RIVERBOATS
Starting With
A
Page 2
An's through Az's
The Arabia
From The Gallery of Gary R.
Lucy
RIVERBOATS
Starting With
A
Page 2
An's through Az's
The Arabia
From The Gallery of Gary R.
Lucy
To riverboats whose names begin with the initial"A" To riverboats whose names begin with the Letter A, Page 1 Name: ANDERSON See ROBERT R. ANDERSON Name: ANDES No. 1 Type: Stern-wheeler Size: Launched: 1860's? Area: Ohio R. Captain(s): 1870's?, Mate, Peppers, George H. Comments: Notes from WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, Wheeling West Va., June 24, 1951 1. Name: ANDES Type: Sternwheel woodenhull packet. Size: 220' X 39' X 5.5' Power: Engines, 20's-6 ft. 3 boilers Launched: 1877, Cincinnati,, Oh. 4 months, start to launch. Destroyed: 1895, May, John H. Woods and Co. bought and dismantled her. Area: left Wheeling at 3:00p.m., Bellaire at 6:00p.m. until 1889. 1879; used Booth's "Old Reliable" warf-boat at Wheeling W. Va, Ohio R. 1889, under new owners went to excursion trips Owners: when new, Wheeling & Cincinnati Packet Company : late 1880s, Muhlman sold his interest to Capts. Ed Cooper, Al Slavin and Ben D. Stout : 1893, went to Capt. Lee Anshutz and Charles Ollum, who were backed by Harry Davis, a Pittsburgh theater man. Captain(s): When new Charles Muhlman, master, Capt. Martin F. Noll, clerk. 1870's?, Mate, George H. Peppers 1889, Charles Muhleman Comments: Notes from WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, Wheeling West Va., June 24, 1951 1. Name: ANDREW ACKLEY Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size; 162' X 25' X 3.5' Power: 12's-5 ft., 2 boilers. Launched: 1868, Pittsburgh, Pa. Destroyed: Fate not known Area: 1868, departed for Mo. R. Ran Red R. occasionally Owners: 1868, built for Capt. William J. Kountz 1873, July, New Orleans, Sold at U.S. Marshal sale for $2,000 Captains: 1868, Boise Commnents: made 7 trips to Montana points. Ft. Benton 4 times. Once to Cow Island. : Named for Pittsburgh storekeeper. : A boat by this name is said to have been running New Orleans-Ouachita R. in 1858-60. Said to have been scuttled on Ouachita, 1864, and rtaised and rebuilt. From historian F.L. Wooldridge. Name: ANDREW JACKSON Area: MO. R.
Name: ANDY JOHNSON
Launched: 1866, Madison, Ind./compleated at St. Louis
Destroyed: 1876, Dec. 13, St. Louis, cut down by ice
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet
Power: Engines, 28-1/2's- 7ft. Five Boilers
Area: Pre 1881, U. Miss. R.
1873, made one trip to New Orleans
Owners: 1876, Keokuk Northern Line
Captains: 1871, Lee
1873, D.R. Asbury
Comments: 1866, Sept. 8, Led a parade of 37 steamers,
Alton to St. Louis, with Pres. Johnson aboard.
: 1881, Equipment went to GEM CITY
Name: ANGELINA
Built, cir 1846, Pattonia, Tex.
Destroyed: 1850, just south of Evadale, Jasper Co., Tex., sank.
Area: Sabine, Neches and Angelina Rs., Tex.
Owner: Capt. Robert S. Patton
Captain: 1846-50, Moses L. Patton
Comments: See source Article
1. Name: ANGLO SAXON
Type: Siedwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 214 tons.
Launched: 1846, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1848, Feb. 16, Chester, Ill., snagged and lost.
Area: Pittsburgh-St. Louis
Owners: *Elli Mills and Capt. Herman Price
Captains: *Herman Price
Comments: *Source
Name: ANGLO SAXON
1857-68
3. Name: ANN
Launched: 1840's mid?
Area: Sacramento R. Calf.
Comments: 1849, Aug. 31, Listed in the Alta Californian as plying
trade on the waters of the Sacramento R.
