BUILT: 1880 as the Sidney; built at Murraysville, West Virginia (hull) and completed at Wheeling, West Virginia; rebuilt at Mound City, Illinois in 1921 and renamed Washington
FORMERLY: Sidney
FINAL DISPOSITION: Dismantled at St. Louis, 1938
OWNERS: Streckfus Steamers, Inc., St. Louis
OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Coburn Pratt (master); Captain Edgar F. Mabrey (master); Captain C. W. Elder (master); Lee Willis (pilot); Grover Litten (pilot); Homer Litten (pilot); Charles H. Ellsworth (pilot); William I. Weldon (pilot), Phil C. Elsey (pilot); William S. Pollock and Fred Way, Jr. (pilots, 1934-1937)
RIVERS: Ohio River; Mississippi River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 5711; Had four boilers from the Greater New Orleans; operated on the Ohio River managed by Captain D. Walter Wisherd, based at Cincinnati, then at Pittsburgh. She damaged her bow when she struck the lower lock gate at Dam #8, Ohio River on August 16, 1936, with no injury to passengers. In 1937 she operated part of the season, and she was dismantled at St. Louis in 1938
PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Tied up at the Sistersville, West Virginia, wharfboat in July, 1927