Bessie Smith (Packet, 1897-1911)
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BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
BOAT TYPE: Packet
BUILT: Hull built at Smithsonia, Alabama, and completed at Florence, Alabama 1897
FINAL DISPOSITION: Burned at Parkersburg, West Virginia March 20, 1911
OWNERS: Captain Fred Hornbrook, Captain Harry Donnally; Captain Fred Kimpel, Captain Sam Williamson; Captain Martin F. Noll (1910); Captain Harry B. Hulings (1911?)
OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Henry Kraft (Master, 1901); Fred Hornbrook (Clerk, 1910)
RIVERS: Ohio River; Monongahela River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 0603; Originally was scow bow; Captain Fred Hornbrook and Captain Harry Donnally got her for the Upper Ohio and sold her to Captain Fred Kimpel and Captain Sam Williamson. She was rebuilt with a model bow at Parkersburg, West Virginia in December 1901. She ran Wheeling-Parkersburg, Henry Kraft, master. Captain Martin F. Noll bought her May 31, 1910 and ran her Pittsburgh-Morgantown, West Virginia. She was returned to Parkersburg in winter 1910 and burned there on March 20, 1911. Captain Harry B. Hulings bought the wreck, towed it to Mount Pleasant in early 1914 and used the machinery, etc., building the towboat Uncle Sam
PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Pilot house, with children in the pilot house and in front of it
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