Red Wing (Towboat/Rafter/Excursion/Packet, 1907-1926)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat/Rafter/Packet/Excursion
• BUILT: 1889 at Winona, Minnesota as the Juniata
• FORMERLY: Juniata
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Burned at Eichleay yard, Hays, Pennsylvania on December 24, 1926
• OWNERS: 1907: Captain M.H. Newcomb, Chas. Francis; Unknown date: Captain Ralph Emerson Gaches
• RIVERS: Mississippi River; Monongahela River; Allegheny River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T2130; Purchased by Captain M.H. Newcomb and Chas. Francis in 1907, she was named Red Wing. They ran her in the Wabasha-St. Paul packet trade and towed the excursion barge Manitou. In 1912, Captain Newcomb took her up the Chippewa River to Durand, Wisconsin and back. It was the first boat seen there in 26 years. At an unknown date, Captain Ralph Emerson Gaches bought both the Red Wing and Manitou and brought them to Pittsburgh, running excursions at Morgantown, West Virginia and elsewhere on the Monongahela River and the Allegheny River. On December 24, 1926, the Red Wing was burned while laid up at the Eichleay yard in Hays, Pennsylvania
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Red Wing at Wabasha, Minnesota