Wm. Garig (Packet, 1904-1918)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1904 at Jeffersonville, Indiana
• BECAME: Golden Eagle
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Sold to Eagle Packet Company in March 1918, rebuilt and renamed
• OWNERS: Baton Rouge and Bayou Sara Packet Company; Carter Brothers (after 1908)
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Sam Cotton (master, 1917); Jerry Hicks (pilot, 1917)
• RIVERS: Mississippi River; Ouachita River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 5812; Her machinery and boilers came from the Julian Poydras. In 1904 she won a race with the Delta Queen. Her last run in the south was New Orleans-Camden on the Ouachita River in 1917. In 1918 she was sold, rebuilt and renamed
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: At New Orleans with a cargo of cotton