Hard Cash (Packet, 1876-1914)

Date

• 1908

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1876 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Laid up in Bayou Sara Creek, Alabama in 1910 and dismantled in 1914
• OWNERS: Captain Edward Postal
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain James Rees, Jr. (master, 1876); G. Wash Floyd (clerk, 1876); Captain William Pettus (master, 1887-90)
• RIVERS: White River; Mississippi River; Tombigbee River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 2529; She was built for the Memphis-White River trade. In September 1879 she sank on a snag below St. Louis. In 1885 she was sold to Mobile, Alabama. She made regular trips to Columbus during the navigation season; her last visit there was in 1909
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: In the background, far left, Hard Cash. To the far right, Lucille. In the foreground on the right is the American