Courier (Packet, 1870-1885)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sidewheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1870 at Harmar, Ohio
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Stranded the winter of 1885, all furniture and machinery removed and the hulk was burned
• OWNERS: Wheeling and Parkersburg Packet Company
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Jack Harrison (master 1874); Martin F. Noll (clerk, 1874); Captain John K. Booth (master (1882-85); J. Mack Gamble (clerk, 1882-85)
• RIVERS: Ohio River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 1354; Her engines were from the Rebecca. The Ohio River Railroad was opened June 4, 1884 and the Courier never made another trip in the trade after that happened. She carried a circus along the Ohio River in 1885 and that fall was laid up along the Kentucky shore at the lower end of Covington
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Men (and a few women) seated around dining tables in an interior cabin on the Courier