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L. A. SHOTWELL - LEXINGTON No. 2
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Name: L. A. SHOTWELL
Comments: Beat ECLIPSE'S 4 day, 9 hr., 31 min record for run
up-river between N.O. and Louisville by 12 min.
1. Name: L.P. EWALD/SAM P. JONES
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 149' X 30' X 4'.
Launched: 1881, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1888, Jeffersonville, Ind., dismantled.
Area: 1881, Cumberland r., Nashville-Burnside
1883, Oct, local tradc out of Wheeling, W. Va.
1887, July, Evansville-Cairo trade, Diamond Island Chute, snagged
and sunk in 8'of water.
Owners: Capt. Tom G. Ryman and W.B. Bowman, Nashville, Tenn.
Captains: 1881-83, A.T. Armstrong
1887, July, when snagged pilot on watch, James Collins
1887, Fall, Mason City, W. Va. Iowa, took on load of salt for
Ohio River Salt Co.
Comments: c. 1886, renamed SAM P. JONES
: Machinery went to I.T. RHEA
*Name: L.R.K.
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull ferryboat, Combustion engine powered
Launched: At or just after the advent of combustion powered boats.
Owner: Henry Jasper King
Comments:
*From King Family records
Name: L.T. ARMSTRONG
Type: Sternwheel,wooden hull packet. Size: 154' X 29' X 4.3'.
Launched: 1888, Jeffersonville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1891, Oct. 28, House Bluff, Alabama R., burned.
Area: 1888-90, Nashville-Burnside
Owners: 1888-90, Major L.T. Armstrong and Capt. Thomas (Tim) H. Armstrong
1890-91, Capt. Thomas G. Ryman, Mobile
Name: LA BELLE
Launched: 1860s?
Destroyed: 1875, Fire at Vicksburg dock
Area: Miss. R.
Captain and pilots: Capt. Leathers, Tom
Name: LA GRANGE
Launched: 1828: in Wheeling, W. Va..
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
1. Name: LACLEDE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 197' C 25' X 5.', 239 tons.
Launched: 1845, St. Louis,Mo.
Destroyed: 1848, Mar. 10, in fire at St. Louis Docks
Owner: Capt. Cameron, John S. McCune and 7 others.
Companies Associated with: Keokuk Packet Line
1. Name: LACLEDE
Type: Sternwheel, woodenhull packet. Size: 152' X 29.5' X 4.3', 197 tons.
Launched: 1855, California, Pa.
Destroyed: 1862, Nov. 19, Chester,Ill., by stranding
Area: Principally on U. Miss. and Ill. Rs.
Owners: 1855, Capt. E.C. Hazlitt, and Mark Sterling, both of Pittsburgh,
P.A. Alford of St. Louis and T.B. Rhodes from Ill..
1862, when lost, Albert G. Trever,St. Louis
Captains: 1862 whn lost, Thomas W. Singer
Comments: Mentioned in this Article.
Name: LACON
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1860s?
Area: U. Mo. R.
Name: LACY
Name: LADY BOONE
Launched: 1832: in Wheeling, W. Va..
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: LADY BOONE
Type: Wooden hull packet. Size: *108' X 22.6' X 3'
Launched: 1881, Lead Hill Landing, Ark.
Area: 1881 U. White R.
Owners: Captain Thomas B. Stallings had her built for U. White R. trade.
Captains: 1881, Ed Warner
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: LADY CLINTON
Type: Luxury Barge
Launched: 1826?
Area: New York to Albany
Comments: Had to be towed by barge-boat.
Name: LADY FRANKLIN
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 206 tons
Launched: 1850, Wheeling W. Va.
Destroyed: 1856, Oct. 23, foot of Coon Slough at Warren Landing, snagged
and sunk. 5 lives lost.
Area: 1850, June 19 was her 1st arrival at St Paul.
Captain(s): LUCAS
1854, June, Le Grand Moorehouse
1855, Master, J. W. Marlin; clerks, Ed Halliday
and Capt. Orrin Smith
1856, Master, M.E. Lucas
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1856, Apr 18, Arrived in St. Paul
Name: LADY GAY
From
The James E. York Post Card Collection
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 286.4 X 43.2' X 8.3', 1406 tons
Launched: 1865, Cincinnati, Oh. Cost $120,000
Destroyed: 1870, Jan. 17, 1 pm, downbound near Chester, Ill, Obstruction punctured
hull. No life lost.
