Keokuk (Packet, 1907-1926)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: Wabasha, Minnesota, 1907
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Burned at Davenport, Iowa, August 1926
• OWNERS: Carnival City Packet Company headed by Captain Walter Blair
• OFFICERS & CREW: 1907: Captain S.R. Dodds (master), Captain Hugh McKenzie (pilot); 1911: Captain Hugh McKenzie (master); 1912: Jesse Mefford (pilot); 1913: Fred R. Condit (mate); 1919: Captain Hugh McKenzie (master), Fred Brugge (purser)
• RIVERS: Mississippi River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 3277; Early on, she ran the Keokuk-Quincy trade. Later, with much success, she ran the Quincy-Burlington trade. In April 1922 she was swamped in high waves at Nauvoo, Illinois. She burned at Davenport, Iowa, August 1926
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Going through locks