Howard's Shipyard & Dock Co., Jeffersonville IN

Howard's Shipyard was started in 1834 and became a major builder of inland steamers and later of towboats.  It closed in 1939 and the property was sold to the newly formed JeffBoat.  Its history is memorialized at the Howard Steamboat Museum.  If anyone can provide any further information about this shipyard, or about the ships it built, please e-mail me at tim@coltoncompany.com

Hull # Original Name Original Owner Vessel Type Tons Delivered Disposition
  Josiah H. Bell Robert Mills Sidewheeler   1853 Scuttled 1865
  J. M. White   Sidewheeler   1878  
  New Shallcross Louisville Jeffersonville Ferry Sidewheel Ferry   1878 Broken up 1891
  City of Cairo Anchor Line Sidewheel Packet   1882 Destroyed by tornado 1896
  City of St. Louis Anchor Line Sternwheeler   1883 Burned 1903
  City of Monroe Anchor Line Sidewheel Packet   1887 Burned 1905
  City of Savannah St. Louis and Tennessee River Packet Co. Sternwheel Packet   1889 Burned 1898
  Hickman   Sidewheeler   1890  
  Josie     73 1891  
  Thomas Pickles     237 1892  
  City of New Albany Louisville & Evansville Packet Co. Sidewheel Packet   1892 Sunk by storm 1916
  City of Clifton       1893  
  E. R. Andrews     469 1894  
  City of Louisville   Sidewheeler   1894  
  Bluff City   Sternwheeler   1896  
  Henry C. Haarstick     226 1897  
  Andrew Christy     830 1897  
  America   Sternwheeler   1898  
  Kate Adams Mem. & Ark. City Pkt. Co. Steamship 595 1898  
  Belle of Bends       1898  
  City of Cincinnati Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Co. Sidewheel packet   1898 Crushed by ice 1918
  City of Memphis   Sternwheeler   1898  
  City of Savannah St. Louis and Tennessee River Packet Co. Sternwheel Packet   1902 Sank 1911
  City of Vicksburg   Sidewheeler      
  J. S. John Streckfus Sidewheeler   1902  
  A. M. Halliday     240 1903  
  A. Baldwin   Ferry 199 1905  
  L. H. Marrero     163 1905  
  J. Barbour   Sternwheel Towboat   1905  
  Alton       1906  
  Julius S. Walsh     570 1912  
  W. S. McChesney, Jr. Wiggins Ferry Company Sternwheel Ferry 570 1912 Later "Froman M. Coots"
  St. Louis   Sternwheeler   1912  
  City of Cairo C. J. Miller Sternwheel Ferry   1912  
  Harry Brown   Sternwheeler   1913  
  Mamie S. Barrett Corps of Engineers Sternwheel Towboat   1921 Abandoned but still afloat in Deer Park LA
  D. A. B. Wheeling Steel Sternwheel Towboat   1921 Now "Aunt Polly"
  Cape Girardeau Eagle Packet Co. Packet Boat   1923 Sank 1967
  Becky Thatcher   Sternwheeler   1927 Now a floating theater in Marietta OH
  Loretta Howard       1929 Now a museum in Lamb IN
  Wm. B. Brokamp Two Rivers Barge Line Towboat   1939 Now "P. W. Ritchie"
  Frank Costanzo   Towboat   1940 Later "Steel City", scrapped 2005