. This Grand Republic ran excursions out of St. Louis in 1896, 1897 and 1898. She burned at the mouth of the River Des peres, St. Louis, on March 13, 1898.
Orginally the J. C. Kerr and later the Choctaw. Built at Clinton, Iowa in 1904. The J. C. Kerr was built at Chambersburg, Ohio in 1884. Later, as the Chaperone she had the same dimensions or :- 121 x 27.8 x 3.0 feet. Tonnage, gross and net, listed as 125. She was taken to Evansville, Indiana by Captain R. H. Williams in the early 1890s and entered the Evansville and Green River trade where she
The H. R. W. Hill, a Memphis and New Orleans Packet, was built at New Albany, Indiana in 1852 and, is reported to have had an iron hull. She was a large boat, owned by captain Thomas H. Newell, and registered in Cincinnati. Her engines were 30 inches in diameter with 10 foot stroke. A big carrier, she brought 5162 bales of cotton in to New Orleans in 1858, a record to that date. When the Civil
To be able in small way to be part of the restoration and preservation of our history and of the steamboats that made it possible for this country to become truly great is a great satisfaction. Signed: John Shipley
army rifles, 80 hundred weight; and one 12-pounder howitzer. In September of that year she was listed as carrying the six 32-pounders , three army rifles, three 8 inch guns and one 30-pounder Parrot rifle. The Washington records show that the Cairo was sunk within less than five minutes after being struck by a torpedo, 18 miles up the Yazoo river, on December 12, 1862.
Workers, probably of the Army Corps of Engineers, building a wooden mat. Barge in foreground has rock, barge behind wooden mat has logs. Steamboat in the background. Photograph of John C. DeBolt, Corps of Engineers. Photo 4 of series.
The Sporty Days was a double deck, combination ferry and packet boat. She was built on the river bank at New Madrid, Missouri, in 1927 by Dick Richardson for John Kirtz, her owner and operator. The dimensions of her wood hull, with a scow bow, were 60 x 26 x 4 feet. Width overall, 30 feet; draught about two feet. She had but one stack and one tubular boiler about 12 feet long and 36 inches in
The Chalmette was built in 1881 at Jeffersonville, Indiana as the City of Vicksburg for the Anchor Line Packet Company of St. Louis, Missouri. She was wrecked by the cyclone in St. Louis on May 27, 1896 along with four other Anchor Line steamers. In the process of rebuilding by Captain W. H. Thorwegan as an excursion boat she was purchased by the Illinois Central Railroad interests and renamed
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.
The Jack Frost was built in 1881 at Jeffersonville, Indiana for the St. Louis and Mississippi Valley Transportation Company of St. Louis, Missouri. Her dimensions were: - 165 x 30 x 5.4 feet. Tonnage, gross and net, 351 tons. In the early 1900's she became the property evidently of Ohio River parties. She burned at Galipolis, Ohio, in October, 1914.