John W. Thomas (Packet, 1897-1905)

Date

• 1902

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat
• BUILT: Jeffersonville, Indiana by Howard Ship Yards, 1897
• BECAME: Rebuilt and named Glenmore
• OWNERS: Lovell Line, Nashville, Tennessee
• RIVERS: Cumberland River; Ohio River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 3131; Original price $4600; home port or owner's residence circa 1897 was Nashville, Tennessee. She often ran low water in the Louisville-Evansville trade, but her regular run was Nashville-Burnside. On December 21, 1905, while backing away from the wharfboat at Tell City, Indiana, she hit the Obrecht dock, damaged her hull, sank and later burned at midnight December 25. The hull was raised by the insurance company, and she was rebuilt and named Glenmore