RIVERBOATS
Starting With
V
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Rounding a Bend on the Mississippi
Currier and Ives
From Picture This
RIVERBOATS
Starting With
V
Page 1
Rounding a Bend on the Mississippi
Currier and Ives
From Picture This
New Information Added 09/09/2007
Name: V.F. WILSON Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull towboat. Size: 285.71 tons. Power: 17's-16 ft. 3 boilers. Launched: 1860, Isaac Hammitt Yard, McKeesport, Pa. Destroyed: 1873, Monongahela R., Pittsburgh, struck by loose, loaded coal barge. Sunk. Owner: Capt. Daniel Pollard, Ike Hammitt and Capt. William Dunshee, owners of a coal mine near McKeesport PA., possibly D.B.A. Mississippi Coal Company. : During Civil War, USQMD chartered her for $175 per day. Captain: 1860, Daniel Pollard Comments: was a coal barge tow : During C. War, was General Grant's dispatch boat out of Vicksburg. She was sent north with news of the fall of Vicksburg. : sister boat, IKE HAMMITT : Named for Victor F. Wilson, Vicksburg, Miss. Name: V. W. SPARHAWK Destroyed: 1856, late Feb, Torn from docks and swept downstream in ice flow during Great Ice Gorge at St. Louis. Sunk by ice. Name: VALIANT Source and Photo Type: Sternwheel towboat Size: Area: 1900: Ohio R., Wheeling, W. Va. 1. Name: VALLEY BELLEType: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 127' X 22' X 4.' Power: Engines, 8's- 6 ft., 2 boilers, each 36" X 26' Launched: 1883, Harmar, Oh. at Knox Yard Destroyed: 1943, dismantled after 34 years as a packet followed by 26 years as a towboat. Area: Built for Marietta-Beverly trade, Muskingum R. 1884, entered Ravenswood-Middleton trade 1895-98, made accassional Marierra-Zanesville runs 1898-99, Marietta-Middleport 1900, Marietta-Gallipolis 1903, Marietta-Middleport 1907, same trade which played out around 1911 1914, Marietta-Gallipolis for a few trips then - went to U. Kanawha 1917, went to towing jobs Under Ben Raike did towing jobs until she sank in 1943 Owners: * 1881, in part Capt. J.C. Edwards 1915 or so, Capt. John Lane 1917, Mar., sold to E.P. Mathews, Point Pleasant, W. Va. 1919, Mar., purchased by Capt. William Bryant to tow his showboat 1938, sold to Ben Raike, Kanauga, Oh. Captains: When new, Thomas Clark * 1881, J.C. Edwards 1884, J.C. Edwards with W.W. Hayman, clerk 1895-98, Robert Edwards on Marietts-Zanesville runs 1897, W.W. Hayman, master with Harry Donnally, clerk 1898-99,W.W. Hayman, master with Ralph Emerson Gaches, clerk 1900, W.W. Hayman, master with J.H. Williamson, clerk 1903, H.L. Ritchie master with Charles F. Ritchie, clerk 1907, T.D. Wilkerson, master with P.L. Wolf, clerk Comments: Was reoutfitted in 1938 with engines from LIBERTY : Was longest lived, continuous running wooden hull paddlewheeler. : Notes from The Tribune Telegraph, Name: VALLEY FORGE Launched: 18?? Area: Miss. and Ohio Rs. Captain(s): 1839, First Mate, Hugh Campbell Source: Campbell family records Comments: 1. machinery went to ROBERT MORRIS Name: VALLEY FORGE Type: ?steel hull? Size: 199 tons Launched:1839, Pittsburgh Name: VALLEY GEM See Post Card Page Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Launched: 1897, Harmar Oh. Destroyed: 1918, Feb., Morgantown, W. Va. crushed by ice
From
The James E. York Post Card Collection
Name: VALLEY QUEEN, 1923 - Originally the JO HORTON FALL
Name: VAN DORN
Type: Confederate ram-boat Size:
Comments: Fled to safety while 7 of her sister ram-boats were
sunk at Memphis
Name: VELMA
Launched: 1910s?
