Ed Myer (Packet, 1909-1918)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1909 at Jeffersonville, Indiana by Howard Ship Yards
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Lost in ice at Helena, Arkansas on January 23, 1918
• OWNERS: Carthage Packet Company; Ryman Line, Nashville (1910)
• RIVERS: Mississippi River; Cumberland River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 1703; Home port or owner's residence circa 1908, Carthage, Tennessee. Original price $9,835. The Carthage Packet Company was owned by West Williams and Ed Myer. She was often chartered out during low water to the Louisville-Evansville trade. Was listed at St. Louis in 1915
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: The large boat in the foreground is the Ed Myer. Behind it, to the left, is an unidentified sternwheel packet