Chattahoochee (Packet, 1881-1893)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1881 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by James Rees and Sons Company
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Burned at Vicksburg on December 7, 1893
• OWNERS: Peoples Line; Mulholland Brothers
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain John W. Fitzgerald (1884); Captain Nimptz
• RIVERS: Mississippi River; Chattahoochee River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 0982; The first all-steel hull packet built for U.S. service. She was built for service on the Chattahoochee River. In the summer of 1884 she was on the St. John's River, Florida, plying between Jacksonville and Sanford. She then belonged to the Peoples Line operated by Henry Bailey Plant. She was still operating there in June 1885. Later she was returned to the Mississippi River and ran Vicksburg-Greenville. The Rees firm claimed she was the first Western steamer with longitudinal and transverse bulkheads in the hull