Sunshine (Excursion boat/Ferry, 1888-1923)
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BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sidewheel
BOAT TYPE: Excursion boat/Ferry
BUILT: 1888 at Jeffersonville, Indiana by Howard Ship Yard
BECAME: Princess
FINAL DISPOSITION: Sold to John W. Hubbard and renamed in 1923
OWNERS: Louisville and Jeffersonville Ferry Company; Captain William McNally (1907)
RIVERS: Monongahela River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 5235; Original price: $21,750. Home port or owner's residence circa 1888, Louisville, Kentucky. She operated in the Louisville-Jeffersonville area until 1907 when sold to Captain McNally. He took her to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and made many alterations to the boat such as narrowing the guards and rebuilding the wheelhouses to fit the Monongahela locks, adding double swinging stages, and giving her a texas deck in 1918. On June 12, 1910 she collided with the H.K. Bedford while both were ascending the Ohio River above Freedom, Pennsylvania at the foot of Wallary Bar. Only the H.K. Bedford was damaged
PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Left to right at Cincinnati: Unidentified packet, Sunshine
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Sidewheel ferries
Excursion boats
Monongahela River
Ferries
Ohio--Cincinnati - Type
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