Name: ANNA CALHOUN
Launched: 1835?, Wheeling W. Va. by either the Bell Yard ot the Patton
Yard
Area: Ohio R. Owner:
Comments: Engines and Machinery probably made by T. Sweeney & Son. Foundry
of Wheeling, W. Va..
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: ANNIE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 238' X 29' X 3.8'
Launched: 1877, LaCrosse, Wis.
Owners: At first, Keokuk Northern Line
St. Louis & St. Paul Packet Company
Captains: for a time, Robert Roehing
Comments: Renamed WHITE EAGLE
Name: ANNIE CADE
ANNIE CADE
in Kansas City
Type: Sternwheel, stemboat ferry Size:
Launched: 1879?
Destroyed: 1912 or 13 Soon after the Hannible Bridge was opened across
the Mo. R. between North and South Kansas City in 1912,
and began taking her fares, she hit one of the bridge's piers
and sank.
Area: Anywhere between the foot of Main street and the foot of Broadway
in Kansas City, Mo., depending upon the currents, and Harlem
(North Kansas City, Mo.)
Captain(s); in later years, Kirkman, R. B.
Comments: The ANNIE CADE was a wide-open-bowed, twin stacked, sternwheeler.
Designed to be a ferry boat, she could carry as many as 12 to 15
farm wagons on her lower deck.
Fare: 5 cents per person.
Hours: Early morning until 10pm.
1903: did rescue service during flood of that year
Credit: "A Bridge To The Past': 1983 under the auspices of the North Kansas
City, Mo. 1983 City Council, and edited by Mildred Fullton.
A fine coffee-table, hard-back book, primarilly about the history of
that part of Kansas City, Mo that is North of the Missouri River.
: See more ferry boats Here
1. Name: ANNIE JOHNSON Also see ADDIE JOHNSTON
Launched: 1863, LaCross, Wis.
Destroyed: 1877, documented until.
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
: There is some confusion about boat names, here.
Way's also lists an Addie Johnston
Name: ANNIE L Articles on collision
Area: 1882, Ohio R. Wheeling, W. Va.
Captain(s): Dougherty
Comments: 1882, July 5: Helped with rescue efforts when the JOHN LOMAS
collided with and sank the SCIOTO. Both were over-crowded
excursion boats.
Name: ANNIE LEE
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: quite small.
Power: 8"- 2 ft., 1 boiler
Launched: 1876, Boonville, Mo.
Destroyed: 1881, Nov. 11, snagged and lost near Euphrasie Bend, Griffith's Landing Mo. R.
Owner: Horace Kingsley
Area: Mo. R. Owner: Captain(s):
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Name: ANNIE M/LEOTA
The ANNIE M on the Coosa Rover
Type: Sternwheeler
Launched: 1900?'s early?
Area: Coosa R. (Ga. and Ala.)
Captain(s): 1913: Sims
Comments: As the LEOTA she was a U.S. Corp of Engineers boat used for
construction of locks, and dams and as a dredge barge tow.
Comments: Source
: This boat was the model for the boat Popeye The Salor Man's seagoing tugboat.
Name: ANSON NORTHRUP
Type: Stern-wheeler Size: 60 - 70'. Small, cheep and wooden of the early era
Launched: 1840s?
Area: Minnesota, Upper river boat
Owner: Anson Northrup
Name: ANSON NORTHRUP
Type: Ornamental Sidewheels excursion boat. Size: 92', 300 passengers.
Launched; 1988, Jennings La.
Area Out of Minneapolis
Captains: 1999, Gus Gaspardo
Comments: Named for owner /opperator of first ANSON NORTHRUP
1999 was third "Tall Stacks" festival appearance.
Note: These next two boats may be one and the same.
I have conflicting info.
3. Name: ANTELOPE
Type: Sidewheel, wood hull Size: 202.6', 581 tons
Power, 350 hp. vertical beam engine
Launched: 1847
Destroyed: 1888, broken up
Area: California Delta; 1850s, early, Sacramento R. Calif.
Owners: San Francisco and North Pacific R.R.
