Concordia (Packet, 1906-1914)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: Jeffersonville, Indiana by Howard Ship Yards, 1906
• BECAME: Uncle Oliver
• OWNERS: Captain George Prince
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain George Prince (master); O. K. Wilds (clerk); A. D. Primm (head clerk, 1913)
• RIVERS: Mississippi River; Red River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 1284; Built for Captain George Prince and arrived at Natchez on Christmas Day, 1906; home port or owner's residence 1906 was Natchez, Mississippi; original price was $11,700. She ran Natchez-Atchafalaya and Black rivers. She was rebuilt at Paducah in 1912. On June 7, 1913, doing flood relief work near Clayton, Louisiana, she sank, drowning head clerk A. D. Primm and twelve workers. She was raised that July and ran up the Red River 1913-1914
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Left to right: unidentified sternwheel packet, sternwheel packet Concordia, and sternwheel packet Charles P. Shaw?