J.H. Menge (Packet, 1910-1916)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1910, Jeffersonville, Indiana by Howard Ship Yard
• BECAME: M.A. Burke, 1916
• OWNERS: 1910: Mississippi Packet Company; 1914-15: Captain Thomas Morrissey; 1916: Captain Owen F. Burke
• OFFICERS & CREW: 1914-1915: Captain Ed Nowland, Jr. (master)
• RIVERS: Mississippi River; Ouachita River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 2844; Original price, $33,500. Spring, 1911, she ran the New Orleans-Ouachita River trade, then the New Orleans-Vicksburg trade. Under Captain Morrissey she briefly ran Memphis-Vicksburg. Sold in July 1916, her name was changed to M.A. Burke
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Left to right: Natchez; J.H. Menge; America; Imperial