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1. Name: CITY BELLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 215 tons.
Launched: 1854, Murraysville, W. Va.
Area: 1856-58, Galena-St. Paul
Later, Mo. R.
Captains: 1854, Kennedy Lodwick
1858, A.T. Champlin
1. Name: CITY BELLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 179' X 35' X 5.', 152 tons.
Launched: 1855, Paducah, Ky.
Destroyed: 1864, May 4, Red R. near Snaggy Point,
Was hit by shell from Rebel guns, which burst a boiler.
Capt. Tally was thrown into river and escaped to shore. Nearly
all hands were killed, as well as a number of soldiers.
Boat was pulled ashore by Rebels and burned.
Area: 1855 out of Memphis.
1864, Jan 24, arrived Memphis with 500 sick and wounded U.S. troops.
1864, March, Louisville-Mamphis
1864, Red River
Owners: 1861- end, was in USQMC service
Captains: 1864, Tally
Comments: was enroute to Alexandria with an Ohio Regiment when lost.
Name: CITY OF ALTON
Launched: 1860
Area: Miss R.
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson,
storekeeper, Commerce Mo.
- Monday June 24th, 1861. "Our town was surprised on
Saturday night by the arrival of Steamer City of Alton with
1200 soldiers. She landed about half past 11 o'clock at
night. I had not gone to bed on account of a party at
J. M. Jehlen's. It broke up about 11 o'clock and when I
came to the store I heard a steamer coming up and I awaited
its arrival for I was waiting for the Perry to ship Wm.
Burgesses goods and she came up without whistling. We still
Thought it was the Perry. I went down with my lantern and
I saw A.R. Newman come down from his store with a letter
to send to St. Louis and behold when she came in, we saw
it was a boat loaded with soldiers. As soon as the planks
were put out, they began to crowd off. Newman and I stood
close to the boat all the time they were coming off. Meanwhile
I noticed that two soldiers stood very close to us, one on
each side of Newman. When the horses began to come off,
they got so thick that we started to get out of their way.
I got up on the wood pile and Newman started to go around
the end of the wood pile, and the soldiers just laid their
hands on his shoulders and took him on the boat; they had
not more than done this when here came four or five
soldiers with M. Ellison and more prisoners. I stayed
around the warf until about 1 o'clock and I went home and
went to bed. The soldiers marched out for the camp but
found no men. They began to drop back about 9 o'clock
Sunday Night and about 10 o'clock on Monday they all got
in. They stayed asround till 12 o'clock awaiting dinner,
as they had no provisions on the boat for the reason that
they called away from Cairo on very short notice and only
brought provisions for about one day, thinking that they
could go in and take the Southern people that had formed
the company at Benton and get back in a day. A little
after 12 they all got on the boat and left for up the
river to meet a company of men that went up the river to
take a disunion flag that had been raised in the hills.
About morning they bid us adieu by firing a cannon three
times and playing fifes and drums, but before they left
their musicians went all around town and serenaded the
people at their houses that had been so kind as to feed
them. They praised the people of Commerce greatly and
particularly the ladies.
- Friday, July 12th, 1861. " . . . Soon after having
landed a regiment of troops at Cape Girardeau, the
City of Alton passed down this morning loaded with
soldiers.
- December, Sunday, 1861. " . . . About 2 o'clock this
evening I was sitting in the store when a Negro came
to the door and said 'the town is full of Seccessionists'.
I ran to the door when who should I see but Jeff Thompson
and about thrity or forty men. He immediately came into
the store and not waiting to be dinied commenced taking
all that was in shape of clothing, boots, etc., to the
amount of $300.00 and then said to his men to go into the
other store and take the ballance from him. They stayed
here about an hour when a boat came in sight, The "City of
Alton". They immediately hid themselves till the boat
came up and was almost against the shore befor she found
that Jeff was here. Some of the citizens informed her of
his presence and she began to back out and then commenced
shooting but the boat kept backing and they kept shooting
as long as she was in shooting distance. The boat went
back to Max Island and landed. The secessionists stayed
here about half an hour, after and left. Two or three
of the citizens got into a skiff and started for the boat.
