RIVERBOATS
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RACHAEL MILLER - RHODE ISLAND
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RIVERBOATS
Starting With
R
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RACHAEL MILLER - RHODE ISLAND
River Bend
Currier and Ives
From Picture This
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1. Name: RACHAEL MILLER/REINDEER (the 2nd one)/MARINER
The #35 is U.S. military designation
Type: Sternwheeler, U.S. tinclad Size: 212 tons
Launched: 1863, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1867, May 9, Onawa Bend, Mo. R., near Decatur, Neb., lost.
Area: 1865, Oct. was at Pittsburgh
Owners: 1865, Oct. 3, sold to private parties
Comments: When taken over by U.S. forceS, renamed REINDEER #35
: 1865, Oct. 3, renamed MARINER
Name: RADNOR
Launched: 1840s?
Destroyed: 1846, near the mouth of the Lamine R. in Slaughterhouse
Bend just upriver from Boonville, Mo.
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
1. Name: RAINBOW
Type: Sidewheel
Launched: 1842
Name: RAINBOW
Launched: 1846, early
3. Name: RAINBOW
Launched: 1840s. late?
Area: 1840s, late, Sacramento R., Calf.
1. Name: RAINBOW
Type: Sidewheel
Launched: 1854
1. Name: RAINBOW
Ad from Olden Times.com The Louisville Post, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky September 22, 1881
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 164' X 39' X 6'.
Launched: 1879, Jeffersonville, Ind., by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1890, 1900, Sept. while laid up for low water 25 mi. below Memphis.
Area: 1881, Sept. Owensboro, Evansville, Henderson
1889, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati trade.
Owners: 1881, Sept. Louisville & Evansville & Henderson Mail Packet Company
1889, Purchased by Capt. Chris G. Young, Portsmith, Oh., for $8,000.
Later, White Collar Line bought half interest in her.
Captains: 1880, Ed Crinder
1881, Sept. A.T. Gilmore
1884, J.K. Westfall
At one time, John. K. Webster
Name: RALPH
Area: 1886, White R.
Owner: Capt William C. Shipp and or The Ralph Transportation Company
Comments: 1887-88 season, lenghtened and electric lights added.
: Source
Name: RALPH E. WARNER - originally the TOM HESS
Name: RAMBLER
Type: Size: 115 ton
Area: Miss R.
Captain and pilots: Capt. ; 1825, cub, Sellers, Isaiah
Name: RANDALL
Size: 90' X 30', 44 tons.
Launched, 1889
Area: 1892, U. White R., Batesville-Buffalo City
Captains: 1892, Will T. Warner with Captain Albert Cravens as pilot
Source
Name: RANDOLPH
Comments: Matched GENERAL BROWNS record N.O. - Louisville 1837, 6/22/0
Name: RARITAN
Launched: 1807
Area: Raritan R., Manhattan to New Brunswick
Owner: Hudson River Steamboat Company
Comments: Source
Name: RARITAN
Launched: 1840, Sharpsburg, Pa
Area: Ohio R. out of Pittsburgh
Owners: 1840, Jacob Smith, Jeremiah Butler, William Craig, S.H. Hartman,
and David O. Hopkins."
Captains: 1840, Alex Short
Source: The book The Allegheny River by Mrs S. Kussart, 1938.
Name: RAYMOND HORNER
Type: Towboat
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Mar. 31 1897
Name: RED CLOUD See Post Card
* Name: RED RIVER PACKET
Size: 120 tons
Power: High pressure
Launched: 1826, Cincinnati, Oh.
1. Name: RED RIVER
From
The James E. York Post Card Collection
Type: Sternwheeler, wooden hull, packet Size: 155' X 28' X 3.5'
Launched: 1899, Jeffersonville, Ind., by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1907. Feb., Sank
Area: 1899 - 1904, Miss.R.; 1904 or 5, Cumberland R.
Owner: 1899, Red River Packet Company
1905, Cumberland River Packet Company
Captains: 1903, Carter, H.M.
