RIVERBOATS
Starting With
R
Page 2
RICHMOUND to end
New Information Added
06/11/2006
RIVERBOATS
Starting With
R
Page 2
RICHMOUND to end
New Information Added
06/11/2006
To riverboats starting with the Initial "R." To riverboats starting with the Letter R, Page 1 To riverboats starting with the Letter R, Page 2 To riverboats starting with the Name ROBERT 3. Name: RIALTO Type: Size: Launched: 184Os?, late? Destroyed: Area: Sacramento R., Calf. Name: RICHMOUND Type: Size: 153' x 29' X 10' Launched: 1813 Destroyed: Area: Hudson R. Owner: Hudson River Steamboat Company Captain and pilots: Comments: Source Name: RICHMOUND Type: Side-wheeler Size: Launched: 1840s Destroyed: 1869, burned. Area: Miss. R., Louisville to N.O. Owner: Captain and pilots: Capt. Townson, Capt. "Stut" Neal? Comments: Carried Gen. Montgonery's, R. body down Hudson 43 years after he died. Name: RICHMOUND Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packeT. Size: 79' X 25' X 3.' Comments: This boat was originally the G.F. TRUESDELL a recess wheel ferry at New Richmond. Not enough business there. Boat was converted to sternwheel and eventually documented, New Orleans : Mentioned in this Article as possible replacement for the R.R. DAWES Name: RIO BRAVO See PLANTER Name: RIVER BELL Photo Type: Replica of sternwheeler, excursion boat. Size: 125' X 35' X 4.5', 78 gr. tons, 400 passenger. Power: 2 Detroit Diesel engines (Model 8V-71), connected through Allison Reduction Gears (3:1) totaling 460 horsepower. Paddlewheel is decorative. Launched: 1965, Dubuque, Iowa Area: 1978 - Present (1999, Sept.), Out of Pittsburgh, Pa.. Owner: 1978 - present, Gateway Clipper Fleet Name: RIVER QUEEN Type: Sidewheeler Size: 181' Launched: 1864 Destroyed: 1911 by fire Area: Owner: Captain and pilots: Capt. Comments: Was the presidential boat for Presidents Lincon and Grant. Name: RIVER QUEEN, originally the CAPE GIRARDEAU 1923-67 Name: RIVER QUEEN (replica) Type: now a Museum Size: 3 decker Launched: 1961, Dec. Comments: This entire entry is suspect. Name: RIVER QUEEN Type: Ornamental sidewheel excursion boat Size: 93.5', 350 passengers Launched: 1986, Chattanooga, Tenn. Area: 1999, Covington Captains: 1999, Alan Bernstein Comments; was in first (1988) Tall Stacks Celebration. 1999, In Tall Stacks Celebration
Name: ROANOKE
Type: Size:
Launched: 1835? By either the Bell Yard or the Patton Yard in Wheeling, W. Va..
Destroyed:
Area: Ohio R.
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments:Engines and Machinery probably by T. Sweeney & Son, Wheeling.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
* Name: ROB ROY
Size: 240 tons
Power: High pressure
Launched: 1823, Cincinnati, Oh.
1. Name: ROB ROY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 151.6' X 31.5' X 5.4', 199 tons.
Power: Engines, 15's- 5 ft. Two Tubular Boilers.
Launched: 1864, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1871, off the lists
Area: 1864, Dec. loading at Pittsburg for New Orleans
1865, made trips up Red R.
1866, trip, Aurora, Ind.-Pittsburg
1868, Evansville-Owensboro trade
1868, Dec., went to Arkadelphia, Ark under Capt. Kane
Owners: 1868, sold to Capt. James M. Kane, St. Louis
Captains: 1864, for Pittsburgh-New Orleans trip, Kenniston
1866, from Aurora, Ind.-Pittsburg, Charles Beers
1868, James L Magennis
Name: ROB ROY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size:
Launched: 1864
Destroyed: 1871, off the lists
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: ?1882 - 84?, McPherson, Henry
Captain(s):?1882 - 84?, McPherson, Henry
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: ROB ROY See Post Card
Launched: 1866, Madison, Ind.
Destroyed: 188? retired after engine cylinder head was knocked out
3. Name: ROE
Launched: 184Os?, late?
Area: Sacramento R., Calf.
To Riverboats Whose Names Start With
ROBT. And ROBERT
Name: ROB'T E. LEE
Use the above link to see the boats ROB'T E. LEE and ROBERT E. LEE.
