Name: ADVENTURE
Comments: 1838, spring, ascended Missouri's Osage R., ran a distance
of 160 miles upstream, and returned to St. Louis.
See Article
Name: AGGIE
Type: Sternwheel, Wooden hull packet. Size: 92.4' X 20.4' X 3.'.
Power: 9-1/2's- 3 ft.
Launched: 1875, Manchester, Oh.
Area: 1875, Evansville-Owensboro
1880-81, on Osage R., Mo.
1892, Registered in Kansas City, Mo.
Owners: 1875, Capt. Tom Wilson and Messers. O'Neil
1876, Apr., traded to Azro Powel, Uniontown, Ky. for 250 acre farm.
later, sold to Mo.R. by James Tetlow of Chester to Persons in
Washington, Mo.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article.
Name: ALICE GRAY
Area: 1870, Osage R., Mo. between Tuscumbia and Osage City.
Owner: 1870, William H. Hauenstein, the father.
Captains: 1870, probably Capt. William Henry Hauenstein, the son.
Source: Information from site visitor Kelly Hokkanen
Comments: Mentionedin this Article
Name: ALLIANCE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 144' X 27.2' X 3.9', 136 tons.
Launched: 1852, Shousetown, Pa.
Destroyed: 1863, Mar. 17, Cape Girardeau, Mo, near Devil's Island,
Lost to stranding.
Area: tramp trades, Pittsburgh-St. Louis. *Later, possibly Osage R. Mo.
Owners: 1/2 by Capt. Samuel Dean
Captains: Master, Samuel Dean.
Name: BLACK DIAMOND
Area: 1870s, possibly Osage R., Mo.
Owners: *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.
Name: BLACK HILLS
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 135' X 27.5' X 4.5'
Power: 14's-4 1/2 ft., 2 boilers each 42" X 21'.
Launched: 1877, California Pa.
Destroyed: 1884, Mar. 28, After wintering at Bismarck, was cut down by ice
Area: Mo. R. and Yellowstone R.
Spent some time on Osage R., Mo.
Owners: 1/2-Timothy B. Burleigh, 1/4-James C. McVay, 1/4- Thomas M. Rees
Captains: First master, Timothy B. Burleigh, Yankton, Dakota Terr.; pilots,
William Gordon and Jim Witten
: 1881, July 23, Capt. Robt. F. Wright
Companies associated with: 1877, Benton "P" Line
Comments: 1881, July 23, took on 10 cords of wood at Crittenden's
Island at $4 a cord.
: Machinery and cabin came from SILVER CRESENT
Name: CARRIER
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 165.4' X 26.4' X 4.'.
Launched: 1884, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Area: 1884-85, Mo. R. *and possibly Osage R., Mo.
1885, went to Mobile, Ala.
1885, Oct., Alabama R.
Owners: early on, *Possibly Charles F. Lohman and his son Capt. Louis
Charles Lohman, Jefferson City, Mo.
Captains: 1885, Sept., Master, John Quill; clerk, H. Clay King
*This info from family records of Lee Lohman, GGG grandaughter
of Charles F.
Name: DAN B. HURLBURT
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 62.6' X 11' X 2.4'
Launched: 1881, Warsaw, Mo. on Osage R.
Area: 1880's early-1888, Lower Osage R., Mo.
Owner and Capt: Henry Castrop
Source: See
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: DAUNTLESS
Area: Ohio R., Osage R., Mo.
Owner: 1897, July, Ailes, John
Captain(s): Ailes, John
Comments: Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. July. 12 1897
Comments: Mentioned in this Article.
Name: DEW DROP
Type: Stern-wheeler Size: 148 tons.
Launched:
Destroyed: 1860, June. Mouth of Osage R.. Burned.
Name: EDNA
Area: 1870s, possibly Osage R., Mo.
Owners: *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.
Name: EMMA
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 64' X 18' X 3.'.
Power: one engine, one boiler
Launched: 1872, about 50 mi. above sioux City, Iowa, on Mo. R.
Destroyed: 1885, Aug 18, dismantled after becoming stranded opposite Ewing's
Landing when Osage R.
river fell.
Area: 1872, Mo. R.; 1873-1885, Osage R. Mo.
