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Name: V.F. WILSON
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull towboat. Size: 285.71 tons.
Power: 17's-16 ft. 3 boilers.
Launched: 1860, Isaac Hammitt Yard, McKeesport, Pa.
Destroyed: 1873, Monongahela R., Pittsburgh, struck by loose, loaded coal
barge. Sunk.
Owner: Capt. Daniel Pollard, Ike Hammitt and Capt. William Dunshee,
owners of a coal mine near McKeesport PA., possibly D.B.A.
Mississippi Coal Company.
: During Civil War, USQMD chartered her for $175 per day.
Captain: 1860, Daniel Pollard
Comments: was a coal barge tow
: During C. War, was General Grant's dispatch boat out of Vicksburg.
She was sent north with news of the fall of Vicksburg.
: sister boat, IKE HAMMITT
: Named for Victor F. Wilson, Vicksburg, Miss.
Name: V. W. SPARHAWK
Destroyed: 1856, late Feb, Torn from docks and swept downstream
in ice flow during Great Ice Gorge at St. Louis.
Sunk by ice.
Name: VALIANT Source and Photo
Type: Sternwheel towboat Size:
Area: 1900: Ohio R., Wheeling, W. Va.
1. Name: VALLEY BELLE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 127' X 22' X 4.'
Power: Engines, 8's- 6 ft., 2 boilers, each 36" X 26'
Launched: 1883, Harmar, Oh. at Knox Yard
Destroyed: 1943, dismantled after 34 years as a packet
followed by 26 years as a towboat.
Area: Built for Marietta-Beverly trade, Muskingum R.
1884, entered Ravenswood-Middleton trade
1895-98, made accassional Marierra-Zanesville runs
1898-99, Marietta-Middleport
1900, Marietta-Gallipolis
1903, Marietta-Middleport
1907, same trade which played out around 1911
1914, Marietta-Gallipolis for a few trips then -
went to U. Kanawha
1917, went to towing jobs
Under Ben Raike did towing jobs until she sank in 1943
Owners: * 1881, in part Capt. J.C. Edwards
1915 or so, Capt. John Lane
1917, Mar., sold to E.P. Mathews, Point Pleasant, W. Va.
1919, Mar., purchased by Capt. William Bryant to tow his showboat
1938, sold to Ben Raike, Kanauga, Oh.
Captains: When new, Thomas Clark
* 1881, J.C. Edwards
1884, J.C. Edwards with W.W. Hayman, clerk
1895-98, Robert Edwards on Marietts-Zanesville runs
1897, W.W. Hayman, master with Harry Donnally, clerk
1898-99,W.W. Hayman, master with Ralph Emerson Gaches, clerk
1900, W.W. Hayman, master with J.H. Williamson, clerk
1903, H.L. Ritchie master with Charles F. Ritchie, clerk
1907, T.D. Wilkerson, master with P.L. Wolf, clerk
Comments: Was reoutfitted in 1938 with engines from LIBERTY
: Was longest lived, continuous running wooden hull paddlewheeler.
: Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
Name: VALLEY FORGE
Launched: 18??
Area: Miss. and Ohio Rs.
Captain(s): 1839, First Mate, Hugh Campbell
Source: Campbell family records
Comments: 1. machinery went to ROBERT MORRIS
Name: VALLEY FORGE
Type: ?steel hull? Size: 199 tons
Launched:1839, Pittsburgh
Name: VALLEY GEM See Post Card Page
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Launched: 1897, Harmar Oh.
Destroyed: 1918, Feb., Morgantown, W. Va. crushed by ice
Name: VALLEY QUEEN, 1923 - Originally the JO HORTON FALL
Name: VAN DORN
Type: Confederate ram-boat Size:
Comments: Fled to safety while 7 of her sister ram-boats were
sunk at Memphis
Name: VELMA
Launched: 1910s?
Destroyed: 1918, Mo. R., near Franklin I. below Boonville, Mo..
Area:Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
* Name: VELOCIPEDE
Size: 109 tons
Power: Low pressure
Area: 1827, logged at Cincinnati
Launched: 1824, Cincinnati
3. Name: VELOZ
Type: Sternwheeler Size:
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: VENUS
Area: 1888, Miss. R. Between Rock Island and Clinton Iowa.
Owner: 1888, Streckfus, Capt. John
Comments: There was A gunboat by this name, however the dates do not corrispond.
See Raising the Gunboats: for ongoing raising efforts.
1. Name: VERNE SWAIN/SPEED
Launched: 1886, Stillwate, Minn. by David M. Swain
Destroyed: cir. 1932, dismantled
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 122' X 22.6' X 5.'
