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… Read More
James Howard
Among the beautiful big sidewheelers built on the Ohio River at Jeffersonville, Ind., was the palatial packet Katie. Built in 1871, the steamboat was not constructed by the… Read More
A vintage postcard view, circa 1906, of the Howard Shipyard and mansion. (Keith Norrington collection) Six decades ago this week, on May 18, 1958, the Howard National Steamboat… Read More
The 12,917th—and final—vessel to be built at Jeffboat slid down the ways and splashed into the Ohio River on April 23, marking the end of a 180-year-old tradition of… Read More
