RIVERBOATS
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RIVERBOATS
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From TIGRESS to end
New Information Added
11/24/2007
To Riverboats Starting With The Initial "T.", Name: TIDE (Towboat) Launched: 1881, Pittsburgh area Comments: Mentioned in this Document 1. Name: TIDAL WAVE/GRAND PACIFIC Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull towboat/packet. Size: 160' X 36' X 5.'. 476 tons. Power: 14's-6 ft., 3 boilers, ea. 38" X 22' Launched: 1870, Brownsville, Pa. Destroyed: *1884, Apr. 27, wind blew her into pier of Burlington bridge. She broke in two and was lost. no lives lost. Area: 1870, New Orleans-Red R. 1872-77, U. Miss. R. *1876-77, U. Mo.R. to mouth of Yellowstone R. amidst Indian Wars. Owners: 1870 when new-72, John Kouns, W.T. Scovell, W.C. Newton, H.H. Bailey and James Newton, the latter 3 of Gallipolis, Oh. 1872-7?Diamond Jo Line *1877, Yellowstone Transportation Company *1877, sold to Davidson Line *1884, St. Louis and St. Paul Packet Company (called White Collar Line) Captains: *1873, spring, Alexander Lamont *1873, later, Abe Mitchell Comments: *1876 rebuilt into 800 ton craft at La Cross boatyards. : c.1883, renamed GRAND PACIFIC * From an article by William Petersen in The Palimpsest Name: TIGER Source Type: Towboat Size: Launched: 1836, in Wheeling, W. Va. Owner: Capt. James Beebee Captain(s):Beebe, James Comments: Built to tow ships back to New Orleans from the Gulf of Mexico. Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA, WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951 Name: TIGER
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1. Name: TIGRESS
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet/towboat. Size: 178' X 32' X 6.', 321 tons
Power: 18's-6 1/2 ft., 3 boilers.
Launched: 1858, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1863, Apr. 22, running Vicksburg batteries, holed by cannon
ball. Beached on Lousiana side. Lost.
Area: during cotton season, Ouachita R.-New Orleans. Tramped north in summer.
Owners: Capt. Alfred B. Hopkins and William Hopkins, Marion County, Va. and
Jonathan Aumiller, Meigs County, Oh..
: 1862 Under U.S. command
Captains: 1858, Alfred B. Hopkins
Comments: 1862: Apr. 6: Took Gen. Grant and his staff upriver from his
estate to the Battle of Shiloh.
During trouble on Tenn. R., was Grant's dispatch boat between
Cherry mansion, Savannah, Tenn. and Pittsburgh Landing.
: Once raced the KEY CITY, lost.
1. Name: TIME and TIDE
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 161 tons
Launched: 1847, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1853, Mar. 21, St. Louis, stranded and lost
Area: 1847, St. Louis - Galena - St. Peters
1848, St. Louis - Naples, connecting with a new railroad.
Owners: 1847-53, Gould, E.W. and Rodgers, C.S.
Captains: 1847-53, Gould, E.W. and Rodgers, C.S.
Comments: See this account of The Race
1. Name: TIME and TIDE
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 1853, when built, 128' X 26.7' X 4.1', 130 tons
1862, rebuilt, 143.5' X 27' X 4.8'
Launched: 1853, Freedom, Pa.,
Destroyed: 1864, May, New Orleans, burned.
Area: 1855-6 was at St. Paul; 1857-9, Minnesota R.
1861, Nov., New Orleans
Owners: 1853, in part, Capt. E.W. Gould, St. Louis and stockholders there.
1861, Nov., Hiern, Mary
1861, Dec., Owners in Terrebonne and Jefferson parishes, La.
1862, Aug. William Taylor
1862, Dec., Isaac Russel of New York City.
Captains: 1847-53, W.E. Gould
: 1850, St. Louis. census listed M. Able, age 29, born Ill.
and as pilot, J. Hargrove, age 33, born Iowa.
