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Name: U.P. SCHENCK
Type: Cotton Carrier Size: Big
Power: 22 1/2's x 7' from the sunken PAT ROGERS
Launched: 187?
Name: U.S.S. CAIRO U.S. Gunboat
Name: UNCAS
Launched: 1829
Comments: Source
Name: UNCLE BEN
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet/cotton clad Confederate gunboat.
Size: 135'
Launched: 1853
Destroyed: 1867, Near East Hamilton, Tx., snagged and sunk.
Area: Most of its career, Sabine R., Tx.
Owners: 1853-57, Capt. Robert S. Patton
1857- *Patton's estate sold boat to John G. Berry of Sabinetown.
1857?, *Sold to Charles H. Ruff, Otto Ruff, of Beaumont, Tx.
and C. H. Alexander, of Sabine, Tx. for $8,000
1861, *was chartered by the Confederate States government
1865, auctioned to unknown persons
Comments: Source
Name: UNCLE SAM
There were at least 6 UNCLE SAMs (See)
Name: UNCLE TOBY
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 109 tons
Launched: 1844, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1853, off the lists
Area: 1844, St. Peters-St. Louis
1846, Apr. 9, St. Galena-St. Louis
1847, st. Louis-galena-Dubuque
1851, Nov. 20, arrived Port Douglass, Minn., then to to St. Paul
and onto St. Louis
Captain: 1844-46, George B. Cole
1847, Henry R. Day
1850, fall, Grimes, William Leander
pilot in training, Absalom Grinmes, Capts. son.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: UNDINE
Type: Gunboat in Civil War
Name: UNDINE
Type: Probably a sternwheeler
Launched: 1870s
Area: Coosa R. (Ga. and ALA.)
Comments: Source
Magic Cabin
3. Name: UNION Size: Small Launched: 1840s?Late?
Area: 1849, Aug. 31, Sacramento R., 1851, Jan., San Joaquine R., Calf.
Comments: 1849, Aug. 31, Listed in the Alta Californian as plying trade on the waters
of the Sacramento R.
1. Name: UNION
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size 240 tons.
Power: 28's -7 1/2 ft., 2 boilers, each 42" X 30 ft.
Launched: 1845, Wellsville, Oh.
Destroyed: 1850, Jan. 11, Cape Girardeau, Mo., Stranded and lost.
Area: when new, Pittsburgh-New Orleans
Comments: Built to pass through Louisville-Portland canal.
: Used 20 cords of cottonwood daily or 17 cord of hardwood.
1. Name: UNION
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 125' X 24' X 6.5', 168 tons.
Launched: 1845, Marion, Ala., (Perry County)
Destroyed: 1855, off the lists
Area: 1850, out of New Orleans
Owners: 1850, James Davis who soon sold to Capt. Brown and others.
1852, Apr. 15, Sold to Capt Thomas G. Mackey and others., New Orleans.
Later owned by Capt Henry G. Abbott, New Orleans.
Captains: 1850, John H. Brown
1. Name: UNION
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet
Size: 30 tons
Launched: 1846, Wellsville, Oh.
Destroyed: 1855, off the lists.
1. Name: UNION
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 65 tons
Launched: 1850, Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1852, off the lists.
Area: At first home port was Paduca, Ky.
Owners: A boat by this name was also wqas bought by Gen. James Gamble and
used to haul copper ore from Ducktown mines to Charleston on U. Tenn. R.
Captains: On U. Tenn. R. prior to C. War, C.C. Spiller
Comments: Way's Packet Directory says that a boat of this name was on the
upper Tenn. river before the C. War.
1. Name: UNION
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 209 tons
Launched: 1852, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1856, Feb. 5, Apalachicola R. Fl. collision with CUSSETA
Area: 1st home port was Apalachicola, Fl.
3. Name: UNION (the 6th one)
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 125' X 28' X 4.5', 143 tons
Launched: 1853, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1859, off the lists
Area: 1853 out of New Orleans
Owners: 1853 when built, Keller, Capt. John
1856, Mar. 3,-1857, Sept. 2, Moore, Nathaniel of Shreveport, La..
1857, Sept. 2 For a few days, Wilson, Pomroy And Company.
1857, Sept. , Beard, Hugh H. of New Orleans, La.
Captains: 1852-1857, Mar. 3, McWilliams, J.G. of Shreveport, La.
1857, Sept., Beard, Hugh H.
1. Name: UNION
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Launched: 1857, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1861, Apr. 2, Clinton, Ind., snagged and lost
1. Name: UNION
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull ferry boat
Size: 17 tons
Launched: 1860, Mason City, Iowa
Destoyed: 1862, off the lists
1. Name: UNION
1861-68
1. Name: UNION
Type: Centerwheel, wooden hull ferry boat
Size: 99' X 27' X 4.', two different sources - 100 tons or 72 tons
Launched: 1861, Brunswick, Mo. Not documented until Feb. 11, 1868
Destroyed: 1879, opposite Fort Lincoln, Dakota Terr., snagged
3. Name: UNIT
Type: Size:
Launched: 1846
Area: 1846, San Francisco-San Joaquine City, Calf.
Owner: Mckee, William
Name: UNITED STATES
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size:294' X 40' X 6.5', 1,106 tons.
Launched: 1865, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1868, Dec 4, Above Warsaw, Ky. at Rayl's Landing, Ind,
collided with AMERICA. Both burned and sank. 40 lost.
