Nettie Quill (Packet, 1886-1915)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1886 at Freedom, Pennsylvania (hull); completed at Wheeling, West Virginia
• BECAME: Monroe
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Renamed in 1915
• OWNERS: Captain John Quill
• RIVERS: Alabama River; Tombigbee River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 4148; Built under the supervision of Tom Dunbar. First home port, Mobile, Alabama
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: On the Tombigbee River pushing barges loaded with cotton bales