W. J. Young, Jr. (Rafter/Packet, 1882-1903)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Rafter/Packet
• BUILT: 1882 at Dubuque, Iowa
• BECAME: Hiawatha
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Sold to the K and I Bridge and Terminal Company in 1903 and renamed
• OWNERS: W.J. Young; Carnival City Packet Company (1895)
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Paul Kerz (master, 1883-1895?); Captain Walter Blair (master); Bernard Suiter (clerk); Spence Burtnett (engineer); Andy Burtnett (engineer); Isaac M. Newcomb (pilot, 1894)
• RIVERS: Mississippi River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T2576; 5645; Enrolled at the Port of Dubuque on May 16, 1882. She was a rafter on the upper Mississippi River until sold to the Carnival City Packet Company in 1895. They remodeled her into a packet by extending her cabin, building a half texas behind the pilot house and adding a swinging stage. She ran Davenport-Burlington. In May 1890, as a rafter, she was going downriver with a raft of logs when she encountered the wreck of the Nominee. In her nine years as a packet, she never broke down. She later became an excursion boat and was renamed Hiawatha in 1903