FINAL DISPOSITION: Burned near Boone's Ferry (Ashland), Kentucky, November 1919
OWNERS: 1880: Captain A. J. Monteith; 1890: Big Sandy Towboat Company; 1902: Enterprise Towboat Company; 1906: Captain Ellis C. Mace; 1917: Captain Lewis Tanner; James Jett
OFFICERS & CREW: 1880: Captain A. J. Monteith; 1902: Captain Robert Owens (master), J.A. Barnes (pilot), William Cooper (chief engineer)
RIVERS: Ohio River; Big Sandy River; Guyan River; Little Kanawha River; Kentucky River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T2284; Captain A.J. Monteith towed produce boats with the Sea Lion prior to 1890. She then went to the Big Sandy River to tow logs. From 1906-1917, owned by Captain Ellis C. Mace, she usually towed logs from the Big Sandy, Guyan and the Little Kanawha Rivers. During the summer months he employed her around dams under construction. At one point he wrote that : "the Sea Lion helped build more locks than any boat afloat." She later towed coal out of the Kentucky River. In November, 1919, she burned at Boone's Ferry, Kentucky near Ashland. The small creek there is called the Seal Lion Branch where the wreck was still visible in 1953
PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Left to right: Mary Stewart, Venus, John C. Fisher, J.M. Grubbs, J.O. Cole and the Sea Lion