Destroyed: 1918, Mo. R., near Franklin I. below Boonville, Mo..
Area:Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
* Name: VELOCIPEDE
Size: 109 tons
Power: Low pressure
Area: 1827, logged at Cincinnati
Launched: 1824, Cincinnati
3. Name: VELOZ
Type: Sternwheeler Size:
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: VENUS
Area: 1888, Miss. R. Between Rock Island and Clinton Iowa.
Owner: 1888, Streckfus, Capt. John
Comments: There was A gunboat by this name, however the dates do not corrispond.
See Raising the Gunboats: for ongoing raising efforts.
Name: VERNE SWAINE
Area: 1888, Miss. R. Between Rock Island and Clinton Iowa.
Owner: 1888, Streckfus, Capt. John
1. Name: VERNE SWAINE/ROSE ISLAND/CITY OF MEMPHIS/ROOSEVELT
From
The James E. York Post Card Collection
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull excursion steamer. Size: 186.4' X 31' X 4.9'
Poiwer: Compound condensing engines. 10s-20s-6. 2 boilers. Fan blowers.
Launched: 1913, Stillwater Minn. for Capt David M. Swain as Excursion Boat
Destroyed: 1932, Aug. 17, sank below Louiville locks with 781 aboard. All saved. Boat ruined.
Area: 1913, Ohio R., Pittrsburg to Wheeling, W. Va. on Ill. R.
1918, placed in Pittsburgh-Wheeling packet trade.
1923, excursions
1928, moved back to Pittsburgh
Owners: 1918, Pruchased by Capt. Fred Hornbrook
1923, Noll, J. Orville , who ran her for the Anchor Line out of Pittsburgh.
1927, Mar., purchased by D.G.B Rose of Louisville, Ky.
1929, owned by Capt. Griffith W. Shaw and others
1931, Apr. sold during a docking program at Paducah
1932, Rose Island Company
Captains: 1923, Noll, J Orville
1932, Aug. 17 when sank, Nick DuRand
Comments: 1927, Mar., renamed ROSE ISLAND
: 1929, renamed ROOSEVELT
: 1931, renamed CITH OF MEMPHIS
Comments: From The Wheeling Intelligencer, Oct. 23, 1960
From: site visitor Noll Kenney (anniek@mediaone.net)
Date: Sun Dec 27 18:08:11 1998
Steamboat Vern Swain
My grandfather J. Orville Noll was Owner of this boat in 1923. I have a picture of
he and my grandmother on this boat. He also ran aboat for the Anchor Line out of
Pittsburg. I have a sugar bowl with Anchor Line ,Pittsburg, Pa. written on it.
Name: VERSAILLES
Launched: 1830s?, Early?
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: VESPER
Destroyed:1880's? by ice near Clipper Mill, whatever that was.
Area: Ohio R.
Comments: From From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Apr. 28 1897
Name: VESUVIUS
Type: Size: Small
Launched: by 1814, Pittsburgh, Pa area
Area: Hudson and Miss. R.
Owner: Livingston, Robert and Fulton, Robert. and their Ohio
Steamboat Navigation Company.
Comments: Mentioned Here
* Name: VESTA
Size: 100 tons
Launched: 1816, Cincinnati
Destroyed: 1821, worn out
Comments: the first steamboat built in Cincinanati.
Name: VESTA/J.S. LEWIS
Type: Sternwheel packet/towboat
Area: Ohio R.
Destroyed: Still operating, now under diesel power rather than steam.
Comments: As towboat, towed coal barges from West Virginia mines
to Cincinnati, Oh..
Name: VICKSBURG
Type: *Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: *244.5 X 34 X 7.5, 635 tons
Power: *engines, 24's-7 ft.; 5 boilers
Launched: *1857, New Albany, Ind.
Destroyed: *1863, Jan. 3, Rammed in battle by QUEEN of the WEST.
Area: Miss. R.
Owner: 1857, *Jane Stout of Frankfort, Ky. and *C.B. Lindsey, New Orleans.
: 1859, *Apr 21, Henry Streck and *Capt T. P. Leathers,
both of New Orleans.