Area: St. Louis-New Orleans
Owners: 1865, Capt. John A. Williamson, Cincinnati, J.D. Isham and
Capt. M.W. Beltzhoover.
Placed in service of Atlantic and Mississippi Steam Ship Company.
1869, May, Entered service with St. Louis and New Orleans Packet Company.
Captains: 1865, John A. Burk, A. St. Clair Thomasson
1869-??, Isaac H. Jones
Comments: was second largest tonnage steamer on Miss. R. KATE was largest.
Name: LADY FRANKLIN
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Launched: 1860, Cincinnati, Oh, for the Dean Line
Destroyed: 1867, Jan. 31, Algiers, La., burned while being repaired.
1. Name: LADY LEE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 176' X 35' X 5.5', 417 tons.
Power: 16's- 6 ft., 3 boilers.
Launched: 1871, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1882, Mar. 29, Backing from landing, 2-1/2 mi. above Sibly, Mo.
on Mo. R., big winds blew her against snag. Sank.
Army Corp of Engineers map, plate 13 has her wreck some miles below Sibley, Mo.
Area: 1871, St. Louis-Red R.
Later, St. Louis-Mo. R.
Captains: 1871, pilots, John Shouse and Andy Bunting
While in Carter Line, master was, G.F. Shields
While in Star Line, master was, Bill Ball
Companies associated with: 1871, Carter Line
1874, owned by Illinois & St. Louis Packet Company
1882, operating in Star Line
Comments: 1881, lenghtened to 227'
Name: LADY PIKE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull towboat/packet. Size: 207 tons
Launched: 1860, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1872, Oct., "lost".
Area: 1860, Cincinnati-Memphis
1864, Apr, Cincinnati-Madison
1869, towing ice barges south from U. Miss. R.
Owners: 1860, Dean Line
1864, Apr., sold to Madison Packet Co.
186?9, early spring?,-72, Diamond Jo Line
Captains: early, A.C. Montfort, Capt Hamilton
Name: LADY VAN RENSSELAER
Type: Luxury Barge Size:
Launched: 1826?
Area: New York to Albany
Comments: Had to be towed by barge-boat.
* Name: LADY WASHINGTON
Area: 1827, Feb. logged at Port of Cincinnati
Name: LADY WASHINGTON
Launched: 1849, Aug. 9
Area: Sacramento
Comments: Was shipped to the California Delta
on a sailing ship and reassembled. First trip was up
the American R.. She was snagged and sunk on the return trip.
Name: LAGUNITAS
Type: Stern wheel, wooden hull Size: 250'X 36.3'X 10.7', 767 tons
Power: Poppet valve engine, 18"X 72", 400 hp.
Launched: 1903, Alemada Calf., John W. Dickie
Destroyed: 1917, dismantled
Area: California Delta
Owner: north Shore R.R., Northwestern Pacific R.R.
Name: LAKAWANA
Type: United States Steamship Size:
Comments: was active during Civil War
1865: Captured the river packet PLANTER which was taken to Key West
1. Name: LAKE ERIE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 157' X 24' X 3., 108 tons.
Power: 18's - 7 ft., 3 boilers, each 40" X 24', by Stackhouse and Nelson
Wheel: 20' working 19-1/2' buckets
Launched: 1845, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Area: 1845, Pittsburgh-Beaver, Pa. trade connecting with canalboats on
Beaver R..
1851, out of Dills Botton, Oh to Cincinnati and elsewhere towing
coal barges.
Owners: 1850, Clark & Thaw, Hays & Black and H. Clarke
1851: sold to Hugh Smith, coal mine owner at Dill Bottom, Oh.
Captains: 1850, Sharp Hemphill
Comments: Was forerunner in being used as a coal barge towboat.
1. Name: LAKE SUPERIOR
Type: side wheel wooden hull packet Size: 240' X 39' X 6'
Power: 22 1/2s-7ft. from the HAWKEYE STATE. 5 boilers each 38" x 26',
Wheels were 28' dia. with 12 1/2' buckets
Launched: 1870, Wheeling W. Va. Capt. Richard C. Gray superintended construction.
Destroyed: 1879, Mar. 4, Alton Slough, burned. thought from fire started in boat's
barbershop. Took the DUBUQUE with her.
Area: 1870-74, St. Louis-Keokuck; 1876, June, St. Paul - St. Louis
Owner: 1870-79, Northern Line Packet Company
Captain(s): 1870-74, Jonas Worden
Comments: Machenery by Robert Lea, Pittsburg. Hull by Dunlevy & Co.
