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.
The Josephine was built at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1873. Her dimensions were:- 178 x 31 x 4.5 feet; 301 tons. She had two boilers. Her engines were 15 incehs in diameter with a 5-foot stroke. This boat ran as a packet on the Missouri River. She once made a notable exploration trip to the upper Yellowstone, reaching Pompey's Pillar on June 3, 1875; then went up to Hell Roaring Rapids where she
In the struggle of the packet boats against rail competition the Anchor Line put up a bold fight. To reduce operating expenses they built the Bluff City, the only sternwheeler the Anchor Line ever built. She came out new in October 1896, built at Jeffersonville, Indiana. But fate was against her as she lasted but one year. On November 18, 1897, she caught fire at Chester, Illinois on the
p. 1071 - on Upper Mississippi River, believed to be '1902-1910' Davenport, Iowa. First as sternwheel 'J.S' J.S. 'first ' J.S. excursion boat built at Jeffersonville, Indiana. 1901 - size 175'x33'x5.5'. engines 18"x7' stroke, built for Captain John Streckfus Sr. Originally placed in Davenport - Clinton, Iowa daily trade, offering "moonlight excursions". In this trade she was found to be too
The Spread Eagle packet is shown heading downstream below the Merchants Bridge. It was owned by Capts. Henry and Buck Leyhe who once operated the Eagle Packet Company. Located near Eads Bridge since 1874. A member of the famous Eagle fleet, the Spread Eagle was lost Jan. 18, 1918 when it hit an ice wall while at the head of a fleet of four Eagle steamboats on the Tennessee River.
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
The Peerless, Captain Tom Barry, was an Alabama River packet running from Mobile to Montgomery, Alabama. She was built as the James T. Staples in 1908 at Mobile, Alabama and her net and gross tonnage was 365. The high pressure machinery was rated as 900 horsepower. The wooden hull was 200 x 40 x 5.1 feet. She carried a crew of 41. The Staples exploded her boilers on January 9, 1913, was partially
The engines were 18 inches by 8 feet, with three boilers made of Park Brothers' black diamond steel which were 44 inches by 28 feet, and were allowed 178 pounds of steam. There were six flues in each boiler. The wheels were 26 feet in diameter; the buckets 12 feet long and 26 inches wide. There was 14 feet between her main and boiler decks. The cabin was 13 feet wide in the clear, with 17 large
Packet' Liberty' with photographers boat, when new- built-1889. Marietta Ohio, for apt John K. Booth- sold into the Memphis White River trade- Sold, early 1900s to Capts W. MEanes Sr. & T. Jackson, for a Mobile-Tombigbee Packet- who sold her to Winston & Henry Jones for the same trade- Sold circa 1911, to Montgomery Ala intos, for a towboat, on Alabama River, in Mobile- Montgomery trade-
Her
The Silver Bow was owned and commanded by Captain Thomas W. Rea and was built by the James Rees and Sons Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1869. Official records show her to have been 212 by 32 by 5 1/2 feet. She had three boilers each 40 inches in diameter by 26 feet with cylinders 18 inches by 5 feet. The tonnage is give as 335; carried tonnage is listed as 600 tons. Missouri River
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
Photograph of cargo and steamboats lining the Saint Louis levee in the 1890s. GRAND REPUBLIC (second) and BELLE OF CALHOUN, as well as the Anchor Line wharfboat are pictured. Eads Bridge in the background. Railroad tracks to the left.
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