RIVERBOATS
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H
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HIAWATHA thru HURLBURT
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08/26/2007
RIVERBOATS
Starting With
H
Page 2
HIAWATHA thru HURLBURT
New Information Added
08/26/2007
Name: HIAWATHA 1856-1863 Name: HIAWATHA 1882-1911 Name: HIAWATHA 1890-post 1902 Area: Brazos R. Texas Name: HIAWATHA To Riverboats Starting With The INITIAL H. To Riverboats Starting With The Name "HARRY"
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Type: Sidewhee, wooden hull
Launched: 1904, St. Paul Minn.
Destroyed: 1918 still documented
Area: St. Paul
Name: HIBERNIA
1844-51
Name: HIBERNIA
1856-58
1. Name: HIBERNIA No. 2
From
Site Visitor Dean Thompson
Type: Sidewheeler wooden hull packet
Size: 217' X 27' X 5.4'
Launched: 1847, Shousetown, Pa.
Area: 1847, Pittsburgh - Cincinnati, 1849: Ohio R.
1852 - Missouri R. out of St. Louis
Owner: 1847, David Holmes, William Frampton, George R. Massey
William Bingham and M. Klinefelter, all of Pittsburgh
and Thomas Arbuckle of Brooks County, Va.
1849, Capt. C.W. Batchelor acquired stock
Captains: 1847, John Klinefelter,
1849-52, C.W. Batchelor
1852, Herman Price
Comments: 1854, Feb. 3, Was in St. Louis ice jam. Do not know if this
destroyed her.
: From Wheeling Daily Gazett, Feb. 7, 1849
: 1849, made record run Cincinnati - Pittsburg in 46hr., 15min..
Wheeling - Pittsburg 9hr., 29min..
: "This boat figures in the famed Wheeling Bridge case as her
stacks were damaged by striking that structure, thereby setting
off the fireworks which resulted in a case before the U.S.
Supreme Court.
Attorney Edwin M. Stanton, later Lincoln's Secretary of War,
was aboard at the time the smokestacks were struck and many
felt he ordered the collision to produce an actual grievance."
: 1849, July, Pittsburgh, Pa, pilot Jesse Klinefelter died aboard as she
was landing with cholera aboard.
: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: HIBERNIA
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 135' X 25' X 4.'
Power: Engines, 12's- 4 1/2', from the J. M. CAMDEN, 2 boilers
Launched: 1881, Rock Castle, W. Va.
Destroyed: 1899, Oct. 29, after being tied up at mouth of Yazzo Canal,
Kleinston, Miss., burned.
Area: 1881, Gallipolis-Marietta
: 1885, Gallipolis-Parkersburg
: Later ran out of Kentucky R. with BLUE WING
: Later under Parisot Line, Belzoni trade.
: Under Capt. Britton, A few trips on Sunflower R.
Owners: Late in her life, Parisot Line.
Later still, Capt. James Britton
Captains: 1881, Alf Day. Later that year and through 1883, W.A. Maddy
: 1885, G.B. McClintock with J.M. Deem as clerk
: Later on Kentucky R., Joel Wall and possibly Elmer E. Varian
Comments: After 1885 went through several sales until Parisot Line purchased.
: Mentioned in this Document and in this Article
* Name: HIGHLAND LADDIE
Size: 80 tons
Power: High pressure
Launched: 1924, Cincinnati, Oh.
Name: HIGH FLYER
Launched: 1850s?
Area: Miss. R.
Owner: United States Mail Line
* Name: HIGHLAND LADDIE
Size: 80 tons
Power: High pressure
Launched: 1824, Cincinnati, Oh.s
Name: HIGHLAND MARY
Launched: 1848
Destroyed: 1856, late Feb, Torn from docks and swept downstream in
ice flow during Great Ice Gorge at St. Louis.
Crushed and sunk.
Area: U. Miss. and Mo. Rs.
Captain(s): 1849 - 50 or so, Mark Atchison
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
: 1849, Apr. 9, Arrived at St Paul, Minn.
: 1850, Apr 19, Arrived at St. Paul, Minn.
Name: HIGHLAND MARY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 142' X 31' X 5.5'
Power: Engines, 5.5 condensing by Griggith & Wedge, Zanesville, Oh.
Scotch Marine Boiler
Launched: 1894, Harmar Oh. by Knox Yard
Area: Built for Pittsburgh-Zanesville trade. Made only on trip that trade.
1894, summer, went to excursions, Zanesville
Owners: Capts. William W. Richardson, George Wallace, Dana Scott,
Lou Myrick, John rice and Charles S. Beckwith
1894, Sept. sold to Magdalena R., South America
Comments: Was towed to South America across the gulf by tug B.D. WOOD
Name: HILL CITY
Photo donated by Ken McCulloch
Type: sternwheel wooden hull packet
Area: Coosa R.
Captains: William M. Elliot
Comments: Source
Name: HILL CITY Originally the CITY OF MONROE
Name: HILTON
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Apr. 28 1897
Name: HINDOO
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 199 tons
Launched: 1849, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1855, Jan. 28, Ste. Genevieve, Mo., snagged and lost.