Owners: 1872, George and Fay Mattison
1873-85, Capt Louis Charles Lohman.
Comments: 1873, Aug. 1, 20 mi. above Omaha, sunk during storm.
Name: EVENING STAR
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 343 tons.
Launched: 1864, Freedom, Pa., completed at Wellsville, Oh.
Destroyed: 1869, Aug. 4, St. Louis, burned and lost.
Area: 1864, Mo. R. trade
1867, running Mo. R. trade
At one time, Osage R. Mo.
Captains: 1864, Murphy
Comments: 1866, Jan. took many survivors from exploded W.R. CARTER
to Vicksburg.
: Mentioned in this Article.
Name:EXCEL
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 150' X 27' X 5'
Power: 12's-4 ft. 2 boilers.
Launched: 1851, McKeessport, Pa.
Destroyed: 1856, Mo. R., Osage Chute, snagged and lost. Map
Area: 1851, Cumberland R.
Later was on Ill. R. then went Memphis to Hatchie R. and Mo. R.
Later still went Mo. R. with Capt Beasley
Owners: 1851 was under W.P. Henry and Company.
Later went to a Mr. Miller, St Louis
Later yet to Capt. Ben F. Beasley
Captains: toward end, Ben Beasley
Name: FAR WEST
Type: Sternwheele wooden hull packet.
Size: 190' X 33' X 6'foot. Could carry 200 tns. and 30 cabin passengers.
Drew 20 inches, un-ladened.
Power: 15's- 5 ft., 3 boilers.
Launched: 1870, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1883, Oct. 30, Mo. R., Mullanthy Bend, 7 mi. below St. Charles, Mo.,
snagged and lost.
Area: U. Mo., Yellowstone Rs.
1876-77, for 2 yrs. was on Yellowstone R, in government service
Also made some Osage R. trips
Owners: Built for Capt Sallie B. Coulson of Coulson Packet Line
Later, Northwest Transportation Co. called the Peck Line, Sioux
City/Yankton,ND.
Later sold to Capt. Henry M. Dodds and Victor Bonnet
Captains: John .M. Belk; Grant Marsh.
: At times, Mart Coulson
: 1881, Master and pilot, Henry Jasper King
Comments: 1877, At levee at Bismark, Dakota Territory.
1876, May 27, With Grant Marsh as Capt. became Custer's
support boat.
: 1876, July 4 & 5, Brought Custer's survivors down
: 1872 season, raced NELLIE PECK, Sioux City to Fort Benton and back
Mart Coulson on the FAR WEST beat Capt. Grant Marsh and the
NELLIE PECK by 3 hours, the WEST's time being 17 days
and 20 hours.
: 700 mi. to Fort Abraham Lincoln in 54 hrs. Pulled into
Ft. at 11 PM July 5 1876.
: Carried the peace commissioners up to meet with The Sioux.
: In all, made 18 trips to Ft. Benton
: One reference, Time Life book "The Rivermen", Plaza Library, Kansas City, MO.
: Mentioned in this Article.
: Artwork by Gary R. Lucy, FAR WEST at Citadel Rock
Name: FLOYD
Area: 1880's, Osage R., Mo.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article.
Name: FREDERICK
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull towboat/packet. Size: 96.4' X 14.3' X 3.
Engines: 7 1/2" bore, 2 1/2' stroke. 1 boiler.
Launched: 1883, Tuscunbia, Mo.
Destroyed: *1903 Sank at dock. Dismantled
Area: Osage River in Missouri, connecting with MP Railroad at Osage City, Mo.
Owner: *Originally, Capt. Henry Hauenstein
1883-89, Capt. Henry Castrup and Robert Marshall
1889, sold to other interests
1894, Managed by R.M. Marshall
Captains: *1883, Henry Castrup
Comments: 1894, Aug, 10, Jefferson City, Mo., sank of unknown causes.
*Raised and repaired.
:*Designed by Capt. William Henry Hauenstein, who conceived the
idea of a light draft boat propelling a cargo-filled barge. This
system allowed travel on the Osage River when water levels were
low and heavier boats could not pass.
*Source: Excerpts from History of Miller County Missouri, by Gerald
Schultz, Midland Printing Co., Jefferson City, MO, 1933. Microfilm.
