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Name: YAKIMA
Name: YANKEE
Launched: 1847
Area: 1850, U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: YANKTON
Destroyed; sank
Area: 1873, Mo. R., replaced the LIZZIE WARDEN as ferry from Yankton, S.D. to
Green Island, Neb.
Comments: Machinery went to the ferry KATE : This info from
Bob Karolevitz's column The Way It Was, believed to have been in a Yankton.
S.D.. newspaper.
Name: YAZOO VALEY
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet.
Size: 180' X 36' X 5.'
Power: 16's- 5 1/2 ft., 2 boilers
Launched: 1876, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard.
Destroyed: 1887, Mar. 8, Above Grand Encore, Burned. 3 lives lost
Area: 1877, New Orleans-Vicksburgh-Yazoo R. 1883, New Orleans-Red R.
Owners: when new, S.H. Parisot & Co., Vicksburgh, Miss.
1883 sold to Red River and Coast Line, headed by Charles P. Truslow.
1877, S.H. Parisot
Comments: 1883, Mar 4, sank and raised. : 1886, sank and raised.
Name: YAZOO VALLEY
Captains: 1913, Tom Smith
From
Olden
Times.com
The Daily Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
January 10, 1913
Name: YELLOWSTONE
Type: Sidewheel, woodenhull packet
Size: 130' Power: a single powerful steam engine.
Launched: 1830 or so.
Destroyed: Fate unknown
Area: 1830-34, Mo. R.
1835, went to New Orleans-Galveston, Tex. trade Later, Brazos River landings
taking cotton and sugar to ships off Quintana, Tex.
Owner: 1830-35, American Fur Co.
1835-, Thomas Toby & Brother of New Orleans
Captains: Clerk, La Barge, Joseph.
1835, Thomas Wigg Grayson
1836, John E. Ross Later, James V. West
Comments: 1832, Was first ever steamboat to reach Fort Union on U. Mo. R.
1833, hung up on sandbar.
: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
: From Burle County Historical Society, S.D.: "In 1831, (fur trader -d.)Perre Chouteau of St. Louis had a small flat bottom steamboat
named YELLOWSTONE and brought a cargo of goods up the river. This trip revolutionized the Missouri river fur trade
by their being able to make the trip in a few weeks which formerly took a whole season."
: See Article
1. Name: YELLOWSTONE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 206' X 30' X 5.5'
Power: 16's- 5-1/2'. Two Boilers
Launched: 1864, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1867, July 11, St. Louis, burned along with G.W. GRAHAM while laid up.
Area: Mo. R.
Owners: Capt. McDonald, and Capts. Bart Able and D.N, Greenleaf
Captains: Master was Capt. McDonald Comments: See art work at top of this page.
1. Name: YELLOWSTONE
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 150' X 30' X 5.6', 167 tons
Power: 14's- 4-1/2 ft. Two Boilers
Launched: 1876, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1879, late May, Buffalo Rapids, Yellowstone R., lost.
Owners: Dr. Achilles Lamme, Bozeman, Mont.
Comments: This YELLOWSTONE made 3 trips in 3 years to Ft. Benton
Name: YOHOGANY
Size: 65 ton Area: 1852, May, White R., steamed to Forsythe
Captains: Childress
Comments: Source
Name: YORK
Type: Ferryboat Size: 78' X 32' X 7'
Launched: 1813
Owner: Hudson River Steamboat Company
Comments: Source
Name: YORK STATE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet.
Size: 247 tons.
Launched: 1852
Destroyed: 1859
Area: 1857, U, Miss. R.
Owner: Northern Line Packet Company
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: YOSEMITE
Type: Sidewheeler
Size: 265'
Destroyed: 1865, Oct,. 12, Rio Vista, Calf, boilers blew. 45 Killed. Area: California Delta
Name: YOUKON This spelling is correct.
Type: Stern-wheeler Size: 47'
Launched: 1869?, San Francisco
Area: Yukon R.
Owner: Alaska Fur Co.
Name: YUBA
Launched: 1840's mid? Area: 1850s, early, Sacramento R. Calif.
Name: YUKONER
Type: Stern-wheeler Size: 47'
Power: Engines, 2 compound jet-condenser type producing 525 H.P. Boiler,
Locomotive type (fire-tube) manufactured at the Polson Iron Works,Toronto,1901,.
#1(working pressure:129.4 kilograms/sq. cm. - 184 lb /sq. in.) These engines were
later used on the steamer S.S. Klondike I.
Area: Yukon R.