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Name: SMELTER
Type: Tow boat Size: Small
Launched: 1837
Destroyed:
Area: U. Miss. R.
Owner: Harris, Daniel Smith , Capt. and his brother,
Harris, Robert Scribe, Capt.
Captain and pilots: Capt. Harris, Daniel Smith
Comments: Also a scenic excursion boat on U. Miss. R..
Mentioned in this Article
Name: SMOKY CITY
Type: Size: small
Launched: 1840s?
Destroyed:
Area: Miss. R. & Ohio Rs.
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. June. 12 1897
Name: SONORA
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 220' X 32' X 5.5', 363 tons.
Power: Engines, 21- 1/2's-7 ft., 3 boilers.
Launched: 1851, St. Louis, Mo.
Destroyed: 1856, Feb. 26, Portland, Mo, Mo. R., sank in ice, lost.
Area: St. Louis-Mo. R.
1853, ran trips up Red R.
Captains: St. Louis-Mo. R., Joseph LaBarge
Red R., William Terrell
Comments: 1916, Machinery and brass removed
: 1927, wreck still visible at low water
: 1940, U.S. dredge KEOKUK removed wreck
Name: SOPHIAor SOPHIE
Launched: 1840s, late?
Area: 1840s, late, Sacramento R.
Owner(s): 1856, California Steam Navigation Company
1. Name: SOUIX CITY
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 162.5 x 30 x 3.4.
Power: Engines, 13's- 4 ft. Two boilers.
Launched: 1870, California, Pa.
Destroyed: Mar. 19, 1873, about eight miles below Fort Sully, an ice
gorge crushed her.
Area:
Owners: 1870: Capt. Edmund B. Cooper, James A. Sawyer, and
Andrew M . Haley of Sioux City, Iowa:
1871, February, St. Louis & Arkansas River Packet Co..
1882 J.H. Durfee, Leavenworth, Kan., and others.
Captains: 1870, Capt. E.R. Cooper
1871, Feb., Capt. T. P. Johnson
1882, Capt. James McGarry
Comments: More on this boat
Name: SOUTH WESTAR
Type: Size:
Launched:
Destroyed:
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: Pacific Rail road Packet Co.
Captain and pilots: Capt. John Porter.
Comments: Plied trade from St. Louis to Jefferson City to connect
with trains for Kansas, Fr. Levenworth, Weston,
Atchinson and St Joseph.
Name: SOUTH WESTER
Type: Size:
Launched: 1850s?
Destroyed:
Area: 1860, Mo. R
Owner:
Captain(s): DeHaven, David
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Name: SOUTHERN BELLE
Type: Size:
Launched:
Destroyed:
Area: Miss. R
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: Made run N.O. - Natchez 1853, 0/20/3
Name: SOUTHERNER
Launched: 1850s?
Area: Miss. R.
Owner: United States Mail Line
Comments: Made run Louisville - St. Louis 1855, 1/19/0
Name: SOUTHLAND, ORIGINALLY THE NASHVILLE
1910 - 1932
Name: SOVENIR (sp?)
Area: 1832, Dec., Ill. R., returned troops from Black Hawk War
to Hennepin, (Ill.?)
Source
Name: SPEEDWELL/HELEN M. GOULD/LOUCINDA See Postcard of SPEEDWELL
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: When new, 140.7' X 25.5' X 6.5'
After 1910 complete rebuild, 150' X 30' X 4.5'
Power: Engines, 12's- 6ft.. Two boilers, each 43" X 22'
Launched: 1897, Middleport, Oh.
Destroyed: 1918, Jan. 30, Cincinnati, wrecked by ice
Area: for Carr, local trade on Kanawha R.
1901, Charleston-Gallipolis
1902, briefly, Portsmouth-Cincinnati
Then Madison-Louisville
1910 after, mostly Cincinnati-Madison
Owners: When new, Carr Milling Co.
1902, purchased by Capt. Sam Parsons who renamed her HELLEN M. GOULD
Acquired by Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Company
Captains: 1901, Ralph Emerson
Comments: 1910, was completely rebuilt by L&C and renamed LOUCINDA
: 1914, became stranded high and dry on sandbar for several months
: After ice took her, the hull was recovered and built into the ANDES
Name: SPIRIT
Type: Sternwheeler, modern excursion boat
Size: 130 - 145 passengers
Area: Little Rock, Ark.
