Crescent City (Packet, 1897-1906)

Photographer

Miintzer, F. A.

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: Cincinnati in 1880 as the Indiana; Rebuilt c. 1897 at Madison, Indiana
• FORMERLY: Evansville
• BECAME: Resumed original name Evansville after being rebuilt at Madison, Indiana, 1906
• OWNERS: c. 1897: Louisville and Nashville Rail Road; 1903: Consolidated with Evansville and Bowling Green Packet Company, Lee Howell (president)
• OFFICERS & CREW: c. 1897: Captain Dick Williams; 1900: T.K. Bowles (captain), M.P. Kimbley (clerk): c. 1903: Captain M.P. Kimbley (master), T.C. Wesson (clerk)
• RIVERS: Ohio River; Green River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 1371; After being rebuilt at Madison, Indiana, c. 1897, the Crescent City ran the Evansville-Green River trade. Lee Howell, president of Evansville and Bowling Green Packet Company effected a consolidation with the Louisville and Nashville Rail Road c. 1903 and kept her in the trade. She was rebuilt again in 1906 at Madison, Indiana and resumed her original name Evansville. She was then documented as a new boat
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Interior of main cabin set for dining; servers and passengers posing