Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
CLYDE (Way #1202), a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (181 ft. x 32.5 ft. x 5.5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1894. She had a unique "split" paddlewheel. Owned by St. Louis & Tennessee River Packet Co., she operated on the Mississippi...
A little girl in a long dress sits on a split-rail fence in an open field on a hill. Her name (or the name of the role she is playing) may be Saphronia or Saphronie.