Chisca (Towboat, 1897-1949)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Towboat
• BUILT: 1897 at Jeffersonville, Indiana by Howard
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Dismantled in 1949
• OWNERS: Mississippi River Commission; U.S. Engineering Department, Memphis (1905); Pioneer Construction Company, Dyersburg, Tennessee (1947)
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain E. A. Stanfield (master); Captain Dan A. Scott (master)
• RIVERS: Mississippi River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T0416; Home port or owner's residence circa 1897, St. Louis, Missouri. Original price $25,900. She got aground on Commerce Bar near Peter's Landing, Arkansas, 40 miles below Memphis, at 2 a.m. on March 14, 1937 on a falling river. Two weeks later she was high and dry and stayed out 61 days, not refloated until May 5, 1937
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Left to right: Pine; U.S. Inspector; dredge; unidentified; Chisca