James G. Blaine (Packet, 1882-1902)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sidewheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: East Riverside, Pennsylvania (hull), completed at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, 1882
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Dismantled circa 1902 at Brownsville
• OWNERS: Pittsburgh, Brownsville and Geneva Packet Company
• OFFICERS & CREW: Edward Pentelberry
• RIVERS: Mississippi River; Monongahela River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 2924; First boat through the new slack water at Morgantown, West Virginia, November 8, 1889. In mid-July 1890, departing Morgantown, she struck a rock and sank. She sank again January 1896 at Hatfield's Landing, near Masontown bridge; also February 12, 1900 near the Crescent Coal works; and again on June 28, 1900 at Monessen, Pennsylvania. She was retired at Brownsville, beached during a flood December 1907, and dismantled; her machinery went into the Columbia