R. C. Gray (Packet, 1866-1874)

Date

• ca. 1869

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1866 at Shousetown, Pennsylvania
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Dismantled in 1874
• OWNERS: Captain William B. Anderson, Ezra P. Young, John C. Anderson, J.N. and Nathan Porter and E. and N. Porter; Louisville and Arkansas River Packet Company (1871)
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain William B. Anderson (master)
• RIVERS: Ohio River; Mississippi River; Arkansas River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 4630; First home port, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Named for Captain Richard C. Gray who ran Gray's Iron Line. She ran the tramp trades, usually Pittsburgh-Cincinnati, St. Louis and sometimes to St. Paul. In April 1870 she was on the Arkansas River, running Little Rock-Fort Smith
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: The R.C. Gray is in the foreground at Cincinnati circa 1869. Behind her are the Argosy No. 3, Ohio No. 4, and the Andes