Alabama (Packet, 1912-1934)
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BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
BOAT TYPE: Packet
BUILT: Point Pleasant, West Virginia, 1912
FINAL DISPOSITION: Rebuilt into a quarter boat in 1934
OWNERS: St. Louis and Tennessee River Packet Company
OFFICERS & CREW: J. O. Tayon (Captain)
RIVERS: Ohio River; Tennessee River; Mississippi River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 0096; Ran the Paducah-Shiloh trade in 1929, the last regular steam packet on the Tennessee River. Was in the Cincinnati-Louisville trade under charter to the Louisville and Cincinnati Packet Company, in spring of 1931. Chartered to George Partin, Memphis, in 1932 for the Memphis-Caruthersville trade. Was retired soon after and made into a quarter boat
PHOTO DESCRIPTION: At Point Pleasant?; sternwheel towboat J. T. Hatfield in background
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