Name: SPIRIT of CINCINNATI, originally the BELLE of the LAKES
Name: SPIRIT OF JEFFRERSON, see MARK TWAIN
Name: SPIRIT of PEORIA Web Site
Type: Sternwheeler, modern excursion boat
Size: 100' X 35'. Wheel: 21'. Bow Stages: 35'. Stackight: 47.5'
Draft: 4.5'. Passengers: 409.
Power: Paddle Driven by 2 locomotive electric motors powered by
2 Caterpiller 3412 Genset engines.
Launched: 1988, Paducha, KY by (James) Jumer Boatworks
under the direction of Capt. Robert Anton.
Destroyed:
Area: Ill. River, Gragfton to Starved Rock. Home port is Cityfront,
Peoria, IL.
Season: Memorial Day to Labor Day. Private charters: Mar. - Dec.
Owner: 1988: Jumer's Boatworks, Peoria, Ill.
19??: East Peoria Steamboat Company, the riverboat gaming
license holder for Peoria, and owner of the Par-a-Dice
gaming boat, Peoria, Ill., who allowed her to just
sit dockside and deteriorate.
19??: The city of Peoria, Ill., who further allowed her
to deteriorate for 5 yrs.
1994-96: Leased by Lowel (BUD) and G. Alexander Greives.
1996: G&G Packet Co. (Lowel (BUD) and G. Alexander Greives.)
Captain(s):1988-93: Robert Anton
:1994-98, July: Jim Mattox
1997 - G. Alexander Greives,
1999, July Harold Breitenbach
Engineer: 1998-99, July: Harold Breitenbach
Comments: 1998: First Mate: Daniel Downard. Second Mate: Orlando Lowe.
: 1997: G&G started $600,000 remodeling project
Name: SPIRIT OF SACRAMENTO Originally the PUNTA
Name: SPIRIT of ST. CHARLES/HARRIET BISHOP
Type: Ornamental sternwheel excursion boat Size:99', 400 passengers
Launched: 1987, Utica, Ind.
Area: 1987,
1999, St Paul Minn.
Captains: 1999, William C. Bowell
Comments: renamed for Minnesota's first school teacher
: 1995, attended Tall Stacks Celebration
1999, attended Tall Stacks Celebration
Name: SPORT
Area: Osage R. Mo.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article.
Name: SPRAGUE Source photo See Post Card
Type: Sternwheel towboat
Size: Hull, 275'. W/wheel, 318'
Launched: 1902, by Iowa Iron Works in Dubuque, Iowa.
Area: Ohio and Miss. Rs.
Captains: Albinus J. McKean (from his G, G, grandson)
: at one time, Carter Sewell Smith
Comments: Largest towboat ever made
: 1904, Moved 56 coalboats and 4 barges at once.
: 1926, moved 11,000,000 gal of oil in one trip.
: 1948: Converted to museum/showboat for Vicksburg
Name: SPRAY
1. Name: SPREAD EAGLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 210' X 36' X 6.', 389 tons
Power: Engines, 22's- 7 ft., 3 boilers, each 40" X 24'
Launched: 1857, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1864, Mar. 20, 3 mi. above New Haven, Mo., Pinckney Bend, Mo. R., sank.
This bend in the river became known as Spread Eagle Bend.
Area: Mo. R. entire career.
Owner: Built by Capt. Ben Johnson who sold her upon arrival at St. Louis
1857-?? American Fur Co. possibly in partnership with Capt. Joseph LaBarge
1864, Mar. 20, Capt. Wharton, Thomas H. Voorhees, Mrs. Saltmarsh and
engineer John Orum.
Captains: 1857-??, Capt. Labarge, Joseph
1861, William Rodney Massie
Comments: Plied trade from St. Louis to Omaha, and Council Bluffs IO.
1862, June 6: Raced EMILIE on Upper Mo. from morings
near Ft. Berthold in Dakota Territory.
Rammed EMILIE'S bow to keep her from winning. Lost by 4 days.
: Capt. Massie said years later that her that her wreck lies
burried in sand a mile from the river.
: From Diary of E.F. Beadle: 1857, May 18, Omaha, This evening at about dark,
the steamer Spread Eagle passed up without stopping. She was in employ
of the fur company or the government and her only load was supplies for the North.
Name: SPREAD EAGLE See Post Card
Launched: 1880s?
Destroyed: 1918, Jan., crushed by ice.
Owner: Eagle Packet Co.
1. Name: SPRINGFIELD Originally the W.A. HEALY
3. Name: SPRY
Type: Size:
Launched: 1840s, late?
