Dewey (Packet, 1898-1902)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sidewheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1888 at Jeffersonville, Indiana as the Kate Adams (the 2nd)
• FORMERLY: Kate Adams
• BECAME: Lotussims
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Sold in July 1902 to Captain Thomas B. Sims, St. Louis and renamed
• OWNERS: Chalmette Packet Company; Memphis and Vicksburg Packet Company
• OFFICERS & CREW: Andy Sullivan (master, 1899); Frank Perkins (clerk, 1899)
• RIVERS: Mississippi River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 1527; Name changed to Dewey in 1898 when bought by the Chalmette Packet Company. Ran out of New Orleans to Grand Lake and the Bends, and also to Vicksburg and Lake Providence. In 1901 she ran with the Julia, Memphis-New Orleans
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Cabin on the Dewey