Peters Lee (Packet, 1899-1913)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: Jeffersonville, Indiana by Howard, 1899
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Sank at Lake Providence, Louisiana, August 1913
• OWNERS: Lee Line, Memphis
• OFFICERS & CREW: 1913: Captain William Stapleton (master), Al Pritchard (pilot), Mose Smith (pilot), William J. Keith (purser)
• RIVERS: Mississippi River; Ohio River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 4463; Original price $1900, and home port or owner's residence circa 1899 was Memphis, Tennessee; built for the Memphis-St. Louis trade. She first arrived at Cincinnati early April 1904, replacing the Bonanza in the Cincinnati-Memphis run. On February 13, 1909, while running over the Ohio River falls at Louisville, Kentucky, she became unmanageable due to cross currents and was grounded on the Indiana shore line for 24 hours. In April, 1911, she unloaded 100 bales of cotton on the wharf at Louisville, the first seen there in years. The Georgia Lee replaced her in the trade, and she hit a barge while backing out at Lake Providence, Louisiana, August 1913, and sank over the hurricane roof
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Unloading cargo