Landscape paintings in cabin by Emil Bott
Name: LAMARTINE
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. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: LANCASTER
1842-
Name: LANCASTER
Type: Union ram-boat Size:
Launched: 1860s?
Destroyed: 1863, Mar. Shelled in Civil War
Areas: 1862, April, Tenn. R., was under command of Union Gen. Wm. T. Sherman
Captain and pilots: Capt. Ellet, John A.
Name: LANCASTER
1866- Snagged at Smith's Island above New Haven Mo., Mo. R. date unknown.
Name: LANCASTER
1886-96
Name: LANCASTER No. 2
1848-55
Name: LANCASTER No. 3
1855-63
1. Name: LANCASTER No. 4
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size:218 tons.
Launched: 1861, Jan. Cincinnati, Oh., Mortons Boat Yard
Destroyed: 1846, Nov. 18, below Portland, Mo, struck log.
Went down in 10' of water. Complete loss.
Area: Built for Cincinnati-New Richmod trade
1862, spring, carrying troops on Tenn. R.
1864, June began to run New Orleans-Vicksburg
1864, Fall, under charter to U.S. loaded out for Mo. R.
Owners: 1861-64, when sunk, David Gibson & Company
Captains: when new, Lew Morris, of New Richmond
1864, M.J. McCullough with John Harrington as clerk
Comments: Saw lots of troop and supply handling during S,War.
Name: LANDIS
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. July. 12 1897
Name: LANSING
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull towboat/packet. Size: 83 tons
Launched: 1864, Prairie du Chien, Wis.
Area: 1864. Lansing-Prairie du Chein, Grain trade.
1867, Davenport to Le Claire, then as railroad passenger shuttle,
Port Byron, Rock Island and Davenport.
Owner: 1864-67, Diamond Jo Line.
1867, Rambo and Son (Wes and father)of Le Claire, Iowa
1874, sold south
Captain: 1867, May 13, pilot, Bob Smith, was killed in explosion.
Comments: Was 1st boat owned by Diamond Jo Line
: 1867, May 13, Hampton, Ill., Exploded boiler, killing 6 persons.
Was rebuilt into 123 ton boat and used as ferryboat at Clinton, Io.
Name: LARK
Area: Late 1800, Sabine R., Tex.
Comments: See source Article
1. Name: LAST CHANCE
Type: Sternwheel, wood hull ferry/packet/workboat.
Size: 98.2' X 17.8' X 3'
Launched: 1870, Burlington, Iowa
Power: 11's-3 1/2 ft. 1 boiler. was the last of 3 sets of engines she had.
Destroyed: 1899, near Omaha, snagged and lost.
Area: Ohio, U. Miss. and Missouri's Osage Rs.
1886-99, Sioux City, Iowa-Chamberlain, S. Dak.
Owner: 1870 - 1886, Le Clair Navigation Company
1886 - 1899, King, Capt. Henry Jasper and son M.H. King
Captains: 1886-99, King, Capt. Henry Jasper
Comments: 1872, Helped rafts over rapids above Keokuk
: Towed Floating Circus to N. O. one winter.
: At one time, delivered 8,000 barrels of Ohio River salt up the Osage R.
to Warsaw, Mo..
3. Name: LAURA
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: LAURA
Destroyed: *cir. 1881, Beaumont, Tex, sank at anchor. Never raised.
Area: Neches R., Tex.
Captains: 1870s, Andrew Smyth
Comments: See source Article
Name: LAURA
Launched: Built 1870s? at Arrow Rock, Mo, by Gustave Moehle and Sons.
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: LAURA MOORE
Type: Sternwheeler? Size:
Launched: 1860's, early?
Area: Coosa R. (Ga. and Ala.)
Owner: 1863: Captain J. M. Elliott Sr.
Captain 1863: Lay, Cummins
Comments: "Captain Cummins Lay took this steamboat down the entire
length of the Coosa, including the rapids known as the
Devil's Staircase to escape the advancing Union army--the
only steamboat to ever manage that run." (From the book
"Rivers of History: Life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba
and Alabama" by Harvey H. Jackson.)
Comments: Source
Name: LAURENT MILLAUDON/STERLING PRICE/GENERAL PRICE
Type: sidewheel, wooden hull towboat. Size: 182' X 30' X 9.2', 483 tons.
Power: 25's -6 ft.
Launched: 1856, Cincinnati, Oh.
