FINAL DISPOSITION: Lost in a storm near Nine Mile Point above New Orleans in May 1899
OWNERS: W.H. Brown of Pittsburgh; Interstate Transportation Company (mid-1890s)
OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Cooper (1899); Captain Charles M. Jackson
RIVERS: Ohio River; Mississippi River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T0062; Engines from the towboat Keystone built in 1865; originally towed coal at which time she was poolboat in style; designed by Isaac Hammitt, jr. and hull was built at Axton yard, Brownsville, Pennsylvania; Captain and Mrs. A.O. Ackard spent their honeymoon on this boat; sold to Interstate Transportation Company which was formed in mid-1890s to tow between Pittsburgh and New Orleans; while with Interstate, the pilothouse was put on the roof of the Alarm
PHOTO DESCRIPTION: With barges Lidia W. and Francis X.