She took them in and went by to Cape (Giradeau) as hard
as she could."
Give the only Bear still made in America -- a Vermont Teddy Bear.
Name: CITY OF BATON ROUGE
Type: Size: approx. 250'
Launched: 1870s?
Area: Miss R.
Owner: Anchor Line
Captain and pilots: Capt. Bixby, Horace; Richie, George, pilot.
Name: CITY of BUFFALO
Size: 350', 2,026 tons
Type: Sidewheeler
Launched: 1857
Area: Great Lakes
Comments: Detailed description in this article
She was the last and largest of some 25 Palace Steamers built
on the Great Lakes.
*Name: CITY of CAIRO
Type: Sternwheeler, wooden hulled packet Size: 199 tons
Launched: 1856, Dyersburg, ky.
Destroyed: 1858, Apr. 12, Wabash R., Grand Chain, Ill. snagged and lost.
Area: 1856, Miss. R. New Orleans -Ouachita River to Camden
also ran Vicksburg-Yazzo R.
Owner:
Captain: 1856-58, Yocum, I.D.
Comments:
*Source: Way's Packet Directory, 1848 - 1994
*Name: CITY of CAIRO
"Her captain is Bob Riley
And her clerk is Walter Dill
Who do their best to please you
--And do it with a will!"
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hulled packet
Size: 272' on deck X 41 (39' floor)
Power: 28's-8ft. 5 boilers. Paddlewheels, 32'dia. w/14'buckets
Launched: 1864, hull, Metropolis, Ill.; completed at St Louis
Destroyed: 1873, July, 7, Burned at New Orleans.
Area: 1864-71, St. Louis - Memphis
1871-73, Apr., St Louis - New Orleans
Owner(s): 1864, Memphis Packet Company
1871, Schultz, Capt. Charles S.
1873, June 23 - 1873, July 7, Fagan, W.
Captain(s): 1864, Riley, Robert K.
Comments: 1873, Apr., attatched by creditors. 1873, June 23, sold
to Fagan at N.O. U.S. Marshal's sale for $2,100.
*Source: Way's Packet Directory, 1848 - 1994
*Name: CITY of CAIRO
Type: Sidewheel wooden hulled packet
Size:271' X 44'(41' floor) X 8.5'
Power: 26's- 9 ft., 5 boilers. Paddlewheels, 34' dia. 15' buckets
Launched: 1882, Jeffersonville, Ind. at Howard Yard.
Destroyed: 1896, May 27, in great St. Louis Tornado.
Area: 1882 - 1896, usually St. Louis - Vicksburg
Owner(s): 1882, Anchor Line
Captain(s): 1882-96, Lightner, A.S.
Comments: Was awarded roof bell from EMMA C. ELLIOTT
Given by Anchor Line for making fastest run.
*Source: Way's Packet Directory, 1848 - 1994
*Name: 4th CITY of CAIRO/VICKSBURG
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hulled ferry boat
Size:117' X 27.4' X 3.4'
Power: 10" - 42", 1 boiler.
Launched: 1912, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Area: 1912-29, Cairo, Ill. and Paducah.
Owner(s): 1912, Miller, C.J. of Vicksburg
1929, Mississippi River Ferry Company
Comments: 1925 or 29, Renamed VICKSBURG, probably 1929.
