RIVERBOATS
Starting With
S
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From S.B. WHEELER to SCOW
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01/15/2007
RIVERBOATS
Starting With
S
Page 1
From S.B. WHEELER to SCOW
New Information Added
01/15/2007
To Riverboats Starting With ST. or SAINT To Riverboats Starting With S, Page 2 To Riverboats Starting With S,Page 3 Name: S. B. WHEELER Type: Stern-wheeler Size: 110' Launched: New Brunswick Area: San Juaquine R. Calf. San Francisco to Stockton Comments: Shipped around Horn in bark. Name: S.L. ELAM/GENERAL WOOD Type:Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 181.9' X 29.8' X 6.' Power: Compound non-condensing engines, 12's, 24's- 5ft.. Three Boilers. Launched: 1913, Slidell, La. Area: briefly up Red R. Then New Orleans-Camden on Ouachita R. 1918, one trip Pittsburgh-Cincinnati as S.M. ELAM, then renamed and remodeled for upper Ohio R. trade After remodel, entered Pittsburgh-Cincinnati trade * 1920 Made at least one run Ptttsburgh-New Orleans 1923, Upper Ohio R. trade. Owners: When new, Carter Bros., New Orleans 1918, May, sold to Liberty Transit Company, Wheeling, W. Va. 1923, purchased by Pittsburgh, Wheeling and Cincinnati Packet Company Captains: 1918, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati, William D. Kimbal then W. Ed Dunaway Captain(s): *1920, Robert Franklin Myers 1923, Fred Hornbrook became master Comments: Named for Judge Elam of Natchez : 1915, lower R. River, snagged and sank. Raised. : Liberty Transit Co. removed her cotton guards and renamed her. Name: S.L. ELAM See Post Card Name:S. S. MERRILL Launched: 1860s? Early Area: U. Miss. R. Owner: Northwestrn Union Packet Company Comments: Mentioned in this Article Name: S.B. MATTHEWS Alaskan Riverboats Type: Sternwheeler Launched: 1906 or so Area: Copper R., Alaska
To see Riverboats whose names start with ST. or SAINT, go HERE
Name: SACHEM Type: 1863, Union gunboat Comments: 1863, Galveston, Tex. Sept 9, boilers destroyed by Confederate cannon. : Source Name: SABINE
Area: 1843, Fall, Sabine R., Texas Captain: John Clemmons Comments: 1843, Was first steamboat up the Sabine River in east Tex. : Source Name: SACRAMENTO Type: Size: Launched: 1840s? Destroyed: 1849, near the mouth of the Lamine R. in Slaughterhouse Bend, just upriver from Boonville Mo. on the Mo. R.. Area: Mo. R. Owner: Captain(s): Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
3. Name: SACRAMENTO
Launched: 1849, July.
Area: 1849 - 1850s, early, Sacramento R., Calif.
Captain: 1849, 3. Van Pelt, John
Comments: Shipped to Calif. in brigatine.
3. "More of a scow than a steamer she served
her owners well and was later sold for $40, 000."
Could this be the same boat as above??
3. Name: SAGADAHOCK
Launched: 1840s? late?
Area: 1851, late, Sacramento R., Calf.
Name: SAGAMORE
Launched: 1840s? late?
Destroyed: 1851, Nov. 1, Sacramento R. Boiler explosion while leaving
SanFrancisco Warf. 50 were killed or injured.
Area: late 1840s to end, California Delta
3. : 1851, Oct., San Joaquin R., Calf
Name: SAGAMORE
Type: Sidewheeler
Size: Length:223'; Beam:57'; Speed:20 mph..
Launched: by Delaware & Hudson Railroad System
Area: New York to Canada on Lake George
Owner: 1871-1939: Delaware & Hudson Railroad System owned The
Lake George Steamboat Co..
Present: Lake George Steamboat Co. Web Site
Name: SALADIN
Type: Side-wheeler
Launched: 1840s?
Area: Miss. R.
Captain: Coleman
Comments: Kidnapped Pres. Zachary Taylor in place of boat that
was supposed to take him ?somewhere?, just for the honor
of having transported the Pres.