Area: Pittsburgh-St. Louis
Owner: *1945-52, sometime between, Capt. Hugh Campbell
Captains: *1945-52, sometime between, Hugh Campbell
Comments: * From Campbell family records.
Name: HINDS
Launched: 1830s, late?
Destroyed: 1840, Friday, May 8, by tornado in Natchez
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: Source Article
Name: HIRAM POWERS
*Name: HOLSTON/KINGSTON
Launched: 1830s early.
Owners: said to have been purchased by Cherokee businessman
Joe Vann of Webber Falls on upper Ark. R. who
changed the name to KINGSTON
Comments: Said to have been used by John Ross During the
"Trail of Tears".
1. Name: HOLSTON
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 89 tons.
Launched: 1864, Kingston, Tenn. For U.S.Q.M.D.
Destroyed: 1870, Dec. 10, Luna Landing, Ark., sank in 40' of water.
Owners: 1863-66, Apr., United States Quartermaster Division
1866, Apr., purchased by John L. Doss & Co.
1870, when she sank, owned by Muscatine, Iowa interest.
1. Name: HOMER C. WRIGHT
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 86.8' X 18.5' X 3.4'.
Power: 7"- 3 1/2 ft., 1 boiler
Launched: 1920, Tuscumbia,Mo.
Destroyed, 1827, Foot of Rutger st. St. Louis, Mo., sank.
Area: Mo. R., Osage R., Mo.
Owners: Union Electric Co., St. Louis
later, New St. Louis and Calhoun Packet Company.
Comments: The Union Electric Company built Bagnal Dam on Osage R. in Mo.,
creating a power plant as well as the nearly one-hundred mile
recreational Lake of the Ozarks. This boat is said to have done
ferry service for this company. (Dave)
: Mentioned in this Article.
1. Name: HOMER SMITH/GREATER PITTSBURGH
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull ecxursion boat
Size: 235' X 40' X 5.9'
Power: compound non-condensing engines, 16's, 32's- 8ft.
Launched: 1914, Jeffersonville, Ind bu Howard Yard.
Destroyed: 1931, Apr., Pittsburgh, burned
Area: 1915 excursions on lower Ohio.
Also tried Louisville-Cincinnati trade
1916, ran a New Orleans Mardi Gras trip
Also ran an Easter cruise, Pittsburgh-New Orleans
1916 - 1928, Ohio R., Pittsburgh and/or Point Pleasant, Oh..
Later, became a regular excursion boat out of Pittsburgh.
1924, excursions out of Pittsburgh
Owners: Built for the Security Steamboat Company. Point Pleasant, W. Va.
1928, purchased by Pittsburgh Amusement Company. Renamed the GREATER PITTSBURGH
Captains: 1915, Peter Holloway. Capt. Henry Holloway was pilot until 1924 when she was sold.
1916, W.C. Lepper, Jr.
Later, Jack Smith , son of Homer Smith, was master
Comments: 1928, sold to Pittsburgh and renamed.
: 1,800 LB. roof bell came from GUIDING STAR.
: Watchmen was jailed for arson in her burning. Not proven. He was released.
Name: HOPE
Launched: 1810?
Destroyed: 1810? Broken up after legal battle.
Area: U. Hudson R.
Owner: City of Albany, N. Y.'s merchants.
*Name: HOPE
Launched: 1810s, late?
Destroyed: 1824 Bankruptcy records state the HOPE sank in the
Mississippi River near New Orleans, possibly exploded.
(Lexington, KY newspaper report)
Area: Miss. R., probably Nashville-New Orleans
Owner: Capt. Collin Bosworth. (1820 New Orleans Census)
Captains: Probably Collin Bosworth
: *Information from Ella R. Hauser, Mich..
Name: HOPE
Area: 1840s, out of Zanesville, Oh.
Captain: Reeves
Comments: built by Capt Reeves said to be the first steamboat built at
Zanesville, Oh.
: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: HOPE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 107' X 20' X 3.5'
Power: 10 1/4's-3 1/2', 1 boiler, 42" X 22'.
Launched: 1877, New Albany Ind.
Area: later, under Capts. August Wohlt and Wm. L. Heckman, Mo.R. out of
Hermann, Mo.
Owners: New Albany, purchased by Hermann Ferry and Packet Co.
Later sold to Memphis area, still there in 1892.
Name: HORICON II
Type: Sidewheeler
Size: Length: 230'; Beam:59'; Speed:21 mph.
Area: Lake George N.Y.
Owner: Delaware and Hudson Railroad through The Lake George
Steam Boat Co. Lake George Steamboat Co.
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: Was either built or purchased by the D&H Railroad, which
owned the L.G. Steamboat Co. between 1871 and 1939.
Name: HORIZON
Launched: 1850'S?
Area: Ohio R.
Captain(s) 1861, Mate was Peppers, George H.
Comments: From The Wheeling Register, Monday, March 31, 1879
Name: HORNBROOK
Type: Towboat Size:
Area: 1879: Ohio R.