*Source: Way's Packet Directory, 1848 - 1994
*Name: 5th CITY of CAIRO Originally the DAVID TIPTON
then the URSIE BOYCE
1. Name: CITY OF CHATTANOOGA
Picture donated by
Ken McCulloch
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 144' X 30'
Launched: 1892, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Destroyed: Ultimately sold to Paducah, Tenn. to become towboat WOODFOLK
Area: Chattanooga-St. Louis unproffitably
Captains: J.P. Kindrick
Comments: 1894, Sept or Oct-Jan.95, stuck high and dry on Tuscumbia Bar
: Parts of her came from towboat HERBERT
: Also See
1. Name: CITY of CINCINNATI
From
The James E. York Post Card Collection
See OMAR
Name: CITY OF FLORENCE originally the SAM J. KEITH
Name: CITY OF GADSDEN
Picture donated by
Ken McCulloch
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Launched, 1899, Gadsden, Ala.
Size: small
Area: Coosa R.
Comments: Source
1. Name: CITY OF IRONTON/ISSAQUENA
From
The James E. York Post Card Collection
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Power: engines, 16's- 5 ft. from towboat KANAWHA
Launched: 1879, Ironton, Oh.
Area: Portsmouth-Huntington
Later, Cincinnati-Maysville
Then Cincinnati-Vanceburg under Morgan and Shedd
Owners: The Bay Line
Later, sold to Capts. Frank Morgan and Watt Shedd
1882, June sold to Vicksburgh & Greensville Packet Company
and renamed ISSAQUENA
Comments: Until renamed this boat had no Texas deck.
1. Name: CITY OF JEFFERSONVILLE
From
The James E. York Post Card Collection
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull ferry boat
Size: 150' X 34' X 6.3'
Power: engines, 20-1/2's- 6 ft. Two boilers, each 44" X 26', from the Z.M. SHERLEY
Launched: 1891, Jeffersonville, Ind. by the Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1914, off the lists
Owners: Louisville and Jeffersonville Ferry Company.
Captains: 1901, Nick Durand
1. Name: CITY of KEITHSBURG
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet.
Launched: 1854, Port Byron, Ill. Designed and built by Kahlke Bros and John Theissen
Destroyed: 1872, Above St. Louis, Snagged and lost.
Area: 1864-?72?, Ft. Madison-Rock island trade.
Owners: 1864, B.H. Campbell of Galena and B.W. Davis of Rock Island.
1864, end, purchased by Northern Line.
Captains: 1864, B.W. Davis, master
Name: CITY of KEY WEST
Type: Sidewheeler
Area: Potomic R.
Comments: From Site Visitor: "Looking for information on paddlewheelers
on the Patomac River and information on the sidewheeler
City of Key West" Zeke Miller
1. Name: CITY OF KNOXVILLE
Type: sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 122' X 22' X 3'
Launched: 1854, California, Pa.
Area: 1859 or so, White R., primarilly a mail packet from Jacksonport to Pocahontas.
Owners: When new, Tennessee & Georgia railboat Company
: later, Jean Webre, Ogene Dugas and A. Dugas
: 1859. Capt. James Timms
Captains: 1st was Joseph Jaques
: later, W.D. Terrybonne
: James Timms
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: CITY of LOUISVILLE See Post Card Pictures
From The Gallery
of
Michael Blaser
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet
Size: 301' X 42.7' X 7.'.
Power: Engines, 30's- 10 ft. Eight Boilers, each 42" X 26'. Later only 7 boilers.
Launched: 1894, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1918, Jan. 18, Cincinnati at L&C wharf boat by ice
Area: Cincinnati-Louisville trade
Owner: Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Company
Captain: John Brennan then James Martin for 20 yrs. and finally Clarence McElfresh
Comments: Had 72 staterooms. Her sinking closed 87 years of
river trade between.
Sistership: CITY of CINCINNATI (above)
1. Name: CITY of MEMPHIS/CONSTITUTION/CITY of MEMPHIS
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 301' X 36' X 8'
Power: 32 1/2's-8 ft.. Six boilers, each 45" X 30 ft.
Launched: 1857, Monongahela, Pa. Hull by George Cunningham
Area: 1857, New Orleans - St. Louis
1862, New Orleans - St. Louis
Owners: 1857, Kountz, Capt. William J.
