Dick Clyde (Towboat, 1894-1918)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat
• BUILT: Wabasha, Minnesota in 1880 (1881?), under the name Nellie
• FORMERLY: Nellie
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Sank at St. Louis on March 22, 1918
• OWNERS: A. J. Whitney & Son (1880); John Carnes (1896); Cumberland and Tennessee Transportation Company (1905); Chess Wyman (Whyman?) and Company (1914); Captain William Ruprecht (1918)
• RIVERS: Mississippi River; Tennessee River; Cumberland River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T0603; Originally the packet Nellie, built in 1880 at Wabasha, Minnesota for A. J. Whitney & Son, Rock Island, Illinois. She was sold to Tennessee River and renamed Dick Clyde. In 1896 she was owned by John Carnes of Golconda, Illinois. She hit the dam at Dover, Tennessee on the Cumberland River and sank in deep water in early May, 1900. She was bought in 1905 by Cumberland and Tennessee Transportation Company after being repaired and decorated. She was used in the Nashville-Burnside trade on the Cumberland River. She was sold in 1914 to Chess Wyman (Whyman?) and Company for use in the towing and tie business. Captain William Ruprecht owned her at St. Louis when she sank there on March 22, 1918