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1. Name: NEW BOSTON
    Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet.  Size: 234 tons.
    Launched: 1864, Port Byron, Ill.
    Destroyed:  1873, off the lists.
    Area: 1864-on, Fort Madison-Rock Island
    Owners: when new, B.H. Cambpell, Galena and B.W. Davis, Rock Island
           1864, at close of season, purchased by Northern Line
    Captains: 1864, first master, Melville
             *At one time piloted by Oscar M. Ruby

3. Name: NEW ENGLAND
    Launched: 1840's mid?
    Area: 1850s, early, Sacramento R. Calif.

Name: NEW ENGLAND
    Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet.  Size: 175' X 24' X 4.8'. 190 tons.
    Launched: 1844, Pittsburgh, Pa.
    Destroyed: 1849, off the lists.
    Area: Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
          1847, started Pittsburgh-Wheeling
    Owners: Capt. Samuel B. Page with James Holmes, both of Pittsburgh.
    Captains: 1844, Master, Samuel B. Page
              1847, G.W. Ebbert
            : to Mexican War, William J. Kountz   
    Comments: was flagship of fleet departing Pittsburg carring troops to Mexican War.
            : Staterooms named for States and other names of places.

Space Savers - Decorative Items

Name: NEW ENTERPRISE
    Area: 1834, Louisville to St. Louis
    Comments: Info for this entry came from the diary of an ancestor of 
             web site visitor Kathryn Grogman.  grogman@earthlink.net

Name: NEW HAMPSHIRE

From
Arkansas Gazette, 1847

    Launched: 1845, Pittsburg area
    Destroyed: 1847, early
    Comments: Passengers were rescued from this boat's wreck by the crew of the HATCHEE PLANTER
            : The source for this listing is the above advertisment.




Name: NEW HOME
	Launched, 1886, Calico Rock, Ark.
	Area: 1886, Buffalo City and Lead Hill trade on White R.
	Owner: Capt. Thomas B. Stallings
	Comments: Source

Name: NEW ERA

1. Name: NEW LUCY
    Type: sidewheeler, wooden hull packet.  Size: 225' X 33'.
    Power: 22's- 8 ft., 4 boilers.
    Launched: 1852, St. Louis, Mo.
    Destroyed: 1857, Nov. 22, DeWitt, Mo., burned while laid up for ice. Also See
    Area: Mo. R.
        : *1857, Mar. 21, held up at Jefferson City, Mo. for repairs.
                 Mar. 22, 3:00 PM, departed Jeff City, up Mo. R., put into
                          Kansas City, Mar. 25, 11:00PM; Levenworth, Ks.
                          Mar. 26 and on same day the line's terminus, Weston,
                          Mo. at 10 AM.  
    Owners: Built for Keokuk Packet Company.
            Lightning Line, Later sold to others.
			1857, Captain Tom Brierly of St. Joseph, Mo.
    Captains: 1855, William Couley
			  1856, William Eads/Edds, Sr.
	Pilot: 1855, William Raymond Massie 
    Comments: Reputed to be the best on Mo. R., a floating palace in her time.
              And fast.
            : * From the Diary OF E.F. Beatle
			: Also see excerpt from the autobiography One-Way Ticket To Kansas
			: Mentioned in this article from Boone’s Lick Heritage 
			: See article on Steamboats.org blog

1. Name: NEW MARY HOUSTON
    Type; Sidewheel, wooden hull packet.  Size: 287" X 41' X 7.3'
    Launched: 1877, Oct. 28, Jeffersonville, Ind., Barmore Yard
    Destroyed: 1893, Jan. 10, New Orleans, when upriver ice gorge broke.  Swept
                     boat into bridge.  Stacks were knocked down.  Drifted to 
                     Petersburg, Ky. and was shoved ashore.  Soon dismantled.
    Area: 1877 - , Cincinnati-New Orleans
    Captains:  1877 Charles Miller
               1880: Mate, Charles Dowerman; pilots James Pell and
                     John Morledge
               In later years and when cut down, Master was Lew Kates
    Comments: had one powerful electric light able to light up the river ahead.
            : Equipment came from MARY HOUSTON 

Name: NEW MONONGAHALA
     Area: 1857, The Diary of E.F. Beatle has arriving at Omaha, Neb., June 4,
                 June 26, July 11. 

