RIVERBOATS
Starting With
C
Part 1
Through CINDERELLA
"Snowy Banks On the Ohio"
From the Studio of
Dallas Pavone
New Information Added
01/02/2007
RIVERBOATS
Starting With
C
Part 1
Through CINDERELLA
"Snowy Banks On the Ohio"
From the Studio of
Dallas Pavone
New Information Added
01/02/2007
To Riverboats Starting With the Initial "C." To Riverboats Starting With the Name "CARRIE" To Riverboats Starting With "CITY of" To Riverboats Starting With COLONEL To Riverboats Starting With C, Page 2 To Riverboats Starting With C, Page 3 *Name: CADDO Type: Sidewheeler Size: 139' X 24' 8" X 6', 196 ton Launched: 1839, Pittsburgh Destroyed: 1842, Apr. 13, Red River, near Fort Towson Okla.. Sank. Area: Out of New Orleans, Red R. Owners: Asa Dunn and Johnson R. Davis & Company Captains: Master, Asa Dunn John Graham, Shreveport, La. (This captain submitted by site visitor M. Bynum who would like further information on Capt. Graham.) Comments: Resently, the ship remains were found buried in the riverbed. : *This Information from Early Steam Navigation on the Red River : Also see, The Material Culture of Steamboat Passengers: Archaeological Evidence from the Missouri River, by Annalies Corbin, Roderick Sprague. Name: CADDO BELLE Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 134 tons Built: 1857, New Albany, Ind. Destroyed: 1860, Off the lists Area: New Orleans-Shreveport Red R. Comments: 1858, Red R., Sank Name: CADDO BELLE Type: Wooden hull packet. Size: 125' X 25' X 3.5' Destroyed: 1886, still registered, Apalachiola, Fla. Area: After rebuild went to Chattahoochee R. Fla. Owners: A.R. Ketchum and Jacob Ketchum, Cincinnati, Oh. Captains: *1881, Henry McCormick, who commited suicide on this boat in 1881. Comments: 1881, Mar., Cross Bayou near Shreveport, La., while tied up for debt, burned. Rebuilt and taken to Chattahoochee R. Name: CADDO BELLE Type: Wooden hull packet 1. Name: CAIRO (Gunboat U.S.S. CAIRO)Type: Recess wheel, wooden hull gunboat Size: 175' X 50' X 7.' Launched: 1861, Mound City, Ill. Destroyed: 1862, Dec. 12, ascending Yazoo R., victim of two torpedoe type mines. Was first of Pook's Turtles to be destroyed. About: There were seven of these boats launched for U.S. service. Each was the same* and each had 13 guns. Six 32 pounder smoothbores, three 8-inch Dahlgren smoothbore shell guns and four rifled 42 pounders. * The ST. LOUIS had one more 32 pounder instead of one of the eight inchers. CAIRO, MOUND CITY, and CINCINNATI built at Mound city, Ill. CARONDELET, LOUISVILLE, ST. LOUIS and PITTSBUTG at Carondelet, Mo. 3. Name: CALEB COPE Launched: 1840's late? Size: 60 toms. Area: 1853, Sacramento R. Calif. Name: CALLAHAN JR. a relatively small, wooden hulled, stern-wheeler that plied the Chipola River between Apalachicola, Fl and Blountstown, FL in the '20's and early '30's. In '32, her engineer was named "Jones". He cargo was mostly naval stores, I think, speaking from memory. Comments: This listing from site visitor John P. Roberts Name: CALIFORNIA Launched: 1840s? Area: Hudson R. Name: CALIFORNIA Launched: 1840s? Area: Sacramento R. : 1853, Dec., California - Panama Captain: 1853, Dec., LeRoy Comments: Source Name: CAMARGO Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Destroyed: 1874, Townsend's Ferry on the Angelina River, sank. Area: Neches and Angelina Rs., Tex. Owner: 1869, purchased by Capt Andrew Smyth Soon purchased by C. H. Alexander and Co., cotton factor of Sabine Pass. Captains: 1869, Andrew Smyth 1874, Sherwood Burch of Sabine, Tex. Comments: See source Article Name: CANADA Launched: 1858, Brownsville, Pa. Size: 197' X 32' X 5', 299 tons. Dismantled: 1870, Madison, Ind. Area: U. Miss. R. Owner: James Ward, 3/8; William Anderson, 1/4; Adam Jacobs, 3/8 Captain: 1857: James Ward Comments: One of first boats in Northern Line Packet Company : Mentioned in this Article : Machinery went to ROCK ISLAND Name: CANADIAN Photo of model of boat
