Ouachita Belle (Packet, 1870-1880)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sidewheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1870 at Jeffersonville, Indiana
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Sank at Fox Island in November 1880
• OWNERS: Captain F.A. Blanks and C.N. Breurd; Major John D. Adams (of the Memphis and Arkansas River Packet Company, 1878)
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain F.A. Blanks (master); J.H. Mossop (clerk); Captain John C. Libano (master)
• RIVERS: Mississippi River; Arkansas River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 4355; She ran New Orleans-Bayou Sara. Captain John W. Cannon ran her under lease for one cotton season. When she sank, she went down within 100 yards of where the Robert Mitchell had sunk on November 3, 1880