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06/12/2007

Name: YAKIMA

Name: YANKEE
    Launched: 1847
    Area: 1850, U. Miss. R.
    Comments: Mentioned in this Article

wName: YANKTON
    Destroyed; sank
    Area: 1873, Mo. R., replaced the LIZZIE WARDEN as ferry from Yankton, S.D.
                to  Green Island, Neb.
    Comments: Machinery went to the ferry KATE
            : This info from Bob Karolevitz's column The Way It Was,
              believed to have been in a Yankton. S.D.. newspaper.  

Name: YAZOO VALEY
	Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet.  Size: 180' X 36' X 5.'
	Power: 16's- 5 1/2 ft., 2 boilers
	Launched: 1876, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard.
	Destroyed: 1887, Mar. 8, Above Grand Encore, Burned.  3 lives lost
	Area: 1877, New Orleans-Vicksburgh-Yazoo R.
		  1883, New Orleans-Red R.
	Owners: when new, S.H. Parisot & Co., Vicksburgh, Miss.
			1883 sold to Red River and Coast Line, headed by Charles P. Truslow.
	Captains: 1877, S.H. Parisot
	Comments: 1883, Mar 4, sank and raised.
			: 1886, sank and raised

Name: YAZOO VALLEY
	Captains: 1913, Tom Smith

From
Olden Times.com
The Daily Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
January 10, 1913

Name: YELLOWSTONE

From
Scienceviews.com

    Type: Sidewheel, woodenhull packet
    Size: 130'
    Power: a single powerful steam engine
    Launched: 1830 or so
    Destroyed: Fate unknown
    Area: 1830-34, Mo. R.
          1835, went to New Orleans-Galveston, Tex. trade
          Later, Brazos River landings taking cotton and sugar to ships off Quintana, Tex.
    Owner: 1830-35, American Fur Co.
           1835-, Thomas Toby & Brother of New Orleans,
    Captains: Clerk, La Barge, Joseph.
              1835, Thomas Wigg Grayson
              1836, John E. Ross
              Later, James V. West
    Comments: 1832, Was first ever steamboat to reach Fort Union on U. Mo. R.
              1833, hung up on sandbar.
            : from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
            : From Burle County Historical Society, S.D.: "In 1831, (fur trader -d.)Perre
              Chouteau of St. Louis had a small flat bottom steamboat named
              YELLOWSTONE and brought a cargo of goods up the river.  This trip
              revolutionized the Missouri river fur trade by their being able
              to make the trip in a few weeks which formerly took a whole
              season."
            : See Article

1. Name: YELLOWSTONE

   The
   YELLOWSTONE
 

    Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
	Size: 206' X 30' X 5.5'
    Power: 16's- 5-1/2'.  Two Boilers
    Launched: 1864, Cincinnati, Oh.
    Destroyed: 1867, July 11, St. Louis, burned along with G.W. GRAHAM while laid up.
	Area: Mo. R.
    Owners: Capt. McDonald, and Capts. Bart Able and D.N, Greenleaf
    Captains:  Master was Capt. McDonald
    Comments: See art work at top of this page.

1. Name: YELLOWSTONE
    Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
    Size: 150' X 30' X 5.6', 167 tons
    Power: 14's- 4-1/2 ft.  Two Boilers
    Launched: 1876, Jeffersonville, Ind.
    Destroyed: 1879, late May, Buffalo Rapids, Yellowstone R., lost. 
    Owners: Dr. Achilles Lamme,  Bozeman, Mont. 
    Comments: This YELLOWSTONE made 3 trips in 3 years to Ft. Benton

Name: YOHOGANY
	Size: 65 ton
	Area: 1852, May, White R., steamed to Forsythe
	Captains: Childress
	Comments: Source

Name: YORK
    Type:  Ferryboat     Size: 78' X 32' X 7'
    Launched: 1813
    Destroyed: 
    Area: 
    Owner: Hudson River Steamboat Company
    Captain 
    Comments: Source

Name: YORK STATE
    Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet.    Size: 247 tons.
    Launched: 1852
    Destroyed: 1859
    Area: 1857, U, Miss. R.
    Owner: Northern Line Packet Company
    Captain
    Comments: Mentioned in this Article

Name: YOSEMITE
    Type: Sidewheeler               Size: 265'
    Launched: 
    Destroyed: 1865, Oct,. 12, Rio Vista, Calf, boilers blew.  45 Killed.
    Area: California Delta
    Owner: 
    Captain and pilots: Capt. 
    Comments: 

Name: YOUKON This spelling is correct.
    Type: Stern-wheeler    Size: 47'
    Launched: 1869?, San Francisco
    Destroyed: 
    Area: Yukon R.
    Owner: Alaska Fur Co.
    Captain and pilots: Capt. 
    Comments: 

Name: YUBA
    Launched: 1840's mid?
    Area: 1850s, early, Sacramento R. Calif.

Name: YUKONER
    Type: Stern-wheeler    Size: 47'
    Launched:
    Destroyed: 
    Area: Yukon R.
    Owner:
    Captain and pilots: Capt. 
    Comments: Engines, 2 compound jet-condenser type producing 525 H.P.
              Boiler, Locomotive type (fire-tube) manufactured at
              the Polson Iron Works,Toronto,1901,.
              #1(working pressure:129.4 kilograms/sq. cm. - 184 lb /sq. in. )
               These engines were later used the steamer S.S. Klondike I

1. Way's Packet Directory, 1848 - 1994 

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