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About Boats Whose Names Start With The Letter "C" Page 1 > 2 - CHATTANOOGA
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This boat started life as the MEDGIDDO a floating
Mission for T.T. Nichols and some ninety followers of the Midgiddo
religious sect, which he started. The information and image below are borrowed from -
The Steamer Chattanooga,
was a sternwheeler vessel with a wooden hull, originally the gospel
boat MEGIDDO, renamed the Chattanooga in May of 1904. She sank
on the rocks in the Big Chain, about mile marker 20 on the Tennessee
River, and was badly warped. She was pulled our on the marine
ways at Paducah. Captain Walter Blair superintended repairs and
she emerged looking very little like her former self, now a full
fledged packet boat. She ran out of Chattanooga and once sank
there with a large cargo of corn aboard. She became the last packet
boat to make trips to Kingston, Tennessee, this was in 1919-1920.
Crew on her last trip in that trade were; Captain Paul Underwood,
(see botton of page "Underwood's") Master; Joe Farrell,
Mate; Harris Underwood, Pilot; Bob Ellison, Chief Engineer; Bob
Dobbs, Clerk. Running from Chattanooga to Decatur, Alabama in
January of 1921 was Captain Thomas F. Galy, Master. She finally
sank for the last time in Chattanooga. (see the Chattanooga pictured
with the James N. Trigg,) There were five Steamboats over a period
of 71 years named the Chattanooga. Please take a look at the City of Bridgeport's
site. The information and image below are borrowed from -
The City of Chattanooga, was a Sternwheeler, with
a wooden hull, built in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1892. This vessel
was 144' long and 30' wide. The machinery was used from the towboat
HERBERT, which was built earlier in 1883. The City of Chattanooga
ran from Chattanooga to St. Louis, a long ambitious trade, but one
that was not so profitable for the company. She had many delays
and troubles in the Muscle Shoals area. In January of 1895, she
was released from a sand bar, where she had set high and dry for
four months. As the spring rains came, and the river rose, she was
released. At one time she was stuck on the sand bar, she was over
300 feet from the river. He Captain was J.P. Kindrick and J.B. Allison
was the Pilot. She was sold to Paducah later, and converted into
a towboat named WOOLFOLK. Please take a look at the City of Bridgeport's site.
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