Comments: 1903 or so, Alexandria, La., sank from overloading. Raised.
1. Name: RED ROVER
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 256' X 40.9' X 7.5', 625 tons.
Power: 28's- 8 ft., 5 boilers.
Launched: 1857, Louisville, Ky.
Area: At first, Nashville-New Orleans
1861, Columbas, Ky., then at Island 10.
1863, was at Battle of Vicksburg
Owners: 1861, Nov. 7, acquired by the Confederacy
1861, taken by Union forces (see below)
1865, Nov. 29, Mound City, purchased at public auction by A.M.
Carpenter for $4,500.
Captains: 1860, W. Strong
Sometime During Civil War, Joseph Beauchamp
Comments: 1861, hit by union cannon. Dammaged and tied to Tenn. shore.
Later taken by union boats to Cairo and repaired and taken to
St. Louis and fitted out as hospital boat. Took survivors of
MOUND CITY attack to Memphis where Sisters of the Holy Cross
offered to serve aboard. These women became the forerunners
of the U.S. Navy Nurse Corp.
Name: RED WING
Type: Sidewheel
Size:
Launched: 1840s?
Destroyed: 1848. May 17, Fire at St. Louis docks.
Area: Miss. R.
Name: RED WING
From
The James E. York Post Card Collection
Type: Sidewheel, sooden hull packet
Size: 245' X 35' X 6.'
Power: Engines, 20's- 7ft. Four boilers
Wheels, 28' 2", 11' buckets
Area: St. Louis-St. Paul
Launched: 1870, Brownsville, hull/Pittsburgh, completed
Destroyed: c. 1882 dismantled
Owners: Keokuk Northern Line
Captains: W.P. Hight
Name: REES LEE See Post Card
Launched: 1906
Name: REGULAR see SCIOTO
1. Name: REINDEER
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size:407 tons
Launched: 1851, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1867, Nov. 12, Wood River, Ill., Snagged and lost.
Area: 1851, Louisville-New Orleans
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: 1854, Mar 13, Cannelton, Ind., flue collapsed, 38 lost lives,
Next morning the EUROPA landed her
and the MAGNOLIA towed the wreck to Hawesville where the
victins were given a mass burial. A tombstone marks the site
pictured in the S & D Reflector, Sept. 1966, Pg 29.
The hulk was refloated and rebuilt.
Made run N.O. - Cairo 1852, 3/4/4
1. Name: REINDEER (the 2nd one)
Type: Sidewheele, wooden hull packet Size: 360 tons
Launched: 1860, MArietta, Oh.
Comments: 1861, went Mobile Ala. and passed to Confederate registry.
1. Name: REINDEER #35 (the 3rd REINDEER), originally the RACHAEL MILLER
The #35 is U.S. military designation
Launched: 1863, Cincinnati, Oh.
1. Name: REINDEER (the 4th one)/PERI/MARIETTA,
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet Size: 155 tons
Launched: 1863, Cincinnati, Oh
Owner: 1865, Oct. 3, sold to private owners.
Comments: Became Tinclad #57, the PERI in war service.
1865, Oct. 3, renamed MARIETTA
1. Name: REINDEER (the 5th one)
Type: Sidewheeler, wooden hull packet. Size: 267 tons
Launched: 1865, Cincinnati. Oh.
Destroyed: 1874, off the lists
Area: went to Mobile Ala.
1. Name: REINDEER (the 6th one)
Type: ?, wooden hull packet. Size: 103' X 19' X 3'
Launched: 1878, Terre Haute, Ind. or Eveansville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1886, still on lists.
Area: Probably on Wabash R.
1. Name: REINDEER (the 7th one)/ILLINOIS (the 6th one)
Type: Sternwheeler, wooden hull packet
Size: As REINDEER, 125' X 23' X 3.3'; as ILLINOIS, 139' x 26.6' x 4,8'
As ILLINOIS, 139' x 26.6' x 4.8'
Power: The same under both names. 12's-6 ft., 2 boilers,
Launched: 1888, Dubuque, Iowa
Destroyed: 1930, Sept. 30, mouth of Wood River, Alton, Ill., Burned.
