Chaperon (Packet, 1904-1917)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• FORMERLY: J.C. Kerr built in 1884
• BECAME: Choctaw in 1917
• OWNERS: 1904: Evansville and Bowling Green Packet Company; 1917: Captain Gid Montjoy, Greenwood, Mississippi
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Jeff H. Williams (master); Captain Porter Hines (master); Albert Williams (pilot); Porter Hines (pilot); Billy Allison (pilot); Elwood Wingfield (engineer); Courtney Ellis (engineer); Harry Simpson (fireman); Clarence Simpson (fireman)
• RIVERS: Ohio River; Barron River; Green River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 0937; The Chaperon ran the Bowling Green-Mammoth Cave trade. She also filled in for other packets by running out to Evansville and up to Bowling Green. Sold to Captain Gid Montjoy in 1917 who changed her name to Choctaw
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Chaperon on the Green River