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To Riverboats Starting With ST. or SAINT To Riverboats Starting With S,Page 1 To Riverboats Starting With S,Page 3 To Showboats Name: SCOTIA Area: Monongahela R. Name: SCOTTLAND Area: Miss. R. Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson, shopkeeper, Commerce, Mo. - Monday Night, April 15th 1861. " . . . The news came to town that Fort Sumptner was taken and Major Anderson was killed. This raised considerable and about the time people began to a little cool, the Steamer Scottland passed up the river with a palmetto tree hoisted on her. This arroused the feelings again and there was a strong talk about hailing her and meking her take it down, but they did not talk of it until she had gone by. Day passed off quiet. River on stand." 3. Name: SEA BIRD Launched: 1850's early Area: 1855, Sacramento R. Calif. 3. Name: SEA WITCH 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: SEBASCODEGAN Type: Size: Launched: Late 1800's Destroyed: Early 1900's Area: Cosco Bay (Portland) Maine Owner: Harpswell Steamboat Co. Captain and pilots: Capt. Comments: Name: SECRETARY Launched: Late 1840's? Destroyed: 1854, Aug. 15, Boiler exploded. Do not know if this actually destroyed the boat, but at least 1 life was lost. Area: 1854, Aug 15, California Delta Name: SEGWUN Web Site Type: Sidewheeler Mailboat/Propeller driven Cruise Boat Launched: 1887 Destroyed: Now operating as cruise boat Area: Muskoka Lakes, out of Gravenhurst, Canada Owner: 1878: 1970? - present: Muskoka Steamship Historical Society Captain and pilots: Capt. Comments: 1958 - early 1970's: floating museum 1970's, early: restoration converted her to a propeller driven steamer. Name: SELKIRK Type: Stern-wheeler Area: Yukon R. Owner: The British Yukon Navigation Co. Comments: For more see Alaskan Riverboats Name: SELMA Type: Sidewheeler, wooden hull, packet Size: 227 tons Launched: 1845, Cincinnati, Oh. Destroyed:1850, May 29, Cahawba, Ala., lost incollision with D.B. MOSBY Area: Went to Mobile Ala. Comments: sent in by site visitor, Sharon Teeslink "...is the steamship that travelled from New Orleans to Perry Co. Mo. with the Germans who started the Missouri Synod church in about 1847." Name: SELMA (the 2nd one) Originally the N.W. GRAHAM Launched: 1853, Covington, Ky. Name: SELMA (the 3rd one) Type: Sidewheeler, wooden hull, packet Size: 180' X 37' X 7', 600 tons Power: 20's- 7', 3 boilers, each 48" X 26' Launched: 1867,Pittsburgh, Pa. Destroyed: 1875, Jan. 25, sank. Was raised and dismantled at New Orleans. Area: 1867, Mobile-Montgomery, Ala. 1868, Dec. New Orleans-Shreveport 1870, New Orleans-Opalousas and Atchafalaya Rs. Owners: 1867, built for and owned by Capt. Thomas Rogers, of Pittsburgh 1868, bought by Capts. William T Scovell and John Couns, equal parts. 1870, bought by Capt. Charles C. Picket
Name: SENATOR
Type: Side-wheeler Size:220 X ?? 755 tons
Launched: 1840s?
Destroyed:
Area: Hudson R. (New York City); 1850s, Sacramento R., Calif.
Owner: Daniel Drew
Captain and pilots: Capt. LaFaye
Comments: 1849: 1st. riverboat to round Cape Horn.
Took 7 months. 17 days.
: 3. 1849, late, Started service on Sacramento R.
Sacramento - San Francisco. Made trip in 1 day.
Did this for more than 30 years.
: also see: California Delta
Name: SENATOR
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 121 tons
Launched: 1845 or 6, June, Wheeling W. Va. For Capt. John McLure
Destroyed: 1852, off the lists
Area: 1846, Made trip to New Orleans and brought back to Nashville troops
for the Mexican War.
