The Adeline was a small sternwheeler built in 1916 at Knoxville, Tennessee. Her dimensions were:- 101 x 18.4 x 3 feet; 45 tons, net and gross. She had 100 horse power. She was a Cumberland River boat. In 1925 she was owned and operated by the Knoxville Sand and Gravel Company at Knoxville.
Cabin of the Alabama owned by St. Louis and Tennessee River Packet Co. This steamer was built in 1912 and retired around 1932. Note the Great Seal of Alabama at right.
The Albatros, a side-wheel, double-track, railroad transfer boat, was built in 1907 at Dubuque, Iowa for the Queen and Crescent Railroad crossing at Vicksburg, Mississippi. She was constructed by the Dubuque Boat and Boiler Company. Her dimensions were:- 308 x 53.8 x 7.6 feet. Tonnage, gross and net, 1103 tons. She had 750 horsepower. About 9:25 P.M., on September 28, 1907, a dining car of the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railway, No. 498, on the rear end of passenger train No. 2 from Shreveport, Louisiana, going east, let go on top of the hill on the Vicksburg, Mississippi, side of the river. The car ran back through the transfer boat and into the river. No lives were lost. An investigation showed the accident to be the fault of the railroad company and not the officers of the vessel. After 14 years of service at Vicksburg, Mississippi she was returned to Dubuque in 1921 and lengthened 57 feet; total new length 365 feet. Tonnage: gross, 1313; net, 1281 tons. With the construction of a new highway and railroad bridge at Vicksburg she was sold to the Streckfus Steamers about 1937 and her hull and engine used in the construction of the Admiral. She is now 360 x 52.7 x 7.6 feet. She has high pressure engines 26 inches in diameter with 10-foot stroke. Her machinery is wholly within her hold and below the main deck. She is one of the largest passenger vessels ever built for the Mississippi River and runs excursions exclusively out of St. Louis during the summer months.
Alice B. Miller at port. Passengers and crew are visible on deck and in pilot house. The steamer ran under this name on the Yazoo and Sunflower Rivers in Mississippi between 1908 and 1915.
The Alice Brown, another member of the Brown Fleet, was built in 1871 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She was a coal pusher of the old school, big as a barn, pretty from any angle, powerful, graceful, and the pride and joy of any person who ever worked aboard her. Her dimensions were:- 193 x 34 x 4.0 feet; tonnage, 551. She had six two-flue boilers, and worked high pressure engines 26 inches in diameter by nine-foot stroke. She burned somewhere near 800 bushells of coal every day, and for all this insatiable appetite and huge machinery she delivered about 700 horsepower. Although comforatable as a farm, her immensity broke the backs of firemen, coal passers, and ash haulers. Her manual pilot wheel crippled several of her pilots. She was a challenge to be met, in a physical sort of way, every hour of the watch. And those who came to her and stayed, and left at the end of the trip, rubbed calloused hands and said, \"she's a d--- fine lady\". She sunk on the falls of the Ohio River on July 24, 1872, but was raised: loss $500. On April 12, 1902 she sank five coal boats of coal, containing 125,000 bushels, at a point 90 miles below Cairo, Illinois, and stuck the remainder of her tow, 25 boats and barges. On January 18, 1906, when near Blue River Island on the Ohuo River, she broker her water wheel and was damaged $600. After 44 years of service, from 1871 to 1915, between Pittsburgh, St. Louis and New Orleans, the Alice Brown was retired of old age. She finally went to pieces in the boneyard at Elizabeth, Pennsylvania during the 1920s.
Alice Dean at port. This steamer ran Cincinnati to Memphis between 1864 and 1872. During her short life, she suffered a series of mishaps: sank in 12 feet of water on her third trip but was raised; hit a suspension bridge in 1865 and knocked down both stacks; hit a log and almost sank in 1869; hit another suspension bridge in 1870 and again knocked down both stacks.
Side-wheel excursion boat Alton at port. Most days, this steamer ran St. Louis to Six-Mile Island on the Illinois River, stopping both ways at Alton and Chautauqua. One day a week she ran St. Louis to Kampsville, Illinois. Daily evening trips were run at St. Louis. Fourteen governors rode the Alton during the "Roosevelt Parade" in October 1907. (President Theodore Roosevelt rode the Mississippi.)
