RIVERBOATS
Starting With The Name
"JAMES"
RIVERBOATS
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"JAMES"
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Name: JAMES CHRISTOPHER
Destroyed: 1866, Jan. ?16?, 100 mi. above Savanna Ga. on Savanna R., burned with 222 bales of cotton aboard. Source: Above clipping 1. Name: JAMES D. PARKERType: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size:185' X 36' 5.5', 505 tons Power: Engines, 16's 5-1/2 ft., Three boilers. Machinery came from the EMMA FLOYD Launched: 1872, Cincinnati, Oh. Destroyed: 1882, Mar, 5, hit dam at head of Louisville-Portland Canal Owners: Memphis & Ohio River Packet Company Captains: 1874, Robert W. Wise 1878, Charles B. Russell Comments: Named for Capt. James D. Parker of Cincinnati 1. Name: James G. Blaine Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 162' X 34' X 5.5' Power: Engines, 18's- 5 ft., 3 boilers Launched: 1882, East Riverside/Brownsville Destroyed:1902, Brownsville, beached during a flood. Dismantled. Area: *1884, Oct., Monongahela R. Owners: Pittsburgh, Brownsville and Geneva Packet Company *1884, Oct. Capt. Michael Cox Comments: 1890, July, Morgantown, struck a rock. Sank. : 1896, Jan. wind blew her into a stump. Sank. : 1900, Feb. 12, sank. June 28, Monessen, Pa., sank. : Machinery went to COLUMBIA. : Mentioned once in this Document. Name: JAMES GUTHRIE Launched: 1850s? Area: Miss. R. Comments: 1854, Push barges 10 coal barges to N. O. : See note from site visitor, Carole Absher 1. Name: JAMES GUTHRIE (nic. the Dandy Jim) From
The James E. York Post Card Collection
From Olden Times.com
The Louisville Post, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
September 22, 1881
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 244'; X 37.5' X 5.8'
Launched: 1877, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: dismantled around 1892
Area: Louisville - Henderson
Owners: 1881, Louisville & Henderson Mail Line
Captains: 1881, David L. Penny
c. early 1880s?, Richard Ballard
Comments: Equipment went to CITY of NEW ALBANY
: See Ad
Name: JAMES H. TROVER (?Same as Trover?)
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Destroyed: 1867, Eastern Montana Terr., lost a boiler pump, was
shut down and caught immobile against a bank. The
stream abruptly altered its course and left her high
1. Name: JAMES HOWARD
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 320' X 53' X 10.' Carried 3,200 tons.
Power: Engines, 34-5/8- 10ft. Six 4 flue boilers, each 46" X 30'
Wheels: 39' dia. with 16' buckets.
Launched: 1870, at Howard Yard. Cost, $180,000.
Destroyed: 1881, Dec., St. Louis, burned at dock with large cargo of sugar from New Orleans aboard
Owner: Built for Capt B. Rush Pegram and others
1878, sold to Anchor Line
Captains over her life: Capts. B. Rush Pegram, James O'Neal, James H. Pepper, Joseph W. Bryant
Comments: 1871, Jan. 21, Cincinnati, her public inspection drew some 40,000 visitors
up one gangplank and ashore on a second.
: 1873, Sept 9, Commerce, Mo., fire discovered in hold.
Was purposely scuttled to save her.
: Biggest cargo, 1875, 7,701 bales of cotton, a record for all boats at the time.
: Nicnamed "Oil Cake Jim"
Name: Jas. H. Lucas
Captains: Capt. Andy Wineland, Master
Comments: Made run St. Louis - St Joseph 1856, July 0/60/57
Name: JAMES KENT
Launched: 1820s?
Area: Eastern boat
Name: JAMES L. DYKES
Photo donated by
Ken McCulloch
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Area: Tenn. R.
Name: JAMES L. GRAHAM
Type: Probably a sternwheeler. A wooden hull packet.
Area: Sometime between 1866 and 73, Neches R., Tex.
Owners: Between 1866 and 73, Captains William and Napoleon Wiess
Captains: Napoleon Wiess
Comments: See source Article
1. Name: JAMES LAUGHLIN
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 188 tons
Area: Memphis-Napoleon, White R.
