Riverboats in Wheeling
➤ WHEELING HISTORY ➤ TRANSPORTATION ➤ RIVERBOATS
RIVERBOATS IN WHEELING
Boat-Building in Wheeling:
➤ Boat-Building Flourished Here (New-Register, 1951)
➤ A. J. Sweeney & Son (Intelligencer, 1886)
River Traffic:
Steamboats:
➤ Steamboat Washington
➤ Packet America
➤ Ben Hur
➤ Bertrand
➤ Betty Wright
➤ Sidewheel Packet Chesapeake
➤ City of Wheeling
➤ Packet Courier
➤ Delta Queen;
➤ Geo. W. Kendall
➤Geo. W. Kendall Boat Launch, 1849 (Daily Wheeling Gazette article)
➤ Gordon C. Greene
➤ H. K. Bedford
➤ Helen E.
➤ Packet Hudson
➤ Kanawha
➤ Keystone State
➤ Liberty
➤ Lizzy Townsend
➤ Packet Phil Sheridan
➤ Packet Princess
➤ Packet Princess in collision, 1887
➤ Packet Rebecca
➤ Steamboat Queen City
➤ S. S. Brown
➤ Steamboat Virginia (also the Steel City/East St. Louis/Island Belle/Greater New Orleans)
➤ Sternwheel "Washington"
➤ Winfield Scott
➤ Trial Trip of the Winfield Scott in 1849 (Daily Wheeling Gazette article)
➤ Verne Swain
Ferry Boats:
➤ The Charon
➤ The Conveyor
➤ The Islander
➤ The Ruth Ann
Tow/Tugboats:
➤ Towboat Ironsides
➤ Towboat Iron Age
➤ Towboat Miami
➤ Towboat Nail City
➤ Death of William Page, Head Engineer of the Towboat Nail City
➤ Towboat Sam Craig
➤ Towboat Samuel Clark
➤ Towboat Sprague
Snagboats:
Wharfboats:
➤ Crockard & Booth
Fishing Boat Clubs:
➤ Brunswik
➤ Central Fishing Club
Wrecks:
➤ Wreck of the Steamer Scioto, July 4, 1882
➤ The Scioto Disaster., Wheeling Intelligencer, July 5, 1882
➤ Scenes at the Wreck, Wheeling Intelligencer, July 6, 1882
➤ Notes, Scenes and Incidents, Wheeling Intelligencer, July 10, 1882
➤ Trial of the Pilot of the Scioto, Wheeling Register, March 6, 1884
➤ Wreck of the Steamer Virginia, March 31, 1849
