Chattanooga (Packet, 1904-1921)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1901 as the Megiddo; renamed Chattanooga in 1904
• FORMERLY: Megiddo
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Sank at Chattanooga, Tennessee circa 1921
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Paul Underwood (master, 1919-20); Joe Farrell (mate, 1919-20); Harris Underwood (pilot, 1919-20); Bob Ellison (chief engineer, 1919-20); Bob Dodds (clerk, 1919-20); Captain Thomas D. Galy (1921)
• RIVERS: Tennessee River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 0987; In May 1904 she sank on the rocks in the Big Chain, about Mile 20 Tennessee River and was badly warped. She was pulled out on the marine ways at Paducah. Captain Walter Blair superintended repairs and she emerged looking very little like her former self, now a full fledged packet. She ran out of Chattanooga, Tennessee and once sank there with a large cargo of corn aboard. She became the last packet to make trips to Kingston, Tennessee in 1919-20. In January 1921 she was running Chattanooga-Decatur