Joe Wheeler

Hartford, John

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Joe Wheeler (Steamboat)
Steamboats
Towboats

Tennessee River

The Joe Wheeler was built in 1898 at Chattanooga, Tennessee and spent most of her life on the Upper Tennessee River. Her dimensions were:- 155.8 x 33.5 x 3.5 feet. Tonnage: gross and net, 192 tons. In 1902 she was owned by the Tennessee River Navigation Company: W. C. Wilkie was the manager. They also ran the N. B. Forrest, Gasconade and Sam Davis. The Joe Wheeler was the last packet to run out of Chattanooga and served as a packet until 1919 when she was converted into a towboat. Most of the cabin was removed at that time. After she sank at the Chattanooga wharf in 1919 the wreck was raised and rebuilt into a towboat called the Captain Lyerly with these dimensions:- 130.4 x 28.3 x 3.1 feet. She ran for the Tennessee River navigation Company until 1939. She was then decommissioned and converted into a work shop and storage boat for pleasure craft above Chattanooga. At 2:23 P.M. on December 2, 1941, she took fire but was saved from destruction by the U. S. Coast Guard cutter Cottonwood and her fire fighting apparatus.

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