Fred Swain

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Title: Fred Swain
Creator(s): Hartford, John
Date: 1909-08-20
Content Type: picture
Subject(s): Fred Swain (Steamboat)
River steamers
Steamboat disasters
Steamboats
Geographic Area: Illinois River (Ill.)
Time Period: 1900-1909
Description: The Fred Swain was built at Stillwater, Minnesota in 1900. She was a sidewheeler with no texas. Her dimensions were:- 142 x 28.3 x 4.5 feet; tonnage, gross and net, 124 tons. She operated mostly on the Illinois River around Peoria. On August 20, 1909, she burned to the water's edge at Peoria, Illinois; fifty-eight persons were aboard but no lives lost.
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Classification: p29-ovr-1-36
Owner: Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library