Hibernia (Packet, 1844-1848)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sidewheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1844 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Burned at St. Louis on March 10, 1848
• OWNERS: Captain Klinefelter and others
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain S.B. Pence (master, 1844); Captain Benjamin Crooks (master, 1847); Captain A.H. Parr (master, 1848); Captain John Klinefelter (master, 1849); Captain Hiram Price (master, 1852)
• RIVERS: Mississippi River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 2629; Was advertised as running Pittsburgh to Dubuque in March 1844. Became a regular Pittsburgh-Cincinnati packet until spring 1847 when she was replaced by the Hibernia No. 2. She then ran Pittsburgh-Wheeling. After she burned, the wreck was returned to Jeffersonville, Indiana and there it remained until it sank in February 1851