Alton and Reliance

Hartford, John
Lemen, Richard W.

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Alton (Steamboat)
Excursion boats
Reliance (Steamboat)
Steamboats

Mississippi River
Saint Louis (Mo.)

1910-1919

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.

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