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The Anchor Line Steamer Bluff City
| 题名： | The Anchor Line Steamer Bluff City |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | KEITH NORRINGTON |
| 摘要： | Of the many beautiful steamboats owned by the famed Anchor Line, all were sidewheelers except one. Built at a cost of $36,500 by the Howard Shipyard at Jeffersonville, Ind., in 1896, the wooden hull of the sternwheeler Bluff City measured 225 feet in length by 42 feet in width. Four boilers supplied steam to the engines that had 20-inch cylinders with an 8-foot stroke. The original name for the boat was to be Austin Corbin, but just before the boat was launched it was decided to name it the Bluff City. Capt. Dennis M. Connor was master with Capt. James Grasty and Capt. Theodore Hall in the pilothouse and Owen Cates, clerk. The handsome new boat, with the trademark anchor suspended between the smokestacks, ran in the St. Louis-New Orleans trade, the usual route of the Anchor Line steamboats. On the morning of Wednesday, November 18, 1897, the Bluff City departed St. Louis with two loaded barges in tow, bound for New Orleans. When fire broke out in the engineroom, allegedly started by sparks falling into some cargo bags, the boat was landed at Chester, Ill., some 80 miles below St. Louis. The 40 passengers and crew members safely evacuated the blazing steamboat as it burned to the waterline. A newspaper account reported that many of the cabin passengers were yellow fever refugees, returning to their homes in Mobile, Ala. One of the barges was saved by being quickly cut loose and rescued by another boat. |
| 出版年： | 2022 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 135 |
| 期： | 46 |
| 页码： | 14,13 |
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