Destroyed:
Area: 1840s, late, Sacramento R.
Name: S.S. BROWN Source
Type: Sternwheeler Size:
Launched: 1906, Pittsburgh
Destroyed:
Area: Miss. R.
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: Taken to Memphis during 1st year. Engaged only in Southern
trade after that.
1909: renamed
(Way's Packet Directory, p. 407 - 408)
Name: STAR
Launched: 1840s, late?
Area: 1840s, late, Sacramento R.
Name: STAR of the WEST
A nickname given the 1852 ALLEGHENY
1. Name: STAR of the WEST
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 435 tons.
Launched: 1855, McKeesport, Pa.
Destroyed: 1858, St. Louis, burned.
Area: Mo. R., St. Louis-St. Joseph
Captains: 1856, Dix
Comments: 1957, Mar. 22, 7 mi. above Jefferson City, Mo. - according
to this Diary, she was aground with others on a sandbar.
Got free the next day. Mar. 27 she put into Weston, Mo.
and St. Joseph, Mo., the upper end of its trip,
at 9PM that evening.
1. Name: STATE OF MISSOURI
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 252' X 56' X 6.5'
Launched: 1890, Madison, Ind.
Destroyed: 1895, Jan. 12, hit rocks on shoreline and went to kindling.
4 persons lost. Pell was pilot on watch, reading newspaper.
A cub was at wheel.
Area: Cincinnati-New Orleans trade.
Owner: 1890 Memphis and Cincinnati Packet Company
1857, sold to Louisville parties for $8,700
Captain: 1895, Master, Joe Conlin; Pilot, Jim Pell, Jr.
Comments: 1894, Feb. 20, Watson's Landing, sank and was raised.
1. Name: STATESMAN
Type: Sidewheeler, wooden hull packet Size: 247 tons
Launched: 1851, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1859, off lists.
Area: 1852, Mar, Ohio. R.; 1857, Henderson trade
Owner: 185?-57, Capt. Malin, John W.
1857, sold to Louisville parties for $8,700
Captain: 1851, Gormley; 185?-57, Malin, John W.
Name: STEAMBOAT THEATERS
Type: Size:
Launched:
Destroyed:
Area:
Owner: 1836, Chapman's, William first;
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments:
Name: STEEL CITY/ISLAND BELLE, formerly the VIRGINIA
Name: STELLA WHIPPLE
Type: Size:
Launched: 1850s or 60s?
Destroyed:
Area: U. Miss. R.
Owner:
Captain:
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: STELLA WILDS See Post Card
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Launched: 1886, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1900, 23 mi. below Natchez, burned
Name: STERLING
Owners: 1869, July, under charter to Diamond Jo Line
Comments: There is no reference to this boat under that name.
In the article I have the boat is refered to as the "STERLING",
but she might well have been the GENERAL PRICE (See)
Name: STEUBENVILLE
Type: Size:
Launched: Between 1815 and 1820 in Wheeling, W. Va.
Destroyed:
Area: Ohio R.
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: Machinery and boilers made by Arthur M. Philips,
Wheeling, formerly of Stubenville, Oh..
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: STOCKDALE
Type: Size:
Launched:
Destroyed:
Area: 1879: Ohio R. Using The People's Warf Boat in Wheeling, W. Va.
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
1. Name: STONEWALL
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 224' X 42.5' X 6.8'
Area: Out of St. Louis
Launched: 1866, Jeffersonville Ind. by Howard yard
Destroyed: 1869 Oct. 27, just after supper, 45 mi. above Cairo, Ill.,
at Neelys Landing, burned. Some 209 people drowned.
Owners: Capt. John Shaw and Dennis Long, Louisville, Ky.
Captains: 1869, when burned, Thomas Scott was master.
Comments: Was headed south to enter New Orleans-Grand Encore trade.
Had too many deck passengers and large load of freight.
Pilot Ed Fulkerson tried to run her ashore but wound up on a
bar with water all around burning boat.
Within hour of burning the wrecking boat SUBMARINE No.13
passed her by without stopping.
Three hours later BELLE MEMPHIS gave assistance.
: Captain Scott, his first clerk and the mate were amoung the dead.
: Hull was turned into a wharfboat at St. Louis
Name: STONINGTON
Launched: 1870s
Area: Rhode Island Sound
Owner: Stonington Line.
Name: STORM
Launched: 1840s?
1. Name: SUBMARINE No. 4 (Eads')/BENTON (the 1st BENTON)
Type: Sidewheel wrecking boat/U.S. Gunboat
Size: 184' X 75' X 8'
Power: 20's-7 ft.
