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Mike Fink (also spelled Miche Phinck) [1] [2] [3] (c. 1770/1780 – c. 1823), called "king of the keelboaters", was a semi-legendary brawler and river boatman who exemplified the tough and hard-drinking men who ran keelboats up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
Launched in 1814 at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, for the Monongahela and Ohio Steam Boat Company, she was a dramatic departure from Fulton's boats. [1] The Enterprise - featuring a high-pressure steam engine, a single stern paddle wheel, and shoal draft - proved to be better suited for use on the Mississippi compared to Fulton's boats.
Henry Miller Shreve (October 21, 1785 – March 6, 1851) was an American inventor and steamboat captain who removed obstructions to navigation of the Mississippi, Ohio and Red rivers. Shreveport, Louisiana, was named in his honor. [2] Shreve was also instrumental in breaking the Fulton-Livingston monopoly on
Robert E. Lee, nicknamed the "Monarch of the Mississippi," was a steamboat built in New Albany, Indiana, in 1866 (Not to be confused with the second 1876–1882 and third 1897–1904 Robert E Lee). The hull was designed by DeWitt Hill, and the riverboat cost more than $200,000 to build. [ 2 ]
Time table of the Delta Queen and the Delta King in their first season in 1927. Delta Queen is an American sternwheel steamboat.She is known for cruising the major rivers that constitute the tributaries of the Mississippi River, particularly in the American South, although she began service in California on the Sacramento River delta for which she gets her name.
Farrar calls the boat "the Titanic of the Mississippi" in the song, which was released on the American Central Dust album (2009) [36] King's German Legion – "Blues in the Water" tells a stylized version of the Sultana disaster on their EP release Marching Orders. [37]
She would make regular trips from New Orleans to Vicksburg and was the only woman captain of a large Mississippi river packet. [2] [9] Leathers said that she often managed the employees, performed boat inspections and then took over as captain when her husband needed. [6] In 1896, the Public Ledger wrote that Leathers had taken command of the ...
Ohio River, Mississippi River, and the Missouri River: Way number: ed: Laid down: 1853: Out of service: September 5, 1856: Identification: In 1897, there was an 'expedition' to the buried ship to recover a large amount of whiskey reported to be onboard. The caisson used during this excavation was left in place and recovered during the 1988 ...