RIVERBOATS
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Da's - De's
RIVERBOATS
Starting With
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Da's - De's
To Riverboats starting with the Letter D, Page 2 Also see DECOTAH 1. Name: DACOTAH Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 90 tons. Launched: 1857, Freedom, Pa. Destroyed: 1862, Mar. 15, St. Joseph, Mo., tornado. 4 lives lost. Owner: Hannibal and St. joseph R.R., St. Joseph, MO. Name: DACOTAH Type; Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 252' X 48' X 5.5'. Power: 18's-7 ft., 4 boilers Launched: 1879, California, Pa. Destroyed: C. 1893, Jrffersonville, Ind., dismantled Area: Maiden trip, Pittsburgh-Fort Benton, Ohio and Mo. Rs. : Mo., Red and Yellowstone Rs. 1889, New Orleans to Ft. Benton. Owners: Originally, Coulson Line Later sold to Capt. Hunter Ben Jenkins and others. 1889, sold to New Orleans 1889, sold to Capt. William T. Boardman Captains: Under Capt. Hunter Ben Jenkins ownership, George G. Keith 1889, sold to Capt. William T. Boardman Comments: In all, made 7 trips to Fort Benton : Machinery went to IMPERIAL : Mentioned in this Article : Sister boat was MONTANA 1. Name: DAKOTA Size: 117.75 tons Launched; 1872, Breckinridge, Minn. Destroyed; 1876, 2 mi. below Ft. Pembina on Mo. R., burned. Comments: 1876, documented, Galena, Ill. Name: DAKOTA CITY Area: 1859, June, Mo. and Big Sioux Rs., Sioux City northward. Comments: 1859, June 30, The Sioux City Register, tells us this boat was to start up the Big Sioux for a 4th of July trip. Name: DALLAS Type: Stern-wheeler Size: Small boat Destroyed: Sometime in the seventies, near Morgan's Is. Area: Mo. R. Name: DAMSEL Type: Stern-wheel, Circus boat Size: 191 tons Launched: 1864, Wellsville, Oh. Destroyed: 1873 or 6 snagged and run aground at the head of Onawa bend. LaBarge on JOHN M. CHAMBERS took passengers aboard. Area: U. Miss. R and Mo. R. Owner: Rice, Dan Captain and pilots: Pilot, Charles Davis Comments: Mentioned in this Article Name: DAN Type: 1862-63, Union gunboat Destroyed: 1863, Jan. 8, Sabine Lake, Tex., burned by Confederate forces. (See) Area: Sabine R. Tex. Comments: Source Name: DAN B. HURLBURT Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 62.6' X 11' X 2.4' Launched: 1881, Warsaw, Mo. on Osage R. Area: 1880's early-1888, Lower Osage R., Mo. Owner and Capt: Henry Castrop Source: See Comments: Mentioned in this Article. 1. Name: DAN CONVERSE Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 142' X 27' X 4.10' ft. Power: 16's- 5 ft., 2 boilers. Launched: McKeesport, Ind. Destroyed: 1858, Nov. 15, Amazonia, Mo., 10 mi above St Joseph Mo. Snagged. Valued at $3,000. Boat and cargo total loss. No lives lost. Area: 1852, Pittsburgh-Zaneville trade. That summer, Newport, Oh.-Zanesville Mo. R. Mountain trade 1853, Marrietta-Zanesville Later, Pittsburgh-Zanesville into 1855 1855, Upper Miss. R. trade. 1857, Diary of E.F. Beadle has her ariving Omaha, Neb. June 12, July 16. Aug 21. Left Omaha downbound. Aug. 22, Grounded on a sand bar 3 mi. below Plattsmouth. All passengers transfered to the Watossa. Owners: 1855, sold into Upper Miss. R. trade Captains: 1852, Charles Gallagher, then Till Devol 1853, E.C. Granger Later, Monroe Ayres into 1855. Comments: about grounding and conditions aboard this boat in Aug, 1857.
To Riverboats Whose Names Start With The Initial "D"
Name: DAN POLLARD
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 77 tons.
Launched: 1857, McKeesport, Pa. by . *Isaac Hammitt yard.
Destroyed: 1864, Aug. 3, Cairo, Ill. snagged and lost.
Area: 1st home port, Wheeling, W. Va.