Captains: 1857 - 1859 *Cannon, John W., *Thommason, St.Clair
: 1859, *Master White, J.M. of Ky.
Pilots: 1857, Nov. 26, **Pell, Allen
Comments: *At outbreak of Civil War, became a Confederate transport.
Sources: *Way's Packet Directory, 1848 - 1994
: **Mark Twain Journal
Name: VICKSBURG, Formerly the OUACHITA, Originally the LOUISVILLE
Launched: 1861. Destroyed: 1868
Name: VICKSBURG
Area: pre 1885, Sabine R., Tex.
1885-88, Neches R., Tex.
Owners: Capt. Bill Loving, and Capt. Pearl Bunn
Comments: Engines went to NECHES BELLE
Name: 3rd VICKSBURG Originally the OUACHITA",
then the FRED A. BLANKS
Launched:1890 Destroyed: 1903
Name: 4rd VICKSBURG Originally the CITY OF CAIRO
Launched: 1912 Destroyed: unknowen
Name: VICTOR
Type: Sternwheel Towboat, Diesel Size:
Launched: 1870's?
Area: Ohio R.
Owner: Earl Cooper
Comments: Note in Way's Packet Directory
1. Name: VICTRESS (1st of 2)
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 155' X 25' X 5.2', 190 tons
Launched: 1841, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1849, off the lists
Area: 1841, Cincinnati-New Orleans
*1948, Apr. 21, expected at Shreveport
Owner: 1844, Dec., Sold to Capt. George M. Kendall of New Orleans
1845, Feb., sold to Capt. Berthilde Landreaux
1846, July, Sold to Harry Legendre, New Orleans
1847, Mar., Sold to W.W. Hill, Lafayette, La.
Captain: 1847 Bickerstaff, S.J.
*From Journal of Paul Haralson, March, 1848.
1. Name: VIENNA
1853-57
1. Name: VIENNA originally the CITY OF PLATTTSMOUTH
Name: VINCENNES
Type: Size:
1. Name: VIOLA BELLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 200' X 30' X 5.', 345 tons.
Power: 17'- 6ft. 3 boilers, each 36" X 22',
Launched: 1866, Pearl Landing, on Ill. R.
Destroyed: 1871, Aug. 21, Smith's Bar, Doniphan Bend, Mo. R., sank. See
comment below.
Area: Made 5 trips to Fort Benton, Mont. on U. Mo. R.
Owners: 1866, with others, Capt. Henry Jasper King
When sunk, Augustus C. Erfort and others
: *At one time, possibly, Charles F. Lohman and his son Capt. Louis Charles
Lohman, Jefferson City, Mo.
*This listing from family records of Lee Lohman, GGG grandaughter
of Charles F.
Companies Associated with: Northwestern Transportation Company
Comments: 1870, Independence Day, was at Sioux City Iowa.
: There are conflicting reports of this boat's demise. Way's
Packet Directory claims she sank in 6' of water on a sandbar
which washed out from under her hull, causing her to break in
two. The records from Burle County Historical Society of S.D.
state that she burned while Capt. King owned her and that he
lost everything he owned. This possibly in 1866.
