General Beach (Packet, 1920-?)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat
• BUILT: By Howard Ship Yards at Jeffersonville, Indiana, 1912, as the Corker
• FORMERLY: Corker
• BECAME: Jim O'Sullivan, unknown date
• OWNERS: 1920: Liberty Transit Company
• OFFICERS & CREW: 1920: Captain Walter English (master-pilot), Eb Cline (pilot), Arch Wriggleworth (purser), F. Way, Jr. (clerk); November 1920: Captain W.L. Guthrie, Charles Douglass (clerk); 1921: William S. Pollock (captain); Summer 1921: Captain Hiram Douglass, Captain Scott Heatherington (pilot), Homer Mozena (purser), J. Mack Gamble (clerk), F. Way, Jr. (clerk)
• RIVERS: Ohio River; Muskingum River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 2227; Purchased by the Liberty Transit Company in 1920, her name was changed from Corker to General Beach and she entered the Pittsburgh-Wheeling trade. In spring and summer 1921 she ran Pittsburgh-Zanesville via Muskingum River. That fall she towed pipe in barges from Pittsburgh to Hanging Rock, Ohio. While coaling at Warwood, West Virginia, she sank at the tipple of the Richland mine. She was repaired at Elizabeth, Pennsylvania and ran the Pittsburgh-Charleston line. After being sold to John F. Klein, she was rebuilt and renamed Jim O'Sullivan. Date unknown