Area: 1897, Dubuque-Clinton, Iowa, tri-weekly.
Owners: 1901-13: Illinois Fish Commission
1913-?25?, Alton Div. of Naval reserves
1925-29, The new St. Louis & Calhoun Packet Company
1929-30, Sept 30, Phillips Bros.
Captains: 1897, Moore, W.M.
Comments: 1894, Coon Slough, snagged, possibly by the wreckage of the
LADY FRANKLIN and NOMINEE. Raised.
1901: condemmed and rebuilt at Quincy, Ill. Renamed ILLINOIS
: Rumor has it that when she burned, there was a moonshine still
aboard and she had been cut loose to avoid boarding by Federal
Marshals.
Name: RELAIBLE
Area: 1897: Was using Booth's "Old Reliable" warf boat in Wheeling, W. Va
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
1. Name: RELIANCE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 129.3' X 26' X 5.', 156 tons.
Launched: 1845, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1854, off the lists.
Area: Went to New Orleans
1847, went to Galveston, Tx.
*1848, Mar. 29, went Galveston to Huston, Tex.
Owners: 1845, In part by Capt William Moore
1847, sold to S.W. Tichenor, Galveston.
Captains: 1845-47, William Moore
Comments: *From Journal of Paul Haralson, March, 1848.
Name: RELIANCE
Launched: 1885
Name: RELIANCE See Post Card
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Launched ??
Name: RELIEF
Launched: 1848, Irontown, Oh.
Area: 1840s, in Dresden, Oh. trade
Owners: in part, Capt Robert Hazelett
Captains: Thompson
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: RESOLUTE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 203 tons.
Launched: 1857, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1859, Apr. 10, Ark. R. between Van Buren and Ft. Smith, Ark.
Snagged and lost.
Comments: *Lost race with KEY CITY
*Jones Worden's Steamboats and Steamboating Career by Frederick J. Worden
Name: RESOLUTE/PETALUMA #1
Type: Sternwheel Packet Size: 134' X 29' X 5.5', 250 hp.
Launched: 1883, Turner Yard, Benicia, Calif.
Destroyed: 1914, Mar. 24, in night, Petaluma warf, burned and cast
free to save warf.
Area: 1908, Petaluma Creek, Calif.
San Francisco on Petaluma Creek to Petaluma Calf..
Owner: 1884 - 1911, Petaluma Transportation Company
1911 - Petaluma and Santa Rosa R.R.
Comments: 1911, renamed PETALUMA
machinery was salvaged and used on the second PETALUMA
Source: Western Railroader
1. Name: RETURN
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 152' X 28' X 5.5', 220 tons.
Launched: 1852, California, Pa.
Destroyed: 1859, July 27, DeValls Bluff, Ark., lost.
Area: 1852, Upper Ohio trades.
Owners: 1852, Capt. William Stoops and others
Later, Capt. J.R. Jones
Possibly at one time, Edward James Hulings and his brother
Captains: 1852, William Stoops
Later, J.R. Jones
1. Name: REVENUE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 143' X 22' X 4.9', 236 tons.
Launched: 1844, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1847, May 24, Ill. R. near Peoria, burned.
Area: Tramp trades to Ark. R.
1845, was up Wabash R.
cir. 1846, Ohio R.
Owner: * Capt. A. Bartlett
Captains: 1844, when new, Master, Captain A. Bennett of Wheeling, W. Va.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article as possibly having the first
steam whistle on the Ohio R.. Way's Packet Directory says this
whistle was installed by engineer, J.S. Neal, the first whistle
heard on Western Waters.
: *The article above names the owner as A. Bartlett of Wheeling, W. Va.
Way's Packet Directory says the first master was Capt. A. Bennett.
Take your pick.
Name: REVENUE
Area: Arkansas R.
Name: RHODE ISLAND
Launched: 1870s
Area: Rhode Island Sound
Owner: Stonington Line
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