Name: ROBINSON'S FLOATING PALACES, see Showboats
Name: ROCK CITY
Type:
Size: 250 Tons, length-127', width-28', draft-10", 16 staterooms.
Launched: 1857, Little Rock, Ark.
Destroyed:
Area: Miss. R., Ark. R.
Owner:
Captain(s):
Comments: Credit
1. Name: ROCK ISLAND
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull ferry
Launched: 1857, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1882, removed from documentation
Area: operated at Rock Island, Ill.
1. Name: ROCK ISLAND
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 200' X 32'
Launched: 1870, Madison, Ind.
Destroyed, 1873, Sept., St. Louis, dut down by ice.
Area: 1873, St. Louis-Cincinnati
Owners: Keokuk Northern Line
Captains: 1873, B.Bradbord
*At one time piloted by Oscar M. Ruby
1. Name: ROCK ISLAND originally the AUGUSTA
1870-c.1922?, Ferryboat, Davenport-Rock Island
Name: ROENA
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet
Source: Post Card
Name: ROLLA
Launched: 1830s?
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: ROLLA
Type: Double barge showboat Size:
Launched: 1840s?
Area: Miss. R., Ark. R.
Comments: 1850 aground at Webbers Falls, on Ark. R. Credit
Name: ROOSEVELT, formerly the VERNE SWAIN/ROSE ISLAND/CITY OF MEMPHIS
See VERNE SWAIN
1. Name: ROSA LEE See Post Card
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 225' X 36' X 7'
Power: engines, 32's - 7' from FRANK PARGOUD
Launched: 1887, Paducha, Ky.
Destroyed: 1892, Nov. 10. Memphis, burned
Owner: when launched, The Lee Line
Captains: When launched, possibly Joseph Fowler
1. Name: ROSALIE M.
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 66' S 14' X 5.'
Power: 10's-3ft. 1 boiler, 60" X 14'
Launched: 1906, Vicksburg, Miss.
Destroyed: 1908, Feb. 20 mi. below Vicksburg, sank.
Area: 1907, Vicksburg, short trades.
Owner: Capt. Tom Morrissey
Captain(s): 1907, Master, Harry Bumgardner: pilot, Aubry D. Haines.
Comments: from site visitor Ben Denison
Harry Bumgardner worked aboard two snagboats, the J.S. Wright, and
the McComb. They worked the Mississippi River from Natchez to Alton
Ill. If anyone has any info would sure appreciate knowing about it.
1. Name: ROSE BUD
Type: sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 177.4' X 31.3' X 4.'.
Power: 13's-5 ft., 2 boilers.
Launched: 1877, California, Pa.
Destroyed: 1896, June 16, Bismarck, S.D., settled on submerged piling in
R.R. warehouse as river level fell. Sank.
Area: Mo. and Yellowstone Rs.
1888-89, L. Mo. R.
Owners: when launched, S.B. Coulson, William S. Evans, D.H.S. Gilmore,
D.W. Maratta and Capt. James McVay (the Coulson Line)
1884 or 5, Purchased by Block "P" Line.
1889 or 90, sold to Benton Pascket Company
*At one time either owner or Capt. , W.B. Wait
Captains: 1887, Josephus Todd I
Comments: this boat was the last of the "Coulson Line" fleet.
: 1882, sank at Claggett
: 1886, Aug. sank at Rocky Point
: boat made over 50 trips to Fort Benton.
1880, 83, 86 and 87 was first boat to arrive there in spring.
: She was equiped with electric lighting
* From King Family history
Name: ROSE DOUGLASS
Launched: pre 1857 as per query
Captains: 1857, possibly James L. Magennis
Comments: The source for this listing is the query.
Name: ROSE HITE Reference
Type: Size:
Launched: 1860s?
Destroyed:
Area: Miss. R.
Owner:
Captain(s):
Comments: Was struck by the CLIFTON. Don't know how much damage the
ROSE HITE sustained.
Name: ROSE ISLAND/CITY OF MEMPHIS/ROOSEVELT, originally the VERNE SWAIN
ROWENA At Burnside Landing
From River Rat 2
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 147.7' X 25.1' X 5.'
Power: Engines, 10's- 3-1/2 ft.. Three boilers each 38" X 18'
Launched: 1904, Burnside Ky.
Destroyed: 1931, late, Grassy Creek Shoals near R. Dunbar's Landing, sank
Area: Upper Cumberland R.