: 1856, California Steam Navigation Company
3. Name: ANTELOPE
Launched: 1840's late? Size: 260 tons
Area: 1850s, early, Sacramento R. Calif.
Name: ANTELOPE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 180' X 32'
Power: 18's - 6'. 2 boilers.
Launched: 1866, Metropolis, Ill.
Destroyed: 1869, Apr. 12, burned 5 mi. below Bonhomme Isl. on Mo. R.
Area: Long Island Sound, Sacramento, Ohio R. and U. Miss. R. and Mo. R.
Owner: Lightning Line
Captain and pilots: Capt. Bill Massie
Comments: 1860, helped deliver 1st Pony Express pouch. Was a gold boat.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: ANTHONY WAYNE
Launched: 1846
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: ANTON WILBERT
Type: Sternwheeler Size:
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: Credit
1 Name: ARABIA
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 181' X 31' X 5.5', 200 ton.
Power: 3 boilers
Launched: 1853, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1856, Sept, 5, Mo. R, near Parkville, Mo., snagged, sank. Map
Area: MO. R.
Owners: Capt, John Shaw
: 1856, when snagged, Capt. Wm. Terrill
Captains: John Shaw then Wm. Terrell
Comments: The Arabia Steamboat Museum is in Kansas City, Mo.
Name: ARAGO
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson,
shopkeeper, Commerce Mo. (Displaced to Santa Fe, Ill. during War.)
- Santa Fe, Illinois, October 16th 1861. "The times have
been quiet since my last. On Tuesday morning the Arago put
off some freight for us consisting of ten bbls. salt one sack
coffee, 1 doz. brooms, 1 box candles, box black pepper and other
articles. . . . "
1. Name: ARCHIE P. GREEN
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 110' X 22' X 3', 57 ton.
Launched: 1873, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1880, Feb. 10, 3 mi. below Batesville, Ark, sank.
Area: White R., Ark.
Owners: Built for J.W. Lovell, Nashville, Tenn.
1877, Capt. Charles B. Woodburry
Captains: 1875, Alex C. Elliot
1877 - 1880 when sunk, Charles B. Woodbury, Dayton Ky.
Comments: Boat was probably named after Mr. Arch P. Green of
Jackson and Overton Counties in Tenn.
: see article
Name: ARCHIMEDES
Type: Snag boat
1. Name: ARGAND
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet/towboat. Size: 132.6' X 24' X 5.
Power: 10's-3 1/2 ft. from H.A. MEAD. 1 boiler, 42" x 20'.
Launched: 1896, Levanna, Oh.
Destroyed; 1927, Dec., Muskingum R. at Lowell Oh. lock, Burned
Area: 1896, Pittsburgh-Parkersville trade at first, then
1896-1898, Oct., Wheeling-Parkersburgh
1898, Oct.-1901, Apr., Big Sandy R. trade
Owner: 1896- when new for 10 weeks, Capts. Newt Flesher and Gordon C. Greene
1896-1898, Oct., Green Line Steamers
1898, Oct.-1901, Apr., Big Sandy Navigation Company
1901, Oct.-1927, Capt. Edwin A. Price, New Martinsville, W. Va.
Captains: 1896, Newt Flecher
1896 after Greene purchased entire, Master, Mary C. Greene; pilots,
Jessie P. Hughes and Henry Brookhart, pilots.
1901, Oct., Edwin A. Price used her to tow his showboat WATER QUEEN
Comments: The whistle from the WILL J. CUMMINS was given to her by Capt Mack Gamble
: Capt. Price usually wintered his showboat on Muskingum R. at Lowell Oh. Lock
Name: ARGO
Type: sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 41 tons.
Launched: 1845, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1847, fall, above Winona, Minn., sank.
Area: 1845, Galena, St. Paul-Stillwater
Owner: Blakeley, Rusell
Captain(s): 1845, Kennedy Lodwick then Russell Blakeley
*c. 1846, mate, Jones Worden
1847, M.W. Lodwick and Russell Blakeley
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
*Jones Worden's Steamboats and Steamboating Career by Frederick J. Worden
1. Name: ARGOS
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 115' X 24' X 3', 8 1/2" draft.
