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Mother of Rivers She’s the mother of rivers, I’ve oft,heard it said, Peaceful and tranquil, as she flows through her bed. She inspires the poet, And the spinner of tales, And beckons the boatmen, Whose calloused as nails. Nurturing the nation, In various ways, The star attraction, In numerous plays, She accents the fields, A sight too behold, Enticing the artist, Her scenery so bold, Luring the tourist, From coast to coast, Like a reigning Queen, Purposing a toast, Cool waters run deep, As the muse of a sage, Spellbinding, awesome, At the height of her rage, When the ice and snow, Thaws in the spring, Unleashing her fury, Making steel cables sing, Inundating the lowlands, when she starts to unwind, Cutting new channels, When she has a mind, Efforts to control her, Are futile Indeed, Too tame her completely, We’ll never succeed” So let’s enjoy her presence, With the greatest of care, From St. Paul to New Orleans, She’s so very rare,
Ron Miner
To Riverboats Begining With B, Page 1 To Riverboats Begining With The Name BELLE To Riverboats Begining With The Name BEN Name: BIG HATCHIE Destroyed: 1845, (possibly 1842) blew up near Herman Mo. killing 35 and wounding many more Name: BIG HORN Launched: 1860s? Destroyed: Stranded Area: U. Mo. R. Name: BIG SANDY Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Launched: 1899 Owners: 1901 purchased in part by Capt. Steven Thompson Name: BILOXI Area: 1858, made a trip up the Sabine R. from Beloxi, Miss. Comments: The landing where it off loaded its cargo of slaves became known as Beloxi, Tex. The town is long since deserted and gone. : See source Article Name: BIRDIE BRENT Type: FERRY BOAT Size: Launched: 1871 Destroyed: 1887 Area: Mo. R. Boonville, Mo. Owner: Porter, Capt. John Captains: Porter, Capt. John, Wilson, R. C. Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly. Name: BLACK DIAMOND Area: 1870s, possibly Osage R., Mo. Owners: *possibly Charles F. Lohman and his son Capt. Louis Charles Lohman, Jefferson City, Mo. : This listing from family records of Lee Lohman, GGG grandaughter of Charles F. Name: BLACK DRAGON The nick name given the 1851 PITTSBURGH Name: BLACK HAWK Launched: 1830s? Area: U. Miss. R. Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: BLACK HILLS
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 135' X 27.5' X 4.5'
Power: 14's-4 1/2 ft., 2 boilers each 42" X 21'.
Launched: 1877, California Pa.
Destroyed: 1884, Mar. 28, After wintering at Bismarck, was cut down by ice
Area: Mo. R. and Yellowstone R.
Spent some time on Osage R., Mo.
Owners: 1/2-Timothy B. Burleigh, 1/4-James C. McVay, 1/4- Thomas M. Rees
Captains: First master, Timothy B. Burleigh, Yankton, Dakota Terr.; pilots,
William Gordon and Jim Witten
: 1881, July 23, Capt. Robt. F. Wright
Companies associated with: 1877, Benton "P" Line
Comments: 1881, July 23, took on 10 cords of wood at Crittenden's
Island at $4 a cord.
: Machinery and cabin came from SILVER CRESENT
Name: BLACK LOCUST
Type: Recessed Wheel ferryboat, wooden hull. Size: 106 tons
Launched: 1847, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1866-67 winter, ice.
Area: operated, Louisville-Jeffersonville
Owners: John Shallcross, James J. Thompson, Charles Strader and Athanasius
Wathen.
Name: BLACK PRINCE
Type: Sternwheeler Size:
Launched: 1900s early?
Destroyed: fate unknowen
Area: Skagit R., Pugeot Sound area, Wash. state
Captain: Albert Manwarren Galligan (8/14/1887 - 2/13/1973)
Name: BLACK ROVER
Launched: 1830s?
Area: u. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: BLOSSOM
Launched: ?1900-1911?
Area: California Delta
1. Name: BLUE RIDGE
Type: sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 138 tons.
Launched: 1844, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1848, Jan. 9, 1:00 A.M., Racoon Island below Gallipolis,
downbound in snow storm, blew boilers. Killed 15.
Area: 1845, March, advertised in Cincinnati Daily Atlas,
Cincinnati-Louisville and Kanawa R. trade.
