The second Kate Adams was built at the Howard yard, Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1888. She was 250 x 36 x 8.5 feet. She had four boilers and her engines were 22 inches in diameter with an 8 foot stroke. When the third Kate Adams was built she was sold in 1901 and renamed the Dewey. She ran in the Memphis and New Orleans trade with the Julia. Later, she was again sold and called the Lotus Sims. She
Photo taken 1925 at Pittsburgh during her last days.
The third KATE ADAMS (1899-1927) was built by the Howard Shipyards Company at Jeffersonville, Indiana, for the Memphis and Arkansas Packet Company. Her steel hull was 240 ft. long, 40 ft. beam, 7 ft. hold, having eighteen water-tight compartments. Her over-all width was 80 ft. Each stateroom had a colonial-arched entranceway. She made her
The first Kate Adams was built in 1872 at SewickleyPennsylvania and then completed at Pittsburgh. Her dimensions were:- 247 x 72.4 x 9.0 feet. Tonnage: gross, 1047; net, 927 tons. She had high pressure engines 24 inches in diameter and 9-foot stroke; also five boilers. Captain James Rees, who had much to do with the biuilding of the Kate Adams and the Will S. Hays, both in 1882, says they were
handsome packet and she came to the Pittsburgh-Cincinnati trade in 1925-1926. She returned to Memphis in the fall of 1926 and was renamed La Belle Reviere for a moving picture of Uncle Tom's Cabin. When the picture was completed she resumed her old name of Kate Adams, was laid up at the Memphis wharf and burned there on January 8, 1927.
