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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 ]
As a result of the success of his design, Shreve was ordered in 1832 by Secretary of War Lewis Cass to clear the Great Raft, 150 miles (240 km) of dead wood on the Red River. [2] Shreve successfully removed the Raft by 1839. [1] [2] [26] The area of the Red River where the Raft was most concentrated is today his namesake city of Shreveport. [1] [6]
The second Natchez was the first built for Captain Thomas P. Leathers, in 1846. Built in Cincinnati, Ohio, as were all of her successors owned by Capt. Leathers, she was a fast two-boiler boat, 175 feet (53 m) long, with red smokestacks, that sailed between New Orleans and Vicksburg, Mississippi. Leathers sold this boat in 1848.
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National Historic Landmark former cargo boat; oldest surviving sailing vessel built in Maine 2 masted gaff [50] Lily: 1978 Stuart, Florida: Tourism/charter vessel. Schooner rig with a scow hull. May have been the last boat purpose built to haul cargo commercially under sail power in the United States. Originally known as Lily of Tisbury. 2 ...
The Mississippi Queen was the second-largest paddle wheel driven river steamboat ever built, second only to the larger American Queen.The ship was the largest such steamboat when she was completed in 1976 by the Delta Queen Steamboat Company at Jeffboat in Indiana and was a seven-deck recreation of a classic Mississippi riverboat.
Anchor Line steamboat City of New Orleans at New Orleans levee on Mississippi River. View created as composite image from two stereoview photographs, ca. 1890. The Anchor Line was a steamboat company that operated a fleet of boats on the Mississippi River between St. Louis, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana, between 1859 and 1898, when it went out of business.
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