Owners: 1844, when built, Warth and English
1845, went to a Capt. James A. Payne and others.
Captains: 1845, Master, William Summers
1848, master, William Penn Wright
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Also see CRUSADER
Name: BLUE TEAL, THE0
Type: Side-wheeler, Fictional
Size: 300 ton; 200 passenger. Draft, 3'.
Owner: Michael Riley
Captain(s): Capt. Michael Riley
Comments: In book "The River Witch" by Marjorie McIntyre, 1955
Name: BOAZ
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Area: 1897, OHIO R.
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Mar. 31 1897
1. Name: BOB BALLARD
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet Size: 130' X 26.2' X 4'
Power: Engines, 13's - 5ft., 3 boilers, each 38" X 20'.
All from the BOONE
Launched: 1890, Mason City W. Va.
Destroyed: 1909, Dec. 10, Coal Haven above Ironton, Oh., sank and lost.
Area: At first, Gallipolis - Marietta
Later also ran Louisville-Kentucky R. trade.
Owners: Toward end, after conversion to towboat,
Capt. Frank Morgan, Ironstown, Oh.
Captains: At first, Elmer E. Varian (Gallipolis - Marietta trade)
: Later, C.H. Varian (Louisville-Kentucky R. trade)
Name: BOB FUGUA
Type: tugboat Size:
Name: BOB PRITCHARD
Launched: 1880?
Destroyed: 1890'S?
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Her whistle went to the H. R. BEDFORD
From The Tribune Telegraph, Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio.
Name: BOLIVAR
Launched: 1831, Wheeling W. Va. by either the Bell Yard or the Patton Yard.
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Engines and machinery probably made by T. Sweeney & Sons at
Wheeling.
: Mentioned in this article
Name: BON ACCORD
Destroyed: 1856, late Feb, Torn from docks and swept downstream in
ice flow during Great Ice Gorge at St. Louis. Crushed
and sunk.
Name: BOONS LICK
Type: sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: Large
Distroyed: Sunk near N.O. by collision in which a
large number of lives were lost.
Area: St. Louis - New Orleans trade
Owner(s): Capt. John Simonds, Jr.
Name: BONANZA
Launched: 1890'S?
Comments: Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Aug. 18 1897
Name: BORDER STAR/BONNIE BELLE/NORTHERN STAR/ARAWANNA BELLE/COCOA BELLE/MAGNOLIA BELLE
Type: Sternwheel excursion boat
Power: Originally designed as steam driven sternwheeler
Launched: 1969
Areas: 1969, Ohio R.
Later as BONNIE BELLE out of Madison Ind.
Later as NORTHERN STAR and subsuquently as ARAWANNA BELLE
out of Toledo, Oh.
Later as COCOA BELLE, out of Cocoa Beach, Fl.
Now (2006) As MAGNOLIA BELLE, out of New Orleans North shore.
Comments: Featured in the 1993 Disney film "The Adventures of Huck Finn".
Name: BOREAS No 3
Launched: 1840s
Destroyed: 1849, May 17, fire at St, Louis docks.
1. Name: BOSTONA (No. 1)
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet
Size: 266' X 34' X 7.5', 468 tons
Power: engines by Inman, Gault and Co, 26-1/2's - 9', 5 boilers,
each 42" X 34-1/2 ft., Wheels - 31-1/2'
Hull by James Murry
Launched: 1849, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1852, nov. 25, At or near Ford's Ferry, Ky., above Cave In Rock,
stranded and sank, then was cut down by ice.
Area: 1849, Louisville - New Orleans
Owner: 1849, Part owner, Capt. E.T. Dustin
Captains: 1849, Master and part owner, Dustin, E.T.
Comments: Helped rescue surivors of SULTANA.
Made run N.O. - Louisville 1849, 5/8/0
Comments: from Way's, "Was quite ornate; each of 50 staterooms had
columns at doors upon which rested porticos richly gilded.
Had bedsteads and spring mattresses. Doors glassed with
many colors divided ladies' and men's sections; tub baths
connect with men's and ladies' rooms."
Name BOSTONA
Launched: 1879
Captains: *1881, Issac Brysom
Name: BOUISA
Launched: 1850s
Captain: 1850s, Keeling, Frankin A.
