Ouachita (Packet, 1922-1940)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1922 at Nashville, Tennessee
• FORMERLY: George Prince
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Dismantled in January 1940
• OWNERS: Captain L.V. Cooley; Captain Fred Hornbrook and others (1934); Ohio River Transit Company (1935); Greene Line Steamers (1936)
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Sam Cotton; Captain Fred Hornbrook (master, 1935)
• RIVERS: Ouachita River; Mississippi River; Ohio River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 4354; Her machinery came from the Percy Swain. She ran New Orleans-Monroe. In 1934 she ran Pittsburgh-Cincinnati. After being sold again to the Ohio River Transit Company, she ran Cincinnati-Louisville. After she was dismantled in 1940, the hull was used as a cargo barge named Stogie White
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Leaving Mound City, Illinois on the way to Cincinnati