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Starting With the Name KATE
1. Name: KABEKONA
Launched: 1907, Stillwater, Minn. by Marine Engine Works (Swain owned) for Archibald Guthrie
Size: 112.6' X 22.5' X 4.'
Power: Swain ocillating engines, 8", 16" - 4ft. stroke. One boiler, 40" X 14'
Area: 1915, St. Louis running private parties for 2 1/2 yrs.
1917, Out of Dubuque, towed new sub chasers to New Orleans.
Owners: 1907-15, Archibald Guthrie
1915, purchased by Edwin C. Koenig & Andrew J. Franz, St. Louis.
1917, New Orleans, sold to others.
1919 Sold to Miller & Butterworth, Sand & gravel operators, Little Rock, Ark. who rebuilt into towboat BONNER
Comments: Archibald Guthrie was a wealthy lumberman of Minneapolis, Minn.
This was his private pleasure luxury boat. No expense was spared in building it.
Had 6 staterooms each with a private bath, leaded fleur-de-lis in each skylight.
3. Name: KANAI
Launched: 1840's mid?
Area: Sacramento R. Calf.
Comments: 1849, Aug. 31, Listed in the Alta Californian as plying trade
on the waters of the Sacramento R.
Name: KANAWHA Source
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 180.6' X 35.2' X 5.2'
Power: Engines, when new, high pressure 15's- 6 ft.
1909, replaced with non-condensing Marietta engines
10's- 17-1/2's -6 ft., 3 boilers.
Launched: 1896, Ironton, Oh.
Destroyed: 1916, Jan. 5, Little Hocking, Oh., hit steel pier at Dam 19
Overturned. 10 lives lost.
Area: Ohio R., Pittsburgh to Charleston
Captains: 1896, Ira B. Huntington
Pilot(s): 1896, James Rawley, Jr.
Name: KANSAS
Captains: 1838, Capt. Joseph La Barge.
Name: KANSAS MILLER
Launched: 1880s?
Area: Ark. R.
Comments: * 1885, July, "The bottom too near the top." So said an owner of the
KANSAS MILLER, when 2000 pounds of flour from Arkansas City, Kansas
consigned to the Kaw Agency, had to be unloaded and hauled overland
the last few miles because the river was too low.
To Riverboats Starting With The Name KATE
1. Name: KATIE
Type: Sternwheel wooden packet Size: 180 tons
Launched: 1864, Elizabeth Pa.
Destroyed: 1864, Nov. 22, Diamond Island, struck and sunk by DES MOINES
Area: Ohio R.
Owner: Built for Capt. William J Kountz
Comments: After collsion, DES MOINES took survivors aboard.
1. Name: KATIE
Launched: 1871
Destroyed: 1879 or so, Jeffersonville, Ind, dismantled
Area: Miss. R.
Captain and pilots: Capt. White, J. M.
1. Name: KATIE
1895-1903, sometime after
Name: KATIE P. KOUNTZ
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet.
Power: 10's- 23's- 4 1/2 ft., 4 boilers
Launched: 1871, Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1883, David Landing on Miss. R., burned with large cargo of cotton.
Area: 3 trips to Fort Benton, too big and slow for more.
1876, fall, loaded at Pittsburgh for St. Louis
Owners: Built for Capt. William J. Kountz
Comments: 1879, Oct. 15, Miss. R., Randolph Point-Island 40, sank and was raised.
: 1880, Mo. R. Snagged
Name: KATIE STOCKDALE
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet:. Size: 228' X 34.5' X 5.'
Power: Engines, 16's- 7 ft., 4 boilers.
Launched: 1877, California, Pa./Pittsburgh
Destroyed: 1890, Harmar, dismantled
Area: when new, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati trade, Saturday boat out of Pittsburgh.
Owners: When new, Capt. J.T. Stockdale, 1/4; Willis Stockdale, 1/2: Thomas S. Calhoon, 1/4.
Captains: 1877, T.S Calhoon, original pilots, James Rowley and George Hughes
*1884, (Commadore ?) Will Kraft went out as clerk
Comments: Named for the younger daughter of Capt. J.T. Stockdale
: Came out with an iron paddlewheel. Did not work. Switched to regular one.
: 1882, Feb. 3, collided with towboat B.D. Wood, sank. Raised.
: Equipment went to the new KEYSTONE STATE, Hull and cabin became excursion barge
and renamed CITY OF PITTSBURGH and later IDLEWILD, nether nam approved by U.S. Customs.
Again became KATIE STOCKDALE which sprung a leak and sank, Pittsburgh, Aug. 2, 1895.
: Several mentions in these Documents
Name: KAWIGAMOG Source
Type: Sternwheeler? Size:
Launched: Datew unknown. Built by Walton Bros., William and Edward
Area: Magnetawan R./Port Loring, Ontario Canada
Owner: Walton Bros.
