Bald Eagle (Packet/Towboat, 1898-1934)
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BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
BOAT TYPE: Packet; Towboat
BUILT: Madison, Indiana 1898
FINAL DISPOSITION: Sank in 1934
OWNERS: Eagle Packet Company (1929); Lyne Brothers
OFFICERS & CREW: Morris P. Anderson (Chief Engineer); Frank Meyers (Captain, 1916); Howard 6 Bear (Second Clerk, 1914); Buck Leyhe (Captain, 1917); Alex Haley (Mate, 1917); George Street (Pilot, 1917); Nathan Smith (Pilot, 1917); George Carroll (Steward, 1917)
RIVERS: Mississippi River; Ohio River; Missouri River; Cumberland River; Illinois River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 0432; Much of the equipment came from the D. H. Pike. Owned by the Eagle Packet Company and ran principally St. Louis-Illinois River, although in latter years St. Louis-Cape Girardeau-Commerce. Last trade was St. Louis-Fort Madison, in 1929. She was sold to a contracting company for use as a quarterboat on the Missouri River. This was her last use before she broke in two and sank in the Missouri River in 1934
PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Passengers in pilot house; crew member and Bald Eagle's bell in foreground
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Sternwheel towboats
Pilot houses
Packets
Mississippi River
Ohio River
Missouri River
Cumberland River
Illinois River
Towboats - Type
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