1847, Apr.-48, Galena - St. Louis
1848, Galena St. Peters
1849-50, Galena St. Paul
Owner: 1846, Capt John McLure
184?8?-52, Galena, Dubuque and Minnesota Packet Company
Captain(s): 1847, Apr. 20, E.M. McCoy
1848, D. Smith Harris
1849-50, Orren Smith
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1848, Apr. 7, Arrived at St. Paul, Minn..
Name: SENATOR
Type: Sternwheel ferryboat. Size: 115' X 28' X 4.'
Power: 9"-2 ft.
Launched: 1882, Yankton, S.D. *Cost $12.000
Destroyed: *1887, Feb 5, Carried to mouth of Jim R. by breaking ice. Lost.
Area: Yankton, S.D
Owner: Yankton Steam Ferry Company
Comments: *replaced LIVINGSTON as ferry from Yankton, S.D.
to Green Island, Neb.
Comments: This info from Bob Karolevitz's column The Way It Was,
believed to have been in a 1995 Yankton. S.D.. newspaper.
Name: SENATOR, Formerly the ST. PAUL
Type: Side-wheeler excursion boat Size:
Area: 1952, Ohio R. summer in Pittsburgh?;
Name: SENATOR CORDILL
Post Card Pictures 1, 2
Name: SENECA CHIEF
Type: Passenger barge Size:
Launched: 1825, Oct.
Area: Erie Canal
Name: SENTINEL
Post Card Picture
Name: SERENDIPITY PRINCESS,
previously the TRENT VOYAGEUR and the SERENDIPITY LADY
Voyageur
Type:Steal hulled, flat bottomed, sternwheel replica.
Power: Twin Catepiller Diesels Pro
Size: 93 x 25 x 5, 3 Decks, 267 passenger and crew
Launched: 1982 or so
Destroyed:
Area: Summer, Lake Simcoe in Barrie, Ontario, Canada,
Autum, Trent Severn Canal out of Port Severn Ontario
Owner:
Captain(s): 1998, Jones, Graham
Comments: 1998, Nov., from boat's present Captain, Graham Jones.
Original Keel was laid I believe in 1982. Vessel was named
"Trent Voyageur" Sailed the area of the Trent/Severn Canal
on multi day cruises for several years.
Was sold and subsequently operated for a short time as the
"Serendipity Lady" out of Peterborough, Ontario Cananda,
also in the same trade, until left abandoned at the wharf
and in a state of disrepair.
Was Purchased in 1995 by PMCL and underwent an extensive
refit where she was widened, lenghthened, repowered, and
completely re appointed throughout.
Name: SHALLCROSS See NEW SHALLCROSS
1. Name: SHAMROCK
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 164' X 26' X 4.6', 139 tons
Launched: 1848, Newport Ky.
Destroyed: 1851, June 29, Lake Bistineau, La., burned
Area: 1850, Dec., Port Caddo - New Orleans
Owners: 1850, Nov. 15, 1/2, by Capt. George G. Remer
1850, Dec. 23, 3/4 sold to John G. Kendall
1851, Apr. 1/2 sold to Capt. Ebenezer Watson Linn
of Brookville, Ky.
Name: SHARK
Type: Stern-wheel, man powered Size: small
Area: Miss. R.
Name: SHAWNEE
Name: SHELBY
Comments:
Made run N.O. - Natchez 1817, 3/20/0
Made run N.O. - Louisville 1817, 20/4/20
1. Name: SHENANDOAH
Type: Sidewheel packet, wood hull, Size: 179 tons
Launched: 1848, Brownsville PA
Destroyed: 1856, Feb. 27, Torn from docks and swept downstream
in ice flow during Great Ice Gorge at St. Louis.
Destroyed.
Area: 1848 - 50, Pittsburg - St. Louis; 1853 - 54, St Louis - St Paul
Captain:1848 - ?56?, Bowman, George
Comments: 1849, Oct. 9, knocked her stacks down passing under draw
bridge in Louisville Canal
Name: SHEPHERDESS
Comments: Broke the TECUMSCH's record
of 9 days New Orleans to Louisville.
