RIVERBOATS
Starting With The Name
JOHN
New Information Added
12/31/2005
RIVERBOATS
Starting With The Name
JOHN
New Information Added
12/31/2005
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1. Name: JOHN A. SCUDDER
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 302' X 50.5' X 8', 48' floor.
Launched: 1873, Cincinnati, Oh. at Mack Yard. Completed in St. Louis.
Destroyed: 1885, dismantled. Hull became wharfboat at Vicksburg.
Power: 28's-8 ft., 6 boilers, each 38" X 26'. 6 flues. Boilers said
to have come from U.S. Gunboats SANDUSKY and MARIETTA.
Wheels: 32' dia. with 14 buckets.
Area: 1873, Designed to be a cotton carrier, Memphis-New Orleans trade.
1884, went to St. Louis-New Orleans trade for Anchor Line
Owners: 1873, in part, Capt. A.J. Carter
Captains: 1873, A.J. Carter
1884, W.W. Baker
Companies associated with: 1884-85, Anchor Line
Comments: 1878, Nov. 28, arrived, New Orleans with 4,484 bales cotton,
10,055 sacks cotton seed, 1,069 barrels cotton seed oil,
3,059 sacks oilcake and hulls. Her largest freight trip.
: Much of cabin material came from MARBLE CITY.
: Upon retirement from Anchor Line, John A. Scudder received
a pair of binoculars.
: had a fandy five tone whistle.
Name: JOHN A. SUTTER
Launched: Late 1840s
Destroyed: 1850, June, Exploded on a run to Maryville, Calf..
Area: 1849, LATE, California Delta
Owner:
Captains: 1849, Warren
Comments: 3. Named in honor of military General John A. Sutter
Name: JOHN ADAMS
Destroyed: 1851, Snagged and sank
Area: Miss. R.
Name: JOHN ADAMS FLOATING THEATER
Name: JOHN ATKINSON
Name: JOHN AULL
Launched: 1840's?
Destroyed: 1845, Sank Near Arrow Rock, Mo. on Mo. R.
Area: Mo. R.
Owners: 1. Built by Capt. George B. Cable
Comments: This listing prompted by this article, Boone’s Lick Heritage
1. Name: JOHN BELL
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 209 tons
Launched: 1855, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1863, Sept. 24, St. Charles Mo.
Comments:
3. Name: JOHN BRAGDON
Size: 273 Tons.
Area: 1853, California Delta
Captains: 1850s, early, Lysle
Owner(s): 1855, California Steam Navigation Company
Comments: 1853, Ran down and sank the COMANCHE In Suisun Bay, Calf.
Name: JOHN BULL
Type: Sternwheeler Size:
Comments: Sorce
Name: JOHN C FISHER
Launched: 1890's?
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Apr. 28 1897
Name: JOHN C FREEMONT/HORIZON
Type: Sternwheel woodenhull packet
Size: 150' X 39.5' X 6., 315 tons
Launched: 1854, California. PA.
Area: Ohio R.
Owners: as FREEMONT, Capt. Jackman T. Stockdale
Captain(s): 1855 or so, Mate was George H. Peppers
Comments: The Wheeling Register
: 1855, Jan. near Vevay, Ind., collided with SWITZERLAND
1. Name: JOHN D. GRACE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 166.4' X 33' X 5.6'
Power: 14's-6 ft., 2 boilers each 44" X 22'
Launched: 1917, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1930, Dismantled
Area: 1917, New Orleans-New Iberia
Owners: 1917, Bradford Transportation Company
Later, Sherburne Transportation Company
1830, early spring, Purchased by Capt. W.A. Bisso of Bisso Towboat Co.
Pilots: 1921, June, Hymel and Pintado, partner pilots for 25 years.
Comments: Was immortalized by Roark Bradford in a series of magazine,
roustabout stories.
: Engines went to towboat TYLER.
Name: JOHN D. LEWIS
Type: Towboat Size:
Launched: 1890's?
Destroyed: 1897, Feb. 17, Burned
Area: Ohio R.
Owner: 1897, Feb., Capt. J. F. Beatty
Captain(s): 1897, Feb., Beatty, J. F.
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Feb. 24 1897
Name: JOHN D. PERRY
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 220' X 33' X 6.'.