1. Name: SALLIE LIST
Type: ?Sternwheel?, wooden hull packet. Size: 212 tons
Launched: 1860, Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1868, Feb. 21, Portland, Ala. - snagged and sunk.
Area: At first, Mo. R.
1862, April, Tenn. R., was under command of Union Gen. Wm. T. Sherman
1864, spring, Red R.
1864, Early June, Fired on in Yellow Bend, Miss. R., 10 shots, no one hit.
1865, Jan. 21, Lower White R., in storm at Scrub Bend.
Reported to have Lost ?port? paddlewheel.
Owners: Mobile Trade Co., sometime between 1865 and up to sinking.
Captains: 1865, Jan. 21, Morgan Bateman
Comments: Mentioned in Gen. Sherman's Memoirs
1. Name: SALLIE ROBINSON
Type: Side Wheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 160" X 33' X 5.5", 267 Tons
Launched: 1856, Cincinnati Oh.
Destroyed: Unknown
Area: Out of Yazoo R.. Also known to be on The Red R.
1863, N.O. to Baton Rouge.
Owners: Originally, in part by Capt. Dyas Power.
1861, April, purchased by Hannah Schille, N.O.
and went to Confedreacy registry.
Captains: 1856, Dyas Power of Aberdeen, Oh.
1863, Capt. Ham
Comments: Under Capt Ham she was teamed with IBERVILLE AND LAUREL HILL.
: A site visitor tells us there is a known postal hand stamp,
believed from from 1857, with this steamer's name and her master's
name, E.F. Gross.
This same site visitor also has an envelope postmarked
New Orleans, December 20,(1859?)containing a manuscript
"per stmr Sallie Robinson".
Name: SALT RIVER
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: SALUDA
Type: Side-wheel, wooden hull packet Size: 179' X 26.7', 223 tons.
Launched: mostly built at Ohio r. yard. Finished at St. Louis
Destroyed: 1852, Apr. 9, Good Friday, while leaving Lexington, Mo,
boilers exploded. See Comments below.
See Account of Explosion
Area: 1846-52, St Louis - St Joseph
Owner: Francis T. Belt
Captains: 1852, Apr. 9, Master, Francis T. Belt
Pilot, Charles S. LaBarge, brother of Capt. Joseph LaBarge
Comments: 1850, 5 mi. below Rocheport, Mo. snagged and sunk.
Raised and rebuilt.
1852, Apr. 9, Good Friday, With Mormon emigrants aboard, boat
headed for Concil Bluffs, Iowa. Upon arrival at Lexington
current was swift, pilot Charles S. LaBarge pushed her
too hard into the rapid water and her boilers blew up.
The pilot and master and an estimated 75 others died. Was worst steamboat
disaster on Mo. R..
: The roof bell from this boat was auctioned off and went to the
First Christian Church of Savannah, Missouri. The church is still in possession
of that church.
Name: SAM BROWN
Type: Towboat
Launched: 1880's?
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Name: SAM CLARKE
Launched: 1890's?
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Aug. 18 1897
Name: SAM CRAIG Photo Source
Type: Sternwheel towboat
Launched: 1930's
Area: Ohio R.
1. Name: SAM GATY, NEW
Type: Sidewheel, wood hull packet. Size:
Launched: 1853, St. Louis Mo.
Destroyed: 1858, June 27, near Arrow Rock Mo. suddenly veered out of
control, smashed into an obstruction, listed wildly,
caught fire and burned up within 1 hr.
Area: Mo. R.
Captains: Dozier, Frank M., when she sank.
Comments: Was in Indian wars.
Comments: Mentioned in the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: SAM J. KEITH/CITY OF FLORENCE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 160' X 32' X 5.3'.
Launched: 1882, Jeffersonville, Ind. for Capt Thomas H. Armstrong
Area: Nashville-Burnside
Owner: Capt. Thomas H. Armstrong
Later, St. Louis & Tennessee River Packet Company
Comments: Packet company renamed her CITY OF FLORENCE
Name: SAM P. JONES, originally the L.P. EWALD
3. Name: SAM SOULE
Launched: 1850's early
Area: 1856, Sacramento R. Calif.