Source
Name: SHERLOCK
From
The James E. York Post Card Collection
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Launched: 1800s
Area: Ohio R.
Name: SHOSHONE
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From
The James E. York Post Card Collection
Type: Sternwheeler
Size: 221.3'X 35.5' X 5.5'
Power: 17's-5 ft., 3 boilers
Launched: 1880, Murraysville, completed Wheeling, W Va.
Destroyed: 1938, dismantled
Area: 1880 - 1882?: Wheeling - Cincinnati
1882? - ????: Under owner Diamond Jo Line: U. Miss R.: St Louis
- St. Paul
???? - ????: Under owner Strekfus Line: New Orleans in winter
Owner: List, William M.
1897?, Diamond Jo Line
1901, Strekfus Steamers
Captains: 1880, William M List
Strekfus, Roy
As WASHINGTON: Lax, Hilmar
Comments:1882, Mar. 10 at Goose Island on Ohio R.: Burst steamline.
4 dead, 16 scalded.
1882?: Sold to Diamond Jo Line.
????: Sold to Strekfus Line. Converted to excursion boat.
1913: First to enter the new Keokuk lock under Capt Roy
1920 or 21: Completely rebuilt and renamed WASHINGTON
Way's Packet Dir. p 481.
Name: SIDNEY P. SMITH
At Rome, Ga. Donated by Ken McCulloch
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Launched: c. 1870
Destroyed: sometime after 1873
Area: Coosa R. Georgia and Alabama
Comments: Source
1. Name: SIGNAL/Union Tinclad #8
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 190 tons
Launched: 1862, Wheeling, W. Va.
Area: 1964, May 5, Red R., Dunns' Bayou, escorting JOHN WARNER when captured
by Confederates.
Owners: 1862, Sept. 22, sold to U.S. Navy. Converted into tinclad.
Name: SILVER BOW
Type: Side-wheeler
Owner: St. Louis & Omaha Packet Co.?
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: 1869, at Fort Levenworth
Name: SILVER CITY Originally the TYRONE
Name: SILVER CLOUD
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 155' X 33.5' X 5.3', 236 tons.
Power: Engines, 16's- 5', 3 boilers.
: 1865, converted to sidewheeler and redocumented, same name.
Launched: 1862, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1866, Oct. 2, Buffalo Bayou, Tx., snagged and lost.
Comments: Became U.S. tinclad #28
Comments: 1865, Aug 17, sold at public auction to J.H. Sterne for $11,000
Name: SILVER CLOUD
Comments: * 1866, Nov. Is said Capt. Spencer was having built by Mr. Parsons
Name: SILVER CLOUD
1878 - 1887
Name: SILVER CLOUD No. 2
1863-1869
Name: SILVER CRESCENT
From
The James E. York Post Card Collection
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 123.3' X 22.9' X 3.9', 125 tons.
Launched: 1882, Clinton Iowa
Destroyed: 1909, Winona, Minn., dismantled
Area: 1892, Davenport-Burlington
1895-1908, Keokuk-Quincy trade
Owner: 1892, purchased by Capt. Walter Blair
Captain: 1892, Walter Blair
1895, S.R. Dodd
Comments: Originally a raft boat
1. Name: SILVER HEELS
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 187' X 29' X 6.', 267 tons.
Power: 20's- 6 1/2 ft., 3 boilers, each 40" X 26'.
Launched: 1857, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard.
Destroyed: 1860, Oct. 2, Carrollton (New Orleans), sunk in storm.
Area: Early, Mo. R.
1858 on, Miss. R.
Owners: Built for St. Louis & St. Joseph Line
1858, Nov., sold to New Orleans Coast & Lafourche Transportation Company
1860, Jan., sold to Capt. Charles Cane Pickett and others, Pointe
Coupe Parrish, La..
Captains: 1860, Master, John J. Brown
Comments: 1857, The Diary of E.F. Beadle places her in Omaha, May 19,
and July 16
1. Name: SILVER HEELS
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Also said to be a small towboat
Area: Marietta-Zanesville, 1 trip.
: Otherwise, mostly Little Kanawha R.
