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City of Providence
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City of Providence
Description
The City Of Providence ws an Anchor Line boat built in 1880 . For the St. Louis and Natchez trade. She ws a side wheeler with a texas deck and was later made an excursion boat. Shown here from South St. Louis bluffs above the Iron Mountain railroad tracks as an excursion boat operated by Columbia Excursion Company, she finally sunk in a wreck at St. Louis January 20, 1910. A part of the City
Iron Age
Title
Iron Age
Description
The Iron Age was built for the Gray's Iron Line at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1880. Her dimensions were: - 176 x 38 x 5.5 feet. Tonnage, gross and net, 385 tons. She towed coal south from Pittsburgh and was the first towboat to leave that place with an electric headlight.
Bluff City
Title
Bluff City
Description
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
Mary Morton
Title
Mary Morton
Description
Steamer MARY MORTON was built in Dubuque, Iowa in 1880, owned by the Diamond Jo Line and named for the wife of Diamond Jo Reynolds. The Mary Morton once sank near Clarksville, Missouri (Sept. 10, 1882) and was raised. The boat was chartered to the Anchor Line in 1897 and continue running the St. Louis - Memphis trade. She sank in October that year at Crain's Island near Grand Tower, Illinois, and
Silver Bow
Title
Silver Bow
Description
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
Vim
Title
Vim
Description
The Vim was originally built as the Hattie Brown, a single deck sternwheeler at Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania in 1895. Her dimensions were:- 125 x 22.6 x 4.3 feet. She was built for J. W. Rice of Zanesville, Ohio and her engines came from the Lizzie Cassel. They were 12's with a 4-foot stroke. She ran various short trades on the Ohio River. The Hattie Brown was rebuilt at Jeffersonville, Indiana in
Pluck
Title
Pluck
Description
The steamer PLUCK of the Henry W. Alsop Line. Barge in foreground. Barge or ferry in the mid-ground, along with the boat WINNIPEG. A Northern Pacific train runs in the background, where there is also a railroad bridge.
J. D. Ayers
Title
J. D. Ayers
Description
Union Barge Line Corporation - Pittsburgh, Pa.
H. K. Bedford
Title
H. K. Bedford
Date
1912
Description
H. K. Bedford, sunk in 1912 at Carpenter's Bar, above Marietta, Ohio River.
City of Louisville
Title
City of Louisville
Description
Louisville and Cincinnati Packet Company. Nicknamed the \"Big Dick\"
City of Baton Rouge
Title
City of Baton Rouge
Date
Description
miles above New Orleans on September 16, 1887, a lugger in charge of two boys attempted to cross her bow. The mast of the lugger struck the stage of the Baton Rouge, the lugger capsized and one of the boys drowned. The City of Baton Rouge sank at Hermitage, Louisiana, at 3:00 P. M. on December 12, 1890 on the same snag and at the same spot where the Paris C. Brown sunk in 1889.
J. D. Ayers
Title
J. D. Ayers
Description
The J. D. Ayers is a steel hull, sternwheel towboat. She was built by the Midland Barge Company in 1929 at Midland, Pennsylvania. Her dimensions are: 151 x 34.7 x 6 feet. She has 4 boilers of the return flue type. The condensing engines are 15's - 30's with a seven foot stroke; 750 horsepower. The paddle wheel is ... - 4\" in diameter by 23 feet long working 13 buckets with a ... -inch dip. The
Pluck
Title
Pluck
Description
Photograph of the steamer PLUCK of the Alsop Line. Alsop Line building and grain elevator in the background.
City of Cincinnati
Title
City of Cincinnati
Description
Louisville and Cincinnati Packet Company. A good looking sidewheeler.
H. K. Bedford
Title
H. K. Bedford
Description
The H. K. Bedford was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1885 for the Cumberland River; ther dimensions were: 149 x 27.7 x 4.1 feet. Frequently she came out to run the low water trades on the Ohio River when the sand bars were out for air and the larger boats laid up. In those days any Cumberland River boat could come out of that creek in June and make money all summer. In August, 1886 while the
Bluff City
Title
Bluff City
Date
1896
Description
The Anchor Liner BLUFF CITY nearing completion at the Howard Shipyards. The only sternwheeler to be built by the ANCHOR LINE.
Bluff City
Title
Bluff City
Date
1897
Description
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 stern-wheeler 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
D & C Day and Night Trips Detroit & Cleveland
Title
D & C Day and Night Trips Detroit & Cleveland
Date
1903
Description
Promotional pamphlet describing the schedules of the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company steamers around the Great Lakes region for the 1903 travel season. Includes the following lines: Detroit and Cleveland (Steamers City of Detroit and City of Cleveland); Cleveland - Toledo Line (Steamers State of New York and State of Ohio); Lake Huron Division (Steamers City of Alpena and City of
The Barrett Line
Title
The Barrett Line
Description
and rough speaking and rougher acting mates, their venturing and pioneering passengers, the Barrett Line handled greater volumes of freight than did those old packet lines whose histories are told in song and story. The Barrett Line was pushing large tows up and down the rivers not long after that seemingly ancient time - 1870 - when the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez were running their immortal race
City of St. Louis
Title
City of St. Louis
Description
The City of St. Louis was an anchor Line sidewheeler built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1883. Her dimensions were: 300 x 49 x 8.6 feet. She was built for the St. Louis - New Orleans trade. She too, was later converted into an excursion boat. On May 10, 1903, while she and the New South were running excursions in the harbor of New Orleans, the [sic] colided with no loss of life, but with a damage

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