Katydid (Packet, 1873-1881)
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BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sidewheel
BOAT TYPE: Packet
BUILT: 1873 at Middleport, Ohio
FINAL DISPOSITION: Dismantled in 1881
OWNERS: R.R. Hudson; Parkersburg and Ohio River Transportation Company; Ed R. Thomas and others (1878); Charles Ward
OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Ira B. Huntington
RIVERS: Mississippi River; White River; Ohio River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 3254; She was a single deck, daylight packet with one stack. She ran in the Parkersburg-Gallipolis trade until June 1878. Captain John Woodburn took one-half interest in her at that time and ran her Evansville-Rockport. After being sold in October 1878, she ran in the White River-Vicksburg trade. She was considered very fast at a speed of 15 mph. Near the end of her career, she was sold again and ran Charleston-Gallipolis-Pomeroy. She is supposed to have made the round trip in fourteen hours while making 50 landings. The owner, Charles Ward, put one of his patent boilers on her. When she was dismantled, that boiler and her engines went to the towboat Bee
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