Launched: 1853
Destroyed: 1856, Sept. 13, Memphis, Tenn. Sank. Lost 6 liives.
Captains: J.T. Shirley
Name: JAMES LAUGHLIN
Captains: 1913, Brinkley Source
Name: JAMES LEE
1879-94
1. Name: JAMES LEE/DESOTO
From
The James E. York Post Card Collection
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 230' X 43' X 7.'
Power: Engines, 24's- 8 ft. five boilers each 44" X 30'
Launched: 1898, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1918, Jan., Memphis, lost in ice
Area: Memphis-Friar's Point
1914or 17 on excursion boat DESOTO out of Memphis
Owners: Built for the Lee Line
Captains: Memphis-Friar's Point, John J. Darragh
Comments: 1914 or 17, Memphis, converted to excursion boat DESOTO
: Roof bell went to Thompson Bros. Plantation in Arkansas
Name: JAMES M. DONAHUE
Type: Sidewheel, wood hull
Size: 208'X 37.4'X 9.6', 730 tons
Power: Vertical beam engine 48"X 132", 950 hp
Launched: 1875, San Francisco, william E. Collyer
Destroyed: 1924, dismantled
Area: California Delta
Owner: San Francisco & Northern Pacific, California Northwestern,
Northwestern Pacific R.R.s
1. Name: JAMES N. TRIGG
Photo donated by
Ken McCulloch
Type: Sternwheel, woodenhull packet.
Size: 158.2' X 28.2' X 4.1'
Power: Engines, 14's-5ft. 2 boilers/
Launched: 1910, Decatur, Ala.
Destroyed: 1921, Guntersville, Ala., Caught in storm. Wrecked.
Area: Tenn. R., Chattanooga-Kingston trade.
Owners: Tennesse River Navigation Company.
Captains: 1921, Paul Underwood
Comments: See for photo and more
Name: JAMES M. WHANN
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING INTELLIGENCER, June 24, 1951
Name: JAMES MONROE See
Name: JAMES O'HARA
Size: 200 Tons
Area: Miss. R., Ark. R.
Comments: 1829 Took recruits and 100 Cherokee emigrants to Fort Gibson.
: Was the biggest recorded steamboat to have plied the
Arkansas R.. Credit
Name: JAMES RAYMOND
1. Name: JAMES REES
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 302 tons.
Launched: 1862, Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1876, dismantled
Areas: when built, Pittsburgh-Elizabeth
1866 on, Wheeling-Clarington
Owners: built for the Pittsburgh & Elizabeth Packet Company
1866, sold to Wheeling & Sun Fish Packet Company
Comments: equipment went to the TELEGRAM
Name: JAS. T. STAPLES
From
The James E. York Post Card Collection
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Comments: Above picture is sourse for this listing
Name: JAMES W. GOFF
Launched: 1880s?
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: Collided with MOUNTAIN GIRL.
Name: JAMES WATSON
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 200 tons
Launched: 1863, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1865, Mar. 2, sank near island # 76, near Caulk Neck Cut Off,
now in Lake Whittington, east of Mississippi R..
20 soldiers and 3 ladies, 2 children, 5 civilian men and
5 deck hands lost.
Area: 1864, Vicksburg-Memphis in U. S. Troop and supply service
Owner: Capt. James Watson
Captain: James Watson
Comments: The ISABELLA and WILLIAM BUTLER were on hand to take survivors.
Name: JAMES WATSON
Area: 1870s, Osage R. in Mo.
Name: JAMES WOOD
Launched: 1856, California Pa.
1. Name: JAMES WOOD
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hullo packet
Size: 257' X 37' X 7.', 585 tons
Launched: 1860, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1862, Feb. 23, intentionally burned to avoid falling into Union hands
Area: Nashville-New Orleans with JAMES JOHNSON and RED ROVER
Captains: 1860, W. Boyd
Comments: Fire was set by Charles Gallagher, father of Capt. T.M. Gallagher
Name: JAMES Y. LOCKWOOD/SARI
Type: Showboat
Area: Miss. R./ Chicago
Comments: 1961, became Showboat SARI
1. Way's Packet Directory, 1848 - 1994
3. Steamboats in the Valley
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