Power: When new -12" & 24" -6ft. cross-compound. Locomotive boiler & fan bower
: when rebuilt engines, 12's- 6-1/2'. Regular boilers, 40" X 20'
Area: 1886-88, Clinton-Davenport trade
1888, Miss. R. Between Rock Island and Clinton Iowa.
1911, went to Green R.
1919, went to Gallipolis-Huntington trade for about 3 weeks
Later sold to Louisiana-Arkansas Barge Service, Momroe, LA.
Owner: 1886, Capt. David M. Swain
1889, purchased by Capt. John Streckfus
1900, sold to Dixon Bros., Peoria, Ill.
Later sold to Lyon Bros., Greenville, Miss.
1911, July, sold to Capt. E.W. Bewley
1919, Capt. Lewis Tanner who had swapped her for the HAZEL RICE.
Captains: 1889, William Knaach, then A.M. Lovett
1899-90, Frank Black
Comments: 1893, was rebuilt
: 1900, Dixon Bros. changed name to SPEED
1. Name: VERNE SWAIN
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Built to handle Excursionists, Peoria-St.Louis World's Fair
Power: Compound Condensing engines, 10's, 20's- 6 ft. Two boilers, each 42' X 16'.
Launched: 1904, Stillwater, Minn. by Capt. David M. Swain
Destroyed: 1929, Dismal Point, in Ark. Sank and lost.
Area: Under Valley Line Steamers, Memphis-Rosedale wit U.S. Mail contract until Aug. 1924
Owners: at first Capt. David M. Swain
Sold shortly after the Fair to Capt George Prince and othrs., Natchez, Miss.
Then sold to Lyons Bros., Greenville Miss.
Then sold to Vallye Line Steamers, Memphis, Tenn.
1. Name: VERNE SWAIN/ROSE ISLAND/CITY OF MEMPHIS/ROOSEVELT
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull excursion steamer. Size: 186.4' X 31' X 4.9'
Power: Compound condensing engines. 10s-20s-6. 2 boilers. Fan blowers.
Launched: 1913, Stillwater Minn. for Capt. Vern Swain as Excursion Boat
Destroyed: 1932, Aug. 17, sank below Louiville locks with 781 aboard. All saved. Boat ruined.
Area: 1913, Ohio R., Pittrsburg to Wheeling, W. Va. on Ill. R.
1918, placed in Pittsburgh-Wheeling packet trade.
1923, excursions
1928, moved back to Pittsburgh
Owners: 1918, Pruchased by Capt. Fred Hornbrook
1923, Noll, J. Orville, who ran her for the Anchor Line out of Pittsburgh.
1927, Mar., purchased by D.G.B Rose of Louisville, Ky.
1929, owned by Capt. Griffith W. Shaw and others
1931, Apr. sold during a docking program at Paducah
1932, Rose Island Company
Captains: 1923, Noll, J Orville
1932, Aug. 17 when sank, Nick DuRand
Comments: 1927, Mar., renamed ROSE ISLAND
: 1929, renamed ROOSEVELT
: 1931, renamed CITH OF MEMPHIS
Comments: From The Wheeling Intelligencer, Oct. 23, 1960
From: site visitor Noll Kenney (anniek@mediaone.net)
Date: Sun Dec 27 18:08:11 1998
Steamboat Vern Swain
My grandfather J. Orville Noll was Owner of this boat in 1923. I have a picture of
he and my grandmother on this boat. He also ran a boat for the Anchor Line out of
Pittsburg. I have a sugar bowl with Anchor Line ,Pittsburg, Pa. written on it.
Name: VERSAILLES
Launched: 1830s?, Early?
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: VESPER
Destroyed:1880's? by ice near Clipper Mill, whatever that was.
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: From From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Apr. 28 1897
Name: VESUVIUS
Type: Size: Small
Launched: by 1814, Pittsburgh, Pa area
Area: Hudson and Miss. R.
Owner: Livingston, Robert and Fulton, Robert. and their Ohio
Steamboat Navigation Company.
Comments: Mentioned Here
* Name: VESTA
Size: 100 tons
Launched: 1816, Cincinnati
Destroyed: 1821, worn out
Comments: the first steamboat built in Cincinanati.
Name: VESTA/J.S. LEWIS
Type: Sternwheel packet/towboat
Area: Ohio R.
Destroyed: Still operating, now under diesel power rather than steam.
Comments: As towboat, towed coal barges from West Virginia mines
to Cincinnati, Oh..
Name: VICKSBURG
Type: *Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: *244.5 X 34 X 7.5, 635 tons
Power: *engines, 24's-7 ft.; 5 boilers
Launched: *1857, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: *1863, Jan. 3, Rammed in battle by QUEEN of the WEST.
