This boat was built for Shelby and Perkins, wealthy Henderson, Kentucky firm, for the Evansville and St. Louis trade in 1887 by the Howards at Jeffersonville, Indiana. She was 257 x 46.2 x 7.0 feet. Tonnage: gross, 932; net, 846 tons. Her engines were of 20-inch diameter with 7 1/2 foot stroke. She came out with compound engines which were removed in 1892 and put on the Grey Eagle. The New South
Landing at Madison, Indiana. Fleetwood: This Fleetwood was built in 1880 at Cincinnati, Ohio to replace the original of that name. Her dimensions were:- 302.2 x 43.4 x 6.4 feet; 1037 tons, net and gross. Her machinery came from the prior boat built in 1866 and were capable of 1128 horse power. She ran the Cincinnati - Huntington trade until the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad was completed to
This Fleetwood was built to replace the original of the same name in 1880 at Cincinnati. She was 302.2 x 43.4 x 6.4 and her machinery came from the prior boat. She ran in the Cincinnati to Huntington trade until the Chesapeak and Ohio Railroad was completed to Cincinnati, or about 1883. She then ran to Pomeroy and later in the Louisville trade. She was dismantled in the summer of 1893 and her