Model by John ShonderType: Sternwheeler Size: Launched: 1950s? Late? Area: "Freedomland" a New York City Theme Park Owner: of model Ray Harrington Comments: From Ray Harrington:"I purchased the "Eugene" at an auction in Connecticut at a place called Johnsonville. The owner, Ray Schmit, died of cancer a couple of years ago and then the whole place went up for auction. Schmit had a lot of money and his goal was to rebuild an old village on his property. And he did. Everything from original houses and buildings that he moved, carriages, furniture, sleds, etc. Everything you could think that would be in a town back in the late 1800's. He also purchased a sternwheeler from what use to be Freedomland, an amusement park in New York back in the 60's. He had the vessel floated up from New York, up the Connecticut River, and then moved over about 4 miles of land. . . " Name: CAPE GIRARDEAU, originally the CITY OF NEW ALBANY 1892-1916 Name: CAPE GIRARDEAU, originally the WAR EAGLE 1899-1910 Name: CAPE GIRARDEAU/GORDON C. GREEN/SARA LEE/RIVER QUEEN Postcard Photos Click on picture to enlarge Type: Sternwheel, steel hull packet/excursion boat/tourist boat. Size: 210' X 38' X 6.5' Power: 18's- 8', 3 boilers, each 44" X 28' Burned coal until 4 new boilers, oil burners, were installed in 1941. Launched:1923, Jeffersonville, Ind. at Howard Yard Destroyed: 1967, Sunday morning Dec. 3, St. Louis, sank dockside. Area: 1923, Louisville-St. Louis 1924, St.Louis-Cape-Commerce trade 1925-30, made St. Louis-New Orleans Mardi Gras trips each year. 1934, took MVBL tow St. Louis-Cairo 1935-36, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati, passengers and freight 1938-39, 41 and 47, Made Cincinnati-New Orleans Mardi Gras trip 1952 - Portsmouth, Oh. was a floating hotel named SARAH LEE Later Owensboro, Ky. was floating Restaurant named RIVER QUEEN, did not work out. Later yet, Bradenton Fl. lavishly outfited to be tourist attraction. Did not work out. She went to 1960, New Orleans with plans for her to be a high-class night club. That did not happen. She went to Hannible and then across river from that town to purvey food and drink. 1964, moved to St Louis and became a well patronized bar and restaurant. Owner: 1923-34, Eagle Packet Company 1935-52 Greene Line Steamers as GORDON C. GREENE 1952, sold to Portsmouth Oh. Renamed SARA LEE 1953?, or so, Sold to Owensboro Ky. Renamed RIVER QUEEN Later, Bradenton Fl. concerns 1960, New Orleans concerns Later, to Hannibal, Mo. 1964, St. Louis concerns Captain(s): *1922, Robert Franklin Myers 1935 - Tom R. Greene Comments: 1924, Apr 24, christened by Miss Christine Rowling. : 1934, renamed GORDON C. GREEN : 1952, Renamed SARA LEE (floating hotel) Portsmouth, Oh. : 1953, Renamed RIVER QUEEN (floating restaurant), Owensboro, Ky. : 1954, Boilers went to AVALON. : Her whistle, which dates back to the CALHOUN, is in the River Museum, Marrieta, Oh. Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA, WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951 From The Studio of Dallas Pavone Click on picture to enlarge
Name: CAPE CATERLIN
Launched: 1850s?
Area: Miss. R.
Owner: United States Mail Line
Name: CAPE MAY
Type: sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 124 tons
Launched: 1850, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1854, Aug. 2, Mount vernon, Ind.. Snagged and lost. 18 died.