*Sent in by site visitor Kelly Hokkanen.
: Mentioned in this Article.
Name: GENERAL MEADE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 192' X 30' X 4.3'.
Power: 8 3/4" and 23"-4 ft., 2 boilers. Later, 12's-5 ft.
Launched: 1875, Pittsburgh, Pa. for Capt. William J. Koontz
Destroyed: 1888, Sept. 4,* Pelican Bend, Mo. R., snagged and lost.
Area: U. Mo. R.
Later days, St. Louis-Osage R. in Mo.-Rocheport.
Owners: Capt. William J. Kountz
Comments: 1884, Sept. 5, Opposite Jefferson City, Mo., snagged.
: Mentioned in this Article
Name: GEORGE SPANGLER
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 124' X 25' X 4.2'
Power: Engines, 10-1/2's - 3 ft. One boiler.
Launched: 1873, Madison, Ind.
Area: 1877, New Orleans-St. Martinsville
1879, Mo. R.
Spent some time on Osage R., in Mo.
Owners: built for Capt. Nat Williams
Captains: 1877, W.C. Smith
Name: GEORGIE LEE
Type: sidewheele, wooden hull packet
Size: drew only about 15" of water
Launched: 1980, pre
Area 1880, said to be on Osage R. in Missouri.
Captains: 1880, Henry Baker
Name: HELENA
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 194 x 33 x 4.5.
Launched: 1878, California, Pa.
Destroyed: 1891, Oct. 23, snagged at Bonhomme Island, sunk.
Area: Upper Mo. R., Osage R., Mo.
Owners: T.C. Powers and Bros., Powers Packet Line
1880, Benton Transportation Line?;
1887, May 6. Sold to A.S. Bryan and others, Washington, Mo..
Captain(s): Thomas C. Powers, James McGarry
: 1891, Geary W. Murray
1891, when sunk, Master, G.W. Murry; pilot, Ed Anderson.
Comments: 1880, at Milk River Landing 460 mi. below Fort Benton.
1880 at Bismark ferrying train passengers across river
to Mandan.
Transported Sioux Indians to reserations.
1884, was the first spring arrival at Fort Benton, coming
in a week ahead of others.
Comments: More About The HELENA
: Mentioned in this Article.
Name: HOMER C. WRIGHT
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 86.8' X 18.5' X 3.4'.
Power: 7"- 3 1/2 ft., 1 boiler
Launched: 1920, Tuscumbia,Mo.
Destroyed, 1827, Foot of Rutger st. St. Louis, Mo., sank.
Area: Mo. R., Osage R., Mo.
Owners: Union Electric Co., St. Louis
later, New St. Louis and Calhoun Packet Company.
Comments: The Union Electric Company built Bagnal Dam on Osage R. in Mo.,
creating a power plant as well as the nearly one-hundred mile
recreational Lake of the Ozarks. This boat is said to have done
ferry service for this company. (Dave)
: Mentioned in this Article.
Name: HUGO
Area: Osage R., Mo.
Owners: 1870s?, possibly by Charles F. Lohman and his son Capt. Louis
Charles Lohman, of Jefferson City, Mo
: This listing from family records of Lee Lohman, GGG grandaughter
of Charles F.
Name: HURLBURT
Area: At one time Osage R., Mo.
Captains: At one time, Robert Melville Marshall
Mentioned in this Article
Name: JAMES WATSON
Area: 1870s, Osage R. in Mo.
Name: JOHN R. HUGO
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull towboat/packet.
Size: originally 100' long. Later enlarged, 127' X 27' X 3.'
Power: 12's-3 1/2ft., 1 boiler.
Launched: 1879, Evansville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1900, May 22, Florence, Neb., burned.
Area: 1879-1889, Ohio R.
1889 or so went to Osage R., Mo.
Owners: 1889-1900, Osage and Missouri River Packet Company
Captains: while in OMRPC, Robert M. Marshal and Henry Castrop
1900, William L. Thompson
Comments: Using steering oars, Capt. Thompson and Hal Thompson floated burned
out hull to Osage City, Neb. where machinery was placed on new boat,
OSAGE.
: Mentioned in this Article.
