Gleaner (Towboat, 1896-1917)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat
• BUILT: 1896 at Madison, Indiana
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Beached at Paducah and dismantled about 1917
• OWNERS: St. Louis and Mississippi Valley Transportation Company; Peoples Coal Company, Pittsburgh (1901); West Kentucky Coal Company (circa 1907-08)
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain John Case (master, 1903); Henry Lindenburn (pilot, 1903); Jason Curtis (pilot, 1903); Captain William Crow (master, 1912); Henry Nye (pilot, 1915)
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T0953; She towed the Jay Gould hull to St. Louis on her first trip. She was sunk in a storm on June 13, 1912 at Plaquemine, Louisiana together with 20 barges of coal