Name: CAPITOL,
Type: Sidewheeler packet, wooden hull Size: 133 tons
Launched: 1844, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1844, Dec. 27, burned at seventy-six Landing, Mo..
Above Grand Tower. 3 lives lost.
Area: Mo. and Miss. Rs.
Captain: Birmingham
Comments: Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. July. 12 1897
Name: CAPITOL See PITTSBURGH
Name: CAPT. LYERLY
Picture Donated By Ken McCulloch
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull towboat
Area: Coosa R.
Owner: Gladsden Cooperage Company
Captains: James L. Robertson
Comments: Source
3. Name: CAPT. SUTTER
Launched: 1840's late? Size: 51 tons.
Area: 1853, Sacramento R. Calif.
Name: CAPT. WEBER
Type: Sternwheeler Size:
Launched: ?1920'S?
Destroyed: 1943, Stocton, Calf. riverboat fire that took several old
riverboats.
Area: California Delta Rivers
Comments: Played the "CUMBERLAND" in the 1943 bing Crosby movie
Dixie. Source
Name: CAPTAIN MERIWETHER LEWIS
Type: Sidewheel dredge-boat Size: 285'
Launched: 1931 by Marietta Marine Works in Point Pleasant,
Virginia.
Destroyed: 1998: drydocked at Brownville, NE, where the
Brownville Historical Society maintains the boat as
a museum.
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: U. S. Army Corp of Engineers
Captain(s):
Comments: This boat was one of the last steamboats used by U.S.
Army Corp of Engineers. It could dredge to a depth of
20 feet at a speed of 150 to 200 feet per hour. In a
24 hour period it could move up to 185,000 cubic
yards of sand.
Photo of hand-made model by Nautic Art.
This model will be raffled off in May 1999. See above, photo link for more.
1. Name: CAPITOL CITY/COLUMBIA
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet.
Size: As Capitol City - 132.2' x 25.7' x 4',
Power: Engines, 12's- 4 1/2 ft., 2 boilers.
Launched: 1888, Harmer, Oh., Knox Yard. Size: 132.2' X 25.7' X 4'
Area: Gallipolis - Charleston trade, Kanawha R.
Captains: Howard Donnally
Comments: 1893, rebuilt, renamed COLUMBIA.
Name:CAPITOL CITY
Area: California Delta Rivers
Comments: Played a part in the 1933 movie Mandalay.
Source
Name: CAR of COMMERCE"
Type: side-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1820'S?
Destroyed: 1832, May 6, sank
Area: Lower Mo. R.
Comments: ?1848, was at Cincinnati's levee.? Was there a second Car of Commerce?
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Name: CAR OF NEPTUNE
Size: 175' x 24'
Launched: 1807
Area: Hudson R. Albany - New york
Owner: Hudson River Steamboat Company
Captain: Arthur Helme Roorbach
Comments: Source
1. Name: CARNEAL GOLDMAN
Model by John Shonder Type: Sternwheel, woodenhull packet
Size: 143' X 25.1' X 6.1'
Launched: 1885, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Area: built for the Natchez-Vicksburg trade
Made three trips weekly
Later went to Madison, Ind.
Comments: Named after a Tensas Parish, Louisiana cotton planter
: Parts went to the JOSEPH
3. Name: CAROLINA
Launched: 1840s? late?
Area: 1850s, early, U. Sacramento R., Calf.
Name: CAROLINE
Area: 1831, Ill. R.
Owner: Possibly whole or in part, Capt. Abraham Kimber, Brownsville
Source
Name: CAROLINE
Launched: 1820's or 30's
Area: Alabama R.
Owner: Peyton Bibb of Alabama
Name: CARONDELET
Type: Gunboat Size:
Launched: 1850s?
Captain and pilots: Capt. Walke, Henry
Comments: Famous run VoR, 182
1. Name: CARONDELET
Type: Sternwheel, iron hull packet. Size:
Power: Engines from BELLE OF ALTON. 1 aft stack
Launched: 1875, Carondelet, Mo.
