RIVERBOATS
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M
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Mi's through Mi's
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03/06/2007
RIVERBOATS
starting with
M
Page 2
Mi's through Mi's
New Information Added
03/06/2007
To Riverboats whose names start with the name MARY To Riverboats whose names start with the Letter M, Page 1 To Riverboats whose names start with the Letter M, Page 3 * Name: MIAMI Size: 50 tons Power: High pressure Launched: 1822, Cincinnati, Oh. Name: MIAMI Photo source Type: Sternwheeler towboat Size: Area: 1930, Ohio R. Name: MICHIGAN Source Article Type: Sidewheeler, Iron hulled, Dreadnaught Warship Launched: 1843: built in Pittsburg, dissasembled and transported to Eire PA for launch Destroyed: Scrapped Area: Lake Michigan Owner: U.S. Navy Captain and pilots: Comments: Built to resemble a frigate, she was U.S. Navy's first iron ship. Name: MILDRED Type: Towboat Comments: Her whistle was from the GEORGE STRECKER, from which it was passed on to the BESSIE SMITH, then to the LIBERTY and on to the towboat MILDRED and finally to the BEN HUR 3. Name: MILMAN 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: MILT HARRY Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 80 tons Area: White R. and Black R. Launched: 1877. Cincinnati, Oh. for Capt. Pete McArther Destroyed: 1885, Mar. 6, 20 mi. above Batesville on White R., burned. Owner: Capt. Pete McArther Captains: 1885, briefly Capt. Thomas B. Stallings was pilot. Comments: was named after Captain Milt R. Harry
Name: MILWALKEE
Launched: 1845, Shousetown, Pa.
Name: MILWALKEE
Launched: 1857, Cincinnati, Oh.
Name: MILWALKEE
Launched: 1870's
1. Name: MILWAUKEE
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull railroad transfer vessel/packet
Launched: 1880, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard.
Destroyed, 1896, Still listed in Dubuque Registry
Area: *1880, St. Louis-S. Dakota
*1882, ferry between Chamberlain and Pierre du Chein, S.D.
1886, Documented, Prairie du Chein
Destroyed: 1896, still listed in Dubuque registry
Owners: 1880, Milwaukee Railroad Company
*1882-87, master and pilot, Henry Jasper King
*Brule County, S.D. Historical Society
Name: MILWAUKEE CITY
Launched: 1860s? Early
Area: U. Miss R.
Owner: 1864, Northwestern Union Packet Company
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: MINER, originally the BURNSIDE
1. Name: MINER
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 299 tons.
Launched: 1866, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Area: from start, Mo. R.
Owners: when new, Capt. J.H. Porter
Later, Northwestern Fur Company
Captains: 1866, J.H. Porter
Comments: maiden trip was to Point of Rocks above Ft. Benton with 1.187
rails and 20 tons of connection bends for Union Pacific R.R.
Name: MINER
Area: Mo. R.
Owners: 1873-74, W.A. Burleigh
Captains: 1892 at time of his death, William Reid
Comments: This info from Caroline Villier, Capt. Reid's great
grandaughter who would like to know more about the Captain.
Name: MINGO CHIEF
Area: 1844, Pittsburg-Zanesville trade, Ohio R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article as possibly having the first steam
whistle on the Ohio R.
Name: MINK
Area 1857, Mo. R.
Comments: 1857, May 24, Omaha, stopped for night. Carring Gov. supplies
for Fort Pierre, 700 mi. upriver. This from the
Diary of E.F. Beadle
1. Name: MINK
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 250' X 20.5', 165 tons.
Launched: 1865, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1878, off the lists.
Area: 1865-71, Zanesville-McConnelsville, Muskingum R.
Captains: 1865-71, master, William Davis
1872-77, master, Charles C. Morgan
Name: MINK
1877-94 when renamed CLARA CAVETT
Name: MINNA
Launched: Built 1870s? at Arrow Rock, Mo, by Gustave Moehle and Sons.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
1. Name: MINNEHAHA
Type: Sidewheel , ooden hull ferry. Size: 33 tons.
Launched: 1856, Wellsville, Oh.
Area: First homeport, Wheeling, W. Va.
Destroyed: 1861, off the lists.
1. Name: MINNEHAHA
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 236' X 36.5' X 6.5, 531 tons.
Power: 25's- 7 ft., 4 boilers, each 46" X 30'.
Launched: 1857, Guyandotte, Va.
Destroyed: 1865, May 13, New Orleans, burned.
Area: 1857-62, Mo. R., St Louis-St. Joseph, Mo..
1857, Diary of E.F. Beadle has her arriving Omaha, Neb, June 12 and
July 2; arriving up to Omaha, July 21.
Aug. 8, landing in Omah from St. Louis.
1862 -? possibly Paducah-St. Louis.
Owners: 1862-65, Capt. David White
Captains: 1857-?62?, C. Baker
1862, David White
1. Name: MINNEHAHA
Type: Sternwheel, Wooden hull. Size: 40' X 9' X 5.'.
