Morning Star (Packet/Excursion boat, 1901-1922)
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- 1920
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BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sidewheel
BOAT TYPE: Packet/Excursion boat
BUILT: 1901 at Jeffersonville, Indiana by Howard Ship Yard
FINAL DISPOSITION: Burned at Cincinnati on November 4, 1922
OWNERS: Louisville and Evansville Packet Company (1901-1910); Captain Walter Blair (1910); Coney Island Company (1918)
OFFICERS & CREW: Captain F. Marion Ryan; W. Scott Paris (pilot); James Kay (pilot); William C. Lepper, Jr. (purser); Ben Bridges (clerk); Jame Gresham (clerk); "Lum" Stapleton (mate); Tom Grimes (mate); James Nunemacher (engineer); Robert "Bob" Lloyd (engineer); George Voll (steward); Robert Trebu (carpenter); Captain Wes Conner (relief pilot); Captain Walter Blair (master, 1910, 1916); J.H. Young (pilot, 1910); J.E. McCullough (pilot, 1910); Steve E. Greenwell (pilot, 1910); J.M. Richtman (pilot, 1910, 1913); J. Warren Kouns (pilot, 1910); S.B. Burtnell (engineer, 1910); J.V. Pollock (engineer, 1910); J.W. Young (striker, 1910); Ewald Von Hein (striker, 1910); W.H. Forrest (purser, 1910); Arthur Langford (mate, 1910); Paul Langford (sailorman, 1910); F.R. Condit (steward, 1910); Fred Vetter (chef, 1910); Arthur Lawley (watchman, 1910); Anthony Welzenbach (watchman, 1910); Charles Vogel (watchman, 1910); S.A. Bryant (chief mate, 1911); J.J. Richtman (pilot, 1913); F.S. Ratterman (purse
RIVERS: Mississippi River; Tennessee River; Ohio River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 4043; Originally ran in the Louisville-Evansville trade. She was taken to Cincinnati in 1910 and had 25 feet added to her length forward of the boilers. She then ran in the St. Paul-Davenport-Stillwater trade under the command of Captain Walter Blair. In the summer of 1911 she ran a special cruise from Davenport to New Orleans and out to the Jetties and return. A similar excursion planned for April 1912 was canceled due to high water; instead she ran an excursion from Davenport-Cincinnati and back. In May 1914 she made a special trip from Davenport to the Tennessee River. By June 1914 she was back running in her usual trade. In the fall of 1915 she made a tourist trip from St. Louis to New Orleans. In May 1916 she made a Davenport to Florence, Alabama trip. She was sold in spring 1918 to the Coney Island Company of Cincinnati to replace the Princess. She was made into a full-scale excursion boat continuing in the Cincinnati-Coney Island trade until she burned
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- Sidewheel packets
Sidewheel excursions
Packets
Mississippi River
Tennessee River
Ohio River
Excursion boats
Ohio--Cincinnati - Type
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