Golden Gate (Rafter/Packet, 1878-1903)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Rafter/Packet
• BUILT: Dubuque, Iowa (or St. Louis, Missouri?) in 1878 with engines from the James Means
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Dismantled in the Kentucky River at Carrolton, Kentucky 1903
• OWNERS: U.S. Engineering Department (?); Captain James Coleman (1878); George Rutherford (part-owner, 1888); Coleman Brothers (1888); J. W. and S. R. VanSant and John McCaffrey; Mississippi River Commission (1895-1899); Captain G. M. Sivley (1899); Captain W. E. Pratt (Madison, Indiana, 1902-1903); C. F. Disken (Carrolton, Kentucky, 1903)
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain James Coleman (master, 1878); Captain J. M. Turner (master, 1881-1882)
• RIVERS: Mississippi River; Illinois River; Kentucky River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 2374; She was temporarily enrolled in Port of St. Louis, April 29, 1878, then enrolled in Port of Dubuque, July 20, 1878. In 1881-1882, Golden Gate ran Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company rafts to Hannibal and St. Louis, Missouri. In 1900 she was working on the Illinois River. In 1902 she ran Cincinnati-Madison and in 1903 Louisville-Kentucky River, three trips a week to Monterey