Silver Crescent (Towboat/Rafter/Packet, 1881-1907)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat/Rafter/Packet
• BUILT: 1881 at Clinton Iowa
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Dismantled at Winona, Minnesota in 1909
• OWNERS: 1881: O.P. McMann; 1890: Le Claire Navigation Company, Van Sant & Musser Transportation Company and W.S. Mitchell; 1892: Walter Blair
• OFFICERS & CREW: 1881: Captain O.P. McMann (master); 1890: W.S. Mitchell (master), Captain George Tromley (pilot); 1892: Captain Walter Blair (master), S.R. Dodds (clerk), Parm Lancaster (mate); 1895: Captain S.R. Dodds (master-purser)
• RIVERS: Mississippi River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T2306 & 5112; Originally used as a towboat/rafter, she was sold in 1890 for $7,000. In 1890 she was again purchased for $7,000 and remodeled for short-trade packet work on the Carnival City Packet Company, the Davenport-Burlington trade. She paid a five percent dividend the first season. In 1895 she went to the Keokuk-Quincy trade and ran there until 1908. In the season of 1899 in the Keokuk-Quincy trade she ran until December 16, the latest a boat had operated there. She was dismantled at Winona, Minnesota the spring of 1909
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Silver Crescent with barge in foreground. On far left is the Quincy