Area: Miss. R.
Owner: 1857, *Jane Stout of Frankfort, Ky. and *C.B. Lindsey, New Orleans.
: 1859, *Apr 21, Henry Streck and *Capt T. P. Leathers,
both of New Orleans.
Captains: 1857 - 1859 *Cannon, John W., *Thommason, St.Clair
: 1859, *Master White, J.M. of Ky.
Pilots: 1857, Nov. 26, **Pell, Allen
Comments: *At outbreak of Civil War, became a Confederate transport.
Sources: *Way's Packet Directory, 1848 - 1994
: **Mark Twain Journal
Name: VICKSBURG, Formerly the OUACHITA, Originally the LOUISVILLE
Launched: 1861. Destroyed: 1868
Name: VICKSBURG
Area: pre 1885, Sabine R., Tex.
1885-88, Neches R., Tex.
Owners: Capt. Bill Loving, and Capt. Pearl Bunn
Comments: Engines went to NECHES BELLE
Name: 3rd VICKSBURG Originally the OUACHITA",
then the FRED A. BLANKS
Launched:1890 Destroyed: 1903
Name: 4rd VICKSBURG Originally the CITY OF CAIRO
Launched: 1912 Destroyed: unknowen
Name: VICTOR
Type: Sternwheel Towboat, Diesel Size:
Launched: 1870's?
Area: Ohio R.
Owner: Earl Cooper
Comments: Note in Way's Packet Directory
1. Name: VICTRESS (1st of 2)
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 155' X 25' X 5.2', 190 tons
Launched: 1841, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1849, off the lists
Area: 1841, Cincinnati-New Orleans
*1948, Apr. 21, expected at Shreveport
Owner: 1844, Dec., Sold to Capt. George M. Kendall of New Orleans
1845, Feb., sold to Capt. Berthilde Landreaux
1846, July, Sold to Harry Legendre, New Orleans
1847, Mar., Sold to W.W. Hill, Lafayette, La.
Captain: 1847 Bickerstaff, S.J.
*From Journal of Paul Haralson, March, 1848.
1. Name: VIENNA
1853-57
1. Name: VIENNA originally the CITY OF PLATTTSMOUTH
1. Name: VIGO
Type: possibly a sidewheeler, wooden hull packet
Size: 100' X 18' X 3.', 87 1/2 tons.
Launched: 1870, Terre Haute, Ind.
Destroyed: 1886, still on the records. Said to have burned in the end.
Owners: 1871, after burned, was sold to Capt. T.P Agnew who rebuilt.
Captains: *1881, Thomas Benton Hoobler, Lewis County, Ky.
*1876, James Thompson Bagby took over when Hoobler left.
Comments: 1871, Terre Haute, burned with load of lumber valued at $6,000
: 1882, inspected at Wheeling. W. Va.
: See Ad
Name: VINCENNES
Type: Size:
1. Name: VIOLA BELLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 200' X 30' X 5.', 345 tons.
Power: 17'- 6ft. 3 boilers, each 36" X 22',
Launched: 1866, Pearl Landing, on Ill. R.
Destroyed: 1871, Aug. 21, Smith's Bar, Doniphan Bend, Mo. R., sank. See
comment below.
Area: Made 5 trips to Fort Benton, Mont. on U. Mo. R.
Owners: 1866, with others, Capt. Henry Jasper King
When sunk, Augustus C. Erfort and others
: *At one time, possibly, Charles F. Lohman and his son Capt. Louis Charles
Lohman, Jefferson City, Mo.
*This listing from family records of Lee Lohman, GGG grandaughter
of Charles F.
Companies Associated with: Northwestern Transportation Company
Comments: 1870, Independence Day, was at Sioux City Iowa.
: There are conflicting reports of this boat's demise. Way's
Packet Directory claims she sank in 6' of water on a sandbar
which washed out from under her hull, causing her to break in
two. The records from Burle County Historical Society of S.D.
state that she burned while Capt. King owned her and that he
lost everything he owned. This possibly in 1866.
* Name: VIRGINIA
Size: 222 tons
Power: Low pressure
Launched: 1826, Cincinnati
Name: VIRGINIA/?MERRIMACK?
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 118 X 22 X 6
Launched: 1819 OR 1823
Area: Ohio R., Miss. R.
