Illinois (Packet, 1852-1863)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sidewheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1852 at Brownsville, Pennsylvania
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Dismantled at Mound City, Illinois circa 1863
• OWNERS: James Holmes, Redmund J. Grace, William B. Holmes, J.A. Hutchison, R.S. Hayes, and Captain D.Y. Smithers
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain David T. Smithers (1852); Captain John W. Carroll (master, 1861)
• RIVERS: Ohio River; Mississippi River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 2734; Built at the Pringle yard, the largest sidewheeler ever built at Brownsville. Ran briefly Pittsburgh-Cincinnati. Then, while in the "Railroad Line", she ran Cairo-New Orleans
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: On the left is the Illinois, an unidentified ferry is in the center, and on the right is the circus fleet of Rice and Dorn