Owner(s): 1856, California Steam Navigation Company
Name: SAM W. LINE
Area: Coosa R.
Owners: Gen. S.M. Winchester and Capt. J.E. Line
Captains: William M. Elliot
Comments: Source
Name: SAM YOUNG
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 156' X 28' X 3.7', 154 tons.
Power: engines, 18's-4 ft., 3 bnoilers, each 38" C 22', 2 14" flues.
Launched: 1855, Shousetown, Pa.
Destroyed: 1865, July 22, reported to be lost.
Area: Tramp trade out of Pittsburgh
1856-57, out of St, Paul
1861, running above Peoria, Ill. on Ill. R.
1865, reported in Memphis-Helena trade
Owners: Capt. Richard C. Gray with William H. Forsythe and Samuel G. Young
Later, had various owners.
1865, said sold to Capt A.R. Irwin for above trade.
Name: SAMUEL HOWARD
Type: Sidewheeler Size: 195 tons
Launched: 1819, Hull in Charlston, finished in Savannah, GA.
Destroyed: 1829, Dec. 7, last reported trip. 1830, reported
abandoned.
Area: Altamaha and Oconee Rs. in Ga.
Owner: Steamboat Company of Georgia
Captain:1823 - 1834, sometime between, Swymer, John
Comments: Source
Name: SAMUAL J. TILDEN
Type: Size:
Launched:
Destroyed:
Area: 1850s - 80s Tombigbee River in Clarke County, Ala.
Owner: Jordan, David S.
Captain and pilots: Capt.
Comments: From David Upton: "I am looking for imformation on my
familys history. My great great great grandfather, David
S. Jordan, owned a river boat company. He shipped produce
and items between Mobile Alabama and the river systems to
the north of that city. His base of operations was on the
Tombigbee River in Clarke County during the 1850s-1880's.
He started with flatbottom river boats and eventually
steam powered boats. I only have two names of the boats
he owned. They were the Buenavista and
the Samual J. Tilden. He did not have a pilots licence and
he had to hire his crews instead of using his own family to
run the boats."
3. Name: SAN BLASINA
Launched: 1840s? late?
Area: 1851, late, Sacramento R., Calf.
3. Name: SAN JOAQUIN
Launched: 1850s? early?
Area: 1851, late, San Joaquin R., Calf.
Name: SANITARY STEAMERS
Comments: Hospital boats during Civil War.
Name: SARAH
Launched: 1840s?
Destroyed: 1849, May 17, Fire at St. Louis docks
Area: Miss. R.; Sacramento R.?
Name: SARA LEE originally the CAPE GIRARDEAU
1923-67
Name: SARI S.
Type: Showboat
Launched: 1961
Area: Chicago
Name: SATONA
Area: 1848. Apr. 21, left Shreveport for New Orleans.
Captain: 1848. Apr. 21, Smoker
Comments: this entry is prompted by the Journal of
Paul Haralson, April 21, 1848.
Name: SAVANNAH
Type: Sidewheeler Size: 152 tons
Launched: 1961
Destroyed: Last record, 1834, June 16, final fate unknown
Area: Savannah R.
Owner: Steamboat Company of Georgia
Captain:1823 - 1834, sometime between, Swymer, John
Comments: 1833, Mar. 4, carried largest number of cotten bales
(1829) ever recorded on one trip.
: Source
Name: SAVANNAH RIVER QUEEN
Type:Modern Excurssion paddlewheeler
Size:350 passenger, four deck sternwheel riverboat.
Area: Savannah, Ga.
Owner: Riverstreet Riverboat Co.
Captain and pilots: Capt.
1. Name: SAWMILL CLIPPER
Type: sawmill boat. Size: 111.5' X 25' X 3.4' 1880-
Launched: 1880, Wheeling, W. Va.. Size: 111.5' X 25' X 3.4'
1. Name: SAWMILL CLIPPER
Launched: 1888, Haynes Landing, W. Va.