Name: JOHN R. WELLS
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull towboat/packet. Size: 110.6' X 20' X 4.'
Power: 10's- 4ft. 1 boiler.
Launched: 1897, Tuscunbia, Mo. for Anchor Milling Co.
Destroyed: 1920, Jan. 30, Pelican Bend near St. Charles, Mo., sank
Area: Osage and Mo. Rs. Lynn Creek, Mo to St. Louis
Owners: 1897-1909, Osage and Missouri Packet Company
1920, Jan. 30, when sank, Stanton and Jones
Captain: 1897-1909, John W. Adcock, first master and pilot until sold.
At one time, Capt. P.F. Hauenstein.
Comments: Mentioned in this Document
Name: KATE HOWARD
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet. Size: 235' X 35' X 6.', 504 tons.
Power: Engines, 24's- 7', 3 boilers. Machinery from N.J. EATON.
Launched: 1857, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1859, snagged and sunk, in the Osage Chute on Mo. R. Another Map
Area: Mo. R., St. Louis-St. Joseph, Capt. Nanson with W.W. Hilliard, clerk.
: 1858, Nov. New Orleans, Bayou Sara and Ft. Adams, Capt. Gross
Captains: Joseph S. Nanson,
1858, E.F. Gross with W.W. Hilliard as clerk
1859, Aug. 4,when snagged, Joseph S. Nanson with Joe Fetco as
pilot.
Comments: from the Boone's Lick Heritage Quarterly.
: When snagged and sunk was downbound, St. Joseph to St. Louis
with tobacco and hemp.
Name: LAST CHANCE
Type: Sternwheel, wood hull ferry/packet/workboat.
Size: 98.2' X 17.8' X 3'
Launched: 1870, Burlington, Iowa
Power: 11's-3 1/2 ft. 1 boiler. was the last of 3 sets of engines she had.
Destroyed: 1899, near Omaha, snagged and lost.
Area: Ohio, U. Miss. and Missouri's Osage Rs.
1886-99, Sioux City, Iowa-Chamberlain, S. Dak.
Owner: 1870 - 1886, Le Clair Navigation Company
1886 - 1899, King, Capt. Henry Jasper and son M.H. King
Captains: 1886-99, King, Capt. Henry Jasper
Comments: 1872, Helped rafts over rapids above Keokuk
: Towed Floating Circus to N. O. one winter.
: At one time, delivered 8,000 barrels of Ohio River salt up the Osage R.
to Warsaw, Mo..
Name: LEANDER
Type: probably a sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Area: spent some time on The Osage R. in Mo.
Name: MAID OF OSAGE
Size: 63 tons
Launched: 1842, Osage City, Mo.
Captains: Nansen Bennett, Cote Sans Dessein, Mo.
Comments: 1844, during a major flood, went up Osage R. to Harmony Mission in
Bates Co., Mo. Only boat ever make it that far.
: Mentioned in this Article.
Name: MARTHA STEPHENS
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 192 tons.
Power: Engines, 10's- 3-1/2 ft.
Launched: 1883, Osage, Mo.
Destroyed: Way's has her snagged at Sibley, Mo. or Turkey Island, Mo. R.
Corp. of Engineers map has her wreck near Franklin Island
just down
from Boonville. Mo.
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: Henry McPherson
Captain(s): Henry McPherson
Comments: From the Boone's Lick Heritage Quarterly.
: Had cargo of sacked wheat aboard when snagged.
Name: NADINE
Type: Sternwheel, woodenhull packet. Size: 23 tons.
Power: 8" - 3 ft.
Launched: Built 1872 Howard's Ferry, Arrow Rock, Mo, by Gustave Moehle
and Sons.
Destroyed: 1878, Sept. 10, Snagged 3 mi. above mouth of Mo. R. on Miss. R.
Area: Mo. R. and Lamine R., Osage R.
Owner: Originally, Nicholas W. Smith
*1897, Sites, Capt. Lee Thomas and Moehle, Gustave
1878 when sunk, J.A. Stien
Captain(s): *1897-early 1900s, Lee Thomas Sites
1878 when sunk, Roy Coulter, pilot.
Comments: *from the Boone's Lick Heritage Quarterly.
: Mentioned in this Article.