Comments: 1823, Apr. 21, left St. Louis and arrived 20 days later,
800 mi. up Miss. R. at Fort Snelling, Minn. to become
first steamboat to navigate the U. Miss. R.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Mentioned in another article
An account of her historic voyage to Ft. Snelling
Name: VIRGINIA V (5)
Type: Size: 125'
Area: 1820's?: Puget Sound commuter boat
Name: VIRGINIA
Type: Packet Size:
Launched: 1848
Destroyed: 1851 or so, diamantled
Area: Ohio R.
Captain(s): 1849 Dawson
Comments: From the The Daily Wheeling Gazette, April 2, 1849, p. 2
Name: VIRGINIA
Launched: 1853
Captains: 1853, Charles V. Wells
Companies Associated with: 1853, Wheeling Union Line
Name: VIRGINIA
1863-68
Name: VIRGINIA
1865-71
Name: VIRGINIA/STEEL CITY/ISLAND BELLE/EAST ST. LOUIS/GREATER NEW ORLEANS
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet/excursion boat
Size: 235' X 40' X 7.'
Power: Engines, compound condensing, 15's-7ft. Four boilers each 42" X 20'.
Wheel, 23-1/2' with 30' buckets
Launched: 1896, New Years day, Cincinnati, Oh. by Cincinnati Marine Railway Co.
Destroyed, 1930 or so, dismantled by Streckfus Steamers. Boilers went to WASHINGTON
Area: Ohio R.
1912, Feb. Pittsburgh-New Orleans and back. 1 trip.
1915, La Salle-New Orleans trade
1916, entered St. Louis-New Orleans trade as EAST ST. LOUIS
1918, May, St. Louis, came out as excursion boat
Owner: Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet Line
1912, Ohio and Mississippi Navigation Company as STEEL CITY
1914, May, purchased by St. Louis & Gulf Transportation Company
1915, Sept, purchased by St. Louis $ New Orleans Navigation Company
1917, largely by J.C. Grant Chemical Co. (Baking powder manufacturer)
1922, acquired by Coney Island Company, Cincinnati
1927, Apr., acquired by Greater New Orleans Amusement Co.
1930 or so sold to Streckfus Steamers
Captain(s): When new, Thomas Calhoon
1897, until May, Mate, Sweeney, John
c. 1902 Alf Pennywitt
1910, Charles W. Knox
1912, Feb., Kerr, John L., Pittsburgh-New Orleans and back. 1 trip.
Then Alf Pennywitt again
1913, Fred Edgington
1915, in La Salle-New Orleans trade, E.E. Brown
1916, March, in St. Louis-New Orleans trade, John Flanigan
1916, May, Sam G. Smith
1918, May, James Robinson
Comments: Had 50 cabins and 10 more on Texas deck
: 1910, Mar. 6, near Willow Grove, W. Va., got stuck in cornfield during a flood.
Was generally an accident prone boat.
: 1912, renamed STEEL CITY
: 1916, renamed EAST ST. LOUIS
: 1917, winter, Keokuk, transformed into excursion boat
: 1923 - 1927 named ISLAND BELLE
: 1927, after being rebuilt was renamed GREATER NEW ORLEANS
: From The Tribune Telegraph, Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. May. 12 1897
Name: VIRGINIA originally the I.C. WOODWARD
1898-
Name: VIRGINIA
Type: Original towboat, steel hull and steel super structucial (top to
bottom).
Size: 84.6 long 17.7 wide drafts 42 inches.
Launched: 1922, Neville Island, PA. by Dravo.
Powered: repowered in 1949 with Buda deisel. 1992 to a GMC 8V71 Diesel.
Owners: 1922, Keystone Sand & Supply Co. Pittsburg PA.
Sold to QuincyIll. SteamboatCo.
Sold to Rudolph Oil Co.
1949, Sold Wilson & Russell Fry, Duffy, Ohio
1964, Sold to Delta ConcreteCo.
1967, Sold to Harry Snyder, Wheeling, W.V.
1975, Sold to Newton Dean, Pittsburg, PA.
1975, Sold to Leanord Holman, Columbia, IL.
1978, Sold to C.W. (Tubby) Lewis, Kenova,WV.
1991, Sold to Capt. Jim & Donna Davis, Minersville, Ohio,
current owners.
Colors: White, red, and black
Comments: From Captain Davis: "I am the owner of the sternwheel boat
"VIRGINIA" built in 1922 by Dravo. She is the oldest original
sternwheel boat still in operation. We use her as a pleasure
boat for our personal use. WE, my wife and myself, are members
of the American Sternwheel Association. We love the boat
and the river. We are located at 249.2 mile marker on the Ohio
River." Captain Jim Davis
3. Name: VISALIA
Launched: Somewhere between 1860 and 1911
Area: U. San Joaquin and Tuolumne Rs., Calf.
