Ferd Herold

Hartford, John

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Ferd Herold (Steamboat)
Lee Line Steamers
River steamers
Steamboats

A steel hull packet built at Dubuque, Iowa in 1894. Her dimensions were 244.6 x 34 x 7.2 feet. She had four boilers and her engines were 20 inches in diameter with an 8-foot stroke. On her maiden trip she came out in charge of Captain Browlaski. In landing at Cape Girardeau, she came in too hard and punched a hole in her head on a rock. Although this filled her forward compartment she made the trip to New Orleans and back with her compartment bilged. Captain Milt Harry then went on her and she ran on the Ouchita River. She had a checkered career. This boat and the Cherokee were built by the Cherokee Brewing Company, no doubt to carry their beer but proved more expensive than the brewery. They were veritable tramps of the river. Finally the Ferd Herold was laid up at Cairo for sale. She was bought by the Lee Line for the St. Louis and Memphis trade where she ran until about 1916. After some time in that trade she fell below the onslaught of rail competition and was laid up and later dismantled. Her hull was converted into a sugar barge and was lost on the Gulf of Mexico. There was a bust of old Ferd Herold that was a good likeness, but these marks of vanity have little regard from new owners. The last time seen on the Ferd Herold it was on the roof aft of the bell.

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