Launched: 1864, Brownsville Pa.
Destroyed: ?1871, late?, mouth of Poke Bayou, Batesville, Ark., sank, lost.
Areas: Built for Brownsville-Morgantown, w. Va. trade.
1868, running U. White R.
Owners: built by Capt. E. D. Abrahams
1869, July-1871, early, Thomas Cox, Batesville, Ark.
Captains: after July, 1869, William C. Shipp*
1871, June 27, Capt. Albert G. Cravens* was listed as pilot.
Comments: 1871, Nov., sold at auction for $525.00*
Mentioned in this *Article
Name: ARGOSY/TINCLAD #27
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 157' X 33' X 4.5'
Power: 15's- 5 ft.,3 boilers.
Launched: 1862, Monongahela, Pa. for Capt. George W. Reed.
Destroyed:1872, Mar. 7, Cincinnati, burned.
Owner: 1862, Capt. George W. Reed
1863, Mar., Cairo, taken over by U.S.
1865, Aug. 17,sold to U.P. Schenck and Vevay
1. Name: ARGOSY NO. 2/WAVE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 154' x 31' x 4.5'
Power: 15's - 4 ft., from sidewheeler MINNETONKA, 2 boilers
Launched: 1863, Mononghela, Pa. for Capt. George W.Reed.
Owners: originally Capt. George W. Reed
: 1863, Nov. 14, Cincinnati, purchased by U.S. and renamed WAVE.
Comments: In U.S. service was tinclad #45
: 1864, May 6, Calcasieu Pass,Tx., captured by Confederates
: Possibly, in later life, the boat mentioned in this Article.
Name: ARGUS
Owners: Early 1830's, Horatio Nelson Crooks, his brother Benjamin Crooks
and Brother-in law, James Cargill.
Name: ARIEL
Destroyed: Abandoned on Buffalo Bayou Area: early 1800s, Rio Grand
and Brazos Rs. in Texas.
Comments: May have been first riverboat on Rio Graqnde R.
: Source
: An ARIEL is mentioned in this Article. Probably not the same one.
Name: ARKANSAS
Type: Ram boat Size:
Launched: 1860?
Destroyed: Confederates set on fire to keep from Union troops.
Comments: homemade engines failed during battle.
Name: ARKANSAS
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull towboat/packet. Sixe: 185' X 36' X 5.'. *459 ton.
Power; 16's-5 1/2 ft., 3 boilers, ea. 38" X 26'
Launched: 1868, Elizabeth, Pa., completed Pittsburgh
Destroyed: c. 1884, Lousiana, mo, or St. Louis, Sunk by ice
Area: 1868, built for Ark. R. - New Orleans
1876-78 U. Miss. R., grain barges and packet cruises
1878-84, Mo. and u. Mo. R.
Owners: 1868, principal, Capt. A.H. Shaw
1871, Aug.-78, Diamond Jo Line
1878-84, Capt. Peyton (Pate) S. Davidson of La Crosse
Captains: *1873, Joseph B. Wilcox
*Various pilots, Sherman Brown, Stephen Dolson, William Tibbals and
Henry Rider
Comments: 1870, Dec. 29, arriv. N.O. with 2,301 bales cotton, biggest load
out of Ark. to date. 1871, bettered that with 2,322 bales.
: 1876, mid-Mar. Near Dubuque, sunk and raised.
Source:* From an article by William Petersen in The Palimpsest
1. Name: ARKANSAS BELLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 203.5' X 32.5' X 5.1'
Power: Engines, 17-1/2's- 5-1/2 ft. Three Boilers, each 37-1/2" X 24 ft.
Launched: 1870, Cincinnati, Oh
Destroyed: 1880, laid up at Evansville and disasembled
Area: Built for Memphis-Ark. R. trade.
1870, Dec. 20, entered Evansville-Cairo trade
in end left Evansville at 4 P.M. 3 dys a week
Owners: 1870, Dec, 20, sold to Evansville & Cairo Line
Captains: 1870, G.J. Grammer
Later, Ben Howard
Last, John Weed
Comments: Machinery went to H.T. DEXTER
1. Name: ARKANSAS CITY
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 273' X 44' X 7.', 1,236 tons.