1857-8, Lewis Robert
1859, Robert Nelson
1861, Dec., James Taylor
Name: TIMOUR
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 232 tons
Power: 1851 after rebuild, engines 19's-7 ft., 3 boilers
Launched: 1849, St. Louis, Mo
Destroyed: 1854, Aug., blew up 3 mi. below Jefferson City, Mo. killing
19 people including the Capt., pilot and clerk.
She was taking on wood, and many passengers
were ashore picking wild flowers.
Area: 1849, Made trips up Mo. R. with Capt. Miller
Owners: When exploded, Capt. Edmund F. Dix, Charles F. Eckler and others
Captains: 1849, Miller
Comments: 1849, May 17, badly damaged in The Great Steamboat Fire at
St. Louis docks.
: 1851, Rebuilt.
: 1852, collided with and wrecked the FLORA.
Name: TINSIE MOORE
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet Size: 165.6' X 35' X 5'
Launched; Hull, 1890, Brownsville, Pa.; completed at Wheeling
Area: 1895, Sept. Alabama R., weekly to Mobile, Selma and Montgomery
Captains: 1892, Oct. Vick, James D., of Monroe County, Ala.
Companies associated with: The People's Line
Comments: *In Oct 1895 brought down a load 0f 1804 bales of cotton to
Advertisement in Oct. 9, 1892, The Daily Register
Mobile, Ala. says "Elegant Electric Light Freight and
Passenger Packet" A. J. Welch, Clerk.
: Sister Steamer, HATTIE B. MOORE
*Info is from site visitor, Art Green
Name: TIOGA
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 170 tons
Launched: 1840, Wheeling, W. Va.
Destroyed: 1849, Dismantled
Area: 1840, Pittsburgh - Cincinnati
1841, Made Mo. R. trip to present site of Kansas City.
1845, April, Was at Pittsburgh the day of a big fire. Took news
of blaze to Wheeling, W. Va..
Captain(s): 1840, Henry Mason
1841, Master, David Blashford; Pilot, C. W. Batchelor
Sometime later, As a clerk, L.T. Belt started his career on
her.
1. Name: TISHOMINGO
From The Olden Times.com
The Louisville Courier
*April 26, 1853
Type: sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 188 tons.
Launched: 1852, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1860, off the lists.
Area: Louisville-Memphis and Louisville-Henderson.
Later, U. Miss. R.
1853, Ohio and Tenn. Rs.*
1857, Winter, St. Louis-St. Paul
Captains: 1863, Apr., A.J. Brisco*
*Piloted at one time by Oscar M. Ruby
Comments: 1856, Galena, sold for debt.
: Challenged KEY CITY to race. Lost.
: Named for Indian prince of Choctaw tribe.
* Source in above ad.
Name: TOBACCO PLANT
Launched: 1840S, EARLY
Area: 1846, Mississippi. and St. Croix Rs. St. Louis to Ft. Snelling
Comments: Mentioned in this Source
Name: TOM BAYNE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Source: Post Card
Name: TOM GREEN Post Card of main salon
Name: TOM HESS/RALPH E. WARNER
Launched:
Destroyed: 1895, U. White R., by fire
Area: 1888-89, White R.
Captains, 1892, John T. Warner, was also owner.
Comments: 1892, Capt. Warner renamed her RALPH E. WARNER
: Source
Name: TOM JASPER
Launched: 1860s? early
Area: 1864, U. Miss. R.
Owner: 1864, Northwestern Union Packet Company
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: TOM REES
Launched: 1880's?
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Mar. 31 1897
Name: TOM RODGERS
Launched: 1880's?
Destroyed: 1887, near Arrow Rock, Mo. on mo. R.
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Name: TOM SAWYER
Type: Ornamental sternwheel excursion boat Size: 116', 300 passengers
Launched: 1966, Dubuque, I.
