Henry Bosse (Towboat, 1908-1913)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat
• BUILT: 1881 at Dubuque, Iowa
• FORMERLY: Vixen (1881); David Tipton (1905)
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Capsized in a storm (tornado) on the upper Mississippi just below Keokuk, Iowa on August 19, 1913
• OWNERS: U.S. Engineering Department, Rock Island, Illinois
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Gus Seifert (master, 1912); Campbell Hunt (pilot, 1912); Harry Henderson (chief engineer, 1913); Thomas Noonan (2nd engineer, 1913); George Beckel (waterman, 1913); William Jones (deckhand, 1913); Mr. and Mrs. William Welch (cooks, 1913); Glenn Slee (mate, 1913); Charles Henderson (chief engineer, 1913); William Guthrie (fireman, 1913)
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T1091; She worked for the government between Keokuk, Iowa and Burlington, Iowa in 1912; at Alton, Illinois in 1913. When she capsized, six of the crew were drowned
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: In the foreground are men working on the construction of the water intake towers in St. Louis; the Henry Bosse is in the background