Launched; 1882, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1896, May 27, St Louis. Demolished by the Great St. Louis Tornado.
Area: St. Louis-New Orleans.
Owners: Anchor Line
Captains: 1882-?96?, Charles B. Zeigler
Clerk: 1885, William Howard Pritchartt
Name: ARMENIA
Type: Side-wheeler
Launched: 1850s?
Area: Hudson R.
Comments: Ran last race in East against HENRY CLAY, won.
Name: ASA WILGUS
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 210' X 36' X 6.'.
Power: 22's- 6 1/2 ft., 3 boilers, each 46" C 26'.
Launched: 1857, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1860, Sept. 3, Mouth of Lost Creek near Weston Mo., sank.
U.S. Army Corp of Engineers map places this wreck Here
Area: Mo. R.
Owners: 1860 Sept. 3 when sunk, R.R. Hopkins, A. C. Hopkins and Henry Thornbrough
Captains: 1860, R.R. Hopkins, Master; William R. Massie, pilot,
George G. Keith, steersman.
Comments: 1857, The Diary of E.F. Beadle has arriving Omaha
arriving up to Omaha, May 31, in Omaha June 22, July 15.
Name: ASIA
Launched: 1850s?
Area: 185?, U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
* Name: ASSINIBOINE
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet
Size: 210 X 36' X 6', 412 tons.
Launched: 1833, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1834, below Ft. Union, stranded in low water. Forced to winter there.
1835, on way back down, grounded in N.Dakota and eventually burned there.
Area: Mo. R.
1833, Landed at Ft. Union
Owners: American Fur Company
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Comment: Named after the American Indian tribe of the same name.
1. Name: ASSUMPTION
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 151' x 35.8' x 6.5'
Launched: 1875, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1895, July, hit a bluff bar. Beached, then was laid up to rot
Area: 1878, advertised New Orleans-Thibodaux
1880, New Orleans-Bayou Lafourche trade
1895, New Orleans-Bayou Vermilion
Captains: 1878-83, P.A. Charlet
Name: ATLANTA
Type: Side-wheeler
Launched: 1820s?
Area: Hudson R.
Owner: Gibbons/Ogden
1. Name: ATLANTIC
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 275' X 39' X 6.8'
Power: 26's-10 ft., 5 boilers
Launched; 1859, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1867, St. Louis, dismantled. Hull to wharfboat, New Albany
Area: L. Miss. R.
1859-? Louisville-New Orleans
1864-?, St. Louis - New Orleans
Owner: when new, J. B. Ford, New Albany, Ind.
1864, Spring, sold to Capt. Dan Able and Co.
*At one time was under Atlantic and Mississippi Steamship Company banner.
Captains: 1859, Anson McGill
Comments: 1864, Spring, St. Louis, rebuilt to 45' wide with new engines, 32's-8 ft.
: Her cabin and machenery went to DEXTER
: was U.S. troop carrier in C. War
*From site visitor Lynn Cunningham
Name: ATLANTIC
Launched: 1840, after.
Comments: Made run N.O. - Donaldsville 1860, 0/5/11
Name: ATLAS/CHEROKEE CHIEF
Type: Stern-wheeler Size: little
Launched: 1820s?
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: 1826. Was 1st steamer to reach Knoxille, Tenn.
: 1838-39 winter, as CHEROKEE CHIEF was one of the steamboats that transported
the Cherokee Indians to Oklahoma during the Trails of Tears Removal.
Name: AUCOCISCO
Type: Wooden hull, propellor driven ferryboat steamer Size: 117'
Launched: 1897?
Destroyed: 1952?
Area: Cosco Bay, (Portland) Maine
Owner: Haspswell Lines
Captain(s): Sometinme between 1897 until 1952, Edward Legere
1. Name: AUGUSTUS McDOWELL
Launched: 1860, Probably in March
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 240' X 34'X 7', 451 tons.
