Nashville (Packet/Hospital boat, 1849-?)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sidewheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet/Hospital boat
• BUILT: 1849 at New Albany, Indiana
• OWNERS: Captain Tyner and W.W. Parmenter
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Thomas Bellanyder; John Orr (clerk)
• RIVERS: Cumberland River; Canary Fork River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 4097; Her hull was made by Dowerman and Humphries. First home port, Louisville, Kentucky. She ran Nashville-New Orleans and could carry 100 passengers. At the beginning of the Civil War (1862) she was converted to become the U.S. Sanitary Commission's hospital boat. Her two decks could hold 1000 wounded. She kept the name Nashville
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Picture of the Nashville after she became a hospital boat