Owner: Capt Dan Pollard
1. Name: DANIEL BOONE
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The Maysville Eagle
Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky
December 11, 1845
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 169 tons.
Launched: 1844, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1853, Sept. 10, College Point, La., collision with SOUTHERN BELLE.
Area: Built for Cincinnati-Maysville trade
1849, went to Ill. R. trade
Owners: When built, Capt. Grafton Molen
1849 or so, sold to Draper & Leslie, New Albany, Ind.
Captains: When new, Grafton Molen
Comments: 1845, Carried the bodies of Daniel Boone and his wife, from Marthasville, Mo.
to Frankfort, Ky for final burial.
:1849, Feb. President-elect Zachary Taylor took this boat from Nashville to
just below Louisville.
1. Name: DANIEL BOONE
1848 - 54
1. Name: DANIEL BOONE
1854 - 59
1. Name: DANIEL BOONE
1872 - AFTER 1886
3. Name: DANIEL MOORE
Launched: 1840's late? Size: 63 tons.
Area: 1853, Sacramento R. Calif.
Name: DAN or DANIEL POLLARD
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull towboat
Launched: 1850's, early, Isaac Hammitt yard, McKeesport, Pa.
Owner: William Dunshee
Name: DANIEL G. TAYLOR
Type: Side-wheel, single engine. Size:
Destroyed: 1838, hit rocks 1 mi below Glasgow, Mo.
Owner: partial, Capt. John Cleveland.
Captain and pilots: Capt. John Cleveland
1. Name: DANIEL G. TAYLOR
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 240' X 38'
Power: 24's- 7 ft., four boilers
Area: For a time, Mo. R.
1856, late, went to St. Louis- New Orleans trade
Launched: 1855, McKeesport, Pa.
Destroyed: 1864, Louisville, Ky. burned. One life lost.
Owners: in St. Louis-New Orleans trade Capt. Robert A. Reilly and others
1864, wreck purchased by Capt. Henry Symmes for machinery
Comments: primarily a freight boat
: Named for mayor of St. Louis
: 1856, July 5, snagged and sunk,
Paine's Island, below Rochport on Mo. R. Raised
: See letters from soldiers on this boat during the Civil War
Name: DART
Destroyed: 1838, Wrecked near Glasgow or in Euphrase Bend, Mo. R.
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Name: DAUNTLESS
Launched: 1894, summer
Size: 73 tons.
Destroyed: 1896, Nov. 10, Burned.
Area: U, White R., Ark. and Black R.
Owners: Captain Will T. Warner had her built
Comments: Source
Name: DAUNTLESS
Area: Ohio R., Osage R., Mo.
Owner: 1897, July, Ailes, John
Captain(s): Ailes, John
Comments: Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. July. 12 1897
Comments: Mentioned in this Article.
1. Name: DAVENPORT
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 203' X 34.3' X 5.2', 340 tons.
Launched: 1863, Californis, Pa. under supervision of Capt. Richard C. Gray
Destroyed: 1876, Dec. 13, St. Louis, by ice. Raised and dismantled.
Area: U. Miss. R. Also ran trips to Cincinnati in winter months.
Owners: Northern Line Packet Company
Captains: 1st was Richard C. Gray
Comments:
Name: DAVENPORT/W. J. QUINLAN
From
The James E. York Post Card Collection
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull ferryboat/excursion boat
Size: Hull: 112.5' x 36.5' x 3.5', 195 tons
Power: Engines: 14's-5 ft. (200 hp each) by the
Clinton Novelty & Iron Works of Clinton, IA.
Paddlewheel: 18.5' x 15'
Boilers:(2) 18' x 42" Marine-type/water tubes.
Coal-fired. Michaelman Boiler Co., Quincy, IL
Launched: 1904, at the Kahlke Yard by Peter Kahlke for Rock Island-Davenport
Ferry Co.
Destroyed: 1967, April 8, vagrants set her afire. Completely destroyed.
Owner: 1904,Rock Island-Davenport Ferry Co..
: 1924, William J. Quinlan
Captain(s):1911-1924, Young, Harry F. wa pilot.
1929-1942, Capt. John (Hans)Witt
1942-1946, Capt. Arthur L. Quinn
Comments: Source with much more information.
Name: DAVID BRONSON
Type: rafter Size:
Launched: 1880s?
Area: Mis. R. ?
