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Howard's Shipyard, Jeffersonville IN                                               

Most recent update: October 21, 2010.

The Howard Ship Yard Company was founded by James Howard, at Jeffersonville IN in 1834.  Howard died in 1876, but his family continued the business until 1941, when the U.S. Government assumed control and the new company was called Jeffersonville Boat & Machine Works, or JeffBoat.  Howard's history is memorialized at the Howard Steamboat Museum and its records are in the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana.  The list below represents only a small fraction of the company's output: if anyone can add to it, please e-mail your info to me at timcolton@aol.com 
Hull # Original Name Original Owner Vessel Type GT Built 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 Later Manatee, to USN 1942 as Dewees (YFB 37), struck 1945
  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 Sternwheeler   1902  
  Senator Cordill     280 1902  
  Stacker Lee     291 1902  
  A. M. Halliday     240 1903  
  Guntersville     204 1903  
  Ste. Genevieve     611 1903  
  Bowling Green     123 1904  
  Control     103 1904  
  Kentucky     191 1904  
  Wm. Jarig     193 1904  
  A. Baldwin   Ferry 199 1905  
  L. H. Marrero     163 1905  
  J. Barbour   Sternwheel Towboat   1905  
  Wm. Edenborn     239 1906  
  Alton     800 1906  
  Tu-Endi-We     133 1908  
  Northern     185 1909  
  Tombigbee     259 1909  
  G. W. Hill     363 1909  
  J. H. Menge     300 1910  
  Nashville     251 1910  
  Spread Eagle     223 1911  
  Corker     100 1912  
  Julius S. Walsh     385 1912  
  W. S. McChesney, Jr. Wiggins Ferry Company Sternwheel Ferry 385 1912 Later Froman M. Coots
  St. Louis   Sternwheeler 374 1912  
  City of Cairo C. J. Miller Sternwheel Ferry   1912  
  Harry Brown   Sternwheeler   1913  
  Joe Horton Fall     156 1913  
  Homer Smith     721 1914  
  Peoria     400 1914  
  Bob Rodes     143 1914  
  Standard     273 1915  
  City of Baton Rouge     169 1916  
  H. O. Penick H. O. Penick   169 1916  
  Inco No. 1     1,473 1916  
  Joseph Bisso     169 1916  
  Minnesota     211 1916  
  John D. Grace     296 1916  
  Paducah     296 1916  
  Martin Behrman     208 1917  
  Pilgrim     352 1917  
  Cordova     267 1920  
  Demopolis     267 1920  
  Montgomery     267 1920  
  Duffy     146 1921  
  La Belle     310 1921  
  Mamie S. Barrett Corps of Engineers Sternwheel Towboat 191 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 470 1923 Sank 1967
  Donora     259 1924  
  Algiers     501 1925  
  Charles J. Miller     226 1925  
  New Orleans     501 1925  
  Samuel L. May     183 1925  
  Louisiana     435 1926  
  Pilgrim     117 1926  
  George W. Miller     223 1926  
  Mississippi Corps of Engineers Sternwheeler   1927 Later Becky Thatcher 1966, destroyed 2010
  Patricia Barrett     648 1927  
  Traveler     117 1927  
  Catherine Davis     263 1928  
  Helen H     140 1930  
  Titan     429 1930  
  W. H. Klein     146 1930  
  Wm. Larimer Jones     429 1930  
  Loretta Howard     335 1931 Now a museum in Lamb IN
  Mark Twain     513 1932  
  Wm. B. Brokamp Two Rivers Barge Line Towboat   1939 Now P. W. Ritchie
  Frank Costanzo   Towboat   1940 Later Steel City, scrapped 2005