Oriole (Packet/Excursion/Towboat, 1907-1915)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet/Excursion/Towboat
• BUILT: 1901 at Point Pleasant, West Virginia as the Baxter
• FORMERLY: Baxter
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Burned at foot of 9th Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the Allegheny River on March 27, 1915
• OWNERS: 1907: Huntington and Point Pleasant Packet Company; Captain William D. Kimble and James H. Miller soon took an interest; May, 1912: The Beaver Family (Elmer, H.M., George S. and Charles); August, 1912: Clermont C. Green became 1/2 owner; January, 1913: Captain David Boyles and Charles N. Buckley; early March 1915: Captain William F. (Buck) Muller; mid-March, 1915: C.P. Krantz
• OFFICERS & CREW: 1909: Captain William D. Kimble (master); 1912: Captain C.C. Green
• RIVERS: Ohio River; Allegheny River; Kentucky River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 4327 & T1968; Renamed Oriole in 1907, she ran the Gallipolis-Huntington trade. In 1910, she ran excursion at Frankfort, Kentucky; James H. Miller returned her to Huntington, West Virginia in May, 1911. Under ownership of the Beaver family, she ran local trades above Marietta. In the fall of 1914, under ownership of Captain David Boyles and Charles N. Buckley she was given a new hull and converted into a towboat. Shortly after being purchased by C.P. Kranz, she burned at the foot of 9th Street, Pittsburgh in the Allegheny River on March 27, 1915
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Oriole going through locks