Destroyed: 1877, Sept. 19, St. Louis docks, burned along side of
GRAND REPUBLIC while in for repairs.
Hull went to CAHRLES P. CHOUTEAU
Area: Lower Miss. R.
: Under Capts. Hicks and Grissom, Memphis-New Orleans trade.
Owners: 1876, Apr. St. Louis, David Powell purchased at U.S. marshal's sale.
1876, mid-May, St. Louis, Brown & Jones purchased at U.S. marshal's sale
for $13,000.
Later, sold to Capts. J. Frank Hicks and Alf Grissom
Captains: 1875, Jan, W. Dick Love
Comments: 1876, Jan. 26, below St. Louis, sank. thought to have hit
wheel shaft of ALLEGHENY, which sank there in 1857. Raised.
: 1876, 30 mi. above N.O. Caught in storm. Lost most of
superstructure furniture and outfit.
Name: CARRIER
Area: 1844, was advertised by Capt. Tunstall to be going to depart Apr. 20th
for mouth of Swan Creek on White R.
Captains: Thomas T. Tunstall. of Jacksonport, Ark.
Comments: Source
1. Name: CARRIER
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 215' X 33'
Launched: 1855, Jeffersonville, Ind., by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1861, Sept. 12, St. Charles, Mo., lost.
Area: 1855, Council Bluffs and 2 trips to New Orleans
1856, Oct. St. Louis-Glasgrow
1858, May, 19, was at Dakota City. Dakota City Herald
1861, Feb., New Orleans-
Owners: 1855 built for Capt. Draffin who, after three trips, sold her for
$5,000 more than she cost.
Captain(s): 1855, Draffin
1856, William C. Postal
1858, Oct., McPherson, Henry
Comments: Also see the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
: 1858, Oct. 12, Penn's Bend on Mo. R., snagged.
1861, Feb. 21, Sank at Island 25, Miss. R. Raised.
1. Name: CARRIER
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 165.4' X 26.4' X 4.'.
Launched: 1884, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Area: 1884-85, Mo. R. *and possibly Osage R., Mo.
1885, went to Mobile, Ala.
1885, Oct., Alabama R.
Owners: early on, *Possibly Charles F. Lohman and his son Capt. Louis
Charles Lohman, Jefferson City, Mo.
Captains: 1885, Sept., Master, John Quill; clerk, H. Clay King
*This info from family records of Lee Lohman, GGG grandaughter
of Charles F.
Name: CARRIER, Originally the MATT F. ALLEN
1887-1900, Sept. 20
1. Name: CARROLL
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 185.7' X 31 X 6
Power: 13s- 4ft.
Launched: 1875, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1877, Apr. 16, Aubuchon's Woodyard, 50 mi. above
Ft. Randall, S.D., burned.
Owners: Was named for Matthew Carroll of the firm of Carroll & Steel
of Ft. Benton. Was this firm possibly the owner?
Captains: 1875, Mar. T.(Tim) B. Burleigh made boat's 1st trip direct to Fort Benton.
Was Capt. through 1876, May, at least
*1876, July, Amadee T. Papin
Comments: Boat made 9 trips to Montana.
: 1876, May 14, was first to arrive Fort Benton that year.
: * 1876, July 29, was loaded with cavalry & infantry, when they
fought a large contingent of Sioux at the confluence of the
Yellowstone & Powder Rivers.
Name: CASCADES
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Area: Columbia R.
Comments: 1952, a towboat.
1. Name: CASPIAN
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 248 tons
Launched: 1851, Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1854, Mar. 3, Red River, Snagged and lost
Area: 1851, New Orleans- Alexandria
1854, Red R. in Texas
Captain: 1851, Dunn, possibly Asa Dunn
1. Name: CASTLE GARDEN
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 162 tons.
Launched: 1853, McKeesport, Pa.
Destroyed: 1862, July 25, Mound City, Ill, Caught out and sunk.
