RIVERBOATS
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08/15/1999
3. Name: ZACK JOHNSON
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: ZANESVILLE
Launched: 1839, Pittsburgh Area
Name: ZANESVILLE
Launched: 1846, Zanesville, Oh.
*Name: ZANESVILLE
Launched, 1880s
Name: ZANESVILLE PACKET/ nicknamed OLD JANE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 88 tons.
Launched: 1844, Zanesville, Oh.
Destroyed: 1847 off the lists.
Area: 1844-46, Pittsburgh-Zanesville
1847- ? Zanesville-Cincinnati
Owners: 1847, sold to W.W. Graham, Zanesville
Captains: 1844-46, William Scales
1847, Charles Gallagher
Comments: At first was operated by Capt. Billy, who was on in years,
and Jane McMillan, who had a hand in everything.
: Mentioned in this Article
Name: ZEBULON M. PIKE
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1817, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed:
Area: Miss. R.
Owner: United States Mail Line
CaptainS: Capt. Reed, James.
Comments: First paddlewheeler designed exclusively for passenger travel.
First paddlewheeler to contract to carry U.S. Mail
1817, Aug. Was first Steamboat to get up to St. Louis.
Comments: from Boone's Lick Heritage Quarterly.
Name: ZEPHER or, more probably ZEPHYR
Type: Size:
Launched: 1840, early
Destroyed: 1844
Area:
Owner:
Captain(s):
Comments:
Name: ZEPHER or, more probably ZEPHYR
Type: Stern-wheeler
Size: 140 X 29 X 3.8, 150 tons
Power: 11' X 4.5', 2 boilers, each 36" X 20'
Launched: 1864, Brownsville, Penn.
Destroyed: Sank on rocks
Area: 1864 - ? Ark. R. out of Memphis. Also New Orleans to Cairo
Owner:
Captain(s): Johnson, Ben
Comments: used as prison transports after the confederate
surrender at Port Hudson.
3. Steamboats in the Valley