Owner: Capt. E. Hornbrook
Captains: * 1882, Feb., Newt Flesher
Comments: Notes from WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER,
June 24, 1951
: Mentioned in this Document
Name: HUCK FINN
Type: Replica, Diesel Size:
Launched: Modern
Area: St. Louis
Name: HUDSON
Comments: ?1832, Made run from White River to Helena (75mi.)in 12 hrs.?
Name: HUDSON
Launched: 1846
Destroyed: 1851, off the lists.
Name: HUDSON
Launched: 1857
: 1861 went to Confederate service
Name: HUDSON
Launched: 1863
Destroyed: 1878, off the lists
Name: HUDSON
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 200' X 33.6' X 6.2'
Power: Engines, 19's- 6 ft.
Launched: 1875, Murrysville, W. Va./completed at Wheeling
Destroyed: cir. 1885, parted out to new HUDSON (below)
Area: 1875, Ohio R. Wheeling-Cincinnati
1879, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
Later, Paducah-St, Louis
Owner: When new, Parkersburg and Ohio River Transportation Company
1879 sold to Capts. J.N. Williamson and Wash Honshell and others.
Later, Capt. J. Frank Ellison
Captains: 1879, Phil Anshutz
*1885, Tom Hunter
Later J. Frank Ellison, Paducah
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: HUDSON
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 225' X 37' X 6., overall width was 43'.
Power: Engines, 20's- 6 ft., 4 boilers
Launched: 1886, Freedom Pa./Pittsburgh
Destroyed: 1904, June 25, Cincinnati, sank while laid up.
Raised and docked. 1905, Feb. 5, burned there while laid up.
Area: built for Paducah-St. Louis trade
Later went to St. Louis-Grafton, then Pittsburgh-Cincinnati trade
Owners: Built for Capt. J. Frank Ellison
1897, *Chartered to Coney Island Packet Co of Cincinnati.
Captain(s): 1889, J. Frank Ellison
early 1897, Agnew, Robert R.
: From May 29, 1897, Sweeney, John
: Some info from The Tribune Telegraph,
Associated with: 1889 or so, Pittsburgh & Cincinnati Packet Line
1. Name: HUGH MARTIN
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Launched: Kingston, Tenn., Cabin built at Jeffersonville, Ind
Destroyed: 1875, Aug. 14, Washington Landing,
boilers exploded killing Capt Fitts and 3 others
Area: designed for Kingston-London trade, Tenn. R.
Owners: built by Capt Hugh Martin
Soon purchased by Allison Bros.
Sold to Capt. Jacob Fritts and Col. R.K. Byrd
Comments: Allison Bros. managed to put her high and dry on a sandbar.
Name: HUGO
Area: Osage R., Mo.
Owners: 1870s?, possibly by Charles F. Lohman and his son Capt. Louis
Charles Lohman, of Jefferson City, Mo
: This listing from family records of Lee Lohman, GGG grandaughter
of Charles F.
Name: HUNGARIAN
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 279 Tons.
Launched: 1850, Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1859, Dismantled. Machinery went to A.O. TYLER
Area:Tramp trades, Cincinnati-St. Louis - New Orleans
Owners: Owned and operated by Capt. David Collier
Comments: Horace E. Bixby got his first pilot job on this boat.
Name: HUNTSMAN
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1860s?
Destroyed: Grounded
Area: U. Mo. R.
1. Name: HUNTSVILLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 205' X 29' X 6', 344 tons
Launched: 1845, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1854, Aug. 21, Ste. Genevieve, Mo., snagged and lost.
Area: Mo. R.
Owners: 1845, Capt. Charles W. Harrison, James Pell, L.H. Flernoy,
(all of Paduka) George P. Frazer, Jefferson County, Ky, and
George Warren, Alabama.
Captains: Charles Pell
1. Name: HUNTSVILLE No. 2
Type: Stern-wheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 261' X 40' X 9' 898 tons
Launched: 1853, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1855, Mar. 24, Hamburg, Tenn.,Tenn. R., burned with 4,000
bales cotton.
Area: Miss. R.; 1855, Tenn. R
Owners: 1845, Charles W. Harrison, Charles Pell
(both of Paduka) George P. Frazer, Jefferson County, Ky, and
George Warren, Texas and William McClure of Tuscumbia, Ala.
Captains: 1854, Feb. 18, C.W. Harrison
1855, Mar. 24, Pell
1. Name: HUNTSVILLE
Type: Stern-wheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 159' X 33' X 4.5', 358 tons
Launched: 1864, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1873, Aug. 26, Red River, broke tiller, hit bank, sank
w/180 head cattle. Some cattle lost, no people lost.
Area: New Orleans-Shreveport
Name: HUNTSVILLE
Photo donated by
Ken McCulloch
Type: Sternwheel packet
Area: Tenn. R.
Comments: Above picture is source for this listing.
Name: HURLBURT
Area: At one time Osage R., Mo.
Captains: At one time, Robert Melville Marshall
Mentioned in this Article.
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