Courier (Packet, 1885-1918)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1885 at Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania and completed at Wheeling, West Virginia
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Dismantled at Ashland, Kentucky, spring 1918
• OWNERS: Captain Thomas J. Prince; Captain J. Mack Gamble; White Collar Line (1895); Captain Gordon C. Greene and others (1904)
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Tom J. Prince (master); T.J. Martin (clerk); Captain J. Mack Gamble (master); Tim Penwell (clerk); William Wayman (clerk)
• RIVERS: Ohio River; Mississippi River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 1355; Engines from the Scioto. Entered the Wheeling-Parkersburg trade. In winter 1885/86, was in the Vicksburg-Bayou Sara trade. She was sunk once at West Wheeling when new and again in November 1893 at the Little Muskingum River while discharging a passenger who had paid 25 cents fare. The White Collar Line ran her Cincinnati-Maysville. She hit the Central Bridge, Cincinnati and sank in November 1896; raised. After being sold to Captain Greene and others in 1904, she was kept in the Cincinnati-Maysville trade, running there a total of 22 years. In spring of 1917 she made two round trips Pittsburgh-Charleston in place of the Ruth, the last running she did. After dismantling, her roof bell went to a church at Pliny, West Virginia and her whistle, from the St. Lawrence, went to the Tacoma