Robert Rhea (Packet, 1908-?)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1908 at Marietta, Ohio
• OWNERS: Cumberland River Steamboat Company; Ryman Line (1910); Captain I.T. Rhea (1916); St. Louis and Tennessee River Packet Company (1919); Irving M. Eanes (1927)
• RIVERS: Cumberland River; Alabama River; Tennessee River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 4796; She originally had no texas but may have acquired one while on the Tennessee River. She may have had a change in machinery around 1912
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: At the Hammitt Ship Yard left to right: Mengel Box Company Derrick Boat No. 1, Mengel Box Company, Robert Rhea, Louise Reeves, Duffy