Area: 1853, Pittsburgh-Louisville
1855, Tramp trade out of Pittsburgh
Captains: 1855: John S. Devinney
: 1960s, early, Thad L. Conant
Comments: 1862, Jan., Pittsburgh, in flood, broke loose from warf and floated
free-astray to Braden, Pa..
Name: CATARACT
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 283 tons.
Power: 21's- 7 ft., 3 boilers.
Launched: 1851, Brownsville, Pa. for Capt. E.W. Gould and C.S. Rodgers,
both of St. Louis.
Destroyed: 1859, dismantled.
Area: built for Ill. R. trade.
1857, The Diary of E.F. Beadle has her at Weston, Mo. Aug. 24.
Aug. 25, stopped at Levenworth, Ks. downbound and left at 5PM.
Aug. 27, stopped in Jefferson City, Mo.
Companies associated with: 1856, ran in Pacific Railroad Packet Line.
Owners: 1852, Capt. E.W. Gould and C.S. Rodgers
Captains: 1856, pilot was Capt. John P. Keiser at $1,000 a month.
1857, he was master pilot at $1,200 a month.
Name: CAYUGA
Name: CELEBRATION BELLE
Type: Ornamental sternwheel excursion boat Size: 189', 800 passengers
Launched: 1886, Pensacola, Fl.
Area: 1999, Moline, Ill.
Owner: 1999, Celebration Cruises
Captains: 1999, Scott Schadler, Joe Schadler
Comments: 1999, Attended Tall Stacks Celebration in Cincinnati.
: Largest luxury excursion boat on Miss. R.
Name: CENTRAL AMERICA see GEORGE LAW
1. Name: CENTRAL CITY
Type: A small boat carrying freight
Destroyed: 1884, night of July 12, run down by the CHARLES MORGAN.
No lives lost.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: CHALLENGE
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.
1. Name: CHALLENGE
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 147' X 39' X 4.5'
Launched: 1854, Shousetown, Pa.
Destroyed: 1860, Feb. 25, above St. Louis, snagged and lost.
Area: 1858, Pittsbutgh-St. Louis
Owners: Capt. Samuel C. Young
*Later, Capt. Horatio Nelson Crooks
Comments: primarily a freight boat.
: Mentioned in this Document
: This boat had double sternwheels.
Name: CHAMPION No 3
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 160' X 29' X 4.7'
Launched: 1856, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: After 1866, dismantled in St. Louis
Area: Used for harbor work for a time
Upper Miss. R.& Ohio R.
Owners: Originally by the Shinkle family, covington, Oh.
Later acquired by USQMD
1866, Jan. 26, sold to Capt Thomas Janney, New Orleans.
1870, In St. Louis was purchased by Capt. David Campbell and dismantled.
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson, shopkeeper,
Commerce Mo.
- Thursday Night, April 4th. 1861. "Business dull. Weather
cloudy. Steamboat Champion landed this morning about sunrise,
put off 21 sacks coffee, 5 bbls. & half bbls. molasses
for our firm. . . .
: See letter from Union soldier Also See
1. Name: CHAMPION No 3
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull ferry
Size: 98.9' X 25.7' X 3.5'
Power: Engines, 3-3/4's- 3-1/2 ft. One boiler, 44" X 18'
Launched: 1901, Mason City, W. Va./Middleport, Oh.
Destroyed: 1935, dismantled
Area: Pomeroy-Mason City before bridge was built
Later, Proctorville, Oh.
Owners: Owned and operated by J.F. Jividen and brother Charles
Name: CHAMPION
Area: 1897, Aug., Ohio R.
Comments: Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Aug. 18 1897
3. Name: CHANCE
Launched: 1840s? late?
Area: 1850s, early, U. Sacramento R., Calf.
Name: CHANCELLOR LIVINGSTON
Type: Paddlewheeler, Coal fired Size: 156' X 34' X 10-1/2'
Launched: 1816
Area: Hudson R.
Owner: Hudson River Steamboat Company
Comments: Was last Fulton/Livingston boat launched.
Comments: Source
Name: CHANCELLOR
Area: 1884, July, Ohio R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: CHANGE
Type: Size:
Launched: 1890's?
