Stacker Lee

Lemen, Dick
Hartford, John

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Stacker Lee (Steamboat)
Steamboats
Packets

Mississippi River

The Stacker Lee was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1902. Her dimensions were:- 225.5 x 45.5 x 6.6 feet; tonnage, 710. She had four boilers (six flues each)40 inches in diameter and 22 feet long. Her engines were of two cylinders, each 18 inches in diameter with a nine-foot stroke. She was owned by the Lee Line of Memphis, Tennessee and ran the St. Louis-Memphis trade. On November 19, 1907, charges were filed against William H. Wood, assistant engineer for interference, in violation of Section 4441, Revised Statutes. Case was investigated and his license revoked. On October 21, 1910 while running in a light fog at Slough Landing, on the Mississippi River, she grounded. Due toa rapidly falling river she was left high and dry. She was later floated; estimated damage, $15,000. On October 21, 1916 she sank up to her texas four miles above Memphis. On the morning of the same day the Cape Girardeau sank at Fort Gage, Illinois. On May 25, 1903, the packets Lotus Sims, Captain T. B. Sims and Stacker Lee, Captain A. S. Lightner, left St. Louis in aa race to memphis for the purpose of securing control of the river trade between the two cities. A poem was written by Joseph Mills hanson, author of the book captioned \"The Conquest of the Missouri.\"

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