1862, Nov., Bofinger, Capt. John and others.
*At one time was under Atlantic and Mississippi Steamship Company banner.
Captains: 1857, Kountz, William J.
1860, Montgomery, J, Ed
1863, Nov., Bofinger, Capt. John and others.
Comments: Most of her cabin works were salvaged from the CHRYSTAL PALACE.
1864, spring, renamed CONSTITUTION, but change was dissalowed by U.S.
Customs and she reverted to being the CITY OF MEMPHIS.
Comments: At time Ft. Sumter was first fired on, she was laid up at
Mound City, Ill..
1862, April, became a hospital boat. See
:*From site visitor Lynn Cunningham
: See letter from Union soldier
Name: CITY of MEMPHIS - Originally the VERNE SWAIN
Launched: 1913 as the VERNE SWAIN
1. Name: CITY OF MOBILE
At Montgomery Wharf
Photo Donated by Ken McCulloch
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 176' X 34' X 4.2'
Power: Engines, 13's- 15-1/2, two boilers, each 44" X 26'
Launched: 1898, Mobile, Ala.
Destroyed: 1916, July, Mobile, Ala. wrecked in huricane then dismantled
Area: Coosa R.
Owners: Operated under the Peoples Line
Captains: G. W. Quaries
1. Name: CITY of MONROE/HILL CITY/CORWIN H. SPENCER
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hulled packet. Later an excursion boat.
Size: 275' X 45' 8'
Power: 26's- 9ft., 5 boilers. Paddlewheels, 33' dia.
Launched: 1887, Howard Yard, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1905, Oct. 12, above Jefferson Barracks, Mo., burned
Area: Miss R.
Owner: 1887, Anchor Line
: 1898, Feb. 7, Sims, Capt. T.B.
: 1904, World's Fair Navigation Company
Captain(s): 1896, Howard, Ben
1898, Feb. 7 - Sims, Capt. T.B., Pilots
Grasty, Jim and Wadlington, T.B. (Trim)
1904, Brolaski, Harry
Comments: 1889, May 27, badly dammaged in Great St. Louis Tornado
Was rebuilt and renamed HILL CITY
1898, Feb. 7, went to U.S. Marshal's sale, bought by
Capt. Simms
1900, Nov., Sank below Memphis. Raised
1903, remodeled into excrusion boat, renamed CORWIN H. SPENCER
Name: CITY of MUSKOGEE/LORAINE
Size: 125'
Launched: 1908, July, by Howard Yard. Cost, $15,000
Area: Ark.R.
Owner: 1908, Arkansas Navigation Company
Captain and pilots: Sam Clemens was pilot at one time.
Comments: Credit
: 1918, renamed LORAINE
1. Name: CITY OF NAUVOO
Type: Sternwheel, woodenhull ferry boat
Size: 89' X 21' X 3.6'
Launched: 1885, Rock Island, Ill.
Destroyed: 1943, laid up
Area: Nauvoo-Montrose, I for 56 years, a record.
Comments:
1. Name: CITY OF NEW ALBANY/NEW IDLEWILD/SPREAD EAGLE/CAPE GIRARDEAU
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 255' X 35' X 6.'
Power: 20's-7 ft., 3 boilers, each 42" X 28'
Launched: 1892, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard.
Destroyed: 1916, Oct 21, Fort Gage, below St. Louis, sunk by a storm.
Area: 1892, Louisville-Evansville trade
1893- St. Louis-Cape Girardeau trade
1897-1910, St. Louis-Alton-Grafton trade
Owners: 1892-93, Louisville & Evansville Packet Company.