Side-wheel excursion boat Alton on river. Most days, this steamer ran St. Louis to Six-Mile Island on the Illinois River, stopping both ways at Alton and Chautauqua. One day a week she ran St. Louis to Kampsville, Illinois. Daily evening trips were run at St. Louis. Fourteen governors rode the Alton during the "Roosevelt Parade" in October 1907. (President Theodore Roosevelt rode the Mississippi.)
Side-wheel excursion boat Alton on river. Most days, this steamer ran St. Louis to Six-Mile Island on the Illinois River, stopping both ways at Alton and Chautauqua. One day a week she ran St. Louis to Kampsville, Illinois. Daily evening trips were run at St. Louis. Fourteen governors rode the Alton during the "Roosevelt Parade" in October 1907. (President Theodore Roosevelt rode the Mississippi.)
Side-wheel excursion boat Alton on river. Most days, this steamer ran St. Louis to Six-Mile Island on the Illinois River, stopping both ways at Alton and Chautauqua. One day a week she ran St. Louis to Kampsville, Illinois. Daily evening trips were run at St. Louis. Fourteen governors rode the Alton during the "Roosevelt Parade" in October 1907. (President Theodore Roosevelt rode the Mississippi.)
Side-wheel excursion boat Alton on river. Most days, this steamer ran St. Louis to Six-Mile Island on the Illinois River, stopping both ways at Alton and Chautauqua. One day a week she ran St. Louis to Kampsville, Illinois. Daily evening trips were run at St. Louis. Fourteen governors rode the Alton during the "Roosevelt Parade" in October 1907. (President Theodore Roosevelt rode the Mississippi.)
Side-wheel excursion boat Alton at port. Most days, this steamer ran St. Louis to Six-Mile Island on the Illinois River, stopping both ways at Alton and Chautauqua. One day a week she ran St. Louis to Kampsville, Illinois. Daily evening trips were run at St. Louis. Fourteen governors rode the Alton during the "Roosevelt Parade" in October 1907. (President Theodore Roosevelt rode the Mississippi.)
Side-wheel excursion boat Alton on river. Most days, this steamer ran St. Louis to Six-Mile Island on the Illinois River, stopping both ways at Alton and Chautauqua. One day a week she ran St. Louis to Kampsville, Illinois. Daily evening trips were run at St. Louis. Fourteen governors rode the Alton during the "Roosevelt Parade" in October 1907. (President Theodore Roosevelt rode the Mississippi.)
The Alton was built in 1906 at Jeffersonville, Indiana. Her dimensions were:- 241.1 x 38 x 7.3 feet. Tonnage 800, gross and net. She had 1350 horse power. She was owned by the Eagle Packet Company of St. Louis and was one of their finest packets. One mark of distinction was an hexagonal shaped pilot house. At 1:45 A.M., on January 28, 1918, while laid up in the winter fleet on the Tennessee River, at Livingston Point, ten miles above Paducah, Kentucky, a wall of ice came down the river and engulfed the Alton as well as the other boats of the fleet. The Alton broke in two under the weight of the ice and flood as she was crushed against a gravel bar. Half of her stayed there, the other drifted down the Little Chain near Metropolis, Illinois., Eads Bridge in the background
With the Reliance at St. Louis. The Alton, a beautiful side-wheeler was built in 1906 at Jeffersonville, Indiana. She was 241.1 feet in length, 38 feet beam and 7.3 feet depth of hold. She was of 800 tons, 1350 horse power, and owned and operated by the Eagle Packet Company of St. Louis. A feature of her construction was an octagonal shaped pilot house. In 1913 she was operating as an excursion boat out of St. Louis. In January, 1918 she was completely destroyed by the ice at Paducah, Kentucky.
The America was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 1898 for Captain L. V. Cooley. She was 200 x 38 x 6.5 feet. The America ran out of New Orleans in the cotton trades and was the last surviving sternwheel cotton packet when dismantled.