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The Sternwheeler J.P. Drouillard
| 题名： | The Sternwheeler J.P. Drouillard |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | KEITH NORRINGTON |
| 摘要： | Named for an iron industrialist at Nashville, Tenn., and owned by the Ry-man Line, the handsome sternwheel-er J.P. Drouillard was a product of the famous Howard Shipyard at Jefferson-ville, Ind.Constructed in 1881 for a contract cost of $7,000, the wooden hull measured 165 feet in length, 31 feet in width and with a depth of 4.9 feet. Much of the equip-ment was recycled from the upper Cum-berland River packet Bolivar H. Cook,also built by Howard in 1873 and dis-mantled in 1880.The new steamboat ran weekly from Nashville to New Madrid,Mo., a round trip of approximately 660 miles. The usual freight carried aboard was 7,500 sacks, of two bushels and three pecks. The master of the vessel was Capt.W.R. Gracey.In a 1950s letter to The Waterways Journal, Capt. Peter Wilton of Paducah,who was a crew member on the Drouil-lard, penned some remembrances of the riverboat."The boat had a deep whistle, and its bell came from a big sidewheeler that was being dismantled at the Howard Shipyard," Wilton wrote. "The Drouil-lard was fast and was nearly always on time, good weather or bad. There were no electric lights on the boat and its oil-burning headlights hung under the boiler deck; at landings we used torch baskets. The engines (built by the Hege-wald firm at New Albany, Ind.) had 14-inch cylinders with a 5-foot stroke. Two boilers (burning half wood and half coal) supplied the steam. The boat had tall smokestacks that were equipped with lowering jacks to enable the steamer to reach the main wharf at Nashville, which was above a low bridge." |
| 出版年： | 2021 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 135 |
| 期： | 15 |
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