Power: Engines by Gaty, McCune & Co. 22" dia cylinder, 7' stroke.
3 Boilers, each 40inches X 28 ft.
Wheels: 28' with 10' buckets
Destroyed: 1862, Oct. 27, St. Louis, Burned and lost.
Area: 1861: Miss. R.
1861, Aug. was troop carrier and supply ship for U.S. on Mo. R. (See)
Owner: in Part Capt. William Eads
Comments: Named after a carpet merchant of that name.
: 2. - Thursday Night, March 21st, 1861.
". . . The McDowell came up this evening, put off 2 sks.
coffee, 1 bbl molasses and one bbl. sugar for J.M. Jehlen.
I pd. ft. and chgs.(freight and charges) with beef, eggs,
and cash from store ($) 15.75. Max paid 52.10 which I am
to refund tomorrow. The goods being brot. up closed up
business of a very dull day."
: Was with Gen. Grant's fleet on Tenn. R.
: * 1860, Nov. Cub pilot Samuel Clemens hitched a ride on this boat.
From the Missouri Republican newspaper, Jan. 21, 1860
Name: AUNT SALLY
Size: 85'X 18'
Launched: 1870s?
Area: Ark R., Mo. R., ?Miss. R.?
Comments: 1878, left Little Rock on June 18, and arrived in Arkansas
City, Kansas, on June 30. Great rejoicing in Kansas!
Credit
Name: AUSTRALIA
Destroyed: 1856, Apr. St.Louis Ice Crush Area: u. Miss. R.
Comments: 1856, late Feb, Torn from docks and swept downstream in ice
flow during Great Ice Gorge at St. Louis.
Name: AURORA
Launched: 1815 -20: Wheeling, W. Va.
Comments: Machenery and engines by Means and Brothers, Wheeling.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING INTELLIGENCER,
June 24, 1951
Name: AUTOCRAT No 1
Launched: 1880s?
Destroyed: 1912, Snagged
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: 1.
Name: AVALON/OHIO (#4)
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet/excurssion boat
Size: At launch: 167.1' X 33.4' X 4'; 1901, Summer, lenghtened
to 199.2' X 33.4' X 4.4' Power: 12's-4 1/2 ft. from the
ELAINE, two 38" X 24' boilers.
Launched: 1898, Aug. Clarington Oh. Built and opperated by Cramer Family
of Clarington.
Destroyed: 1916, Feb. 2, working out of Parkersburg, burned in night at
mouth of Little Kanawha R.
Area: 1898 - 1900, Pittsburgh-Parkersburg trade 1901, Jan. - Tennessee R. Trade.
1901, Nov. - Dec., Cairo-Chattanooga trade.
Later in Cincinnati-Memphis trade. Later Excursion trade for one
summer between Wheeling and Sisters Island park.
1907-08, Pittsburgh-Charleston trade.
1909, Jan, 18, - 1913, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati trade.
1914, Excursion boat in Wheeling, W. Va.
1915, early, made a Pittsburgh - New Orleans trip to Mardi Ggras
1916, working out of Parkersburg
Owners: 1898 - 1907, The Cramer Family headed by Cramer, Capt Lanford
: 1907 - ??, Aug. 21, equal parts by Roe, Capt William E.,
Noll, Capt. Martin F.
and Pope, Capt. Ben S.
Captains: 1898 - 1906, Sept. when he died aboard, Cramer, Capt Lanford
1909, Maddy, Edwin F.
1915, Lepper, W.C.
1915, summer, Stapleton, Billy
Later, McGee, Cornelius "Connie"
Comments: 1901, Lenghtened 190?, engines compounded Mentioned in this Article
Name: AVALON, The second one, originally the IDLEWILD
Name: AVONDALE
Launched: 1855 - 65, between" Wheeling W. Va. by Phillips Yard, Wheeling.
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING INTELLIGENCER, June 24, 1951
To riverboats whose names begin with the initial"A"
To riverboats whose names begin with the Letter A, Page 1
1. Way's Packet Directory, 1848 - 1994
2. Quote from The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson
3. Steamboats in the Valley
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