Source: Obituary, F.A.Keeling
Name: BRAGG
* Name: BRANDYWINE
Size: 140 tons
Power: Mongrel
Launched: 1827, Cincinnati, Oh
Name: BRAVE
Launched: 1832, Wheeling W. Va. by either the Bell Yard or the Patton Yard.
Area: U. Miss.
Owner: Smith, Orrin, Capt.
Captain and pilots: Capt. Smith, Orrin
Comments: Engines and machinery probably made by T. Sweeney & Sons at
Wheeling.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: BRAZIL
Area: U. Miss.
Owner: Smith, Orrin, Capt.
Captain(s): Capt. Smith, Orrin
Comments: Designed to be excursion boat with double-bunk cabins
lining salon with doors leading both into center saloon
and out onto the deck.
Name: BRAZOS BELLE Source
Type: Sternwheeler Size:
Area: Brazos R. Texas
1. Name: BRIDE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 295 tons.
Launched: 1848
Destroyed: 1853, Apr. 18, Vincennes, Ind. snagged and lost.
Area: Red R.
1851, Wabash R.
Comments: 1851, Cloutierville, La., exploded boilers.
1853, Feb. 8, Wabash R., ran aground
: 1853, while sparring the Captain broke and killed 3 men
Name: BRIGHT LIGHT
Launched: 1880s?
Area: 1883, Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Name: BRIGHT STAR
Type: Sternwheel ferryboat Size:
Area: 1873, Mo. R., Washington, Mo.
Comments: Gary Lucy Artwork and some info on boat
Name: BRILLIANCE
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Destroyed: Rammed by JOHN RANDOLPH. Sank
Name: BRILLIANT
Launched: 1842
Area: Ohio R.
Owner: 1847, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Steamboat Line
Comments: From The Wheeling Register, Monday, March 31, 1879
Name: BRISTOL
Launched: 186?
Area: Hudson R.
Owner: Fall River Line; Jim Fis???
Name: BRONX
Name: BROOKLYN
Name: BROTHER JONATHAN/COMMODORE
Type: Three masted Sidewheeler Size:
Launched: 1850 or 51, Perrine, New York by Pattreson and Stack,
for Long island Trade, but upon completion was sold to West
Coast interests.
Destroyed: 1865, July 27: Left SanFrancisco under the command of
Capt. de Wolf. Struck a large rock in a heavy sea off
Crecent City and was lost.
Area: West coast, Columbia R.
Owner: Vanderbuilt-Nicaragua Line, John T. Wright who renamed her COMMODORE,
1856, California Steam Navigation Co.
Captain(s):1851, Baldwin, C. H. who took her around Cape Horn;
1865 de Wolf
Comments: This information from Jerry Canavit
Name: BRUNETTE
Comments: 1856, late Feb, Torn from docks and swept downstream in
ice flow during Great Ice Gorge at St. Louis. Don't
know if was destroyed by this.
Name: BRYANT'S NEW SHOWBOAT
Name: BUCK ELK
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 100.7' X 18.3' X 3.'
Launched: 1900, Herman, Mo.
Area: 1901 or so, White R. (Source)
1908, Yazoo R.
1 Name: BUCKEYE BELLE
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 151' X 22' X 5'
Power: Engines, 17's - 6ft. 2 boilers, each 42" X 20'. 2 flues.
Launched: 1852, Marietta, Oh.
Destroyed: 1857, Nov. 26, Columbus Ky, Boilers exploded, no lives lost.
Area: 1852, Muskingum R. - St. Marys, Va. to Newport, Oh. and Zanesville, Oh.
Ran U.S. Mail, freight and passengers until boiler explosion.
See Comments, below.
: 1854, Pittsburgh - Portsmouth
: 1857, Mound City - Cairo-Hickman
Captains: 1852, James T. Hahn, Pilot: Calvin R. Stull
1854, Spring, Capt. Smith
1857, J.W. Brown
Comments: 1852, Nov. 2, near Beverly, Oh. upbound shortly after 5PM. Boilers Exploded.
20 died, 14 were injured. 13 were buried the Beverly Cemetary
in a common box of unidentified body parts.
Was rebuilt.
See Article by site visitor Debbie Noland Nitsche.
