Switzerland (Packet/Ram, 1854-1870)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sidewheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet/Ram
• BUILT: 1854 at Cincinnati, Ohio
• OWNERS: U.P. and Jules Schenck; US Quartermaster Department; Joseph Leach (1865); Eclipse Towboat Company (1866)
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Jules Schenck; Captain David Force
• RIVERS: Red River, Ohio River; Mississippi River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 5264; Built by U.P. and Jules Schenck who named her after their native country. Ran Louisville-New Orleans. At the beginning of the Civil War, she was taken over by the USQMD and became one of Col. Charles Ellet, Jr.'s rams. Captain Force was on this boat for many years during the Civil War, including the siege of Vicksburg. After being sold twice after the war, she was off the lists by 1870