1893-94 T.J. Moss Tie Company,
1894-97 Eagle Packet Company
Captains: 1894, for Eagle Packet Company, Byrd Burton;
pilot, Johm N. Hamilton
1916, when sunk, William H. (Buck) Leyhe
Comments: equipment came from the JAMES GUTHRIE
: 1893, renamed NEW IDLEWILD
: 1897, renamed SPREAD EAGLE
: 1910. renamed CAPE GIRARDEAU
Name: CITY of NEWARK Article
Destroyed: By fire
Area: Eastern river
Name: CITY OF PARKERSBURG, originally LIBERTY
1. Name: CITY OF PITTSBURGH
From
The James E. Yorl Post Card Collection
Type: sidewheel wooden hulled packet.
Size: 292.7' X 48.8'. Overall width, 79' 5"
Power: 26s- 10 ft., 3 Sotch boilers, each 166" X 14-1/2 " long.
Had nine 3-1/2" return flues.
1900, Boilers were replaced by 6 Western type, ea 44" X 22' long.
Wheels: 32' dia. with 14-1/2' buckets
Much equepment was from CITY OF NEW ORLEANS
Launched: 1899, Harmar, Oh at Knox Yard.
Destroyed: 1902, Apr.20, near Kentucky of Ohio R. in the Grand Chain
above Dam 53, burned. 60 lives lost including
Capt. Sylvester Doss the pilot and cub pilot Tom Smith.
Area: First round trip, Pittsburgh-New Orleans.
1899 and 1900, Pittsburgh-Louisville trade.
Ran Cincinnati-Louisville briefly.
Later ran Cincinnati-Louisville trade.
Owners: When new, Capt. John M. Phillips, Pittsburgh; Dana Scott, Zanesville;
George Wallace, McConnelsville; Charles Beckwith, Malta and A.L.
Brahm, Pittsburgh.
Comments: boat had several misshaps befor finally burning.
: See article, March 1968 issue S&D Reflector for in depth article on
boat and her demise.
: Mentioned in this article
1. Name: CITY OF PLATTSMOUTH/VIENNA
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 89.6' X 24' X 2.3', 73 tons.
or 92.6' X 24' X 3.2', Way's has conflicting info
Power: Engines, 8's- 14", 1 boiler
Launched: 1879, Plattsmouth, Neb.
or 1883 at Herman Mo. Way's has conflicting info
Destrroyed: 1889, Mo. R., 1/2 mi. below New Haven, Mo. Snagged and lost.
Area: Mo. R.
Owners: when snagged, E. Schleff and others
Pilots: When snagged, Henry Zeiblin
Comments: renamed VIENNA a year or so after launch.
: Part of cargo was salvaged
1. Name: CITY OF PORTSMOUTH
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Launched: 1873, Cincinnati, Oh.
Area: When new, out of Portsmouth
Destroyed: 1877? dismantled sometime after being caught in ice-flowing to Cincinnati.
1874, went to Cincinnati-Augusta-Higginsport trade
Owners: Built for Capt William Stricklett
1874, sold to the White Collar Line
Captains: 1874, S.W. Morgan
Name: CITY of QUINCY
Launched: 1860s? early
Area: 1864, U. Miss. R.
Owner: 1864, Northwestern Union Packet Company
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: CITY OF ST. LOUIS
From
The Post Card Collection Of James E. York
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: Length: 300'; Width: 49'; Draft: 8.6'
Launched: 1883 at Jeffersonville, Id. by Howard Yard For
Anchor Line.
Destroyed: 1903, Oct. 29: Burned at dock at Carondelet, Mo
Area: Miss. R.
Owner:1883: Anchor Line
1898: Throgenan, Capt. W.H. bought her at marshal's auction
in St. Louis for $19,050.
???? - 1899: Columbia Excursion Co.
1899 - 1899: James M. Grasty
1903: McGrasty tried to sell her to New York Home Oil Co., but
sale was stopped and the U. S. Marshals sold her to Attorney
T. Marshal Miller for $3,125.
Captain: 1883: O'Neal, Capt. James
Comments: 1899 - 1903, early: Ran harbor excursions in New Orleans
1901, May: Pres. McKinley road aboard her.
