Express No. 2 (Packet, 1870-1879)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sidewheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1870 at Wheeling, West Virginia
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Dismantled in 1879
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Phil Anshutz (master, 1870-75); E.J. Anshutz (clerk, 1870-76); Captain A.B. Booth (master, 1876); H.C. Caldwell (clerk, 1877); Martin F. Noll (clerk, 1878); Brady Morgan (pilot)
• RIVERS: Ohio River; Muskingum River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 1947; In the Wheeling-Parkersburg trade; teamed up with the sidewheel Courier. After she was dismantled, her hull served as the wharfboat at Wheeling until the Crockard and Booth wharfboat was built at Moundsville in 1892. Her machinery and whistle went to the St. Lawrence