FINAL DISPOSITION: Burned at Natchez Island, three miles below Natchez, early November 1942
OWNERS: St. Louis and Tennessee River Packet Company; Captain Dick Dicharry (1927)
OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Charles G. Barker (master, 1942)
RIVERS: Mississippi River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 5341; Rebuilt from the Kentucky (built at Jeffersonville, Indiana, 1904). Originally owned by St. Louis and Tennessee River Packet Company, in 1927 she was sold to Dick Dicharry who took her to the lower Mississippi. In 1937 she was the last remaining steam packet on the lower Mississippi, publicized in Thomas Benton's book, An Artist in America
PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Mrs. Telia Vasughn Hughes, wife of Captain Jesse P. Hughes, at the wheel