Captain: Nathan Hanes or Haynes
Comments: Via its machinery, this boat may have evolved into the 1916 CLIPPER
Name: SCIENCE
Area: 1834, Wheeling to Louisville
Comments: Info in this entry is from the diary of an ancestor of
web site visitor Kathryn Grogman. grogman@earthlink.net
Name: SCIENCE
Area: 1879: Ohio R., working out of Wheeling, W. Va.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER,
June 24, 1951
Name: SCIOTA
Launched: 1830s, early
Area: 183?: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: SCOTIA
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet Size: 236' X 36' X 5.2', 601 tons. Power: Engines, 20's- 4' 8". 3 boilers. Launched: 1880, Harmar, Oh. at Knox Yard Destroyed: 1895, Nov. 5, Cincinnati, burned Area: At first, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati 1884, Dec., Ohio R. 1894, placed in Cincinnati-Louisville trade Owners: Ran in Pittsburgh & Cincinnati Packet Line 1895, Pruchased by Capt.John Barrett Captains: 1880, first master was Martin F. Noll 1883, Frank Maratta 1864, J.M. Kirker 1885-88, George W. Rowley Later, John Phillips Comments: Mentioned several times in this Document 1. Name: SCIOTO/REGULAR 3 newspaper articles on her disastrous sinking. From
The James E. York Post Card CollectionType: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: Length: 150', Width: 22' 6" Launched: 1875, by Bay Bros. Yard, Portsmouth, Ohio Destroyed: 1882, July 5, late night, collided with the JOHN LOMAS and sank. 70 lives lost. Raised and Renamed REGULAR 1884 Crabb's Landing near Clarington, W. Va. sank and dismantled, Area: Ohio R., Wheeling, W. Va. : 1881, Oct. 21, placed in Wheeling and Sisterville trade. : 1884, Wheeling-Marietta trade Owner(s): 1875, June - Capt. Wm. Dillon : 1881, June 24, purchased by Capt. Wm. Dillon of Wheeling, W. Va. : 1882, March, purchased by the Wheeling, Parkersville and Cincinnati Transportation Co., Capt C. H. Booth, Pres.. : * 1884, Parkersburg & Ohio River Transportation Company : 1884, Nov., purchased by Capt. Tom Prince, Mr. Schmulbach, Frank Booth and Capt. Mack Gamble Captain(s):1882, July 5, Thadius S. Thomas of Clarington. 1884, Thadius S. Thomas , T.J. Martin, clerk Pilot(s): 1882, July 5, J. B. Long and Dave Keller. The latter was charged in accident, as was the pilot of the JOHN LOMAS. Comments: Was first put in mail trade between Huntington and Portsmouth : Put in Ironton and Gallipolis trade. : 1881, July 12, laid up to change from tubular to flue boilers. : 1881, Aug., went on docks for recalking. All timber was found to be in perfect shape. : 1882, Feb, in fog, ran into bank at Carpenter's rip, sprung her butts, and was taken to Point Pleasant and, again, overhauled. : More info on disaster Here Comments: Notes on sinking from July 5, 1882 : Capt. Thad Thomas'great-great-great grandson, Stuart R. Haller, tells me Capt. Thomas had to sell his family's farm in Clarington to pay the families of the people who drowned. : About Law Suits Name: SCOTT/P.A. DENNY Type: Sternwheel U.S. Corps of Engineers boat/excursion boat Size: 109' Area: 1st 24 yrs. out of Louisville, Ky. 1954?-75, presumably out of Charleston, W. Va. 2006, Newport, KY. She is used as a classroom for school field trips. Owners: When new, U. S. Corps of Engineers 1954, cir. Peter A. Denny, Charleston, W. Va. 1975, purchased by Captain Lawson Hamilton, Presently, ORSANCO Comments: 1975, renamed P.A. Denny after deceased former owner Pete Denny. : She has traveled the nation’s waterways and participated in the World’s Fair in New Orleans in the early 1980s. : 1974, Made a surprise victory in the 1974 Sternwheel Regatta Race in Charleston. : Source for listing on this boat, Tall Stacks .com 3. Name: SCOW Launched: 1840's late? Area: 1850s, early, Sacramento R. Calif.
From
The James E. York Post Card Collection
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