1. Name: DAVID R. POWELL
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 258' X 38' X 7.'
Launched: 1882, Cincinnati, Oh.
Comments: this boat was occasionally chartered by Scharff & Bernheimer
to take a load south.
1. Name: DAVID SWAIN
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet
Size: 136.6' X 26' X 4.5'
Power: Swain inclined oscillating engines, 10's, 20's- 5 ft.
Launched: 1906, Stillwater, Minn.
Destroyed: 1930s, early, Vidalia, La., dismantled
Area: Under the Swains, Ill. R.
1922, after, replaced the sunken PERCY SWAIN in Vicksburg-Natchez trade
Owners: built by the Swains
1922, Sept., purchased by Capt. George Prince
Captains: Percy Swain
Comments: Was last side-wheel packet on the Ill. R.
: Was last packet in Vicksburg-Natchez trade
Name: DAVID TATUM
Area: Mo. R.
Captain and pilots: Capt. J. A. Williams.
Comments: Plied trade from St. Louis to Ft. Weston and St. Joseph.
Name: DAVID TIPTON, originally the COL. A. MACKENZIE
Launched: 1900 Destroyed: unknown
Name: DAWSON
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1901
Area: Yukon R.
Owner: The British Yukon Navigation Co.
Comments:See Yukon Boats for Other Facts
Name: DEBUQUE See PITTSBURGH
Name: DECATUR
Type: Coal burning Steamboat
Launched: 1924
Area: Mo. R.
Captain(s): 1924-29, Craig, Thomas P.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: DECOTAH
Type; Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 230 tons.
Launched: 1858, Belle Vernon, Pa.
Destroyed: 1864, Paducah, Mar. 25, burned during Confederate raid
Area: 1861, Cincinnati-Pittsburgh trade
Later, under J and H, Tennessee R. cotton trade.
Owners: Originally, Pittsburgh concern.
Later, Capt. Theodore Fink
Then, Johnson and Heydock, Cairo, Ill.
Name: DE SMET
Type: Side-wheeler, wood hull packet Size: 184.4' X 34' X 5.1'
Launched: 1872, Mound City Ill.
Area: U. Mo. R.
Owner(s): 1872-74, La Barge, Joseph
Captain(s): La Barge, Joseph
Comments: Gary Lucy artwork and comments
Name: DE SOTO
Type: Union cotton-clad Size:
Launched: 1850s?
Area: Miss. R.?
Name: DEER LODGE
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1860?
Area: Mo. R.; Miss. R.
Captains: At one tme, Grant Marsh
Comments: 1865: Hit snag after snag while en rout to
Ft. Benton on upper Mo. R.
Preceeded ill fated BERTRAND on this trip.
3. Name: DEFENDER
Launched: 1850's early
Area: 1854, Sacramento R. Calif.
Name: DEFIANCE
Launched: 1840s?
Area: San Francisco bay
*Name: DELAWARE
Launched: 1835
Owners: Elli Mills and Capt. Herman Price
Captains: Herman Price
Comments: *Source
1. Name: DELAWARE
1851-60
Name: DELAWARE
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Destroyed: 1857, Snagged near Smith's Bar in Mo.
Area: Mo. R.
1. Name: DELAWARE
1862-68
1. Name: DEL NORTE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 136' X 25' X 4.5'
Power: 16's- 6 ft.
Launched: 1846, Elizabeth, Pa., completed in Zanesville, Oh.
Destroyed, 1849, snagged on Rio Grande R. in Tex.
Area: 1846, Pittsburgh - Zanesville. Later, Rio Grand R., Tex.
Owners: 1846, Probably William F. Bowen of Zanesville, Oh.
Later sold to New Orleans partners, Ellmaker & Viosca with
William F. Bowen retaining an interest.
Captains: 1846, master, William Bowen.
Comments: Capt. William Bowen Bowen contracted to deliver her
to the Rio Grand R. in Texas and did so in a harrowing voyage.
: Mentioned in this Article.
Name: DELLS
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Destroyed: 1878, Oct. 26 snagged and exploded above Arago Neb..
Boat and cargo total loss. 2 lives lost.
Area: Mo. R.
Name: DELTA KING Delta King:An original riverboat from the 20's rehabed into a hotel.