Launched: 1858, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1869, Apr. 6, White R., Devalls Bluff, Ark., Caught fire and burned.
Power: 20's-7 ft., 4 boilers, each 38" X 26'.
Area: 1858, St. Louis-Mo. R.
1860, New Orleans to Red R. to Alexandria, La.
1868, White R., running excursions.
Owners: Nanson, Joseph S.
1869, Capt. Pat H. Wheat of Devalls Bluf, Ark.
Captains: 1858-60, Nanson, Joseph S.
1860, William Kimbal
*1863-65, Jones Worden, during Civil War service.
1865 or so, Alex Zeigler
Companies Associated With: St. Louis and Memphis Packet Company
*1863-67 or so, Memphis Packet Company
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
: This was a Union boat during the war. Conflicting or inaccurate
information places her in either the Memphis Packet Company
*Jones Worden's Steamboats and Steamboating Career by Frederick J. Worden
1. Name: JOHN D. SCULLY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 215' X 34.6' X 4.5'.
Power: 15's-4 1/2 ft., 3 boilers, each 38" X 26'.
Launched: 1878, Rees Yard, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1895, Aug. 20, Carrollton, La., burned.
Area: Under Capt. Kountz, miss. R.
Under Capt. Scoval, Red R. and New Orleand-Bayou Teche
Owners: Built fopr Capt. William J. Kountz
Later purchased by Capt. W.T. Scovell, New Orleans.
Captains: 1895, M.W. Wood
Comments: was primarilly a freight boat.
1894, received new hull at New Orleans.
Name: JOHN F. ALLEN
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 130.9' X 37.6' X 4.5'.
Launched: 1884, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1896, Oct. Yazoo R. near L'Argent, Miss.
Areas: 1884,
Owners: when built, Yazoo & Tallahatchie Packet Co. (Capt. Woodburry)
1886, May, sold to Captain Pugh, of Yazoo City, Mississippi.
Captains: 1884, Charles B. Woodburry
Companies Associated With: *Yazoo & Tallahatchie Packet Co.
1. Name: JOHN F. TOLLE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 237' X 51'
Power: Compound Hartupee engines, 15's-33's-6 ft., 3 boilers.
Launched: 1871, Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1877, Nov. 10, grand Gulf, Miss., burned with 23.000 bushels of wheat on board.
Area: Miss. R., St. Louis-New Orleans.
Owner: Capt William J. Kountz
Captains: D.M. Brady
Comments: primarily a freightn boat. Single stack was near stern.
: Once Collided with wreck of BILL HENDERSON
Name: JOHN DRENNAN
Launched: 1850, after
Captain: 1850s, Malin, John W.
Comments: See
Name: JOHN FITCH
Launched: 1886
Area: Delaware R.
Owner: Fitch, John
Captain and pilots: Capt. Fitch John
Comments: Used a mechanical oar system.
Name: JOHN FOWLER
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 147.5' X 28.5' X 3.5'.
Launched: 1886, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard.
Destroyed: 1892, still listed
Area: Cumberland R., Nashville-Burnside trade
Owners: When new, Alex Kendall and Arch P. Green
Captains: included W.A. Crawford and A.T. Armstrong
Name: JOHN GILBERT
Launched: 1880s?
Area: Tenn. R.; Miss. R.
Name: JOHN GOLONG
Launched: 1850s?
Destroyed: 1862?, near the mouth of the Lamine R. in Slaughterhouse
Bend, just upriver form Boonville, Mo, on the Mo. R..
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Name: JOHN H. DOUGLAS
Launched: 1870s?
Area: Miss. R.
1. Name: JOHN H. HANNA
Type:Sternwheeler, wooden hull, packet
Size: 181.2' X 38' X 6.5'
Launched: 1876, Madison, Ind.
Destroyed: ?1888, Dec. 24, Plaquemine, La., burned, lost 22 lives?
Area: 1876, N.O.-Ouachita R.
Captains: 1877, Blanks, J.W.
1885, Blanks, F.A.
Name: JOHN J. ROE
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Destroyed: Sank in Madrid Bend
Comments: A very slow boat.
1862 Supported Ulysses S. Grant's forces at battle of
Shiloh on the Tenn. R.. Grant Marsh was her mate.
