H. G. Hill (Packet, 1918-1927)

Date

• ca. 1921

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1918 at Paducah, Kentucky
• FINAL DISPOSITION: During the 1927 flood she was beached across a highway at Wooddale Grove above Nashville
• OWNERS: Captains W.L. Berry and Fred McCandless (Nashville Navigation Company)
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain R.D. Crider; J. Wylie Leek (purser)
• RIVERS: Kentucky River; Cumberland River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 2487; Her engines were from the Rapids. She was named for a wholesale grocery owner in Nashville. Ran Paducah-Nashville. In 1935 her engines went to the Barbara Hunt
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Emmeline Willett sitting on a Kentucky thoroughbred horse; the H. G. Hill is in the background