Senator Cordill (Packet, 1902-1934)
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BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
BOAT TYPE: Packet
BUILT: 1902 at Jeffersonville, Indiana by Howard Ship Yard
FINAL DISPOSITION: Sold to Charles Zubik and dismantled in 1934
OWNERS: Vicksburg and Natchez Packet Company; Royal Route Company, Ltd. (1910); J. Clarence Sheets, D. Grover Gill, Art McDade, and Ike Matlack (1920); Ohio River Transportation Company (1929); Charles Zubik (1934)
OFFICERS & CREW: George Litman (engineer, 1928); George McElhose (engineer, 1928); Captain Melvin O. Irwin (master); Fred Hoyt (clerk; purser, 1934); Clyde Packard (clerk); Monroe Cross (pilot); J. Hughes Arrighi (clerk, 1904); Captain Fred Hornbrook (master, 1934); Wilson (Wilsie) Miller (pilot, 1934); Fred Way, Jr. (master, 1931; pilot, 1931-34); Herbert Swan (clerk, 1934); Herbert Sidenstricker (clerk, 1934); Norwood Chamberlain (engineer, 1934); Walter Webster (engineer, 1934); Wiley C. Hill (mate, 1934); Alonzo Sewell (2nd mate, 1934); George Beegle (carpenter, 1934)
RIVERS: Mississippi River; Kanawha River; Ohio River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 5080; Original price: $28,950. She was a stately looking steamboat with double swinging stages. In the beginning she ran Vicksburg-Natchez tri-weekly and also handled U.S. mail. On January 27, 1903 she participated in a parade and celebration when the Yazoo River diversion put Vicksburg back on the map. In 1912 her engines were replaced by compound non-condensing engines and she was lengthened in 1925 at Point Pleasant, West Virginia. In March 1918 she sank near Vicksburg and was raised by Captain George Wilson. In July 1920 she was sold to a group of upper Ohio River produce dealers and entered the Pittsburgh-Charleston trade. She tended to be accident prone: sank in the Siegrist Riffle; sank in the Kanawha River above Lock 7 after hitting a log; was stranded on Elk Chute Bar on the Kanawha from March 12-April 2, 1927; broke her wheel shaft on the Kanawha River in June 1927; exploded the main throttle valve at Point Pleasant, West Virginia on March 2, 1928, k
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