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Starting With the Name KATE
Name: KIMBALL
Launched: 1853, Dec.
Destroyed:
Name: KINEO
Name: KING OF THE MISSISSIPPI
Comments: I have no documentation that this boat ever existed, but
this is one great wooden wooden model of a riverboat.
Name: KINGSTON, Originally the HOLSTON
Early 1830s
Name: KIT CARSON
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 165' X 28.5' X 6.3'
Power: Engines, 22's- 7ft. 3 Boilers, each 42" X 26'
Launched: 1848, Elizabethtown, Pa.
Destroyed: 1849, May 17, fire at St. Louis docks
Area: Designed for St. Louis-Glasgow Mo. R. trade
Comments: this was a very elaborate boat, fine woods elaborate embellishments
marble counter and table tops, elegant mirrors.
Had initials KC between its stacks
: See Advertisement
Name: KITTANNING
Name: KIWANIS/EVERGREEN
Type: Sternwheel steel hull ferryboat
Size: 140' X 29' X 4.9'
Power: engines, 10's- 6 ft. Two boilers
Launched: 1923, Dubuque, Iowa
Area 1923-Cairo-Bird's Point as ferry
1930, under Green Line went to Cincinnati-Huntington trade as packet
1933, went to Cincinnati-Huntington trade
Owners: When new, Cairo City Ferry Co.
1930, purchased by Greene Line Steamers
1948, June, sold to Capt. John L. Beatty, Cincinnati, Oh.
Later sold to Merchant Paving Co.
Captins: 1933, in Cincinnati-Huntington trade 1at was Arch Edgington
Last was Wilse Miller
Comments: 1936, Dravo marine ways, rebuilt and renamed EVERGREENE
: Merchant Paving Co. Converted her to a dredge boat
Name: KLONDIKE, More Info And More Info
Type: Stern-wheeler
Destroyed: 1936, in the 30 mile section of Yukon River 30 miles
downstream from Lake LeBerge, about 87 miles downstream
from Whitehorse Lost.
Area: Yukon R.
Owner: British Yukon Navigation Company
Name: KLONDIKE II
Type: Stern-wheeler
Size: Length, 64 m (210') Width, 12.5 m (419'); Molded Depth,
1.5 m (5.75'); Loaded Draught, 1 m (40 in.);Light Draught,
6 m (24 in ); Gross Tonnage, 1226.25 tonnes (362.5 t)
Registered Tonnage, 918.45 tonnes,(1020.5 t); Cargo
Capacity, 270 tonnes (approx. 300 t)
Launched: Whitehorse, May 1937
Area: Dawson City, YukonTerritory
Owner: British Yukon Navigation Co./White Pass & Yukon Route
Comments: Official No. 156744
Crew, 23 (in 1940);
Passengers, 75 (lst & 2nd class)
Engines, 2 compound jet-condenser type producing525 H.P.
Boiler, Locomotive type (fire-tube) manufactured at the
Polson Iron Works,Toronto,1901,previously used in
Steamer Yukoner & S.S. Klondike I
#1(working pressure:129.4 kilograms/sq. cm. -
184 lb /sq. in. )
Cargo (upstream), Silver-lead ore
(downstream), general cargo (fuel, food)
Travel Time (Whitehorse-Dawson), approx. 1.5 days
(Dawson-Whitehorse), approx. 4-5 days
Comments: The S.S. KLONDIKE II is now situated in Whitehorse, Yukon,
Canada and maintained by Parks Canada.
Name: KNICKERBOCKER
Launched: 1830s?
Destroyed: 1839, Snagged
Area: St. Louis to Galena
Captain and pilots: Clerk, Mud, Jim
Comments: Mentioned in this Article, which
shows her on u. Miss. R. in 1840. One refference or
the other is wrong about her demise.
Name: KNOW NOTHING
Size: Draft, Empty hull - 6", fully loaded - 2'
Launched: 1855, At Little Rock, Ark.
Area: Miss R., Ark. R.
Comments: Named for the Constitutional Union Party whose members
answered "I know nothing" when queried about their views.
Credit
1. Name: KNOXILLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 200' X 28' X 6.5', 349 tons.
Launched: 1848, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1850, departing New Orleans, boiler explosion demolished her.
Apparently rebuilt.
1855, July 3, New Orleans, Burned. 4 lives lost.
Area: Tenn. R. - New Orleans
Owners: interests in Vicksburg and New Orleans
Captains: At one time, Chapman
Last documented captain was J. G. Harris
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