The links on this page lead to bits and pieces about various
riverboats.
Some pieces are small and some are rather lenghty. Some were found by
cruising the web, some within books I have, and others were submitted
by site visitors.
I wish to thank those site visitors who contributed to
some of these pages as they have added interesting bits and pieces to
what we know about many a boat's history.
Also see
About Boats on Various Rivers
A Comprehensive
Alphabetical List of Midwestern Riverboats
How Much Did the Crew Make?
About Boats On the Mississippi
and Ohio Rivers, 1820 - 1858
Life Aboard Riverboats
1, 2,
3, 4,
5, 6,
7,
RIVERBOATS IN THE MOVIES
Untimely Riverboat Demises
To Pages About Individual Boats
These pages will have bits and pieces
of information about the named boat.
- ADMIRAL
- ALABAMA -
BEN
HUR - BENTON - BENTON
#4 - BELLE ZANE - BELL
OF LOUISVILLE -
BEN SHARROD - BERTRAND
- BESSIE SMITH - BRIGHT
STAR -
- BUCKEYE BELLE DISASTER -
- CALIFORNIA
- CARROLL - CHATTANOOGA
- CHESTER - CITY
OF CHATTANOOGA - CLARION
-
- CLERMONT - CONSTITUTION
- COL. CROSSMAN - CORNELIA
- COOSA - CRYSTAL
CITY -
- DAN CONVERSE 1,
2 - DAVENPORT/J.W. QUINLAN
-
DELTA KING 1, 2
- DELTA QUEEN 1, 2
- DeSMET -
- ECONOMY
-
- FAIR
PLAY - FAR WEST -
- GEO.
W. KENDALL - GORDON C. GREEN - GOLDENROD
- GOVERNOR MORTON -
- GRACE BARTON - GRANITE
STATE - GREENWOOD -
- HARVEST MOON
- HELENA - HENERY
AMES - HIBERNIA -
- IDLEWILD,
ILLINOIS, ISLAND
QUEEN -
- J.C.
RAWN - JAMES L. DYKES - JAMES
N. TRIGG - JOE WHEELER - JOHN
R. WELLS -
- JOSEPH OGLESBY - JOSIAH
H. BELL - JULIA -
- KATE
SWINNEY - KEYSTONE -
-LEADER
- LIZZIE GILL - LONE
STAR -
- MAGNOLIA
- MAJESTIC SHOWBOAT - MEMPHIS
- MONTANA - MORGAN NELSON
-
- MONTGOMERY
- MOSES GREENWOOD
-
- NAIL
CITY , NATCHEZ, NEW LUCY 1,
2 - NATHAN
B. FORREST -
- NEW ORLEANS 1, 2
- NEW RICHMOND -
- OCEAN
WAVE - OIL VALLEY - OLD
BOULLION - OAHMA 1, 2
- OMAR -
- QUEEN
CITY -
- PENNSYLVANIA
- PRAIRIE
-
- R.C.
GUNTER - ROBERT E. LEE - ROBERT
THOMPSON - RUFUS PUTNAM -
- SCIOTO
- SHOWBOATS - ST.
PAUL - ST. NICHOLAS 1, 2 - SIOUX
CITY - STAR OF THE WEST
- SULTANA -
- T.L. BROWN
- TELEGRAPH - TIME
AND TIDE -
- UNCLE BEN
-
- V.F.
WILSON - VERNE SWAIN -
VIRGINIA - W.R.
ARTHUR -
- WABASH QUEEN
- WAKE ROBIN - WINFIELD SCOTT 1,
2 - WAR
EAGLE -
- WATOSSA -
- YELLOWSTONE 1,
2 , 3
