Cyclone (Packet/Rafter, 1891-1907)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet/Rafter
• BUILT: 1891 at Stillwater, Minnesota
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Burned on the ways at Wabasha, Minnesota on December 2, 1907
• OWNERS: Durant, Wheeler and Company; P. Kirchner (1898); Captain M.H. Newcomb and Charles Francis; E.W. Durant (1896)
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Milt Newcomb (1900-07); Captain Robert H. Cassidy (captain and pilot, 1892); James Fullmer (pilot, 1890); Albert Wempner (pilot, prior to 1898); Thomas Hoy (master and pilot); Ira Fuller (captain, 1893); Nelson Fuller (chief engineer, 1892)
• RIVERS: Mississippi River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 1399; Ran Wabasha-St. Paul under Newcomb and Francis
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Man standing in front of the port engine on the Cyclone