Area: Ohio R.
Comments:Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Aug. 18 1897
Name: CHARITON
Destroyed: 1837, Wrecked, Mo. R.
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
For boats starting with CHARLES or CHARLIE go HERE
Name: CHARLOTTE BOECKLER
Type: raftboat Size:
Launched: 1870s?
Area: Miss. R.?
Name: CHARON
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull ferryboat
Size: 110' X 30' X 3.4'
Launched: 1889, Brownsville. Pa. at Axton Yard
Destroyed: 1920s, Dam 23. hooked a mooring pin on outside wall. Wrecked.
Area: Bellaire-Brentwood
Owner: Bellaire, Brentwood & Wheeling Ferry Co.
1. Name: CHATTANOOGA/WYETH CITY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 162.17 tons
Built: 1878, Henry's Mills, Tenn.
Area: below Chattanooga on Tenn. R.
Comments: *1881, Oct., Arthur Hall, of Guntersville, engineer got his
lower extremeties severly scalded by one of the safety valves opening.
: cir. 1888 Novice pilot put her full steam against shore. Sank.
Was raised and rebuilt as the WYETH CITY
Name: CHATTANOOGA Originally the MEGIDDO
The CHESTER, 1908, Kansas City
Photo contributed by
Mark Frazier
Type: Sternwheel, steel hull packet
Size: 216.4' X 33.9' X 6.'
Power: Engines, 17's- 7ft. four boilers each 40" X 24'
Launched: 1888, Dubuque, Iowa
Area: Built for St. Louis-Memphis trade
1894, made trip St. Louis-Shreveport with groceries and hardware
1897, was running St. Louis-Ill. R.
1907, June, entered St. Louis-Kansas City trade
1910-11, winter converted to three propelor vessel
1912, Mo. R.
* 1915, Kansas City on Mo. R.
Owners: cir 1906 sold to St. Louis & Chester Packet Company
Later sold to Kansas City Missouri River Navigation Company
Finally sold to Sugar Products Co., New Orleans
Captains: 1894, St. Louis-Shreveport trip, Henry Keith
1907, in St. Louis-=Kansas City trade, William L.Thompson
1912, W.L. Heckmann
Comments: 1910-11, winter converted to three propelor vessel in New Orleans
did not work well
1911, fall, conerted to two prop vessel
: * 1915 Had been converted to excursion boat and was operating in Kansas City
1920, converted into a barge in N.O. by sugar co.
Name: CHEROKEE
Launched: ?1900-1911?
Area: California Delta
Name: CHEROKEE
Photo donated by Ken McCulloch
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Area: Coosa R.
Comments: Source
Name: CHEROKEE CHIEF, originally the ATLAS
*Name: CHESAPEAKE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size, 172' X 24.5' X 10.1', 412 tons
Power: low pressure steamer.
Launched: 1838, Maumee, Ohio.
Area: Buffalo-Detroit
Captains: 1838 or so, Jones Worden
*Jones Worden's Steamboats and Steamboating Career by Frederick J. Worden
From
The James E. York Post Card Collection
This Card could be of either of the CHESAPEAKEs listed below
Name: CHESAPEAKE
Type: Size: small
Launched: 1913
Area: Chesapeake Bay to Delaware Bay
Name: CHESTER originally the CHEROKEE
Name: CHICU SAN Originally the PUTAH.
Name: CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL
Type:Side-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1825
Comments: first Steamboat to be placed in service between New York
and Troy.
Name: CHIEFTAIN
Launched: 1820's?
Area: 1831, Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Name: CHIPPEWA
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 160' X 30', 173 tons.
Power: 16's- 4 ft., 3 boilers.
Launched: 1857, Belle Vernon, Pa.
Destroyed: 1861, caught fire near Montana's Poplar R..
Passengers and crew got ashore and cast her adrift
before cargo of gunpowder blew.
Area: 1857, made 3 trips to St. Paul
1858-59, U. Mo. R.
