Corker (Packet, 1912-1920)

Photographer

Stottlebower, Alene

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: Jeffersonville, Indiana, Howard Ship Yards, 1912
• BECAME: General Beach
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Bought by Liberty Transit Company and renamed General Beach, 1920
• OWNERS: Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Company; Liberty Transit Company
• RIVERS: Ohio River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 1323; Cincinnati, Ohio was her home port or the owner's residence circa 1912; her original price was $8,224; machinery and cabin came from the Lizzie Bay. Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Company had her for the Louisville-Madison trade. G. F. Bauersmith brought her to Pittsburgh, October 1919, to run Pittsburgh-Fairmont; she made one trip and then was returned to Cincinnati. Liberty Transit Company, Wheeling, bought her for the Pittsburgh-Wheeling trade in 1920 and soon renamed her General Beach
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: At Madison Marine Ways