Helen Mar (Towboat/Rafter, 1872-1904)

Date

• 1872

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat/Rafter
• BUILT: Osceola, Wisconsin, 1872
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Dismantled at North La Crosse, 1904
• OWNERS: Captain William Kent and John Dudley; Knapp, Stout and Company; McDonald Brothers (1889)
• OFFICERS & CREW: Decker Dixon was on her while owned by Knapp, Stout and Company; Hiram Fuller (engineer, 1873); Captain John Wooders (master); Captain Lyman Short (master and pilot); Captain William Slocumb (master and pilot, 1880-1882); Captain John Bradley (pilot, 1880-1882); Sam Fuller (master), Joseph Fuller (engineer); John T. Smith (master and pilot); Alvin E. Fuller (engineer); Frank Chamberlain (second engineer, 1884); E. D. Dixon (master, 1887); George Hicks (chief engineer, 1889); William Dobbs (master 1889, 1893, 1894)
• RIVERS: Mississippi River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T1075; Inspection at Galena in 1872 shows her being built at Stillwater, Minnesota, perhaps the hull only. Helen Mar had a glass-enclosed boiler deck. She was a fixture in the rafting industry until dismantled at North La Crosse because of old age in 1904
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: During period when she was owned by Knapp, Stout and Company?