Kentucky (Packet, 1904-1922/23)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1904 at Jeffersonville, Indiana by Howard Ship Yard
• BECAME: Tennessee Belle (1923)
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Rebuilt and renamed in the winter of 1922-23
• OWNERS: St. Louis and Tennessee River Packet Company
• RIVERS: Ohio River; Tennessee River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 3267; Home port or owner's residence circa 1904, St. Louis, Missouri. Original price, $13,500. After she was rebuilt and renamed, her original roof bell was given to the First Christian Church in Paducah
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: On the Tennessee River