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RIVERBOATS
Starting With
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From GOLCONDA
The Greenwood
From the Jim Daviner Watercolor Gallery
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To Riverboats Starting With GENERAL To Riverboats Starting With GEO. and GEORGE To Riverboats Starting With GOVENOR To Riverboats Starting With The INITIAL G. To Riverboats Starting With G Page 1 1. Name: GOLCONDA Type: Ferryboat Wooden hull Size: 60' X 16' X 2.7' 21 tons Area: Golconda, Ill. Launched: 1849, Evansville, Ind. Destroyed: 1886, Still listed 1. Name: GOLCONDA Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 89.5' X 25.3 X 4 Launched, 1890, Greenfield Landing, Mo. Destroyed: 1901, Ohio R. Aug. 16, Livingston Point above Paducah, Ky., capsized by wind. Never recovered. At least 3 were lost. Name: GOLD #1 Type: Sternwheeler Size: Small Area: San Francisco Bay area Owner: Petaluma and Santa Rosa Rail Road Name: GOLD #2 Type: Sternwheeler Size: Small Area: San Francisco Bay area Owner: Petaluma and Santa Rosa Rail Road Name: GOLD DUST Launched: 1870s? Destroyed: Exploded 18??, Aug. 7, 3:00 PM Hickman Ken. Area: U. Mo. R.; Miss. R. Captains: Capt. Gray, Lem: Comments: Clemens, Samuel rode when he returned to America in his later years. 3. Name: GOLD HUNTER Launched: 1840's, late? Area: 1850s early, Sacramento R. Calf. Name: GOLDEN CITY 1. Name: GOLDEN CROWN/DE SOTO Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 261' X 41' X 7'. Power: 18's- 7fy. 3 boilers at first, later 4. Launched: 1877, Cincinnati, Oh. for Capt Henry H. Drown. Destroyed: 1890, Jan 28, Owensboro, Ky., burned. Area: At first Cincinnati-New Orleans 1881, advertised running Vicksburg-New Orleans Owners: 1877, when new, Capt Henry H. Drown 18?? Capt, Vincent Shinkle 1885, Purchased by Cincinnati & Memphis Packet Company. Captains: 1881, Eugene Shinkle, Chant Shankle, Clerk 1885, Vincent Shinkle. Comments: 1878, May, lost paddlewheel and it sank out of sight : Cincincati and Memphis Packet Co. renamed her the DE SOTO : 1885, Nov., Cairo, Ill., Capt Vincent Shinkle died aboard after second stroke. Age 64. Name: GOLDEN EAGLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 506.62 tons
Launched: 1864, Freedom/Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1870, off the lists
Area: Built for Cincinnati-Memphis trade
1868, went into Wheeling-Cincinnati trade
1869, went to Cincinnati-Big Sandy trade
Owners: Built for Capt. Wm. B. Donaldson and others
Sold within a month to The Dean Line
1868, Purchased by Capt. Amos E. Davis and others
Captains: 1869, Wash Honshell
Name: GOLDEN EAGLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 941 tons
Power: 26-1/2's- 7 ft. from the J.H. JOHNSON
Launched: 1876, St. Louis, Mo.
Destroyed: 1880, May 31, Thomas Landing above mouth of Ill. R., burned
Area: St. Louis-Keokuk trade
Owners: built by Capts. W.F. Davidson (Fuce) and Payton (Pate) Davidson
(The Davidson Line)
Captains: when burned, David R. Asbury
Comments: Made run St. Louis - Alton 1876, 0/1/35
Name: GOLDEN EAGLE Originally the WM. CARIG
Name: GOLDEN GATE
1853-57
Name: GOLDEN GATE (Could be the same boat as below?)
: 1862, during Civil War was under command of Gen. Sherman on Tennessee R.
Name: GOLDEN GATE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Launched: 18?63?, Lawrenceburg, Ind.
Destroyed: off the lists 1865
1. Name: GOLDEN GATE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 131.4' X 30' X 5.'
Power: 14'- 4 ft.
