Excursion Paddlewheeler. Size: 126' X 30', 5' 6" full load draft
Launched: 1987, Apr.
Power: twin screws
Area: LaClaire, Iowa
Owner: River Cruises, 1-800-331-1467
Comments: "LeClaire is home port for the elegant paddle-wheeler Twilight.
It's like taking a page out of the 19th century! The Twilight
leaves LeClaire each Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday for a
day long cruise up the Mississippi to near Galena, where
you spend the night at Chestnut Mountain Resort, sightsee
in historic Galena, then return by bus the next day."
Quad Cities
Name: TWIN CITY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 154' X 28.1' X 5.1', 209 tons.
Launched: 1852, California, Pa. for Capt. Hugh McKelvey
Destroyed, 1855, Dec. 7 St. Louis docks, burned along with PRAIRIE CITY and
PARTHENIA.
Area: 1852, Pittsburgh-St. Louis
1855, St. Paul-St. Louis.
Owners: 1852 when built, Capt Hugh McKelvey and others of Allegheny County, Pa.
1855, Benjamin F. Easley of St. Louis
Captains: 1852, Master, Hugh McKelvey
1855, S.J. Ball
1. Name: TWO BROTHERS
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 120' X 30' X 6.', 120 tons.
Launched, 1854, Californis, Pa.
Destroyed: 1860, off the lists
Owners: 1854, Capt. Martin Broderick, New Orleans
Later, George Sanford, New Orleans.
Captains: Martin Broderick.
At one time possibly piloted by Edward James Hulings
Name: TWO STATES
Name: TYCOON
Size: 64 tons
Area: White R. Ark.,
1897-98, season, Black R.
Destroyed: 1896, L. White R., burned.
Captains: 1896, Dick Prater
Comments: Source
Name: TYLER
Type: Timber-clad
Launched: 1850s?
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: One of first packets turned into gun boats for Union
Navy in Civil War.
1865, April, late: Helped rescue surivors of SULTANA.
1. Name: TYRONE/SILVER CITY
Type: sternwheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 155' X 32' X 5.', 138 tons
Power: Engines, 15's-5 ft.. Two boilers
Launched: 1877, St. Louis Mo.
Destroyed: 1886, still on the lists
Area: 1877, made Mo. R. trips under Capt. Silver
Owners: Originally Capt. David H. Silver and others.
1878, sold to New Orleans and Red River Packet (Transportation)Company
1878, July 31, went to Red River and Coast Line
Captains: At first, David H. Silver
Comments: 1878, renamed SILVER CITY by N.O & R.R.P.C.
: 1883, droped her wheel overboard and was towed to N.O by JOHN D. SCULLY