Owner: 1860, American Fur Company
Captain(s): 1860, W.H. Humphreys
1861, La Barge, John
Companies associated with: 1857, Northwestern Line
Comments: 1860, One of two, first boats ever to make it to Fort Benton.
KEW WEST was the other.
W. H. Humphreys was Capt. onthat trip.
Comments: from Boone's Lick Heritage Quarterly.
: Mentioned in this Article
Name: CHIPPEWA FALLS
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1860s?
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: 1864, in Indian wars
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: CHITINA/ STARTED AS CHITTYANA
Type: Stern-wheeler
Size: length - 110' Width 23' Draft, 22"
Weight 70 Ton, double decker
Built by Joe Supple of Portland OR.
Launched: 1907, July, on Copper River, Alaska by Captain George Hill
Area: Copper and Chitini Rs, Alaska.
Owner: Copper River and Northwestern Railway
Captain(s): Hill, George
Comments: 1907, Feb.: Boat was hauled in pieces through Keystone Canyon
and over Marshall Pass and floated down the Tasnuna
River, in the dead of winter.
Comments: For her whole story, see Yukon River Boats
1. Name: CHRIS GREEN See Pic
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet Size: 132.4' X 26.4' X 4'
Launched: 1915, Pt. Pleasant, W. Va. Gardner Docks.
Destroyed: 1922, Nov. 4, Cincinnati, Burned in dock fire along with
TACOMA, ISLAND QUEEN and MORNING STAR. See Comments.
Area: 1915, Gallipolis-Charleston
1919, entered Cincinnati-Huntington trade
Owner: 1915-1922, Nov. 4, Greene Line Steamers
Captains: 1915-1919, Feb., Gordon C. Greene
1919-22, Nov. 4, Chris Greene
Comments: The wreck was raised and turned into towboat BEN FRANKLIN NO. 2 and
later JAYHAWKER
Name: CHRIS GREEN
From the Gallery
of
Thomas Stahl
Click on picture to enlarge
1. Name: CHRIS GREENE (the 2nd one)
Type: Sternwheeler, steel hull, packet. Size: 189.2' X 42' X 6.2'
Power: 16's-6 ft. from TACOMA. 4 boilers.
Launched: 1925, Charleston w. Va. (hull), completed, Pt. Pleasant, W. Va.
for Greene Line Steamers Inc. under supervision of Capt.
Jesse P. Hughes
Destroyed: 1947, Feb.withdrawn from service
1950, Oct. 22, sold to Dayton Boat Harbor, Dayton Ky., and
converted a yacht harbor club boat.
Area: 1925, Cincinnati-Pomeroy-Charleston
1934-36, Cincinnati-Louisville
1950 - Dayton Ky.
Owner: Captain Gordon C. Greene and Carrie Greenwood (Greene Line Steamers)
1950 - ?Dayton Boat Harbor?, Dayton, Ky.
Captains: 1925- Chris Greene and later Volney (Stogey) E. White
Comments: used the whistle from HOMER SMITH.
Comments: 1925, Cincinnati, Backed into and sank the GREENWOOD.
3. Name: CHRISTIANA
Launched: 1860
Area: 1860-?85?, U. San Joaquin and Tuolumne Rs., Calf.
Owner: Ling Bros.
Name: CHRYSOPOLIS (Means "Golden City") / OAKLAND
Type: Side-wheeler Size: 245 X 40 ft., 1,000 Passengers
Launched: 1860, San Francisco, for $200,000
Destroyed: 1940, scrapped out then burned.
Area: Sacramento to San Francisco, California Delta
Owner: North, John
Captain and pilots: Capt. Whitney, James
Comments: until 1930, was ferry boat between San Francisco and Oakland.
: 1861, Dec. 31, Ran Sacramento to San Francisco, CA, 117 miles:
5 hrs, 19 mins 22.03 mph avg.
Name: CHRYSTENAH
Destroyed: went aground, abandoned.
Area: Hudson R.
Owner: Smith brothers of Nyack, NY
Comments: From site visitor:
Was disappointd not to see a picture of the boat CHRYSTENAH,
owned by the Smith brothers of Nyack, NY, on the Hudson River.
