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Name: G. W. GRAHAM
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 245' X 39' X 6.5'
Power: 25's- 7 ft., 3 boilers
Launched: 1861, Elezabeth, Pa.,
Capt. C.W. Batchelor supervised boat's building.
Destroyed: 1867, July 11, St. Louis, Burned with YELLOWSTONE
Area: 1861, St. Louis-Memphis
1867, Made trip up Mo. R. to Fort Buford.
Owner: 1861, Haliday and Co. Cairo, Ill.
Captain: 1861, Bart Bowen; pilot Sam Bowen, both of Hannibal, Mo.
*1861, Master, probably for one trip, St. Louis-Memphis,
Jones Worden
Comments: Named for Capt. G. Wash Graham.
: the Bowens had southern sympathies and this boat was banned
from landing at Hannibal.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
*Jones Worden's Steamboats and Steamboating Career by Frederick J. Worden

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