Area: 1999, St Louis
Captains: 1999, Gary Desnoyer
Comments: 1999, attended Tall Stacks Celebration.
1. Name: TOM STEVENS
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 134' X 28' X 3.5', 170 tons.
Power: 12's- 4 ft., 2 boilers
Launched: 1866, St. Louis, Mo
Destroyed: 1878, dismantled
Area: Mo. and Osage Rs.
: Winter months, St. Louis-White R., Ark.
Captains: 1868, July, Master, John H. Burk; pilots, Frank A. Murry and
Thomas H. Bigger
Comments: 1868, July, Made trip Fort Benton-Great Falls, Mont.
: Once went up Osage r. to Fort Scott, Kans. in an attempt to
collect the $1,000 reward offered by that town for reaching it
by river. Got to within sight of town befor trees stopped her.
: 1873, Feb. 5, was sunk by ice Osage Chute at mouth of Osage R.
Refloated.
Mentioned in this Article.
Name: TONSINA
Type: Sternwheeler
Size: 120'
Power: 2-300HP engines with oil fired boilers. 16-1/2' Wheel.
Launched: 1909: Copper River, Alaska
Area: Copper R., Alaska.
Captain(s): Bailey and Pinkerton
Comments: She was carted on wagons and sleds overland and assembled
on the bank of the Copper River.
Comments: For more, see Alaskan Riverboats
Name: TRAPPER
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: 1840, American Fur Company
Name: TRAVLER
Area: 1831, Ill. R.
Owner: Possibly whole or in part, Capt. Abraham Kimber, Brownsville
Source
Name: TRAVELER
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
*Name: TRENT
Area: Miss. R.
Owners: 1861-63, Boisseau, Capt. Joseph
Captain: 1861-63, Boisseau, Capt. Joseph
Comments: A Confederate boat during 1861-63, at least
:* This listing from Biography of Capt Joseph Boisseau
4. Name: TRIBUNE
Type: Designed by Samuel Walker of Elizabeth, PA.
Area: 1838, Apr. 25, left Cincinnati on Ohio R
Captains: 1838, April, James Boyd, of Pittsburgh, Pa.;
pilots, Brothers Sam and A.D. Reno
Comments: On this day left Cincinnati expecting to partake in a race with the
MOSELLE, which unfortunately blew up.
1. Name: TRIBUNE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 251 tons.
Launched: 1849, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: 1849, Nov. 2, Bayou Goula, La., burned.
Captains:
Name: TRILLIUM
Destroyed: Sunk, raised and completely restored
Comments: Now a Historic Vessel
Picture
1.Name: TRIMBLE
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull ferry boat. Size: 110' X 30' X 3.5'
Launched: 1895, Madison, Ind., Jefferson Boat Works
Destroyed; 1928 or 9, Dismantled.
Area: oHIO r., Madison, Ind. to Milton Ky.
Owners: over the years, C.L. Melcher, J.D. Taylor, Clarence Hisle, John
Niehouse, Capt. John W. Hughes, D.T. Voiers, Harry Voiers
1921, Capt. George W. Monroe became sole owner.
Comments: Much of boat went into building the MARGARET J.
Name: TROPIC
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 225 X 23.', 242 tons.
Launched: 1853, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1857, Oct. 14, 1/2 mi. below Waverly, Mo. Mo. R.
Snagged and lost. Estimated loss of life, 12 to 15.
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: Nanson, Joseph S. Nanson
Captain Joseph S. Nanson
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: TROVER (?Same as JAMES H. TROVER?)
Comments: 1866, May, was racing ABEONA to Ft. Benton on Mo. R..
3. Name: TULARE
Launched: 1870s, early
Area: 1871, California Delta, Empire City - Mumford
Owner: 1871, California Pacific Railroad
Name: TUSCARAWAS
Area: 1840s, Out of Zanesville, Oh.
Captain: William Scales
Comments: Once made a trip to Coshocton, during high water.