Launched, 1894, Canton, S.D.
Destroyed: 1908, still documented at Sioux City.
Name: MINNESOTA
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Soze: 149 tons.
Launched: 1849, Elizabeth, Pa. under direction of Capt. Richard C. Gray.
Destroyed: 1862, off the lists.
Areas: U. Miss. R., Galena-St. Paul. Later Minnesota R.
Owners: Northern Line Packet Company
Comments:
Name: MINNIE
Area: Sabine R., East Tex.
Captains: Tom Davis
Comments: Source
Name: MINNIE BAY
Name: MINNIE H./MISSOURI
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet Size: 133' X 25' X 3', 856 tons
Launched: 1880, Reeds Landing, Minn.
Destroyed: 1889, Oct. 4, Blue Blanket Island, N.D., hit rock and was lost.
Area: 1880-89, Mo. R.
Owners: 1885?, became U. S. Army survey boat. Renamed MISSOURI.
: Later in Power Line
Captains: 1885, July 20, La Barge, Joseph
Comments; 1885, July 20, left Ft. Benton for extended survey of Mo. R.
Name: MINNI-HA-HA #1
Type: Prop or wheel?-driven steamboat commuter vessel
Size: length: ? 400 passenger
Launched: 1857, spring
Area: Lake George N.Y.
Owner: Lake George Steam Boat Co.. Incorporated in 1817 by N. Y.
State Legislature to opperate to operate commercial shipping
on Lake George. Home Page for Co.
Captain and pilots:
Comments: Was last wood-burner on the lake
Name: MINNI-HA-HA- #2 Picture and ad
Type: Sternwheeler, contemporary, steam driven, 12' dia. wheel
Size: Length: 103"; Beam:30'; Draft: 3' 6"; Displacement: 200 tons;
horsepower; 200; speed: 7 mph. Cost $270,000
Launched: A new boat, christened by Mrs. Ruth Dow: July 30, 1969
Destroyed: still in service
Area: Lake George, N. Y.
Owner: Lake George Steamboat Co. Home Page for Co.
Captains: Michael C. Keboe, William P. Dow, John Miller, Fred Dorr,
Thom Thompson, Ron Welton, Steve Boyce and Bill Connor
Comments: Built for and still running 1 hour tours on lake George.
Hull design by the H.M. Tiedemann Co of N.Y. City with
considerable discussion with riverboat authority Captain
Fredrick Way of Swickley, PA.. Engines and paddlewheel by
Fredric H. Semple of St Louis Mo.. Boiler by International
Boiler Works of East Stroudsburg, PA. Signal bells from
an old Hudson River sidewheeler that was built around 1910.
Name: MINNESOTA BELL
Launched: 1850s?
Area: 1857, U. Miss. R.
Owner: 1857, Northern Line Packet Company
Captain: 1857, Hill
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: MINT
Launched: before 1849
Area: 1849, 3. Oct. started service San Francisco to Sacramento
Comments: also see, California Delta,
Name: MISS STERLING See MARIETTA
Name: MISSISSIPPI
Area: 1857, Dec. 1, The Diary of E.F. Beadle has this boat leaving Detroit
for lake Erie.
Name: MISSISSIPPI
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1850's or 60's
Area: Miss. R.
Captain: late 1860's? Peppers, George H.
Comments: Confederate boat?
Comments: From the Wheeling Register Monday, March 31, 1879.
: Wooden Model of this boat
Name: MISSISSIPPI
Comments: Union boat. Gunned ironclad Manassas in battle below
N. O.. Destroyed her.
1. MISSISSIPPI
Type: Sidewheeler, wooden hull packet
Size: 304' X 41.5' X 7', 856 tons
Power: 30s-10 ft. Five boilers, each 46" X 24'
Launched: 1864, Cincinnatti, Oh. Cost $100,000
Destroyed: 1870, Feb. 28, Waterproof, La., Snagged and sunk.
Area: 1864, Cincinnatti-New Orleans; 1866, St. Louis-New Orleans
Owners: 1868, May 25, Purchased at auction by Capt. W.R. Carter for
$17,800.
Companies Associated With: Atlantic and Mississippi Steam Ship Company
Captains: 1864-66, James Good
1866-68, Jesse Y. Hurd
1868-70, W. R. Carter
Crew; 1866, clerk - Capt. James. D. Malin
Comments: It is said that when she sank her upper decks separated from
the hull and floated on down past Natchez with all the fancy
chandeliers still burning. Many shore dwellers saw this site
Name: MISSISSIPPI See BECKY THATCHER
Type: sternwheeler Size:
Launched: 1929
Name: MISSISSIPPI QUEEN Picture and ad
Type: Modern replica of true Sternwheeler
Size: 382', 420 passenger, 6 decks, including sundeck.
