Barges; Side wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Two large wooden barges on ways at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. The barges are believed to be government barges St. L and M.V.T. No. 101 and 102. Side wheeler CITY OF HICKMAN is on ways in the background. The...
Barges; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Eleven wooden barge hulls under construction for the government at Howard Shipyards in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. According to the photographer's notes, this picture was taken from the "St. Louis ferry."
Copy negative of a photograph of the steamboat GRAND REPUBLIC. GRAND REPUBLIC, a side wheel packet with a wood hull, was originally built as the GREAT REPUBLIC (Way #2438) in 1867 and then remodeled and renamed GRAND REPUBLIC in 1876. Owned by...
Copy negative made from a "Boehl & Koenig" photograph of the ornate interior cabin on the steamboat GRAND REPUBLIC. The original photograph was taken by GRAND REPUBLIC, a side wheel packet with a wood hull, was originally built as...
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Stern and port side of stern-wheeler TALLULAH, at the bank of the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard. TALLULAH, a stern-wheel towboat with steel hull (127.5 ft. x 23 ft. x 4.5 ft.), was built by Howard in 1922. Owned by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
CITY OF FLORENCE, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (130 ft. x 26 ft. x 3 ft.), was built at Howard in 1909. Owned by St. Louis & Tennessee River Packet Co., she operated on the Tennessee River where she collided with the towboat TOMAHAWK,...
Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Barge sliding off the ways and onto the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. According to the photographer's notes this is "U.S. Quarterboat no. 1," presumably one of four quarterboats built in 1894...
Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Barge sliding off the ways and onto the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. According to the photographer's notes this is "quarterboat number 2," presumably one of four quarterboats built in 1894...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Ship trials; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
G.W. HILL, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (190 ft. x 36 ft. x 5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1909. Owned by G. W. Hill, the boat operated in the St. Louis -Calhoun County area initially and, after being converted to an excursion boat, on the...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Ship trials; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
CITY OF SAVANNAH (Way #1136), a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (200 ft. x 36 ft. x 6 ft.), was built at Howard in 1902. Owned by St. Louis & Tennessee River Packet Co., she operated on the Mississippi River and sank at Dog Tooth Bend about...
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...
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Launchings; Ship equipment & rigging; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
MARK TWAIN, a stern-wheel towboat with steel hull (157 ft. x 42 ft. x 6 ft.), and the last steam towboat made by Howard, was built in 1931. Owned by Inland Waterways Corporation in St. Louis, she operated on the Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri...
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Port side of CITY OF NEW ORLEANS at the bank of a river, probably in Louisiana. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, a side-wheel packet with wood hull (290 ft. x 48 ft. x 8.5 ft.), was built in 1881 at Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company in Jeffersonville,...
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Port side of HUNTSVILLE, complete, at the bank of the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard. HUNTSVILLE, a stern-wheel towboat with wood hull (125 ft. x 24 ft. x 4 ft.), was built by Howard in 1893. Owned by Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad,...
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
DOLPHIN No.3, a stern-wheel towboat with wood hull (155 ft. x 32 ft. x 5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1897. Owned by Dolphin Transportation Co., DOLPHIN No.3 operated in the St. Louis area. She was renamed HARRY ANDERSON (Way #T1046) in 1916 and...
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
WM. R. KING, a stern-wheel towboat with a composite hull which had steel frame and wood planking (123.5 ft. x 32 ft. x 5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1899. Owned by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the St. Louis district, WM. R. KING operated on the...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
WM. GARIG, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (175 ft. x 35 ft. x 5.2 ft.), was built at Howard in 1904. Owned by Baton Rouge & Bayou Sara Packet Co., WM. GARIG operated on the lower Mississippi and Ouachita Rivers. In 1918, she was sold to...
Ferries; Steamboats; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Bow and port side of MADISON at the bank of the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard. Bow of GREY EAGLE can be seen behind MADISON. MADISON, a center wheel ferry with wood hull (157.4 ft. x 45.4 x 6.1 ft.), was built in 1892 at Howard Ship Yards and...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
MINNESOTA, a stern-wheel pleasure boat with steel hull (115.9 ft. x 30.2 ft. x 5.2 ft.), was built in 1915 - 1916 at Howard Shipyard for the Mayo Brothers of Rochester, Minnesota. The famous doctors ran her primarily on the Mississippi River and...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
PADUCAH, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (170 ft. x 33 ft. x 5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1916. Owned by St. Louis & Tennessee River Packet Co., PADUCAH operated in the Paducah-Florence, Alabama area until she was dismantled in 1928.