Name: NEW ORLEANS
    Type: Stern-wheeler   Size: 138 X 30 ft., 300-400 tons.
    Launched: 1811, Mar. at Pittsburgh by Robert Livingston and
              Robert Fulton at a cost of $40,000. 
    Destroyed: 1814, winter, Baton Rouge, snagged and lost.
    Area: Miss. R.  Primarilly New Orleans to Natchez
    Owner: Livingston, Robert and Fulton, Robert and Nicholas Roosevelt, DBA
           Ohio Steamboat Navigation Company.
    Captain(s): ?Fulton, Robert?
    Pilot: 1811, Roosevelt, Nicholas
    Comments: 1811, Oct. 20 started down Ohio R. , piloted by Nicholas Roosevelt
              (Teddy Roosevelt's great grand-uncle.) on first western
              steamboat trip from Pittsburgh to New Orleans with a
              Captain, an engineer, a pilot, 6 deck hands, a waiter,
              a cook, 2 female serents for Mrs, Roosevelt (pregnant)
              and his brother-in-law.  Wife gave birth to son in her
              cabin while docked at Louisville.  Boat weathered
              earthquake which shook towns in the Mississippi
              Valley. Arrived in N.O. 1812, Jan 10 or 12. 
    Comments: Notes from the WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951.
    Comments: from Boone's Lick Heritage Quarterly.
			: See book excerpt from Pittsburgh History

Name: NEW ORLEANS
    Type: Sidewheeler               Size: 
    Comments:   Color print by K. Chin

Name: NEW ORLEANS replica

 
From
The James E. York Post Card Collection

    Launched: 1911 in Elizabeth, Pa..
    Destroyed: 1913?, Abandoned, Brasher LA.
    Area: Ohio. R, Miss. R.
          1911: Stopped in Wheeling, W. Va.
    Owners: built for Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania
    Captain: 1911, on reinactment of historic run, Pittsburgh-New Orleans,
             Melvin O. Irwin, of New Matamoris, Oh.
    Comments: Built for and made the 1911 Pittsburgh Centennial run
              down-river alone.
            : Capt. J. Orville Noll was steward on this trip
            : Was sold to Capt. Willie Dutch who converted her to twin prop gas-power
              for N.O.-Abbeville venture.  Was not sucessful.


Name: NEW RICHMOND See

Name: NEW ST. PAUL
    Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet.
    Launched: 1852, 
    Destroyed: 
    Area: U. Miss. R.
    Owner: 
    Captain and pilots: Capt. 
    Comments: Mentioned in this Article

Name: NEW SENSATION  See Showboats

Name: NEW SHALLCROSS


At Howard Shipyard
Click on picture to enlarge

    Type: Sidewheel woodenhull ferryboat.
    Size: 160' X 36.9' X 6.1'
    Power: Engines, 20's- 6 ft.
    Launched: 1878, Jeffersonville, Ind, by Howard Yard
    Destroyed: 1891, ?dismantled?
    Owners: 1978, Louisville & Jeffersonville Ferry Co.
    Comments: 1891, engines went to ferry COLUMBIA.
            : probably connected with one of the captains Shallcross.
            : see JOHN SHALLCROSS

Name: NEW SHOWBOAT  See Showboats
  
Name: NEW STATE
    Launched: Wheeling, W. Va.
    Area: Ohio R., Miss. R.
    Owner(s): Wilson, Capt. W.W.
    Captain(s): Wilson, W.W. 
    Comments: Note from the WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER,
                June 24, 1951


Name: NEW WAR EAGLE
    Area: Mo. R.
    Owner: Pacific Rail road Packet Co.
    Captain and pilots: Capt. White.
    Comments: Plied trade from St. Louis to Jefferson City to connect
              with trains for Kansas, Fr. Levenworth, Weston,
              Atchinson and St Joseph.

3. Name: NEW WORLD
    Type: Side-wheeler    Size:530 ton.
    Launched: 1850, New York City
    Area: Long Island Sound/ Sacramento R./Colorado R.
    Owner: Brown, William: 1856, California Steam Navigation Company
    Captains: 1850, Wakeman, Ned
            : Brown, William
    Comments: See her adventursome, early exploits here.

1. Way's Packet Directory, 1848 - 1994
3. Steamboats in the Valley

  

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