Launched: 1975, Apr. 30, Christened
Area: N.O. - St Paul
Owner: 1998 - Present: Delta Queen Steamboat Co. Photos
Captains: 1976,
July 20 and 21, 1st shakedown cruise, Master, Capt Earnest E. Wagner
Pilots, Harry Louden, Art Zimmer.
Mates, Joseph Davidson, Willard Lockhart
, 2nd shakedown cruise, Master, Carl A. Sheldon
1978-79, First Mate, Donald J. Sanders
1979, Feb. 17 - 1994 at least, Master, Gabriel Chengery
Comments: Year round cruises from 3 to 16 nights.
Bathing Pool on upper deck Beauty Parlor Calliope Bar
Dining Room Exercise Room Forward Cabin Lounge Gift Shop
Golden Antlers Bar Grand Saloon Paddlewheel Lounge
Port Gallery Movie Theater Climate Controled Staterooms
Telephones 2 Elevators 165 Crewmembers
Also SEE
: Complete description of boat and accomodations HERE
Name: MISSOURI
Launched: 1820, late?
Area: 1831 & 32, Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Comments: Could this be the same boat as below? Possibly, depending upon
how long she lived.
: Mentioned in this Article
Name: MISSOURI
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: 1844, nearly broke J. M. WHITE'S 5 yr. old record by
making trip from N.O. to St. Louis and back in 4 days
and 19 hr.
1849, 4/19/0: Made run N.O. - St Louis
Name: MISSOURI (Often refered to as the BIG MISSOURI)
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 304' X 38' X 9', 886 tons
Launched: 1845, Cincinnati, Oh., Burton Hazen Yard.
Destroyed: 1851, July 8, St. Louis, Mo.
Area: 1845, St Louis - New Orleans
Owners: 1848, Messrs. Gaty, McCune and Glasby
Comments: was largest boat below the Louisville Falls until the
SULTANA came out in 1848.
: 1848, summer, St. Louis, reportedly sold at sheriff's auction
for $8,900, far below her worth.
Name: MISSOURI
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull gunboat, Confederate
Size: 188' X 50.7' X 7.5'
Power: Engines 24's 7 ft. Four boilers, each 30" X 26'.
Casemates were railroad rails
Launched: 1863 Built by Capts. John Smoker and Tom Moore for the
Confederacy
Owners: 1863, Confederacy; 1865, June 14, captured by Union forces
1865, Nov. 29, sold to J. riley for $2,300
Name: MISSOURI
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 306' X 42' X 8', 856 tons
Launched: 1864, Cincinatti, Oh. Hull by Leatherbury. Machinery by
C.T.Durmont. Cabin by Johnston, Morton & Co.
Power: engines, 30's- 10 ft., five tubular boilers, each 46" X 24'
Wheels, 37' working 15' buckets
Destroyed: 1866, Jan. 30, boilers explosion upbound on Ohio R.
at mouth of Green R.
Area: 1864, St Louis - New Orleans with trips to Louisville
Owners: *Atlantic and Mississippi Steam Ship Company
Captains: 1866, Jan. 30, Hurd, Jesse Y.
Comments: This is The MISSOURI most spoken of. She was said
to have been racing the DICTATOR when the explosion occured.
DICTATOR removed the survivors.
: Amoung the some 65 killed in the explosion were the Capt's.
wife, Catherine, his son, Pilot Henry Hurd. Severly burned
in the explosion was his son Arthur, who died Sept. 1867 of
swamp feaver. The capt. himself died Oct. 23 1867
: The clerk, James D. Malin, was spared.
: *From site visitor Lynn Cunningham
Name: MISSOURI
Type: Sidewheel railroad transfer, wooden hull
Size: 191.7' X 31.7' X 6.3'
Launched: 1879, Metropolis, Ill.
Destroyed: 1897, boiler explosion
Area: 1898, Carondolet, Mo.
Name: MISSOURI, originally the MINNIE H. (below)
Launched: 1880,
Name: MISSOURI PACKET
Launched: 1818 or 19?
Destroyed: 1819 or 20? Mo. R.. snagged and sank near Hardeman's Island
just above the mouth of the Lamine R..
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: from Boone's Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: MINNIE H./MISSOURI
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet Size: 133' X 25' X 3', 856 tons
Launched: 1880, Reeds Landing, Minn.
Destroyed: 1889, Oct. 4, Blue Blanket Island, N.D., hit rock and was lost.
Area: 1880-89, Mo. R.
Owners: 1885?, became U. S. Army survey boat.
: Later in Power Line
Captains: 1885, July 20, La Barge, Joseph
Comments; 1885, July 20, left Ft. Benton for extended survey of Mo. R.
Name: MISTLETOE
Type: Excurssion Steamer
Comments: 1924, 19" x 25" color print, signed & numbered by artist,
Diana Garrison Litter. Buy it from Slop Chest
Name: MITTIE STEVENS Credit
Destroyed: 1869: Near Swanson's Landing, Burned. 60 lives lost
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1. Source: Way's Packet Directory, 1848 - 1994
3. Steamboats in the Valley