Launched: 1858, Hooksburg on Muskingum R., Oh. for Capt. Isaac N. Hook
Destroyed: 1868, Oct. 14, below Vanceburg, Ky., sunk in some 50' of water in violent storm
Owners: When new, Capt. Isaac N. Hook
1868 when sunk, the Little Family, Portsmouth, Oh.
Name: SILVER LAKE
Launched: 1860s?
Area: U. Mo. R.
Captain and pilots: Capt. Grant Marsh
Name: SILVER MOON
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1850s? late.
Destroyed: 1869, late, on rocks at Louisville.
Area: Miss. R.; Ohio R.
Name: SILVER STAR
1856-60
Name: SILVER STAR
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 67.7' X 10' X 4.22'
Launched: 1877, Mason City, W. Va.
Destroyed: still documented, Cincinnati, 1896
Comments: *1885, Feb. 19, Stone River at Charleston, South Carolina, sank.
Apparently was raised.
Name: SILVER WAVE
From
The James E. York Post Card Collection
Type: Side-wheeler Size: 63 tons
Launched: 1888
Destroyed: 1897, July 21 fire at dock at Portsmouth, Oh.
Area: Miss. & Ohio Rs.
Captain(s): 1870's?, Blair, Walter,
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. July. 12 1897
Name: SIOUX CITY
Type: Sidewheeler
Size: 162.5' X 30' X 3.4'
Power: 13's - 4' two boilers.
Launched: 1870, California, PA.
Destroyed: 1873, Mar. 19, Swept away by ice gorge and destroyed.
Area: Ohio and Mo. Rivers.
Owner(s): 1870, Capt. Edmund B.(E.?) Cooper, James A. Sawyer, Andrew M.
Haley, all of Sioux City Iowa.
: 1871, Feb., St. Louis and Arkansas River Packet Co.
: 1872, spring, J. H. Durfee of Leavenworth, Kan. and others
Captain(s): 1870, Cooper, Edmund B. (E.?)
: 1871, Johnson, T. P.
: 1872, spring, McGarry, James
Comments: SIOUX CITY
1. Name: SIR WILLIAM WALLACE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 153' X 35' X 5.2', 255 tons.
Launched: 1855, California, Pa. For Hugh Campbell
Destroyed: 1866, Mar. 27, Mobile Ala., Burned.
Area: 1855-60, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati-St. Louis
1860-62, engaged in U.S. troop movement at various times.
1862-64, Out of Memphis
1864- Cincinnati-Memphis
1865, taken to Mobile, Ala.
Owner: 1855-62, Hugh Campbell, 7/8; Charles S. Frisbee, 1/8
1862-65, Capt. W.G. Stewart
1865, Apr. Capt. George H. Alcoke of New York, 1/2;
Captain: 1855- ??, Hugh Campbell
1862-64, G. W. Stewart
Name: SITKA
Type: Side-wheeler Size: 37'
Launched: 1847?
Destroyed: 1847, Dec. 5, sank in San Francisco Bay
Area: Sacramento R.
Owner: Capt. William A. Leidesdorff
Captain: William A. Leidesdorff
Comments: The first steamboat to make an appearance in the
California Delta. Was off-loaded in pieces from the
Russian bark Naslednich and reassembled at Yerba Buena
(San Francisco). In November of 1847, sidewheeler
made its way up the Sacramento River to John Sutter's
New Helvetia, taking six days and seven hours to make
the voyage. She was sunk by a south-eastern the next day.
3. Name: 6th JUNE
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: SKYLARK
Type: Size:
Launched:
Destroyed:
Area:
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt. Pilot Jesse Jamieson
Comments:
Name: SLICER
Type: Size:
Launched:
Destroyed:
Area: Miss. R.
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt. Pilot Jesse Jamieson
Comments: From The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson, shopkeeper,
Commerce, Mo.
- Wednesday Night, March 27th, 1861. "Business has been dull
today. . . . I heard from Grasndfather today by Slicer. . . . "
1. Way's Packet Directory, 1848 - 1994
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