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Sporty Days
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Sporty Days
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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
A. C. Donnally
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A. C. Donnally
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Side-wheel packet A. C. Donnally at loading dock. This steamer ran Cincinnati to New Orleans before it burned on the Missouri shore just south of Cairo in February 1879.
A. D. Allen
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A. D. Allen
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Sternwheeler A. D. Allen docked.
A. D. Allen
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A. D. Allen
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Sternwheeler A. D. Allen at port. Crew is visible on deck.
A. D. Allen
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A. D. Allen
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Sternwheeler A. D. Allen at Lock 3 on the Arkansas River.
Sporty Days
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Sporty Days
Description
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
A. M. Halliday
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A. M. Halliday
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A. M. Halliday docked. Crew is visible in pilot house and working with automobiles on deck.
Ada V
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Ada V
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Ada V docked in Sistersville, West Virginia.
Ada B
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Ada B
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Ada B docked. Passengers and loading crew visible on deck.
A. Baldwin
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A. Baldwin
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A. Baldwin on river. Crew visible on deck and in pilot house.
Alice B. Miller
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Alice B. Miller
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Alice B. Miller at port. Passengers and crew are visible on deck and in pilot house. The steamer ran under this name on the Yazoo and Sunflower Rivers in Mississippi between 1908 and 1915.
Addie E. Faison
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Addie E. Faison
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Addie E. Faison on river. Passengers and crew are visible on deck.
Addie T
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Addie T
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Addie T at port, loaded with goods. Passengers and crew are visible on deck and in pilot house.
Alice Brown
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Alice Brown
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Alice Brown under construction. Builders are visible on deck.
Alice Dean
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Alice Dean
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Alice Dean at port. This steamer ran Cincinnati to Memphis between 1864 and 1872. During her short life, she suffered a series of mishaps: sank in 12 feet of water on her third trip but was raised; hit a suspension bridge in 1865 and knocked down both stacks; hit a log and almost sank in 1869; hit another suspension bridge in 1870 and again knocked down both stacks.
Alicia
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Alicia
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Sternwheeler Alicia on river.
Aliquippa
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Aliquippa
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Aliquippa arriving at port. Crew are visible on deck and in pilot house.
Allegheny
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Allegheny
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Sternwheeler Allegheny and a loaded towboat entering Lock No. 6 on the Monongahela River. Photo was taken February 8, 1937.
James Lee
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James Lee
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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.
James Lee
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James Lee
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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.

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