Area: 1856, owned at New Orleans
1861 after, served in Porter's Red River expedition and elsewhere
Owners: 1856, Good Intent Towboat Company
1861, Confederate tinclad gunboat
1869, possibly under charter to Diamond Joe Line
Captains: 1856, w.S. Whann
Comments: 1861, Renamed GEN. STERLING PRICE
: Later captured by U.S. and renamed GENERAL PRICE, a gunboat.
: 1865, Aug. 17, Mound City, Ill., sold at public sale to W.H. Harrison
* Name: LAWRENCE
Size: 122 tons
Power: High pressure
Launched: 1824, Cincinnati, Oh.
Comments: Mentioned in this Document
3. Name: LAWRENCE
Launched: 1840's mid?
Area: 1850s, early, Sacramento R. Calif.
Name: LE CLAIRE
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1860s? at La Clair
Comments: 1866, 2nd steamer to push logs
Name: LEADER
Type: Sternwheeler Size: 144'
Launched: ?1900s, Early?
Area: California Delta Rivers
Comments: Featured as the CLAREMORE QUEEN in Will Rogers' Movie
Steamboat Round The Bend Source
Name: LEAH
Launched: 1898? Seattle, Moran Bros. 1 of 12 they built.
Area: Alaska Rivers
Name: LEANDER
Type: probably a sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Area: spent some time on The Osage R. in Mo.
Name: LEHIGH
Launched: 1841, Pittsburgh
Owners: Elli Mills and Herman Price
Comments: *Source
Name: LEANDER
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: LE FLORE
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1870s?
Area: Miss. R.
Name: LEONIA
Name: LEOTA Originally the ANNIE M
1. Name: LEROY
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet Size: 120.5' X 22.4' X 4'
Power: 12's-4 ft., 2 boilers, each 38" X 18'
Launched: 1896, Levanna, Oh.
Area: 1894, Wheeling-Parkersburg, and sometimes on Mushingum R.
Later, Wheeling-Clarington
A year or so later, Morgantown-Fairmont, on Monongahela R.
1907, Fall, Pittsburgh-Fairmont trade
1908, Excursions, Pittsburgh-Neville Island
1908 late, Winfield-Gallipolis trade
1919-20, fall, Gallipolis-Charleston
1921, jan, Wheeling-New Martinsville, W. Va.
Owners: 1894, Capt. Oscar J. Webster
Later, Capt. Thad Thomas of Clarington Oh
A year or so later, Capt. Henry Roe and others
*1904, Ohio and West Virginia Transportation Company
1908, Aug, Purchased by Green Line Steamers, Cincinnati
1919-20, fall, Capt. Jesse P. Huges
1920, fall, Wm. F. Hammell and Geo. F. Bauersmith
1921, Jan, purchased by Brady C. Litman, New Matinsville, W. Va.
1921, Nov. purchased by Capt. Harry C. Donnally and Grover Hill, equal.
1922- ?, W.F. Smith, dock owner, Pt. Pleasant, by default of hull repari payment..
Later, sold to sand and gravel co at Parkersburgh, W. Va. for use
as landing float.
Captains: 1894, Oscar J. Webster
Later, Thad Thomas
A year or so later, Henry Roe
1907, Jack Ward
*1900 or so, Johnson, Benjamin Franklin
1920, fall, William F. Syphers
Later, Ed Cline
1921, Jan.- fall, Frank Justice
Comments: 1921, late-22 early, Hull was replaced at docks of W. F. Smith,
Pt. Pleasant. Grover Hill claimed he did not order complete new hull
and refused to pay. W.F. Smith kept her in his fleet for some time.
: *This info from: Andrea Castillo Who wrote:
Could you give me any information on how to obtain a copy
of my great grandfather's (Benjamin Franklin Johnson)
riverboat captian's license? He was a pilot on the Kanawha
River in West Virginia around 1900. The riverboats he
worked on were the Iron Duke, the D. T. Lane and the LEROY.
Please send any information.
Name: LESSIE TAYLOR
Type: Sternwheeler Size: 157' X 37.8' X 7'
Launched: 1870, by Howard yard in Jeffersonville, Indiana
Destroyed: 1878, Feb. 3, sank at mouth of Atchafaylaya R.
Area: Miss. R., New Orleans to Baton Rouge-Plaquemine trade
Owner: Capt. John A. Taylor and others.
Captain(s):
Comments: She was named for the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John A.
Taylor of Opelousas, Louisiana.
Thank's to Jerry Canivit for this info.
1. Name: LEVIATHAN
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet.
Size: 307' X 49' (O.A.93') X 8.'. 987 tons.