1903: laid up at Carondelet, MO. where she burned at
the dock.
????: Anchor Line sold her bell to Frank Ellison.
It was placed on the QUEEN CITY.
Name: CITY of ST. PAUL, originally the MOSES McLELLAN
1855-??
1. Name: CITY of SAVANAH
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 186' X 31' X 5.'
Power: 16's -6 ft. 3 boilers, each 42" X 22'. Paddlewheel, 20'
Launched: 1889, Jeffersonville, Ind. Howard Yard.
Destroyed: 1898, Mar. 9, Memphis warf, burned.
Owners: St Louis and Tennessee River Packet Company
Chartered to: 1895, Sept., Lee Line, out of Memphis
Captains: Acquired by Capts. A.E. & L.P. Cummings to run Memphis-Vicksburg.
At one time, possibly, Moses Kirkpatrick.
Comments: 1897, Sept. 18, Shiloh Landing, 60 mi. above Vicksburg. Was Raised.
1. Name: CITY of SAVANAH
From
The James E. York Post Card Collection
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 200' X 36' X 6.'
Power: 17'S -7ft., 3 Boilers, each 44" x 22'
Launched: 1902, Jeffersonville, by Howard Yard.
Destroyed: 1911, Dec. 5, Dog Tooth Bend, Miss. R., sank. Some 22 mi.
above Cairo, Ill..
Owners: St Louis and Tennessee River Packet Company
Name: CITY of SAVANAH Photo of one of the above boats
Name: CITY of VICKSBURG
Type: Side-wheeler Size: 300'?
Launched: Howard shipyard of Jeffersonville, Ind.
Name: CITY of WHEELING
Launched: 1853, at Wheeling, W. Va by the Phillips Works (H.W. Phillips)
Destroyed:
Area: Ohio R.
Owner: Built by Capt. John McLure, Jr.
Captain(s): 1853 or so, Mate, Peppers, George H.
Companies Associated With: Union Line
Comments: Poster/Flyer
Comments: From WHEELING INTELLIGENCER, June 24, 1951
Comments: From The Wheeling Register, Monday, March 31, 1879
1. Name: CITY of WHEELING/HARRY LEE
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 169.3' x 34.4' x 4.8'
Launched: 1899, Claringron, Ohio at the Mozena Yard
completed at Wheeling.
Destroyed: 1914, Mar. 19, Memphis, burned.
Power: Engines, 16s - 6ft., 3 boilers, each 42" X 22ft.
Engines and Boilers came from CITY OF SAVANNAH.
Area: Constructed for short trade out of Wheeling, however -
Owners: was soon purchased by Lee Line Steamers and
Renamed HARRY LEE.
Name: CITY OF WINONA/W. W. See Post Card Page
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 137' X 29.1' X 4.'
Power: Engines, 13's- 5 ft.
Launched: 1882, Dubuque, Iowa
Destroyed: 1922, spring, Brush Creek Island, Ohio R. broadsided by high swells, sank
Area: After rename, Davenport-Clinton trade for a while
While with Streckfus, U. Miss. R.
1917, excursions, Nashville, Tenn.
1920 under Klein, barging pipe , U. Ohio R.-Lower Miss. R.
1921 towing
Owners: at first, Youmans Bros., and Hodgins, Winona, Minn.
1905, Capt. John Streckfus
1917, purchased by Capt Frank T. Rounds, Owensboro, Ky.
1920, Boat broker John F. Klein
1921, spring, purchased by Capt Ralph Emmerson Gaches
Comments: built as a raft boat by Youmans Bros., and Hodgins, Winona, Minn.
1905, Streckfus rebuilt and renamed her W.W. after Capt. Walter Wisherd
Name: CITY of WORCHESTER
Launched: 1880s?
Area: Miss. R.
1. Source: Way's Packet Directory, 1848 - 1994
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