Area: Ohio R., 1865, Cincinnati-Louisville
Owner: United States Mail Line
Captains:
Comments: Account of collision
Name: UNITED STATES See Post Card
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Launched: 1869, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1884, Madison, Ind., dismantled
1. Name: UNIVERSE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size:180'X 35'X 7.
Power: Engines, 22's 7ft. 3 boilers.
Launched: 1857, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1864, Oct. 30, Plum Point on Miss. R., snagged and lost.
17 lives lost.
Area: In general, Cincinnati - New Orleans
: 1862, April, Tenn. R., was under command of Union Gen. Wm. T. Sherman
Caprains: Watts and later Albert Stine
1. Name: URANIA/HELEN BLAIR
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 160.4' X 29' X 5.3'.
Power: 18's -5 ft.
Launched: 1896, Harmar, Oh. by Knox Yard
Destroyed: 1920, Memphis, dismantled.
Area: 1896, Pittsburgh-Charleston
1899, Spring, Cincinnati-Gallipolis
1901, spring, Cincinnati-Ironton three trips a week.
1901, Mis-summer, local trade out of Burilington, Iowa.
1913, Apr. 7, docked at Galena, Ill. 1st. boat there in years and
last boat ever to go there.
Later: Cincinnati-Pittsburgh
1915, Nov., went Clarendon, Ark. on White R.
1916, made round trip, Davenport-New Orleans
Later, U. Miss. R.
Owners: 1896-1901, summere, Bay Line, Ironton, Oh.
1901, Mid-summer, purchased by Capt. Walter Blair
1919, sold to Memphis
Captains: 1896, Howard Donnally
1899, Spr., Master, Dave Scatterday; Pilot, George Hamilton
1901, spring, T.T. Johnson
1901, mid-summer, Walter Blair
1915, pilots, Dayton Randolph and Walter English.
Later, Master, Joseph H. Young
Comments: 1901, Sept. 5, fire and burned off her Texas deck and pilot house.
Was rebuilt that winter, Kahlke's Yard, Rock Island, Ill.,
and renamed HELEN BLAIR to honor Capt. Blair's daughter.
3. Name: URILDA
Launched: 1840's late? Size: 140 tons.
Area: 1853, Sacramento R. Calif.
1. Name: URILDA
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 186 tons.
Launched: 1863, Dec., Monongahela, Pa.
Destroyed: 1869, Apr. 23, Kate Swinney Bend, Mo. R., snagged and lost.
Area: At first Pittsburgh-Oil City, Allegheny R.
1864, summer, Ohio R. trades, then back to Allegheny
1868, Pittsburgh-Fort Benton, Mont., U. Mo. R.
Owners: new, William S. Evans (1/2), D.S.H. Gillmore and Capt. Sallie. B. Coulson
1867, sometime after, owned in part by Capt. William J. Kountz
Captains: Pittsburgh-Oil City, Thomas W. Laughrey
1868, Apr. for Fort Benton run, G. J. Hazlett
Comments: 1867, was possibly rebuilt.
1868, winter, was caught at Farm Island, U. Mo. and wintered there.
1. Name: UTAH
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 89 tons.
Launched: 1851, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1853, off the lists.
Area: out of St. Louis
1. Name: UTAH
Type: ??wheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 185' X 37' X 5.', 428 tons.
Power: 16's -5 ft., 3 boilers. From HERO
Launched: 1869, Metropolis, Ill.
Destroyed: 1877, Mar., Vicksburg, Miss., burned at an island opposite.
Area: 1870, Mid-March, Ran St. Louis-Fort Smith, Ark. with heaviest
load to date, 600 tons.
1871, Aug., St. Louis-Vicksburg
1875, Advertised in Pittsburgh, Pa for Winona, Minn.,
departing, Apr. 2.
1876, Went to Yazoo R., Miss.
Owners: 1870, operated under St. Louis, Arkansas & White River
Packet Company.
1871, operated under Anchor Line
1875, Benjamin F. Beasley and Capt. Thomas Voorhees
1876, Aug., sold at U.S. Marshal auction to P.B. Marrion
Captains: 1875, Thomas Voorhees
1876, J.N. Smith
Name: UTICA
Launched, 1840, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Size: 132.4' X 25.7' X 5', 131 tons.
Area: 1842, Sept. 23, enroled at Pittsburgh, Pa.
1843, enroled at Pittsburgh, new owner
Owners: 1843, Jesse Klinefelter, S. Peppard, David Long Thomas ? Alexander
Minnick and Wm. Minnick
Captains: 1843, Sept. 13, Jesse Klinefelter
Comments: This info from Dean A. Thompson. Jesse was his 3rd great grandfather.
Enrollment form # 10 states the Utica of Pittsburgh whereof Jesse
Klinefelter is at present master and as he hath sworn he is a citizen of
the United States and that the said ship or vessel was built at
Pittsburgh, the year 1840 as per enrollment sept 23rd 1842 now
surrendered for change of owners.
Certificate of engine inspection filed.
The said ship or vessel has one deck and no mast and that her length is
one hundred thirty two feet four inches, her breadth twenty five feet
seven inches, her depthfive feet and that she measures one hundred
thirty one 5/95 tons, that she is a steamboat and has whistle, stern,
cabin ? and ? head. and that said Jesse Klinefelter having agreed to the
description and admeasurement above specified and sufficient security
having been given according to the said act the said steamboat UTICA has
been duly enrolled at the port of Pittsburg this thirteenth day of
September in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty three.
S. Peppard, David Long Thomas ? Alexander Minnick and Wm. Minnick are
listed as other owners.
