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The Ida Handy Was Short-Lived

Old Boat Column

The Ida Handy Was Short-Lived

September 25, 2020

For 1864, the daybook records for the Howard Shipyard at Jeffersonville, Ind., list only contracts for the construction of a wharfboat for the Louisville & Cincinnati Mail Line and three… Read More

The Gigantic James Howard The James Howard at a St. Louis wharfboat in the 1870s. (Keith Norrington collection)

The Gigantic James Howard

September 20, 2020

A recent acquisition to the writer’s collection is this week’s Old Boat Column image of the packet James Howard alongside a wharfboat at the St. Louis levee. In 1870, Capt. Read More

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