BUILT: 1899 as the Liberty; rebuilt as the City of Parkersburg in 1912
FORMERLY: Liberty
FINAL DISPOSITION: In 1918 she hit a half-sunken barge on a flooded river at Russell, Kentucky and sank
OWNERS: John W. Hubbard
OFFICERS & CREW: Captain William English (master, 1913); John L. Kerr (pilot, 1913); Ed McLaughlin (pilot, 1913); George Knox (chief, 1913); Ed Dunaway (purser, 1913); Jeff Frame (mate, 1913); Captain Robert Hasley (master, 1917); Captain J. Orville Noll (1918); Martin Fitchner (master and pilot, 1908)
RIVERS: Ohio River; Mississippi River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 1117; In 1912 John W. Hubbard, Pittsburgh, bought the Liberty at Mobile, Alabama and Captain Henry Kraft and son Harry brought her through the Gulf and to Pittsburgh. She was docked at Dravosburg, Pennsylvania, considerably altered and renamed City of Parkersburg. Came out in spring 1913 and ran Pittsburgh-Cincinnati in the Hubbard-inspired Ohio and Mississippi Navigation Company. Upbound on the second trip she hit a cofferdam at Ohio River Dam 26, February 4, sank and was raised. Same trade in 1915 although low water in June-November kept her laid up. She hit an obstruction at Raccoon Island on March 25, 1915 and was towed to Point Pleasant for repairs by the Sallie Marmet. In the summer of 1915 she towed a floating water circus owned by Rice and Dore to the Upper Mississippi with many tribulations. In 1916 she was laid up at Point Pleasant in the Kanawha River all summer. She ran excursions at Pittsburgh in summer 1917. Captain J. Orville Noll entered her in the Pittsburgh-Cincinnati trade early 1918. She sank not long after. Her boilers went to the packet Kentucky in November 1919
PHOTO DESCRIPTION: From left to right: City of Parkersburg, Queen City