BUILT: Jeffersonville, Indiana at Howard Ship Yards, August 1902
FINAL DISPOSITION: Sank at Fort Gage, four miles above Memphis on October 21, 1916
OWNERS: Lee Line, Memphis
OFFICERS & CREW: October, 2002: Captain Shep Lightner (master), Luther Brashear and Charles B. Ziegler (pilots), William Brannon and Richard Fryer (engineers), John Hermann and Joe Tucker (clerks); October 21, 1916: Nick Jokerst (purser), Walter Jeffords (second clerk)
RIVERS: Mississippi River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 5174; Original price $21,600; home port or owner's residence circa 1902 was Memphis, Tennessee. Owned by the Lee Line, she ran St. Louis-Memphis. On October 21, 1910, grounded in a light fog at Slough Landing, she was left high and dry by a rapidly falling Mississippi River, with an estimated damage of $15,000. Down bound on October 21, 1916, she sank four miles above Memphis, with water at the back end of the texas. Purser Nick Jokerst and second clerk Walter Jeffords rowed a yawl to Memphis and got the Bart Tully to come up for the passengers. This was the same day the Cape Girardeau sank off Fort Gage