Boat yook 600 wonded soldiers back down river.
Clemens, Samuel was a cub pilot under Marsh, Grant
on this boat.
Name: JOHN J. ROWE, tow-boat (?Same as JOHN J. ROE?)
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Comments: Seen towing 18 coal barges on Ohio R. in a fairly
modern photograph.
Name: JOHN J. SEAY
Picture donated by Ken McCulloch
Area: Coosa R., Alabama and Georgia
Comments: from Articles on the Coosa River.
Name: JOHN K. SPEED
Launched: 1880's?
Area: Ohio R.?
Captain(s): Mid 1890's, Leonard, Jack
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. May. 12 1897
Name: JOHN KYLE
Launched: 1860s? EARLY
Area: 1864, U. Miss. R.
Owner: 1864, Northwestern Union Packet Company
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: JOHN L FERGUSON
Photo submitted by site contributor
Wayne Johnson,
who would like more info on this boat.
Name: JOHN M. CHAMBERS
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 174' X 32' X 4.7'
Launched: 1875, Mound City, Ill. for Capt. Joseph LaBarge and others.
Destroyed: 1884, July, snagged, burned and lost
Area: 1875, St. Louis - Missouri R. trade. Made at least one trip to
Ft. Benton.
1878, New Orleans - Bayou Teche trade
Owner: 1875: Capt. Joseph LaBarge and others.
1878, Capt. Lloyd T. Belt
Captains: 1875-78, Capt. Joseph La Barge
1880, T.R. Muggah
Comments: Took on passsengers from the sinking circus boat
DAMSEL on Onawa Bend on Mo. R.
Name: JOHN PORTER
Type: Towboat, Presumably a sternwheeler
Area: 1878, Miss. and Ohio Rs.
Owner: 1878, Cumberland Tow Boat Company
Captain: 1878, S.J. Bickerstaff
Comments: This information is from a site visitor: Darl Stephenson
" . . was involved in the great 1878 Yellow Fever scare up and down Miss.
and Ohio. Reportedly brought Yellow Fever to the city of
Gallipolis in SE Ohio. My research has shown that the whole thing
was probably bogus. Lots of people died of something, but probably
was not Yellow Fever."
"She was valued at $40,000 and "was one of the finest on the river."
Her rocker shaft, which she broke at Gallipolis, is on display in
the city park there along with the names of the "victims."
Sources of this info are Hardesty's History of Gallia County, 1882
and the Cincinnati Commercial for July through Oct. 1878."
1. Name: JOHN QUILL
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 168' X 35' X 4.9'
Launched: 1907, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1928, Feb., towed from Mobil to Twelve Mile Island on what was
termed her last trip.
Area: Mobile, Tombigbee and Alabama Rs.
Owners: built for Capt. John Quill and Moore, Mobile, Ala.
Comments: 1916, June 12, Warrior R., hit rock and sank in 15' of water.
Name: JOHN R. HUGO
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull towboat/packet.
Size: originally 100' long. Later enlarged, 127' X 27' X 3.'
Power: 12's-3 1/2ft., 1 boiler.
Launched: 1879, Evansville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1900, May 22, Florence, Neb., burned.
Area: 1879-1889, Ohio R.
1889 or so went to Osage R., Mo.
Owners: 1889-1900, Osage and Missouri River Packet Company
Captains: while in OMRPC, Robert M. Marshal and Henry Castrop
1900, William L. Thompson
Comments: Using steering oars, Capt. Thompson and Hal Thompson floated burned
out hull to Osage City, Neb. where machinery was placed on new boat,
OSAGE.
: Mentioned in this Article.
1. Name: JOHN R. WELLS
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull towboat/packet. Size: 110.6' X 20' X 4.'
Power: 10's- 4ft. 1 boiler.
Launched: 1897, Tuscunbia, Mo. for Anchor Milling Co.
Destroyed: 1920, Jan. 30, Pelican Bend near St. Charles, Mo., sank
Area: Osage and Mo. Rs. Lynn Creek, Mo to St. Louis
Owners: 1897-1909, Osage and Missouri Packet Company
1920, Jan. 30, when sank, Stanton and Jones
Captain: 1897-1909, John W. Adcock, first master and pilot until sold.
