Falls City (Packet, 1898-1916)
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BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
BOAT TYPE: Packet
BUILT: Cincinnati, Ohio, 1898
FINAL DISPOSITION: Fell apart, 1916
OWNERS: 1898: Louisville and Kentucky River Packet Company; February 1908: Captain Tom Morrissey
OFFICERS & CREW: Prince and Wilds
RIVERS: Kentucky River; Ohio River; Mississippi River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 1978; The Falls City ran the Louisville-Frankfort trade. In 1908, Captain Tom Morrissey took her to Vicksburg where Prince and Wilds ran her in trades out of Vicksburg. In 1916 she was at Vicksburg, laid up, falling apart. More detail is written about her which you can see in steam06077
PHOTO DESCRIPTION: The Fall City locking through lock no. 7 at High Bridge on the Kentucky River
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- Sternwheel packets
Packets
Kentucky River
Ohio River
Mississippi River
Locks (Hydraulic engineering)
Kentucky River--Lock no. 7--High Bridge - Type
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