Jewel (Packet/Towboat, 1902-1934)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet/Towboat
• BUILT: Golconda, Illinois, 1899 as the City of Golconda
• FORMERLY: City of Golconda
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Sank at Greenville, Mississippi, January 17, 1934
• OWNERS: Lyons Brothers (1902); Robert P. Wineman
• RIVERS: Mississippi River; Ohio River; Kanawha River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T1369; Formerly City of Golconda, rebuilt and renamed Jewel in 1902; owned by Lyons Brothers, Greenville, Mississippi, and operated local packet trades out of Greenville. She also towed Emerson's showboat Cotton Blossom circa 1914. Later sold to Robert Wineman, Baton Rouge, she towed lumber to the Wineman mill at Greenville. She was lost in a storm while tied up north of the concrete wharf at Greenville