Tarascon (Packet, 1895-1917)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1895 at Jeffersonville, Indiana by Howard Ship Yard
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Sank and was lost at Cottonwood Point on December 26, 1917
• OWNERS: Louisville and Evansville Packet Company; Louisville and Evansville Transportation Company (1910)
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain David L. Penny (1896)
• RIVERS: Ohio River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 5310; Original price, $12,250. Home port or owner's residence circa 1895, Louisville, Kentucky. She came out in March 1896 and ran as partner with the Tell City in the Louisville-Evansville trade. By 1913, she was in physically bad condition but was docked in 1914 and given almost a new hull. In 1917 she was chartered by the Valley Navigation Company for the Memphis-Caruthersville trade. She sank and was lost on December 26, 1917