Pilot (Rafter/Towboat/Excursion, 1882-1903)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Rafter/Towboat/Excursion
• BUILT: by D.F. Duncan, 1882 at Le Claire, Iowa using machinery from the Wild Boy
• BECAME: Peerless
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Remade into the Peerless in 1903
• OWNERS: 1883: D. F. Dorrance and John McCaffrey; 1890: Pilot Steamboat Company
• OFFICERS & CREW: 1883: John McCaffrey (master); 1893: Captain Orrin Smith (master); 1894: Derben Dorrance (pilot); unknown dates: Frank Lacey (chief engineer) RIVERS: Mississippi River; Cumberland River; Ohio River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 4503 & T2051; She was built as a rafter and used primarily as a bow boat. She ran the Davenport-Clinton trade occasionally. After 1900 she made trips from Nashville-Burnside on the Cumberland River. She did short trades on the lower Ohio. In late 1903 she was rebuilt by Captain Charles McNutt and renamed the Peerless