Type: Sternwheeler Size: 285'
Launched: 1926-27, Christened 1927, May 20
Destroyed:
Area: 1927 - 1940: 10 1/2 hr. luxury cruises between San Francisco and
Sacramento World War II: Painted Gray, renamed YFB55 to serve
as anti-submarine net tender, troop barracks, troop transport
and hospital boats for the U. S. Navy.
After War: Shuttled to Canada and back looking for a home.
Presently: a floating hotel in Sacramento, Calf..
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: Sistership to DELTA QUEEN (below).
1927 - late 1930's: 10 1/2 hr. luxury cruises that included
prohibition drinking, jazz bands, gambling and fine
dining between San Francisco and Sacramento.
Stateroom, $3.50. Cargo Deck, $1.00
1952-53 or so: Served as power plant and bunk house for builders
of an aluminun smelter site in British Columbia. SEE
1960: Was in the 1960 version of The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn with Tony Randall. See ARTICLE. Also SEE
1983 -1984: lay sunk for 18 mos. then refloated and underwent
complete renovation
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Name: DELTA QUEEN Photo and info
Type: Sternwheel steel hull luxury cruise boat
Size: 285 X 60' height 57.5' 87 staterooms to accomdate 174 Passengers
Launched: 1926, fabricated on the River Clyde at the Isherwood Yard in
Glasgow, Scotland, and assembled that same year in a small
yard in Stockton, California.
Area: 1927 - late 1930's: Sacramento R. San Francisco to Sacramanto
Owner:1947: Green Line Steamers
19?? - 2005?: Delta Queen Steamboat Co.
1005- present (2007), Majestic America Line
Captain(s): At various times, Way, Fredrick, Clark Hawley, Paul Underwood
1961?, Earnest E. Wagner
1977 - Master, Gabriel Chengery;
- Alternate Master, Donald J. Sanders
1999: Gabriel Chengery
Comments: Sistership to DELTA KING
1927 - late 1930's: 10 1/2 hr. luxury cruises that included
prohibition drinking, jazz bands, gambling and fine
dining between San Francisco and Sacramento.
Stateroom, $3.50. Cargo Deck, $1.00
World War II: Along with sistership DELTA KING, sge was painted
Gray, renamed YFB56 to serve as anti-submarine net
tender, troop barracks, troop transport and hospital
boats for the U. S. Navy.
After War: Purchased by Greene Line
1947, Aug. 10: On her way to the Dravo Shipyard, Pittsburgh,
for repainting and to be converted to a modern,
air-conditioned tourist boat she became the
first riverboat to pass through the Panama Canal
: Present: Year round cruises from 3 to 16 nights.
A National Historic Monument.
For more history, see DELTA KING's web site
Decorated in rare and all but gone exotic hardwoods,
brass fittings, Tiffany-style stained glass windows.
Every stateroom is an outside state-room
Until recently, when the BELLE OF LOUISVILLE fell on hard times,
the two boats raced the each year at Kentucky Derby time.
: 1999, participant in Tall Stacks Celebration.
: See her complete details HERE
History: National Historic Landmark Study
Name: DENMARK
Launched: 1832, Wheeling W. Va.
Comments: Source - WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: DENMARK
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 171' X 34' X5.3'
Launched: 1856, Shousetown, Pa. by and for Capt R.C. Gray
Destroyed: 1862, Oct. 8, Atlas Island below Keokuk, snagged and sunk.
Area: 1857-62, St. Louis-St. Paul
Owner: 1857, Northern Line Packet Company
Captain: 1857, Richard C. Gray
In Civil War, J.J. (Windy) Robinson
Comments: Machinery and boilers probably built by T. Sweeney & Son Foundry
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
: was part of Grant's fleet to Pittsburgh Landing, Tenn.
Name: DENNING
Destroyed: 1857, Snagged near Smith's Bar in Mo.
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson, shopkeeper,
Commerce Mo.
- ". . . Denning brought Joe Kelly and two boats. . . . "
Name: DENVER No. 1
Type:Side-wheeler Size: 225 X 33 Ft. 300 tons.
Destroyed: 1867, May 16, Burned while lying at warf at
St Joseph Mo.. Wreck was afterward built into
DENVER No. 2.
Owner: Hannibal and St Joseph Railroad Co.
Captain(s): Waddell, John.
Comments: Named for first Govenor of Colorado.