*Name: KEITHSBURH
Oscar M. Ruby was once pilot on this boat.
Name: KELLEY
Type: Towboat Size:
Launched: 1879: working out of Wheeling, W. Va..
Area: Ohio R.
Owner: Capt. E. Hormbrook
Comments: Notes from WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER,
June 24, 1951
Name: *KENNA
Type: sternwheel towboat
Launched: ?St. Louis.?
Destroyed: Torn down in the '50's and the hull made into a shop platform
in Huntington.
Area: 1940s-50's Ohio R., from the mines in West Virginia up river to Pittsburgh
and down river to Cairo, IL. Barges were loaded at Huntington, WV.
Owner: The Ohio River Company
Comments: * This information from site visitor David Rayburn
Name: KENNEBEC
Type: Sidewheeler
Launched: 1821 or 2
Area: Cosco Bay (Portland) Maine
Comments: Lasted 2 seasons
3. Name: KENNEBEC
Launched: 1840's late? Size: 44 tons.
Area: 1853, Sacramento R. Calif.
1. Name: KENNEDY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet.
Size: 121.5' X 24.4' X 3.9'.
Power: Engines, 10s- 6', 2 boilers, each 36" X 18'.
Launched: 1901, Lyons, Ark.
Destroyed: 1914, Feb. 24, St. Johns R., Florida.
Areas: 1901- White R. out of Batesville
Later, Mo. R., St. Louis during 1904 World's Fair
1906 or so, went to Florida Keys for East Coast Railroad
Owners: 1901-06, the Heckmanns of Herman, Mo.
1906-14, East Coast Railroad
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: KENO Reference
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Area: Yukon R.
Owner: Present, Parks Canada
Comments: 1960: last trip on Yukon R. by a steamboat
: The S.S. Keno is now in Dawson, Yukon and maintained by
Parks Canada.
1. Name: KENTON
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 215 tons
Launched: 1860, Shousetown, Pa.(hull) Completed at Pittsburgh
Destroyed: 1870, May 5, Helena, Ark. snagged and lost
Area: 1861, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
1863-through war was in U.S. service.
After war ran Pittsbutgh-Cincinnati and New Orleans.
1868 went to Pittsburgh-Portsmouth trade
1869, went to Cincinnati-New Orleans trade
Owners: Built for Capt. Horatio Nelson Crooks and others.
1861, sold to Capt. G.W. Ebert and Standish Pepperd
1863, Oct. sold to Capt. J.H. Dunlap of Bridgewater, Pa.
1868, sold to Capt. Wash Kerr
1869, sold to Capt Henry V. Hart, Cincinnati
Comments: Mentioned in this Document
Name: KENTUCKY
Comments: See this 704 page PDF file. Warning: it takes forever to download.
*Name: KENTUCK'
Area: probably Lower Miss. R.
Owner: Benajah Bosworth of Lexington, Ky.
: * information from Ella R. Hauser, Mich..
Name: KEOKUK
1855-58
1. Name: KEOKUK
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 177' X 27.5' X 5.', 220tons.
Power: 20's-5 ft., 3 boilers each 40" X 26'
Launched: 1858, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1866, sank and was dismantled.
Area: Under G.D.D.M.P.C., LaCross-St. Paul trade
Under Davidson Line, Same trade
Owners: Built for Rapids Packet Company, Ebenezer Cook, president.
Then Galena, Dubuque, Dunleith and Minnesota Packet Company
Then Davidson Line
After C. War, ran in south.
Captains: Under R.P.C., Silas Height
Comments: *Was fast but lost speed test to KEY CITY.
*Jones Worden's Steamboats and Steamboating Career by Frederick J. Worden
Name: KEOKUK
Launched: 1860'S? Early?
Area: U. Miss. R.
Owner: Davidson, Commodore W. F.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: KEOKUK - Originally the C.K. PECK
1876-
Name: KEOKUK
1907-22
1. Name: KEY CITY
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size:230' X 35' X 5.6', 359 tons
Power: 20's- t ft., 4 boilers, ea. 42" X 16'
Wheels, 26' dia., with 12' buckets
Launched: 1857, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1870, Madison, Ind, dismantled.
Area: 1857, Galena, Dunleith, St. Paul
Owner: 1857-62 or 4, Galena, Dubuque, Dunleith and Minnesota Packet Company
1864, Northwestern Union Packet Company
Captains: 1857-62, Master, Jones Worden; pilot, Ned West
1857, Aug. 24, pilot when collided with BEN COURSIN, John P. Arnold
At one time, William R. Tibbal
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Mentioned again here, in same article.
