Jim Montgomery (Packet/towboat, 1890-1901)

Date

• 1904

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet/towboat
• BUILT: 1883, Point Pleasant, West Virginia, originally named Doc Hoy
• FORMERLY: Doc Hoy
• OWNERS: 1896: J.M.Clark; 1899: Catlettsburg & Piketon Packet Company or Captain Ralph Emerson Gaches
• OFFICERS & CREW: 1894: Captain Haz Albro, W.H. Kirby (clerk)
• RIVERS: Ohio River; Big Sandy River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 3021 & T1373; She was renamed Jim Montgomery ca. 1890 and ran the Madison-Warsaw-Florence trade on the Ohio River. Sold in 1899 to either the Catlettsburg & Piketon Packet Company or Captain Ralph Emerson Gaches, she received a new hull built at Ashland, Kentucky. She was to run on the Big Sandy River. She may have later been used to tow the showboat French's New Sensation
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Winter scene taken in Madison, Indiana in 1904