Rescue (Packet, 1884-1897?)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1884 at St. Louis, Missouri
• OWNERS: Mississippi Navigation Company; Captain Sol York; Captain W.D. Pugh (1897)
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Robert Farris (master); Felix Hawkins (master, 1894, 1895); Patrick Holmes (master, 1899); Robert King (captain, 1896)
• RIVERS: Mississippi River; Illinois River; Ohio River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 4732; Home port in 1894, Louisville, Kentucky; in 1900, Vicksburg, Mississippi; in 1902, New Orleans. In the beginning of her career, she towed rafts over the Keokuk rapids and handled excursion parties. When owned by Captain York, she ran in the Peoria-Henry trade on the Illinois River, making one round trip a day. In 1895 she was running Louisville-Kentucky River but by November 1897 she was put in a U.S. Marshal sale and sold to Captain Pugh for $1,035. Some sources say she was still in documentation in 1900 and in 1902
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: On the Ohio River