Launched: 1878, Dubuque, Iowa for J.H.S. Coleman, Davenport, Iowa and
Brothers James and Andrew
Destroyed: 1903, Carrollton, Ky., Dismantled.
Area: 1881-82, Towing to Hannibal and St. Louis
1900, Ill. R.
1902, Cincinnati-Madison
1903, running Louisville to Monterey on Ky. R. 3 times a week.
Owners: 1878, J.H.S. Coleman, Davenport, Iowa and Brothers James and Andrew
1895, purchased by Hannibal and St. Louis River Commission
1903, purchased by C.F. Disken, Carrollton, Ky who dismantled her.
Captains: 1881-82, J.M. Turner
1900, G.M. Sivley
1902, W.E. Pratt, Madison, Ind.
Comments: engines came from JAMES MEANS
Mentioned in this Article
Name: GOLDENROD
Type: barge, Floating Theater
1. Name: GOLDENROD
Type: Sternwheel steel hull lighthouse tender
Size: 150' X 26.5' X 3.7'
Power: Engines, 12's- 5ft., two boilers.
Launched: 1888, Sweeney Yard, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1925 or so, Middlepoet, Oh., broke from moorings during flood. Lost.
Area: As tender, Ohio R. and its tributaries.
Captains: At first Owen F. Jolly.
Later Leslie T. Hill of Aberdeen, Oh.
Owners: 1925 Was decommissioned and sold to John Lyons, Middleport, Oh.
These next two GOLDENRODS may be one and the same?
Name: GOLDENROD
Type: Excursion Steamer
Area: Ohio R.
Comments:Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: GOLDENROD
Launched: 1890's
Area: Ohio R.
Captain(s): Horton
Comments:From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Apr. 28 1897
Name: GORDON C. GREENE, Orginally the CAPE GIRARDEAU
1923-1967
from the Gallery of
Thomas Stahl
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Name: GRACE BARTON
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1890?
Destroyed: 1916, by fire during filming of movie Jim Bledsoe.
Area: California Delta
Comments: 1950s, Used in making movie "Jim Bludso". On California
movie lot. See Historic Movies Filmed in the California Delta Area
Name: GRACE BROWN
Name: GRACE DARLING
Launched: 1840, after.
Name: GRAHAM, see James L. Graham
1. Name: GRAND BAY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 121' X 26.5' X 4.5'
Launched: 1857, Mobile, Ala.
Area: *cir. 1862. Neches R., Tex.
Owners: When new, Daniel L. Shearer, New Orleans
1858, Nov., sold to R.J. Fox, New Orleans
1860, Nov., sold to James Lovie, New Orleans
Transfered next day to Benjamin J. Montgomery, New Orleans
1861, Jan., sold to Samuel F. Rice, New Orleans
Captains: 1858, under Fox, D.G. Hill, New Orleans
1860-61, under Montgomery and Rice, Julius A. Pratt
Went to Confederate Registry
Name: GRADY BURK
Launched: 1840s? LATE?
Area: Ohio R.; Miss. R.
Captain: 1851, White, J. M.
Name: GRAND DUKE
Type: Sidewheel packet, wooden hull
Size: 205' X 35' X 7.5'
Power: 24's- 7 ft., 4 boilers
Launched: 1859, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard.
Destroyed: 1863, Sept. 25, accidently burned at Shreveport.
Area: Miss. R.; 1859, N.O. - Shreveport;
Owner: 1859, Applegate, Capt. Samuel of New Orleans.
: Start of Civil War, went to Confederate registry under new
owner, McCrown, Hugh D., of N.O.
Captain: 1869, Approx. White, J. M.
: Start of Civil War, Master was Norton, Alex of Stubenville,
J.M. White continued as Capt.
Comments: Cabin and engines came from DUKE
Source: *Way's Packet Directory, 1884 - 1994
Name: GRAND ERA
Launched: 1860s?
Area: Miss. R.
Captain: 1869, Approx. White, J. M.
Comments: Carried spectators for ROBERT E. LEE vs NATCHEZ race.
