General Pike (Packet, 1877-1891)

Date

• January 3, 1890

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1877 at Madison, Indiana
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Sank shortly before noon on January 1, 1891, having backed into a fleet of coal barges when departing the Madison wharfboat. A rising river soon finished her
• OWNERS: U.S. Mail Line Company
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain E.B. Cooper (1886); A.J. Slavin (clerk, 1886); Captain Tom Hunter (master, 1887)
• RIVERS: Ohio River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 2267; Came out new in the Cincinnati-Madison trade replacing the sidewheel Ben Franklin. Ran Pittsburgh-Cincinnati in 1886 and 1887 in place of the sunken Emma Graham. Then went back to the Cincinnati-Madison trade
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: The General Pike sunk at Madison