Helen E. (Packet, 1913-1934)

Date

• August 1923

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: Point Pleasant, West Virginia, 1913
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Dismantled and rebuilt into the towboat Clairmont
• OWNERS: Captain Gordon C. Greene, George P. Gardner, and W. E. McDade, in equal shares (1913); Captain Jim Wilson (1918); Captains James and Sam Williamson (June 1918-1930); Captain Dan Patchell; Ben Raike (1934)
• OFFICERS & CREW: W. E. McDade (master, circa 1913-1918); W. R. Barringer (clerk); Captain Clayton Adams (master, 1931); Captain Dan Patchell
• RIVERS: Ohio River; Kanawha River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 2571; Last short run packet on the Ohio River and was named for McDade's daughter Helen Elizabeth. In January 1918 she was carried off by ice from Point Pleasant to below Madison, Indiana, 293 miles; laid up at the time, nobody aboard. She was returned under her own steam. In June 1918 a boiler deck cabin was added. She was sold to Captain Ben Raike who dismantled her and rebuilt her into a towboat named Clairmont in 1934