Name: GRAND FLOATING PALACE
Name: GRAND FLOATING PALACE, NEW
Name: GRAND REPUBLIC originally the GREAT REPUBLIC
Name: GRAND REPUBLIC, originally J.B.M. KEHLOR then HELENA
Given name GRAND REPUBLIC in 1886
Name: GRAND TURK
Name: GRAND VICTORIA II, originally the QUEEN of NEW ORLEANS
1. Name: GRANITE STATE
Type: Sidewheeler, Wooden hull packet Size: 296 tons
Launched: 1852, West Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1860, off the lists
Area: 1852, Pittsburgh-St. Louis
Owner: Galena, Dunleith and Minnisota Packet Company
Captains: 1852, Rodgers
1856, Hurd, Jesse Y.; 1857, Gabbert, W.H.
1. Name: GRANITE STATE
Type: Sternwheeler, wooden hull packet
Size: 183' X 34' X 5'
Power: Rees engines, 16's-5 1/2 ft. 3 boilers, each 38" X 26'
Launched: 1870, California, Pa.
Destroyed: 1878, retired, Used the People's Warf Boat at Wheeling, W. Va.
Area: 1870, Pittsburgh-Portsmouth, Oh.; 1872, spring, Cincinnati-Pomeroy
later, back to Pittsburgh-Portsmouth
Owner:
Captains: 1870-72, Wash H. Kerr; 1872- ? Wash Honshell
Later, Kerr was again her master through 1878 when boat retired.
Joe and Davis Alexander were her pilots at this time.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
1. Name: GRANITE STATE
Type: Sternwheeler, wooden hull packet
Size: 221' X 35.6' X 5.7'
Power: Rees engines, 16's 5 1/2 ft. from last GRANITE STATE. 2 boilers
each 42" X 28' with twelve 6" flues. Paddlewheel; 22'dia.
with 26' buckets .
Launched: 1879, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: Grand Chain, Ohio R., near Mound City, Ill. sank and lost
Hull became warf boat at Catlerrsburg, Ky. which was eventually
owned by Capt. Gordon C. Green
Area: 1879, Pittsburgh-Portmouth, 1880, Pittsburgh-St. Louis
Owner: 1879-80 when he died, Wash H. Kerr along with
others with shares at the time, Capt. Wash Honshell,
Capt. Tom Hunter, T.T. Johnson
1884, Wash Honshell - See
1884, * Nov. Sold to Capt. Charles Buchanan
1888, Memphis and Cincinnati Packet Company
Captains: 1888, Don Marr
1. Name: GREAT REPUBLIC/GRAND REPUBLIC
Type: Side-wheeler Size: 350' X 51' X 9.5'
Power: Compound engins, 29's, 56's-10 ft.. 6 boilers
Launched: 1867, Shousetown, Pa.
Destroyed: 1877, Sept. 9, caught fire at St. Louis while she was laid up.
Area: 1867, St. Louis - New Orleans.
Owner: 1867 at launch -1868, Capt. William B. Donaldson (1/3), Joseph P.
Haigh (1/3), Samuel Morrow (1/6), Andrew Hartupee (1/6)
1868, Nov.-1871, May, Capt. William B Donaldson and a reorganized
group.
1871, May, - 1875 Capt. William H Thorwegan and Thomas Morrison
1875, Capt. William H. Thorwegan, entire.
Captains: 1867-71, Master was William B. Donaldson
First trip, Capt. Donaldson, Master; Sam McBride and Sam
Williamson, pilots; William Patterson, mate.
1871, May-1877, Sept. 9, William H. Thorwegan
Comments: 1876, renamed GRAND REPUBLIC
Comments: Carried spectators for ROBERT E. LEE vs NATCHEZ race.
Comments: Note from the WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER,
June 24, 1951
Name: GREAT WESTERN
Type: Side-wheeler
Size: 185'; 60 staterooms, 300 berths
Launched: 1838
Area: Great Lakes
Comments: The GREAT WESTERN was the first steamer on the Lakes to be
fitted with a spacious upper cabin.
