Senator Cordill

Stoll, C. W.
Hartford, John

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Senator Cordill (Steamboat)
Steamboats
River steamers

Independent Packet Line. The Senator Cordill was built at the Howard yard, Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 1902 for the Vicksburg, Natchez and Greenville trade. Measured tonnage, 280; carried tonage, 500 tons. Captain Thomas Waldren, master. Length 170 feet; beam, 33 feet; hold 5.5 feet. She had three boilers, six flues each, 44 inches in diameter and 26 feet long. Two cylinders, 16 inches in diameter; stroke 7 feet. Sternwheel 18 1/2 feet in diameter with buckets 22 feet long. She came out in May 1902 with double stages, mast, etc. and looked this way until after sold to the Shippers Packet Company, Pittsburg, Pa., July, 1920. Shortly after she had a single stage installed. She entered the Pittsburgh - Charleston trade in 1920 and in 1925 was taken to Point Pleasant, West Virginia and lengthened to 193 x 36 x 6.6 feet. She had a varied experience. After striking a rock below there she sank at Lock No. 18, Ohio River in October, 1930. She was raised. Later at Elk Chute, just below Charleston, West Virginia she was caught on a falling river and was stranded high-and-dry. Again, on February 5, 1934 she struck a wicket at Dam No. 14, Ohio River and went down. She was raised but never operated again. She was dismantled in 1939 in the Allegheny RIver, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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