FINAL DISPOSITION: Burned at Williamson's Landing on the Kanawha River, near Leon, West Virginia, September 12, 1914
OWNERS: Hall Towboat Company
OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Roscoe Strother (master)
RIVERS: Kanawha River; Ohio River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T0633; Equipment from towboat Gate City. Owned by the Hall Towboat Company, she towed coal out of Kanawha River; Captain Roscoe Strother was her master for some time. On February 22, 1909, while ascending the Ohio River with loaded barges, she got into a dense fog near Chilo, Ohio; attempting to land, she hit the bank and damaged the machinery, broke the journal caps, cam yokes and brackets, and sank one barge of coal. On April 7, 1910, while ascending Great Kanawha River with an empty tow, she collided with the Sally Marmet at Washington Bar, sinking a barge of the Sally Marmet's tow, loaded with lump coal. She burned at Williamson's Landing, near Leon, West Virginia on the Kanawha, September 12, 1914. Diver Ed Moore raised the wreck. The Flesher Towboat and Barge Line of Mount Vernon, Indiana bought the hull and machinery and used them to build the H. P. Flesher in 1918