The boat was named for their mother, who was a member of the
Demarest family, one of the oldest Dutch families of NY and NJ.
The boat had an oil painting of Chrystenah displayed in the
salon, which was removed from the boat after it went aground
(I think around New Rochelle) and was probably abandoned.
I have the painting in my guest room.
Mary Ann Kaucher
Name: CINCINNATI
Launched: 1845
Area: Miss. R.
Captain(s): 1847 or so, Captain, William J. Kountz, Second Mate,
1848 or so, Peppers,George H.
1. Name: CINCINNATI
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet.
Size: hull, 220' X 30' X 6.'. Overall dimentions, 249' X 58'.
Power: 24's-7 ft., 4 boilers, each 40" X 28'. Wheels, 32' 8" w/ 11' 4" buckets
Launched; 1850, Freedom, Pa., Cahrles Graham, Jr. and Co.
Destroyed: 1856, Dismantled
Area: 1850, made Trip Pittsburg-Beaver, Pa.
Otherwise through 1855, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati with occasional
Louisville-St. Louis trips.
Owners: For a time ran under Pittsburgh & Cincinnati Line colors.
Captain(s): 1850 William J. Kountz
Later, John Birmingham and Hiram Kountz
Comments: stacks towered 84.7' from water, highest on any boat till then.
Had 52 rooms and 106 berths.
Name: CINCINNATI
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 276 tons.
Launched: 1951, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1853, May, Brazos, Tex. stranded.
Comments: wandered afar and was eventually lost by stranding at Brazos, Tex.
Name: CINCINNATI
Type: A James B. Eads gunboat
Launched: 1861
Destroyed: 1863, Apr. Union Gunboat sunk by 10 inch cannon while
attacking Vicksburgh during the battle of Vicksburg.
Comments: 1862, Confederate General Tilgham surrendered aboard
her at Fort Henry. Last boat to be sunk during the
Vicksburg Campaign.
Comments: From The Wheeling Register, Monday, March 31, 1879
Name: CINCINNATI, originally the FAVORITE
Ferryboat, Cincinnati, Oh. 1876-92.
1. Name: CINCINNATI/PRESIDENT
CINCINNATILibrary of Congress,
Prints and Photographs Division,
Detroit Publishing Company Collection.
Type: sidewheel, steel hull packet/excursion boat
Size: When new, 285' X 45.6' X 7.3'
1933, entire superstructure rebuilt to 291.5' X 84' X 7.5', 3,100 Passengers
Power: engines, compound non-condensing, by Barnes, 22's 40's-9ft.
6 oil burning boilers
1978, converted to diesel, 3 Muray and Tregurtha, prop units, one
each side and one at stern delivering 2,000 hp.
Launched: 1924, Midland, Pa. by Midland Barge Co. (hull), completed at
Cincinnati, 1924. $417,000
Destroyed: As of 1999, Continues to operate, New Orleans.
Area: 1924-30, made Cincinnati-New Orleans Mardi Gras trips each year.
Principal business of boat was summer Louisville-Cincinnati packet trade
Owners: 1924, John W. Hubbard, Pittsburg
1933, sold to Streckfus Steamers
1981, sold to New Orleans Steamboat Company
Companies associated with: 1924- Operated by Louisville and Cincinnati
Packet Company until it ran on hard times,
then went to Streckfus Steamers.
Captains: Lax, Hilmar
For many years, Streckfus, Verne
Comments: Was first all steel excursion Steamer.
1928, May 24, collided with mv BELFONT. CINCINNATI's engineer,
Homer Johnson was killed.
1929, appeared for completion celebration for Ohio River locks.
: 1933 recieved entire new superstructure.
1942, July: ran Dubuque's last excursion before W.W. II.
: 1944, gards enclosed with glass
One source
: Is a registered National Historic Landmark
: 2008, July, being moved from Alton, Ill. to Metropolis, Ill
to be set with wheels for a 1500 ft. trip to a property
where she will be restored.
Name: CINDERELLA
Launched: 1850'S?
Area: Ohio R.?
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