Power: 36's- 11 ft.. 7 boilers, ea 46" x 38'. Wheels 38' dia. with 17' buckets.
Launched; 1864, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1866, Feb. 26, St. Louis, Burned. Hull converted into wharf boat.
Area: 1864, St. Louis-New Orleans.
Owners: after Capt Reader died, Atlantic and Mississippi Steamboat Company.
Captains: 1864, Ambrose Reader
Later under AMSSC, George Pegram.
Name: LEXINGTON
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Power; Engines by West Point Foundry. Vertical beam "walking beam"
48" steam cylinder, piston stroke - 11'.
Paddlewheels, 23' w/9 foot sweeps(buckets).
Boat was capable of nearly 25 miles per hour.
Launched: 1834, Mon. June 1, keel laid by Bishop and Simonson
of New York City.
1835, Mon. June 30, placed in service.
Destroyed: 1840, Monday, Jan. 13, cotton bales stacked along side
decks were ignited by her hot stack. Ship went down,
killing 119 passengers and crew. Only 4 persons survived,
sea captains Hilliard and Manchester, fireman Smith and
Second Mate, David Crowley.
Area: 1835, day boat NYC - Providence R.I.
1837, NYC - Stonington
1840, Monday, Jan. 13, Long Island Sound, New York - Stonington
Owner: 1834-38, Dec., Vanderbilt, Commodore Cornelious
1838, Dec. - New Jersey Steam Navigation and Transportation Company
purchased for $60,000 and spent $12,000 refirbishing
Captain(s): 1835-40, Jacob Vanderbuilt, "Intrepid Jake"
1840, Monday jan. 13, George Child
--Capt. Vanderbilt was ill and stayed home.--
Pilot, Stephen Manchester
Comments: 1838, boiler furnaces converted from wood to coal.
: For a very good account of the LEXINGTON disaster see Clive
Cussler's book The Sea Hunters amazon.com
The information in this listing is but a small bit of the
information provided in that book.
: Crew, final run: Helmsman, Martin Johnson; Second Mate, David
Crowley. Chief engineer: Courtland Hemstead,
Stokers: Benjamin Cox, Charles Smith and two others
Head waiter, Job Sand; Chef, Joseph Robinbson.
Chambermaid, Susan Holcomb
Passengers on last run: Boston comedy actors, Charles Eberle
and Henry J. Finn. Others: Peter McKenna, businessman;
Mrs. Russel Jarvis and 2 daughters; James Bates, wife.
son and daughter; William Townsend, wife and 2 daughters;
Harrison Winslow (in his casket), his widow, Alice and
his brother John Winslow and their father, William
Winslow; Lydia Bates and friend Mary Russell; Banker,
Robert Blake; businessmen, Abram Howard, William Green,
Samuel Henry, John Lemist,
Sea captains aboard, J.D. Carver, Chester Hillard,
E.J. Kimball, David McFarland, John Mattison,
Theophilas Smith and Benjamin Foster.
Proffessor of German literature at Harvard, Dr. Charles
Follen. Adolus Harnden, courior with $20,000 in silver
and $50,000 in bank notes for Merchants Bank.
1. Name: LEXINGTON
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet
Size: 312 tons
Launched: 1850, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1855, June 30, Ohio R. at Rome, Ind. opposite Stevensport, Ky.
Boilers exploded. 30 lives lost.
Area: St. Louis-Louisville when exploded
Owners: when new, Capt. Josh V. Throop and Ben F. Egan
Captain: Josh V. Throop
Comments: Boat was upbound and under headway when her boilers blew.
The D.A. GIVEN took some survivors and wounded to Stephensport.
The JOHN C. FREEMONT took some to Louisville.
: Capt. Throop was blown from the upper deck into the
arms of the mate on the forecastle which broke his fall.
Name: LEXINGTON
Type: Timberclad in Civil War Size:
Launched: 1850s?
Destroyed:
Area: Long Island Sound.
Comments: Originally a packet, was turned into a Union gun-boat
during Civil War.
1. Name: LEXINGTON/DE SOTO
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull ferryboat. Size: 94.5' X 26' X 3.6'
Launched: 1918, Herman,Mo
Area: Mo. R. out of Lexington, Mo.
1928, began short trade packet runs out of ?Memphis?
Owners: 1918, Lafayette County Ferry Company
1928, purchased by Capt. Peters Lee, Memphis
Captains: 1918-28, run by, Albert G. Wohlt
1928, Peters Lee
Comments: 1928, renamed DE SOTO
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