Mentioned in this Article
Name: TUSCARORA
Comments: Made run N.O. - Natchez 1834, 1/21/0
Name: TUSCUMBIA
1846-52
Name: TUSCUMBIA
1862-65
Name: TUSCUMBIA
Type: ? wooden hull packet. Size: 86.4' X 14.6' X 2.8'
Launched: 1881, Ashland, Ky.
Area: reported, 1881, Osage R. Mo.
1886, documented in New Orleans
Comments: Mentioned in this Article.
Name: TWENTIETH CENTURY
1. Name: TWILIGHT
Type: Sidewheeler wooden hull packet. Size: 180' X 32', 230 tons
Power: Engines, 16's- 4-1/2 ft., 2 boilers.
Launched: 1865, St. Louis, Mo.
Destroyed: 1865, Sept 10, near mouth of Fire Creek above Napoleon, Mo. snagged and sunk.
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: 1865, McPherson, Henry W./C. W. Sombart/John P. Keiser
Captain(s): 1865, William Massie, master, also Henry McPherson, and possibly John P. Keiser
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: TWILIGHT
Type: Excursion Paddlewheeler. Size: 126' X 30', 5' 6" full load draft
Launched: 1987, Apr.
Power: twin screws
Area: LaClaire, Iowa
Owner: River Cruises, 1-800-331-1467
Comments: "LeClaire is home port for the elegant paddle-wheeler Twilight.
It's like taking a page out of the 19th century! The Twilight
leaves LeClaire each Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday for a
day long cruise up the Mississippi to near Galena, where
you spend the night at Chestnut Mountain Resort, sightsee
in historic Galena, then return by bus the next day."
Quad Cities
Name: TWIN CITY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 154' X 28.1' X 5.1', 209 tons.
Launched: 1852, California, Pa. for Capt. Hugh McKelvey
Destroyed, 1855, Dec. 7 St. Louis docks, burned along with PRAIRIE CITY and
PARTHENIA.
Area: 1852, Pittsburgh-St. Louis
1855, St. Paul-St. Louis.
Owners: 1852 when built, Capt Hugh McKelvey and others of Allegheny County, Pa.
1855, Benjamin F. Easley of St. Louis
Captains: 1852, Master, Hugh McKelvey
1855, S.J. Ball
1. Name: TWO BROTHERS
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 120' X 30' X 6.', 120 tons.
Launched, 1854, Californis, Pa.
Destroyed: 1860, off the lists
Owners: 1854, Capt. Martin Broderick, New Orleans
Later, George Sanford, New Orleans.
Captains: Martin Broderick.
At one time possibly piloted by Edward James Hulings
Name: TWO STATES
Name: TYCOON
Size: 64 tons
Area: White R. Ark.,
1897-98, season, Black R.
Destroyed: 1896, L. White R., burned.
Captains: 1896, Dick Prater
Comments: Source
Name: TYLER
Type: Timber-clad
Launched: 1850s?
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: One of first packets turned into gun boats for Union
Navy in Civil War.
1865, April, late: Helped rescue surivors of SULTANA.
1. Name: TYRONE/SILVER CITY
Type: sternwheel wooden hull packet.
Size: 155' X 32' X 5.', 138 tons
Power: Engines, 15's-5 ft.. Two boilers
Launched: 1877, St. Louis Mo.
Destroyed: 1886, still on the lists
Area: 1877, made Mo. R. trips under Capt. Silver
Owners: Originally Capt. David H. Silver and others.
1878, sold to New Orleans and Red River Packet (Transportation)Company
1878, July 31, went to Red River and Coast Line
Captains: At first, David H. Silver
Comments: 1878, renamed SILVER CITY by N.O & R.R.P.C.
: 1883, droped her wheel overboard and was towed to N.O by JOHN D. SCULLY
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1. Source: Way's Packet Directory, 1848 - 1994 3. Steamboats in the Valley 4. She Takes The Horns, by Fredrick Way Jr.
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