: 1857, La Cross, Collision with BEN COURSIN, which sank.
: *Raced NORTHERN BELLE, won. Raced TISHOMINGO, won. Raced
WHITE CLOUD, won. Raced RESOLUTE, won. Raced KEOKUK, won.
: *St. Croix R., raced NORTHERNER, won.
: *Lake Pepin, Miss. R., set barge adrift to race MESSEMNGER, won.
: *MOSES McLELLAN declined a race offer.
: Raced TIGRESS, won.
*Jones Worden's Steamboats and Steamboating Career by Frederick J. Worden
1. Name: KEY CITY
Type: Ferry Size: 100' X 25' X 4.4'
Area: 1876, Dubuque, Iowa. Still there in 1886
1. Name: KEY CITY/NELLIE
Type: sternwheel wooden hull towboat
Area: 1891, Kingston Tenn.
Comments, renamed around 1910.
Name: KEYSTONE STATE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 234' X 26' X 5.7', 337 tons.
Launched: 1850, Freedom Pa.
Destroyed: 1855, May 13, Florence, Ill., burned.
Area: 1850 built for and ran Pittsburgh-Cincinnati trade.
1853 went to St. Louis-New Orleans trade
Owners: 1850: Stephen Stone, D.H. Stone, William C. Gray, Haus & Black
and William Thaw.
1853: Capt. William J, Kountz took stock in her.
Companies Associated With; 1852, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet Line
Captains: 1850, Charles Stone
*1854: (T?.)I. Haslep
Comments: Mentioned in this 1854 Journal
Name: KEYSTONE STATE/MAJESTIC
1890 - 1914
Area: 1890 - 1914: Ohio R. R.
Comments: 1913: Converted into excursion boat and renamed MAJESTIC.
: Photo and brief info.
Name: KEY WEST See CITY OF KEY WEST
Name: KEY WEST
Type: Stern-wheel, wooden hull packet. Size:169 tons
Launched: 1857, Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1862, Van Buren, Ark., burned
Area: summer season, U. Mo. R.; winter season, Ark. R. from New Orleans.
Owner: American Fur Co.: (?Colson Packet Line.?)
Captain(s): 1862, Joseph Brannon
Comments: 1860, July 2, One of the first two boats ever to make it all the way up to
Ft. Benton, Mont. The other boat was the CHIPPEWA.
Comments: from Boone's Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: KEY WEST/NEW IBERIA
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 200' X 33' X 5.4'
Area: U. Mo. R., Yellowstone R.
Owners: 1871, John Todd and Nicholas Bruson of Columbia County, Oh.;
Sanford S. Coulson, William S. Evans and David S.H. Gilmore of
Pittsburgh;
Companies associated with: American Fur Comapny and Coulson Line
Captains: 1873, Grant Marsh, pilot Nick Buison, who had the first 1st class licence
issued to navigate Yellowstone R.
: At one time, probably during Indian Wars, Josephus Todd I
Comments: 1873, U.S. Army conducted an exploritory Yellowstone. Went 460 mi. to
mouth of Powder R..
1873, May 6, Capt. Marsh took her into mouth of Yellowstone
R., up to the mouth of the Powder R. and back to
the Mo. R in just 9 days. This was an exploratory
trip in preparation for Custards stand. Yellowstone
Kelly was aboard as guide.
: In all, boat made 23 trips to Montana points, most to Ft. Benton.
: Owner John Todd was father of Josephus Todd, I, above.
Name: KEY WEST No. 2
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 206 tons
Launched: 1860, California, Pa., hull completed at Pittsburgh.
Destroyed: 1863, Oct 26, Chester, Ill, snagged and lost.
Area: Pittsburgh-Cincinnati, then Mo. R., Yellowstone R.
Owners: 1862, Apr., sold to American Fur Company for trip to Yellowstone R.
Captains: 1860-62, William S. Evans
Name: KEY WEST No. 3
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 207 tons
Launched: 1862, California, Pa.
Destroyed: 1864, Nov. 4, Johnsonville, tenn., burned to avoid capture
Owners: Capt. William S. Evans, Henry W. Oliver, Jr., Erastus St. John and
William Coulson, all of Allegheny County, Pa.; William F. McKey
of Birmingham, Pa. and Martin (Mart) Coulson of Westmoreland County, Pa.
i.e., The Coulson Line
1863, Mar. 16, sold to U.S. Navy to become TINCLAD #32
See Raising the Gunboats: for ongoing raising efforts.
Captains: 1862-63, Mar. 16, William S. Evans
Name: KEY WEST No. 4
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 91 tons
Launched: 1863, Manchester, Pa.
Destroyed: 1864, Apr. 1, Stove on a snag, lost.
Area: Ark R.
Owners: Sold to U.S. and taken to Little Rock
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