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U. United States and America steamboat disaster. Categories: Shipwrecks in rivers. Shipwrecks of the United States. Ohio River.
Designated NHL. 29 June 1989 [2] W. P. Snyder Jr., also known as W. H. Clingerman, W. P. Snyder Jr. State Memorial, or J. L. Perry, is a historic towboat moored on the Muskingum River in Marietta, Ohio, at the Ohio River Museum. A National Historic Landmark, she is the only intact, steam-driven sternwheel towboat still on the nation's river system.
SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes and remains the largest to have sunk there.
History. USS Phenakite (PYc-25) was built 1902 as the yacht Celt by Pusey and Jones, Wilmington, Delaware, for J. Rogers Maxwell, a railroad executive. [2][3] It was launched on April 12, 1902. Shortly after the United States' entry into the First World War, it was acquired by the US Navy on July 3, 1917. [2][3] The ship was placed in service ...
History; United States; Name: Arabia: Owner: Captain William Terrill and William Boyd: Operator: William Terrill: Route: 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 ...
PS Alice Dean, which had a capacity of 880 tons, was a side-wheel, wooden-hulled packet steamer. It was launched from Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, in 1863, running a scheduled route between Cincinnati and Memphis, Tennessee. Its captain was James H. Pepper. In June 1863 the Alice Dean served as a Union troop transport, carrying Federal ...
History. Built in Cleveland, Ohio in 1905, the SS Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 was a train ferry built to transport railway cars across Lake Erie from Conneaut, Ohio, to Port Stanley, Ontario. She had a length of 338 feet (103 meters) and a beam of 54 feet (16 meters), and her gross register tonnage was 2,514.
Aaron Valdez, Cincinnati Enquirer. August 17, 2024 at 5:33 PM. Two dead bodies were found in the Ohio River near Cincinnati within a 15-hour span, according to Boone County Water Rescue. On Friday ...