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Title: James Lee II
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Description: The second James Lee was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1898. Her dimensions were 204 feet in length, 36 feet beam and 5 feet depth of hold. She ran in the Memphis and Friar's Point trade, Captain John H. Darragh commanding. She was eventually converted into an excursion boat at Memphis and renamed the DeSoto, about 1917. In January, 1918 she sank in the ice at Memphis along with the Georgia

Title: James Lee (2nd)
Description: The James Lee (2nd) was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 1898. Her dimensions were 204 x 36 x 5 feet. She ran in the Memphis and Friar's Point trade; Captain John H, Darragh, commanding. She was eventually converted into an excursion boat at Memphis and renamed the DeSoto about 1917. She sunk at Memphis after the 1918 ice gorge wrecked her along with the Georgia Lee.

Title: James Lee (1st)
Description: This, the first James Lee was built in 1879 at Sewickley and completed at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her dimensions were: - 237 x 35 x 8 feet; 784 tons, net and gross. She had four boilers. Her engines were 22 inches in diameter with a 7-foot stroke. The two wooden paddle wheels were each 29 feet in diameter with 15 foot buckets. The James Lee was a good, trim steamboat. She ran in trades out of

Title: James Lee II
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Description: The second James Lee was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1898. Her dimensions were 204 feet in length, 36 feet beam and 5 feet depth of hold. She ran in the Memphis and Friar's Point trade, Captain John H. Darragh commanding. She was eventually converted into an excursion boat at Memphis and renamed the DeSoto, about 1917. In January, 1918 she sank in the ice at Memphis along with the Georgia

Title: James Lee
Description: Bow of the side-wheel packet James Lee at Helena, Arkansas. Crew are visible on her main and hurricane decks. The Nettie Johnson can be seen at far right.

Title: James Lee
Description: Side-wheel packet James Lee, built in 1898 to run Memphis to Friar's Point, Mississippi. In 1917 she was converted to an excursion boat and renamed De Soto but was lost to ice in January 1918.

Title: James Lee
Description: Side-wheel packet James Lee loading goods.

Title: Lee Liners at Memphis
Description: Lee Liners at Memphis Wharf in the 90's. James Lee (2nd.) in center foreground.

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