Sometimes on Ohio R. during low water
1917, Sept., Louisville-Evansville trade
Owners: originally, Burnside & Burkesville Packet Company
Last owner, Cumberland Transportation Company
1931, Burnside, purchased by broker John F. Klein
Comments: Klein was attempting to take her to Louisvill when she sank
Name: ROWENA LEE
1890-1902
Name: ROY L
Type: Size:
Launched: Built 1870s? at Arrow Rock, Mo, by Gustave Moehle and Sons.
Destroyed:
Area:
Owner:
Captain
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: ROYAL
Type: Sternwheel, woodenhull packet. Size: 86.6' X 24' X 3.'
Launched: 1884, Hermann, Mo. for Wohlt Bros.
Area: Mo. R.
Owners: Originally the Wohlt Bros.
Later, the Heckmans
Captains: at one time, Wm. Lewis Heckman, Sr.
Coments: Once went to Arlington, Mo. on Gassconade R., highest any boat
ever went.
Name: ROYAL, originally the T.N. BARNSDALL
1. Name: ROYAL ARCH
Type:Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 212 tons
Launched: 1852, West Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1858, Nine Mile Island below Dubuque, snagged and lost.
Area: 1850s, U. Miss. R.
1854, Davenport-Galena-Dubuque trade
1858, Out of Rock Island, Ill, for Rock Island R.R.
Owner: 1852, Capt. Adam Poe and others of Georgetown, Pa.
1854, Galena & Minnesota Packet Company
Captain: 1852, Poe, Adam
1854, Gleim, E.H.
1858, Smith, J.J.
Comments: 1852, Nov., Buffington Island, Ohio R., sank. TASCARORA hit
wreck and also sank.
: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: RUBY
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet Size: 110' X 22' X 2.8'
Launched: 1899, Rush Point, La.
Area: 1899, Shreveport-Garland City; 1900, summer, excursions to
Ruby Park 5 mi. above Shreveport.
1900, fall, Black River, hauling seed for Baton Rouge oil mill.
Owner: 1899, Maikell, Capt. William
1900, fall, Guss
Captain: 1899-1900, fall, Capt. William Maikell
1900, fall, Capt. Guss
1. Name: RUBICON
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 200'X 36'X 6.', 637 tons.
Power: Engines, 20's-6-1/2ft. Three boilers, each 30" X 26ft.
Launched: 1866, Pittsburgh, Pa. Built for Capt. William B. Haslett and others.
Destroyed: 1873, Dismantled. Hull was then used as a barge.
Area: Designed for St. Louis-Omaha trade. Also run in U. Mo. R.; Miss. R.
1866, Capt. Horace E. Bixby took her to Milk River on U. Missouri but had
to turn back due to low water.
1871, Entered Vicksburgh-Greenville trade.
Owner: Capt. William B. Haslett ane others.
Captains: First crew: Capt. William B. Haslett, master;
George M. Haslett, 1st. clerk; George Nease, 2nd clerk
and John Shoemaker, engineer.
: At one time, Grant Marsh was pilot, probably under Bixby.
Comments: Downbound on first trip hit Wheeling bridge. Knocked down stacks,
injuring 5.
: 1871, Given cotton guards at St. Louis.
Name: RUFUS KING
*Name: RUFUS PUTNAM
Built: 1822-23, Marietta, Oh. by Caleb Barstow
Size: 75' x 18', 60 tons.
Destroyed: 1825, Dec. 28, Point Chicot on the Mississippi River in present-day
Chicot County, Arkansas, snagged and sank.
Owners: 1822-23, Oliver Dodge and Capt. John Green
: 1825, purchased by David G. Bates of Galena, Illinois
Area: 1823 - 24, Ohio R.
: 1825, Upper Miss. R.
Comments: More about this boat in this Document
: also see
: Namesake was Gen. Rufus Putnam
*Name: RUFUS PUTNAM
Built: 1835, by James Whitney at Marietta, Ohio
Destroyed: 1838, sunk, approximately 15 miles north of Deweyville, Texas,
Hwy 12 and the Sabine River.(See)
Area: U. Miss. R.?
: 1839, sold alien (Mexico?) I suspect this boat actually went to Sabine R. Tex. Dave.
Captains: When new, Bosworth
: Machinery was salvaged from its wreck, presumably on Sabine R., Tex. for sawmill use
in Orange County, Tex.
1. Name: RUTH (1st boat named RUTH)
Type: sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 270' X 46' X 8.'. 702 tons.