Launched: 1850s, late
Destroyed: 1865, scrapped
Area: Miss. R.
Owner: When built, Eads, James B. of St. Louis
: 1865, Mound City, Ill. Sold at sale to Jacobs, D. for $3,000.
Captains: 1862, Bixby, Horace
Comments: Converted to U.S. Gunboat. Forward plating, 5/8" iron.
Mounted 16 guns. Thusly weighted, drew 9'. Said to be the
most powerful weapon on the Mississippi. She was very slow
and known as "Old War Horse". Saw pleanty of action.
1. Name: SUCKER STATE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 230' X 36' X 5.5', 394 tons.
Power: 22's-7 ft.
Launched: 1860, McKeesport, Pa., construction supervised by Capt. Richard
C. Gray for Northern Line Packet Company
Destroyed: 1872, Alton Slough, burned
Area: Built for St. Louis-St. Paul trade.
Owner: Northern Line Packet Company
Captains: 1860, Master, T.B. Rhodes; Pilots, Capt. James B. Ward and Lud Blakeslee
1862-63, Master, James B. Ward
1866-69, Master, W.P. Hight
1870, Master, Ben A. Conger
At one time, J.J. Robinson
Comments: 1867, St. Louis-St. Paul, 2 days 23 hours 48 min.
: 1866 and 1869, 1st boat through Lake Pippin for St. Paul
: maintained a speed rivalry with sister ship HAWK-EYE STATE
Name: SULTAN
1845-47
Name: SULTAN
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 185' X 31' X 6.5', 349 tons.
Power: 24's- 8 ft., 3 boilers.
Launched: 1854, McKeeport, Pa.
Destroyed: 1858, Apr. 2, above Ste. Genevieve, Mo., burned with loss
of 23 lives. Enroute St. Louis-New Orleans
Area: 1856, advertised bi-weekly, St. Louis-Omaha.
: Also made frequent trips, St. Louis-Cincinnati.
Captains: 1856, John McCloy
1858, when destroyed, Phill C. Hannam.
Comments: 1857, May 29, The Diary of E.F. Beadle has her arriving
Omaha at bedtime.
Name: SULTANA
Comments: Made run N.O. - Louisville 1837, 6/15/0
Made run N.O. - Natchez 1844, 0/19/45 and 5/12/0
Made run N.O. - Louisville 1844 5/12/0
Made run N.O. - Donaldsville 1854, 0/5/42
Name: SULTANA See Post Card
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 1,719 TONS. rated to carry 376 persons.
Launched: 1865, early.
Destroyed: 1865, 2 AM April 27, overloaded, going up river from Vicksburgh
overloaded with Union soldiers who had been released from,
Andersonille prison, her boilers exploded. She
burned and sank in a group of islands called the "Hen
and Chickens" above Memphis. 1,547 died.
Area: Miss. R.
Captain(S): Mason, J.C.
Comments: Arrived in Memphis at 7 P.M. and got back
underway around midnight with 2,400 released Union
soldiers/prisoners home from Memphis, and 180 civilians.
An article on this disaster and a picture.
More articles and pictures on the disaster.
The Sultana Tragady, a book by Jerry O. Potter.
Name: SUMTER
Type: Confederate cotton-clad. Size:
Launched: 186s, early.
Destroyed:
Area: Miss. R.
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments:
Name: SUNFLOWER
Destroyed: ????, DEC. 2
Captain: Capt. Asa Hardy
Name: SUN See Poat Card
Type: sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Launched: 1898, Hockingport, Oh.
Destroyed: 1909, Apalachicola, Fl., stranded
Name: SUNFLOWER
Area: Under John Clemens, Neches R., Tex.
Destroyed: 1867, Trinity R., Tex. Patrick's Landing, north of Swarthout, sank.
Owners: *between 1852 and 57 purchased by Capt. John Clemens
*1860, purchased by Capt. William Neyland
*1867, purchased by Capt. D. E. Connor, Trinity R., Tex.
Comments: During Civil War was a Confederate tender and blockade-runner at Sabine Pass.
Name: SUNNY SOUTH, originally the ELECTRA
Launched: 1897
Name: SUNOL/PYRAMID
Type: Sternwheeler, wood hull packet Size: 135' x27.5'x7.8', 294 tons
Power: Steam reciprocating engine, 250h.p.
