Nashville

Lemen, Dick
Hartford, John

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Nashville (Steamboat)
Steamboats
Packets

Ohio River
Cumberland River (Ky. And Tenn.)

The Nashville was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1910. Her dimensions were:- 155 x 34 x 4.0 feet. Tonnage: gross, 251; net, 116 tons. She had 200 horse power. She ran in the Paducah and Nashville trade but finally dropped out in June of 1918 on account of scarcity of labor and high price of coal. The Nashville was the first packet to pass through the new lock in the Louisville Canal; May, 1921. By reason on a default on a note by her owners, the Cumberland River Steamboat Company, she was sold at public auction on December 21, 1918, at Nashville, Tennessee. The Williams Brothers of Evansville, Indiana, obtaine dher in the spring of 1919 and ran her in the Louisville and Evansville trade. In 1922 they rebuilt her at Paducah, Kentucky, and renamed her Southland. Once after breaking a number of timbers while aground, she was laid up at Louisville preparatory to [be] going on the docks for repairs. She burned while laid up at Spottsville [Kentucky] on December 16, 1932, which disaster nearly broke C. W. Stoll's heart.

Renamed in 1922 as Southland.

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