Name: BUCKEYE STATE
With pitch, lard, tar, coal and wood
The BUCKEYE'S time was very good;
But faster she will have to kite
To catch the SWANN OR DAVID WHITE
Type: Sidewheel, woodenhull packet. Size: 260' X 29.4' X 6.6'
Power: 29-1/2's- 8 ft., Nelson built. 5 boilers
Wheels; 31' 8" dia., 12' buckets with 36" dip. 20 arms ea.
Launched: 1850, hull, Shousetown, Pa., Completed, Pittsburgh
1850, Feb. 17, maiden trip.
Destroyed: 1857, dismantled.
Area: 1857, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
Owners: Original stockholders, David Holmes, Thomas S. Clarke, William
Bingham, Robert S. Hays and Capt. Samuel J Reno.
Companies Associated with: came out under Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet
Line colors.
Captains: 1850, Feb. 17 - Mar. 28, Samuel J. Reno
1850, Mar.- Master, Samuel Dean; pilots, William Clark and
Thomas Witten.
Later years, Master, M.W. Beltzhoover
Comments: Made run Cincinnati - Pittsburgh in 1851, May, in 43 hrs. a record that still stands
amoung steamboats.
: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: BUCKEYE STATE
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 235' X 36' X 5'
Launched: 1878
Area: Ohio R., 1879: Ohio R.. Was docking at The "People's Warf Boat" in
Wheeling W. Va.
Captains: 1878, Kerr, Wash H.
Companies Associated with: Pittsburgh & Cincinnati Packet Line
Name: BUENA VISTA
Area: 1850s - 80s Tombigbee River in Clarke County, Ala.
Owner: Jordan, David S.
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: From David Upton: "I am looking for imformation on my
familys history. My great great great grandfather, David
S. Jordan, owned a river boat company. He shipped produce
and items between Mobile Alabama and the river systems to
the north of that city. His base of operations was on the
Tombigbee River in Clarke County during the 1850s-1880's.
He started with flatbottom river boats and eventually
steam powered boats. I only have two names of the boats
he owned. They were the Buenavista and the Samual J.Tilden.
He did not have a pilots licence and he had
to hire his crews instead of using his own family to
run the boats."
Name: BUFFALO See
Name: BURGESS
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson, shopkeeper,
Commerce Mo.
- Tuesday Night, April 16th 1861. "Business dull. River
on stand. Boats plenty. Intelligence came this morning
on the (steamer) Dickey that it was a mistake about Anderson
being killed, but true that Fort Sumpter had been taken and
its inmates taken prisoners. Nothing of note took place
the balance of the day. The Bell Creole landed about sunset
and took the Burgess boat in tow."
Name: BURLINGTON
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Soze: 210' X 35' X 5.5'
Launched: 1864, Cincinnati, Oh., Capt. R.C. Gray superindended construction.
Destroyed: 1867, Sept. 7, 1 mi. above Wabasha, Minn., Snagged and lost
Area: U. Miss. R.
Owners: Northern Line Packet Company
Captains: 1864, J.J. Robinson
1866, J.B. Rhodes
Name: BURLINGTON
Launched: 1880s?
Area: 1883, U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: BURNSIDE/MINER
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 248 tons.
Launched: 1864, Bridgeport, Ala. for U.S.Q.M.D.
Destroyed: 1869, June 8, Skunk R. near Burlington, Iowa, Snagged and lost.
Power: 16 1/2's- 5 ft., 3 boilers.
Owners: originally USQMD as BURNSIDE
1866, June 7, sold to private hands. Renamed MINER.
Comments: when lost was carrying load for contractors working on
C.B. & O. R.R. bridge.
1. Name: BUSINESS/MARK TWAIN/ALICE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet.
Size: 1872, 70 tons.
1876, Nov. Covington, Ky., lengthened to 111' X 20.4' X 4.'.
Launched: 1872, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1885, Mar. 27, exploded boiler. 6 lives lost.
Refloated and renamed ALICE.
1892, ALICE was still listed at Memphis
Area: 1872-76, Around Evansville
1877, Memphis - St. Francis R.
1882, after, served as ferry, Mound City, Ark.
Owners: 1882, after, Capt. Fogleman
Captains: 1877, J.L Randall
1877, W. P. Hill (?Hall?)
Later, Fogleman
Comments: Boats hull was refloated after boiler explosion and
renamed ALICE
Name: BUZZARD
Destroyed: Ran aground and sank
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