Launched: 1890
Destroyed: Off records 1946
Area: San Francisco Bay area
Owner: 1890 - 1924, Alden Brothers Ferry Company
1924-46, Leslie Salt Company
Captains:
Comments: 1924, Renamed PYRAMID
1. Name: SUNSHINE
Type: sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 354 tons.
Launched: 1860, Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1864, July 13, St. Louis, burned, it is thought by dreaded
Rebel Steamboat Burners.
Area: 1861, St. Louis-St. Paul
1861, Sept. went to Mo. R.
Owner: 1860-??, Capt. Willard
1861 late, Glasgow, Mo., captured by Confederates
1863, Recaptured by North.
Captain: 1860-??, Willard
1861, pilot, Absalom Grimes
*1862, during Civil War George Vickers and Jum Reed were the pilots
*1864, June 4, M. E. Dill
1. Name: SUNSHINE/PRINCESS
From
The James E. York Post Card Collection
Type: sidewheel, wooden hull ferryboat/excursion boat
Size: 175' X 37' X 5.8'
Power: Engines, 18's- 6 ft. Three boilers each 42" X 26'.
Launched: 1888, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1928, Jan., Jeffersonville. Ind., burned while laid up
Area: 1888-1907, Louisville-Jeffersonville
1907, went to Pittsburgh, excursions
1921, excursions out of Louisville and other places
Owners: Louisville & Jeffersonville Ferry Company
and a subsidiary Fern Grove Amusement Co.
1907, purchased by Capt. William McNally
1920, Purchased by John W. Hubbard/River Excursion Company, Cincinnati.
Comments: 1907, altered by narrowing of guards rebuilding side wheelhouses
: 1918, added a texas deck and double swinging stages
: 1923, Aug. 21, name changed to PRINCESS
1. Name: SUNSHINE
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 200' X 38' X 5.'
Power: Engines, 16's- 6-1/2'. Three boilers.
Launched: 1892, Nov. 12, Wheeling W. Va.
Destroyed: 1904, May 10, at Bourrows Landing near Tiptonville, Tenn, burned.
1 life lost. Boat valued at $30,000, cargo at $40,000.
Area: A first Wheeling-Parkersburg, One trip a week to Pittsburgh.
Proved too big for that trade.
Went to Pittsburg-Cincinnati trade
Also made some Kanswaha R. trips.
Under C.P.B.S.& P., wnet to some trips to Memphis
One summer, teamed with NEW SOUTH, Cincinnati-Coney Island excursions
Owners: ?190?? - 1903, The Cincinnati, Portsmouth, Big Sandy & Pomeroy Packet Company
Captains: At first J. Mack Gamble
1894, when aground, Capt. James Wright was watchman.
* 1896, A.C. Hazlett
1904, May when burned, Sterling McIntyre
Comments: 1894, summer, was aground at Big Knob Shoals on Kanawaha R.
: 1898, May, hit log near Owensboro and had to run ashore.
Was pumped out.
Name: SUSQUEHANNA
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 289 tons
Launched: 1851, Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: off the lists in 1860.
Area Cincinnati-New Orleans
Captains: cir. 1956, O.C. Williamson
Comments: 1859, Apr. 24, went to the aid of the exploded ST. NICHOLAS
Name: SURPRISE
Launched: 1817?
Area: Baltimore
Owner: Weems Line
Captain; Weems, George
Comments: Source
Name: SUTER, U.S.S.
Type: Snasgboat
Launched: early 1910s?
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: U.S. Gov.?
Captain(s): Spahr, Andrew Jackson (Bud)
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: SWAN
Comments: 1861, seen at Booneville Mo.
Name: SWAMP FOX
Launched: 1853?, Dec.
Area: Miss. R.
Captain and pilots: Capt. Pitchup
Name: SWIFT A New York Boat
Comments: See this web site: Fall River and Providence Steamboat Company
1. Name: SWIFTSHURE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 90 tons.
Launched: 1835, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1842, off the lists.
Area: built for Louisville-Cincinnati trade.
1836, Cincinnati-Maysville
Owners: When new, in part, Jacob Strader
1836, sold to Grafton Molen and others
Captains: when new, John Blair Summons
Name: SWIFTSURE
1840-
Name: SWIFTSURE No. 3
1844-1847
Name: SWIFTSURE No. 4
1846-51
Name: SWITZERLAND
Type: Ram; Size:
Launched: 1860s?
Destroyed:
Area: Miss. R.
Owner:
Captain and pilots: Capt. Ellet, Charles
Comments:
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