Name: DENVER No. 2
Type: Center-wheel Size:
Destroyed: 1880, May 13, sunk or crushed by ice opposite Fort
Lincoln N. Dak.
Area: St Joseph and Omaha and ferrying
Owner: Hannibal and St Joseph Railroad Co.?
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: Built from parts of Denver No. 1.
1. Name: DES MOINES
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 298 tons
Power: 3 boilers, each 44" dia by 26'
Launched: 1857, Madison Ind.
Destroyed: 1865, was off the lists, fate unknown.
Area: Miss. R.; 1864, Red R.; 1864, Nov. 22, Ohio R.
Owner: Capt. John G. Prather was part-owner.
Companies associated with: 1857-61, Keokuk Packet Company
: U.S. appropriated during Civil War to transport
troops and supplies.
Captain: 1857-61, James D. Malin
Comments: 1864, Nov. 22, Ohio R., struck and sank the KATIE at Diamond
Island. Took survivors aboard and to Evansville.
: 1865: Her machinery was placed aboard the new sidewheeler,
CORNELIA
1. Name: DES MOINES CITY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 122 tons
Launched: 1859, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1865, Jan 1, Arkansas R., snagged and lost.
Area: 1859, out of Keokuk, Iowa.
During Civil War, Arkansas R.
Captains: 1864, May, Keinser
Comments: 1864, May, was attacted by shoreline Rebel riffle fire. Hit
over 150 times. A woman passenger was shot through the
breast and later taken ashore in critical condition.
Capt. Keinser was nearly wounded by a ball that tore
his trousers below the knee.
1. Name: DE SOTO( the 3rd one)/GENERAL LYON/ALABAMA(the 3rd one)
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet/gunboat
Size: 182.1' X 35' X 7.5', 390 tons.
Power: 23's-7 ft.
Launched: 1860, Hull built Madison, Ind. Completed, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1867, Apr. 1, downbound with 1000 bales of cotton at
Grandview Reach above New Orleans, burned. No life lost.
Area: 1862, Apr. Miss. R; 1864-5, New Orleans-Red R.
Owner: 1860, Beard, Capt. HighH., of New Orleans
1861 aquired by USQMD.
1862, Apr 17, Captured, Union forces
1865, Aug. 17, Thorwegan, W.H.
1866, Nov., Purchased by Lee, Capt H.L., and others including
Capt Thorwegan.
Captains: 1860, Beard, Hugh H.
1865, Aug. 17, Thorwegan, W.H.
1865, Oct. - 1866, Nov., Harrison, William C.
Comments: 1862, Apr., Captured by U.S. Forces at Island 10 Miss. R. and
made into a tinclad.
1862, Oct. 24, renamed GENERAL LYON
1865, Aug. 17, Mound City, Ill., Purchased at public sale by
Thorwegan, Capt. W.H.
1865, Oct. 20, renamed ALABAMA
Name: DESOTO, Excursion boat, Originally the JAMES LEE
Name: DE SOTO originally the LEXINGTON
1918-
Name: DEW DROP
Type: Stern-wheeler Size: 148 tons.
Launched:
Destroyed: 1860, June. Mouth of Osage R.. Burned.
Name: DEW DROP
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 44 tons.
Launched: 1867, Catlettburg, Ky.
Destroyed: 1871, off the lists.
Area: Big Sandy R.. Also ran low water trades on U. Ohio R.
Captains: J.M. Jarred
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: DETROITER Formerly the COPPERTORY
* Name: DEWITT CLINTON
Size: 132 tons
Power: Low Pressure
Launched: 1825, Cincinnati, Oh.
Comments: Mentioned in this Document
Name: DEWITT CLINTON
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 265 tons.
Launched: 1847, Elizabethtown, Pa.
Destroyed: 1852, Jan. 25, Dismal Point, opposite Presidents Island below
Memphis, snagged and lost. 36 lives lost.
Area: 1847, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
1849, U. Ohio R. to St Louis with several parties for Calif. gold fields.
1852, Pittsburgh-New Orleans
Owners: 1847, Capt. Devinney and others in Steubenville
Captains: 1947, Devinney
Name: DEWITT CLINTON Photo
Launched:1900 - 1920?
Area: Eastern rivers
Name: DEXTER
Launched: 1860s?, early?
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Made run N.O. - Cairo 1869, 3/6/20
Made run N.O. - St Louis 1869, 4/9/0
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
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