At one time, Capt. P.F. Hauenstein.
Comments: Mentioned in this Document
Name: JOHN RAINE
Launched: 1850s?
Area: Ohio R. and Miss. R. and Mo. R.
Name: JOHN RANDOLPH
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Comments: Collided with BRILLIANCE. BRILLIANCE sank.
1. Name: JOHN S. BRANSFORD
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 150' X 30' X 4'
Launched: 1872, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yards.
Area: 1875, in Louisville, Evansville & Henderson trade.
1880, running Ohio and Upper Cumberland Rs.
1885 Was at Memphis as part of Capt. Milt Harry's
White River fleet.
Owners: 1875- ? Louisville, Evansville & Henderson Mail Line.
1878 went to The Peoples Line.
1878, June, Alex Kendall of Nashville purchased
at U.S. Marshals sale.
Captains: 1875, Frank O. Smith
Comments: Named after a Col. in the Civil War.
1878, Oct. Sank on log at Puppy Creek Bar. Raised.
1880, Aug. sank on snag on Wabash R. Raised.
1. Name: JOHN S. HALL
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 137' X 35', 110 tons
Launched: 1864, Brownsville, Pa.
Area: 1864, advertised first trip leaving mid-Sept., from Pittsburgh
to St. Louis and St. Paul
1864, winter, in U.S. service, principally on Cumberland R.
Captain: 1864, John Woodburn
1. Name: JOHN S. HOPKINS
Type: Sternwheel wooden hulled packet. 200' X 35.3' X 6'
Power: 16's- 7', 3 boilers, each 44" X 20'
Launched: 1880 (hull), Sewickley, Pa., Completed at Pittsburgh
Destroyed: 1917, Jan., Green River, burned while laid up.
Area: Mowt of her years, Evansville-Paducah
Owners: At first, Evansville, Paducah and Cairo Mail Line
Captains: at first, Joe and Dick Fowler
H.C. Gilbert, of Evansville was master for many years
: 1912, J.B. Thomas of Evansville
Comments: 1882, damaged by fire, rebuilt.
: 1912, Capt. Thomas converted her to excursion boat.
1. Name: JOHN SHALLCROSS
Type: Sidewheel, woodenhull ferry. Size: 273 tons.
Launched: 1863, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1877, Dismantled
Area: 1863-65, Louisville-Jeffersonville on regular schedual
Comments: 1865, Jan. from 1. Way's
". . . was carried down on the falls and lodged in the
Indiana Chute. The many passengers aboard were skiffed
safely ashore safely enough. A rising river floated her,
and she drifted through the chute and was captured below
safe and sound. She ran there until dismantled in 1877."
Also See NEW SHALLCROSS and The Captains Shallcross
1. Name: JOHN T. MOORE/ENDEAVOR
Type: Sternwheel, iron hull packet. Later converted to sidewheeler
Size: As JOHN T. MOORE, 176.6' X 42' X 7.1'
As ENDEAVOR, 234.8' X 41.8' X 7.1'
Launched: 1871, Cincinnati, Oh. Hull said to cost $30,000. Entire boat $80,000
Area: Built for New Orleans-Red R. trade
*1875, went to Tenn. R. trade
Owners: Built for Capt W.T. Boardman, New Orleans
Later ran in Carter Line
1873, Sept., was in hands of U.S. Marshal at New Orleans
Comments: somewhere between 1886 and 92 was lenghtened and became the sidewheeler ENDEAVOR
: 1896, New Orleans, still documented
1. Name: JOHN W. HUBBARD, originally the J.H. MENGE
Launched: 1910, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
1. Name: JOHN WARNER
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 220' X 35' X 6.', 391 tons
Power: 24 1/2's-7 ft., 3 boilers each 38" X 28'
Launched: 1856, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1864, May 5, Red River, Dunns Bayou, *shelled by Rebels. Sunk.
Area: Mo. R., Red R.
1857, June 4, The Diary of E.F. Beadle has arriving at Omaha, Neb.
Captains: ?Capt. Warner?
Comments: *She was in U.S. service, downbound from Alexandria, La. with a
load of confiscated cotton and under escort by the SIGNAL and the
COVINGTON. The COVINGTON was burned and the SIGNAL was abandoned
to the Rebels. See this account
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