* Name: VIRGINIA Size: 222 tons Power: Low pressure Launched: 1826, Cincinnati Name: VIRGINIA/?MERRIMACK?Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 118 X 22 X 6 Launched: 1819 OR 1823 Area: Ohio R., Miss. R. Comments: 1823, Apr. 21, left St. Louis and arrived 20 days later, 800 mi. up Miss. R. at Fort Snelling, Minn. to become first steamboat to navigate the U. Miss. R. Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA, WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951 Mentioned in another article An account of her historic voyage to Ft. Snelling Name: VIRGINIA V (5) Type: Size: 125' Area: 1820's?: Puget Sound commuter boat Name: VIRGINIA Type: Packet Size: Launched: 1848 Destroyed: 1851 or so, diamantled Area: Ohio R. Captain(s): 1849 Dawson Comments: From the The Daily Wheeling Gazette, April 2, 1849, p. 2 Name: VIRGINIA Launched: 1853 Captains: 1853, Charles V. Wells Companies Associated with: 1853, Wheeling Union Line Name: VIRGINIA 1863-68 Name: VIRGINIA 1865-71 Name: VIRGINIA/STEEL CITY/ISLAND BELLE/EAST ST. LOUIS/GREATER NEW ORLEANS From The Dallas Pavone Gallery Click on picture to enlarge Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet/excursion boat Size: 235' X 40' X 7.' Power: Engines, compound condensing, 15's-7ft. Four boilers each 42" X 20'. Wheel, 23-1/2' with 30' buckets Launched: 1896, New Years day, Cincinnati, Oh. by Cincinnati Marine Railway Co. Destroyed, 1930 or so, dismantled by Streckfus Steamers. Boilers went to WASHINGTON Area: Ohio R. 1912, Feb. Pittsburgh-New Orleans and back. 1 trip. 1915, La Salle-New Orleans trade 1916, entered St. Louis-New Orleans trade as EAST ST. LOUIS 1918, May, St. Louis, came out as excursion boat Owner: Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet Line 1912, Ohio and Mississippi Navigation Company as STEEL CITY 1914, May, purchased by St. Louis & Gulf Transportation Company 1915, Sept, purchased by St. Louis $ New Orleans Navigation Company 1917, largely by J.C. Grant Chemical Co. (Baking powder manufacturer) 1922, acquired by Coney Island Company, Cincinnati 1927, Apr., acquired by Greater New Orleans Amusement Co. 1930 or so sold to Streckfus Steamers Captain(s): When new, Thomas Calhoon 1897, until May, Mate, Sweeney, John c. 1902 Alf Pennywitt 1910, Charles W. Knox 1912, Feb., Kerr, John L., Pittsburgh-New Orleans and back. 1 trip. Then Alf Pennywitt again 1913, Fred Edgington 1915, in La Salle-New Orleans trade, E.E. Brown 1916, March, in St. Louis-New Orleans trade, John Flanigan 1916, May, Sam G. Smith 1918, May, James Robinson Comments: Had 50 cabins and 10 more on Texas deck : 1910, Mar. 6, near Willow Grove, W. Va., got stuck in cornfield during a flood. Was generally an accident prone boat. : 1912, renamed STEEL CITY : 1916, renamed EAST ST. LOUIS : 1917, winter, Keokuk, transformed into excursion boat : 1923 - 1927 named ISLAND BELLE : 1927, after being rebuilt was renamed GREATER NEW ORLEANS : From The Tribune Telegraph, Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. May. 12 1897 Name: VIRGINIA originally the I.C. WOODWARD 1898- Name: VIRGINIA Type: Original towboat, steel hull and steel super structucial (top to bottom). Size: 84.6 long 17.7 wide drafts 42 inches. Launched: 1922, Neville Island, PA. by Dravo. Powered: repowered in 1949 with Buda deisel. 1992 to a GMC 8V71 Diesel. Owners: 1922, Keystone Sand & Supply Co. Pittsburg PA. Sold to QuincyIll. SteamboatCo. Sold to Rudolph Oil Co. 1949, Sold Wilson & Russell Fry, Duffy, Ohio 1964, Sold to Delta ConcreteCo. 1967, Sold to Harry Snyder, Wheeling, W.V. 1975, Sold to Newton Dean, Pittsburg, PA. 1975, Sold to Leanord Holman, Columbia, IL. 1978, Sold to C.W. (Tubby) Lewis, Kenova,WV. 1991, Sold to Capt. Jim & Donna Davis, Minersville, Ohio, current owners. Colors: White, red, and black Comments: From Captain Davis: "I am the owner of the sternwheel boat "VIRGINIA" built in 1922 by Dravo. She is the oldest original sternwheel boat still in operation. We use her as a pleasure boat for our personal use. WE, my wife and myself, are members of the American Sternwheel Association. We love the boat and the river. We are located at 249.2 mile marker on the Ohio River." Captain Jim Davis 3. Name: VISALIA Launched: Somewhere between 1860 and 1911 Area: U. San Joaquin and Tuolumne Rs., Calf.
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