BUILT: Originally the Robert P. Gillham built at Parkersburg, West Virginia, 1901
FORMERLY: Robert P. Gillham
FINAL DISPOSITION: Sank after striking bridge during flash flood on the Kanawha River at Charleston, West Virginia, August 15, 1940
OWNERS: Hatfield and Campbell's Creek Coal Company
OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Charles Young (master); 1935: Cecil Faudree (engineer), Sherman Bonecutter and Dennis Rose (mates); 1938: Denver Huggins and Cecil Faudree (engineers), Sherman Bonecutter (mate)
RIVERS: Kanawha River; Ohio River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T1093; The Henry C. Yeiser, Jr. was renamed after Hatfield and Campbell's Creek Coal Company interests combined. She towed coal from Kanawha River to Cincinnati and Louisville. December, 1935 she got caught in ice with loads at Dam 33, Ohio River. Most of the crew was unloaded on shore while Capt. Young, Cecil Faudree, Sherman Bonecutter and Dennis Rose moored the fleet above the bear traps. Several barges were lost in the break-up a week later. In June, 1936 she took 28 loads on pool water to Cincinnati, the biggest tow in Hatfield-Campbell Creek history. She helped celebrate the opening of the Gallipolis Dam, Ohio River on June 12, 1938. On August 15, 1940 at Charleston, West Virginia, there was a flash flood on the Kanawha River. The Yeiser and J.F. Butts were moored at Reed, West Virginia. A loaded steel barge hit the fleet and broke everything loose. The Yeiser hit the C. & O. bridge broadside on her port bow, was smashed and she sank