Name: NORTH ST.LOUIS
Comments: 1837, July, Attempted to navigate Missouri's Osage R. but was
interrupted when 40 mi. upstream the steamer grounded on the
gravel bar that bears its name. Was refloated by spring rains.
See Article
Name: OH! HUSH
Area: 1840, Missouri R. and possibly the Osage R. in Mo.
Captains: 1840, Nimrod Dickerson
Name: OSAGE
Size: 144 tons
Launched: 1820, Cincinnati, Oh
Destroyed: 1824, snagged
Name: OSAGE
Type: Built as Ironclad Gunboat, possibly propellor driven.
Size: Originally, shallow draft at around 3'
1867, when sold to private owners, described as
180' X 48.8' X 5.4', 350 tons,
Launched: 1863, Carondelet, Mo. Built by James B. Eads.
Destroyed: May have sunk in Sodo Lake, near Shreveport, La.
Area: 1864, was hard aground on sandbar for most of this year.
1865, Apr., Mobile, Ala. Sunk in battle of Mobile and raised.
Owners: 1867, Nov. 22, sold to Capt. John Armstrong
One month later went to New Orleans Wrecking and Salvage Co.,
Captains: 1864, Thomas O. Selfridge, later a Rear Admiral
1867, Dec. - 1870, May, Greenleaf Andrews
Name: OSAGE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 147 tons.
Launched: 1865, Castle Rock, Mo.
Destroyed: 1874, Off the lists
Area: first home, St. Louis, Mo.
Name: OSAGE
Type: Sternwheel, transfer boat, wooden hull
Size: 100' X 19.8' X 3.5'
Power: 12 1/2's, 3 1/2 ft., 1 boiler, all from JOHN R. HUGO
Launched: 1900, Osage City, Mo.
Destroyed: 1917, about, dismantled.
Area: 1900-09, Osage R. Mo.
1909-17, Miss. R.
Owners: 1900-09, Osage and Missouri River Packet Company
1909 Houston Lumber Co., Vicksburg.
1909-1917, Mississippi, Yazoo and Sunflower River Transportation Company
Name: OSAGE PACKET
Launched: 1840
Area: Osage R., Missouri R.-St Louis
Captains: Benjamin B. Bryan
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: OSCEOLA
Destroyed: 1877, on way up Yellowstone R. by a tornado after
loitering at shore to round up a white stalion the
cowboys aboard had spotted. All humans survived,
but the horse went down with the wreckage.
Area: Yellowstone and Mo. Rivers.
Name: PEOPLE'S FERRY/THOMAS H. BENTON
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull ferry
Size: 125' X 34.6' X 4.3'
Launched: 1889, Madison, Ind.
Destroyed: 1918, shortly after, burned
Area: originally, Quincy, Ill.
1906, Osage R. Mo.
1918, out of Vaidalia, La.
Owners: 1906, Sept., sold to Missouri River Packet Company
Comments: 1906, renamed THOMAS H. BENTON
Name: PHIL E. CHAPPELL
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 165' X 29' X 4.5'
Power: Engines, 15's - 5-1/2 ft. Two boilers.
Launched: 1877, Grafton, Ill.
Destroyed: 1888, Mar. 10, Red. R., Sank and lost
Area: Ran Mo. and Osage rivers
Later went to Red R., Shreveport trade
Name: SPORT
Area: Osage R. Mo.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article.
Name: T.L. CRAWFORD
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 155 tons
Launched: 1858, Warsaw, Mo. on Osage R.
Destroyed: 1860, snagged near the mouth of the Lamine R. in Slaughterhouse
Bend, on the Mo. R., just upriver from Boonville, Mo.
Area: Osasge and Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone's Lick Heritage
: Mentioned in this Article.
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: 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: WARSAW
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull ferry. Size;64.3' x 22' X 4.'
Launched: 1914, Keokuk, Io.
Owners: 1920s Quincy Steamboat Company, Quincy, Ill.
Sold to Valley Line Steamers, Memphis,Tenn.
1936, sold to Wolf River Traqnsportation Company, Memphis, Tenn.
Note on WARSAWs: I can not determine which of these boats, if any, was on the
Osage R.in Mo. One is mentioned in this article.
