Andes (Packet, 1877-1895)

Date

• 1877

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1877 in Cincinnati
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Dismantled in 1895
• OWNERS: Wheeling and Cincinnati Packet Company; Captain Ed Cooper, Al Slavin and Ben D. Stout; Captain Lee Anshutz and Charles Ollum, backed financially by Harry Davis; John A. Wood and Son
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Charles Muhleman (master, 1877-1889); George D. Harvey (clerk); Martin F. Noll (clerk, 1877-1889); Captain William L. Anderson (1883)
• RIVERS: Ohio River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 0252; Three boilers; in 1893 she ran excursions terminating in one trip with a mob of tough characters aboard who nearly wrecked the boat; after being dismantled in 1895, the engines were used on the towboat Dave Wood; old hull, loaded with 31,000 bundles of cotton ties was shipped south in tow of the John A. Wood in May 1897; in one season, when Captain Muhleman ran her, she made 51 round trips out of a possible 52, a record; she carried a bar, one of the last of the upper Ohio packets to do so
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Interior cabin of 1877 Andes showing passengers and crew