Launched: 1863, Jan. 1
Destroyed: 1863, Aug 4, Confederate mail runner, saboteur burned her. See
Area: Miss. R.
Owner: Was almost from first in U.S. service
Comments: Both wheelhouses painted with painting of Ruth, the Daughter-in-law
of Naomi, gleaning in the harvest field after the reapers of Boaz.
1. Name: RUTH (2nd boat named RUTH)
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 309' X 48.5' X 9.5', 1,681 tons. 4 decks
Power: 30's-10 ft. from H.R.W. HILL
Launched: 1865, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard.
Destroyed: 1869, Mar. 13, Paw Paw Island, 30 mi. above Vicksburg, burned.
No lives lost, but some 200 head of cattle were burned or drowned.
Area: L. Miss. R.
Owner: Was under Atlantic and Mississippi Steam Ship Company banner
Captains: Has these masters; John A. Duble, Ben Taber, B. Rush Pegram
Comments: Made run N.O. - Donaldsonville 1865, Nov., 0/4/43
1. Name: RUTH (5th boat named RUTH)
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 136.5' X 24.5' X 4.4', 4 decks.
Launched: 1893, Marietta, Oh. Knox Yard.
Destroyed: 1918, Jan., Ohio River Damn 13, MeMechan, W. Va. lowt in ice.
Area: Ohio. R.
1896, Jan.-Sept, Pittsburg-Charleston
OwnerS: 1910, May 31 - 1918, Jan, Capts. Fred Hornbrook and Fred Kimpel
and others.
Captain(s): 1896, Jan.-Sept, Ira B. Huntington
Comments: 1897, July, was towboat for FRENCH's NEW SENSATION Showboat
The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. July. 12 1897
: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: RUTH (5th boat named RUTH)
Type: Steernwheel wooden hull packet. Single decker at start, later had
cabin added
Size: When built 136.5' X 24.5' X 4.4'
: 1910, Pt. Pleasant, Lenghtened to 153' X 30' X 4.5
: 1912 , there abouts, a texas deck was added.
Power: 12's-5 ft., 2 boilers each 44" X 20 ft.
Launched: 1893, Knox Yard, Marrietta, Oh.
Destroyed: 1918, Jan., McMechan, W. Va., Ohio R. Dam #13, lost in ice.
Area: 1893, Ironton, Oh, local trades.
1896, Jan - Sept., Pittsburg - Charleston
1896, Oct. 21, Wheeling-Sisterville Trade
1912, Evensville - Paducah trade
1916, Pittsburgh-Parkersburg, later Pittsburgh-Charleston trade
Owners: 1893, built for Bay Line
1906, May 1, Capt. J. Mack Gamble became sole owner.
1910, May 31, Sold to Capt. Fred Hornbrook, Capt. Fred Kimble,
Rose L. Williams and Harry Donnally, equal shares.
Captains: 1896, Jan-Sept., Ira B. Hunington
1896, Oct, 21. master and pilot, Michael B. Davis
1. Name: RUTH (7th boat named RUTH)
Type: Steernwheel wooden hull packet.
1906, there abouts, a texas deck was added
Size: 136.7' X 26.7' X 3.6', 141 tons.
: 1910, Pt. Pleasant, Lenghtened to 153' X 30' X 4.5
: 1912 , there abouts, a texas deck was added.
Power: Cross Compound engines, 10" and 16"-6 ft., one boiler
Launched: 1904, Clarington Oh.
Destroyed: 1918,Columbia, S.C., wrecked
Area: 1904, Sisterville-Wheeling
1906, Apalachicola-Flint R. Bainbridge, Ga.-Apalachicola, Fl. 172 mi.
1913, Santee and Congaree Rs.
Owner: 1904, built for Bay Line, Ironton Oh.
1906, Callahan Line, Bainbridge, Ga.
1913, Columbia Railway and Navigation Company of Columbia, S.C.
Captains: 1904-06, Oct, 21. master and pilot, Michael B. Davis
Comments; Many details pictured in S&D Reflector, June 1969 issue
Name: RYLAND See E.M. RYLAND
To riverboats starting with the Initial "R." To riverboats starting with the Letter R, Page 1 To riverboats starting with the Letter R, Page 2 To riverboats starting with the Name ROBERT 1. Way's Packet Directory, 1848 - 1994 3. Steamboats in the Valley
HERBS FOR HEALTH
Herbs, Vitimins and Minerals
Open The Alphabetical Index For Boats, Captains & Owners