Detailed description in this Article
Name: GREATER BUFFALO
Type: Side-wheeler Size: 520'
Launched: 1924
Area: Great Lakes
Captain and pilots:
Comments: Along with her sistership, The GREATER DETROIT, (below)
she was one of the two largest sidewheelers ever built.
: Mentioned in this Article
Name: GREATER DETROIT
Type: Side-wheeler Size: 520'?
Launched: 1924
Area: Great Lakes
Comments: Along with her sistership, The GREATER BUFFALO (above),
she was one of the two largest sidewheelers ever built.
: Mentioned in this Article
Name: GREENFIELD
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1840s?
Area: Eastern boat
Captain and pilots: Capt. Reed, D. W.
1. Name: GREENLAND
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 210' X 32' X 6.5', overall width was 49'
Power: When new, engines, 15's- 6ft. from the ZANETTA. Two boilers, each 44" X 22-1/2'
Later got a 16" bore from HENRY M. STANLEY, and 3 boilers.
Wheels: 28' dia., with 6-1/2' buckets
Launched: 1903, Harmar, Oh. at Knox Yard
Destroyed:1917-18 winter, Cincinnati marine ways, while beinng reparied after
grounding(below)an ice gorge lifted her from cradles, lost.
Areas: Designed for Pittsburgh-Charleston trade, but ran Pameroy-Charleston most of career.
During low water, sometimes ran Cincinnati-Louisville
1917, ran several trips Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
Owners: Capt. Gordon C. Greene
Captains: At first, Gordon C. Greene
Occasionally, Mary Greene took command
Comments: Had 54 cabin staterooms
: 1904, Made 4 trips from Ohio R. to St. Louis World's Fair
: 1904, Pt. Pleasant, W. Va., while it was laid up, Tom Greene was born aboard this boat
: 1904, Capt. Jesse P. Hughs and bide took wedding trip aboard to St. Louis.
: 1917, Bonanza Bar, Portsmouth, Oh., injured hull when grounded
: Her whistle was from the COURIER and went to the CHRIS GREEN
1. Name: GREENWOOD - See Post Cards of This Boat
Click on picture to enlarge
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 168.5' X 30' X 4.4'
Power: Engines, 14's- 6 ft.. Three boilers, each 38" X 18'.
Launched: 1898, Parkersburg, West Virginia
Destroyed:1925, November 17. Cincinnati. Backed into by CHRIS GREENE.
The GREENWOOD turned over and sank.
Area: Ohio R., Pittsburgh-Parkersburg, then Pittsburgh-Charleston
Later, Cincinnati-Pomeroy-Charleston
1912, was in Pittsburgh-Parkersburg trade
1925, made several runs Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
Owner: At first, Captain Gordon C. Greene, 3/4 and Carrie G. Greenwood, 1/4 (Greene Line Steamers, Inc.)
1925, chartered by D. Grover Gill
Captain: 1898, Gordon C. Greene, with Capt. Jesse P. Hughes as pilot.
Possibly Mary Greene
1912, Kraft, Henry R.
Comments: Source
: Nearly sank on 3rd trial voyage when hit something and broke floor timbers.
Name: GREY EAGLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 352 tons
Launched: 1840, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1845, off the lists.
Area: Louisville-New Orleans.
Captain: John Shallcross
Name: GREY EAGLE
1847-50
Name: GREY EAGLE
1850-57
1. Name: GREY EAGLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 250' X 35' X 5.', 382 tons.
Power: 22's- 7ft., 4 boilers.
Launched: 1857, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1861, May, with Capt. Harris at the wheel, Smashed against
Rock Island bridge piling. 7 lives and most of cargo lost.
Area: U. Miss. R.
Owner: Galena & Minnesota Packet Co.
Captain(s): 1858, Master, Daniel Smith Harris
Comments: 1858, raced ITASCA
Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: GREY EAGLE
From Olden Times.com
The Louisville Post, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
September 22, 1881
Type: sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 238' X 36' X 6.'.
Launched: 1871, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard.
