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Title: Senator Cordill
Description: SENATOR CORDILL at Reedsville, Ohio. Independent Packet Line. Built at Jeffersonville, Indiana for Natchez and Vicksburg trade. Operated on Upper Ohio in later years of career. Came out in May, 1902 - Dismantled in 1939.

Title: Celebration at Opening of Davis Island Dam
Date: 1885-10-07
Description: Crowd lined up to view opening of dam. Steamboats underway in the background, including the steamers GENEVA and ONWARD. Oct. 7, 1885. #455.

Title: Ohio River Shipyard
Date: 1942-02-05
Description: February 5, 1942. From bottom left: Gulf Barge OSAGE; USCGC AZALEA; NUGENT Sandi Gravel Dredge; USCG Quarter Boat #12; mv BETTY GARDNER; mv JANE RHEA; mv ANKER L. CHRISTY; Str. KENOVA.

Title: Joseph B. Williams
Date: 1905-08
Description: On August 10, 1905, while enroute up the Ohio River, she struck a snag at Sister's Island, below Golconda and near Bay City, Illinois and tore a hole 40 feet long in her hull, causing the boat to sink in shallow water. Three towboats went to the rescue of the wreck - the Fulton, Ranger and Wash Honshell - assisted in raising the Williams. She was then placed on the ways for repairs; damage

Title: Alice Brown
Description: Empty coal tow. Upbound, Ohio River.

Title: Chartered Dredge Tender L. A. Fulton at Mustapha Island
Date: 1886-10-23
Description: The Little Andy Fulton of Louisville, KY., at midstream near Mustapha Island in the Ohio River.

Title: Towboats on the Ohio
Date: 1938
Description: Towboats crowd each other along the Ohio, where modern river traffic surpasses anything in tonnage that was known in the days when steamboating was at its height.

Title: Celebration at Opening of Davis Island Dam
Date: 1885-10-07
Description: Crowd gathered to view the opening of the Davis Island Dam. Many steamboats are lined up in the background.

Title: Vim
Description: The Vim was originally built as the Hattie Brown, a single deck sternwheeler at Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania in 1895. Her dimensions were:- 125 x 22.6 x 4.3 feet. She was built for J. W. Rice of Zanesville, Ohio and her engines came from the Lizzie Cassel. They were 12's with a 4-foot stroke. She ran various short trades on the Ohio River. The Hattie Brown was rebuilt at Jeffersonville, Indiana in

Title: Queen City
Description: down the Ohio somewhere between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. They seem to be saying "Wish you were here." Too late: too late. But not too late for Grace and me to wish you and yours a Happy Voyage through 1961. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The Ways.

Title: JOHN B. SMITH
Date: 1939
Description: Photo. Steamer, John B. Smith (formerly the U.S.E.D. Alabama, and Burke Line, Capitol) turning into the mouth of the Tennessee River, from the Ohio, 1939.

Title: Ohio River, Dredging at Mill Creek Bar
Date: 1893-06-29
Description: #1063, June 29, 1893. OHIO RIVER, Dredging at Mill Creek Bar. 140 miles from Pittsburg.
Dredges OHIO and OSWEGO at work in the river.

Title: Jim Wood
Date: 1917
Description: The Jim Wood sagging at Dam No. 33 on the Ohio River.

Title: U. S. Snagboat, E. A. Woodruff at Mariman's Bar
Date: 1889-06-28
Description: With crew on deck. June 28, 1889. #723.

Title: H. K. Bedford
Description: The H. K. Bedford was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1885 for the Cumberland River; ther dimensions were: 149 x 27.7 x 4.1 feet. Frequently she came out to run the low water trades on the Ohio River when the sand bars were out for air and the larger boats laid up. In those days any Cumberland River boat could come out of that creek in June and make money all summer. In August, 1886 while the

Title: Virginia
Description: Virginia on the Ohio River.

Title: Bryant's Showboat and Valley Belle
Description: Photograph of BRYANT'S SHOWBOAT and the VALLEY BELLE, with bridge and houses in the background. Cincinnati, Ohio.

Title: Belle McGowan
Description: The Belle McGowan was one of the smaller towboats of the Pittsburgh pool boat type. She was built at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1873. her dimensions were:- 134 x 22 x 4.5 feet; of 150 gross tons burden. She had a boiler explosion in 1890 while lying at the wharf, Harmar, Ohio, and killed a member of her crew; many were injured. While descending the Ohio River on February 20, 1894, with a tow of

Title: Henry M. Stanley
Description: The Henry M. Stanley was built at Murraysville, West Virginia, in 1890 for the Bay Brothers. She was 180 x 32.4 x 5.5 feet; her machinery came from the towboat John Hanna. This boat was sold to the White Collar Line of Cincinnati, ran various trades and had preculiar experiences. On February 1, 1900 she struck a pier of the Southern Railroad bridge at Cincinnati, sank and drowned one. She was

Title: Henry M. Stanley
Date: 1907-09-03
Description: Wreck of Str. Henry M. Stanley. Gallipolis, O. 9/3/07

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