Dismantled: 1888
Area: 1881, Sept., Owensboro, Evansville, Henderson. (See above ad)
Owners: Originally, Louisville, Evansville & Henderson Packet Company
Captains: 1873, E.P.T. Holcroft
1881, Jessie G. Berry
Comments: When dismantled, parts went to the CITY OF OWENSBORO
Name: GREY EAGLE
Launched: 1892
Destroyed: 1918, Jan. Smashed by ice
Area: Miss. R.
Owner: Eagle Packet Co.
Captain(s): Daniel Smith Harris
Name: GROSBEAK, U.S.S. Tinclad # 8, originally the FANNY
1. Name: GUIDING STAR
Type: SidewheelWooden hull packet.
Size: 300' X 41.5'(77') X 7.5', 1.800 tons.
Boiler deck, 60' wide in front with guards running back 165'.
Main Cabin, 165'X 16' X 11-1/2'. 50 staterooms. Office and barbershop
Texas deck, 108' long. Captain's Cabin 16' X 16' with two 8' X 10'
rooms opening off of it. Next came Crews quarters, then freedmen's
bureau and finally cabin boy's quarters.
Pilot house, 14' sq.
Top of stacks, 85' from light-load line.
Roof bell weighed 1,800 lbs.
Power: Original engines, which were from the from ROBERT BURNS, were
replaced in 1880 with 26's- 8 ft., 2 flues and 5 boilers,
each 42" X 28'
Paddlewheels were 28' dia. with 14' buckets, 17 arms.
Launched: 1878, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1893, Jan 6, 8 mi. below New Madrid, Mo., cut down by ice.
Area: 1878, Cincinnati-New Orleans trade.
1883, Cincinnati-Parker's Grove pleasure park, Excursions
Owners: 1878-1881, June when lost at U.S. Marshal's sale,
Capt William B. Miller
1881, June, Purchased by Capts. J. D. Hegler and Sterling McIntyre
*At one time, Frank Y. Grayson
Captains; 1878, William B. Miller; Pilots, Charles Owens and George Melona.
Comments: 1914, bell went to HOMER SMITH
: *From site visitor, Patty Neville
My great uncle, Jacob Dice Hegler, owned the stern wheeler,
The Guiding Star, which went from Cincinnati to New Orleans
in the late 1800's. According to the book, Thrills of the
Historic Ohio River by Frank Y. Grayson, it was the first
steam boat on the river to have electric lights. She would
have to stop at landings just for people to come to see the
lights.
Name: Gunboats: Raising the Gunboats
ELFIN
KEY WEST
TAWAH
UNDINE
VENUS
Comments: See link above for ongoing efforts to raise these 5 boats.
Name: GULKANA
Type: Stearnwheel ferryboat Size:
Launched: 1909
Area: Copper R., Alaska
Comments:Alaskan Riverboats
Name: GUNTERSVILLE
Photo donated by
Ken McCulloch
Type: Sternwheel packet
Area: Tenn. R.
Name: GUS LINA
Destroyed: 1860, Apr., 8 or 10 miles below Dakota ?City, Neb.,
snagged and lost.
Comments: Source: Dakota City Herald, Apr. 21 1860
: Comment from newspaper:
". . . One of the causes of the accident was a very heavy
insurance on her, which has sank many a boat before. . . "
Name: GUY HUNTER
Launched: Built 1870s? at Arrow Rock, Mo, by Gustave Moehle and Sons.
Area: Mo. R.?
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
1. Name: GUYANDOTTE
Type: Sidewheel batwing wooden hull packet
Size: 104.3' X 16.1' X 2.9'
Power: Belt operated from one engine, 8.75 in. stroke.
1 boiler, 46' X 7-1/2 ft.
Launched: 1896, Guyandotte, W. Va.
Destroyed: 1908, Aug. 13, burned
Area: At one time went up the Guyandotte R. to Logan W. Va.
Also saw service on Big Sandy R.
Owners: 1902, Dec., sold to James P. York and Albert G. Holt, Kenova, W. Va.
1904, Mar. sold to William P. Vaughn, Catletteburg, Ky.
Name: GYPSY
Launched: 1830s?
Area: 1839, U. Miss. R.?
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
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