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26/12/2007 4:41 am
Knowledgable riverboat historians- I desperately need your help!
I have been researching the Steamboat Electra and have come to a complete standstill.
Although there have been a number of Electra's, my Electra is a propeller driven vessel, approximatly 60 feet long and perhaps 16 feet in width. (Please see the below links).
The photograph of the Electra was taken on the Missouri River at Boonville Landing, Boonville, Missouri, ca. 1875. The name is clearly present and it has a visible U.S. Registry. A propeller driven vessel is virtually unheard on the Missouri River and its having been photographed by a local photographer, I
believe, signifies it uniqueness. I have a suspicion that it was some type of survey boat, but I have come up with nada...
I have come to dead ends with the Army Corps of Engineers, Library of Congress and the various online steamboat registries.
What I am seekings is:
1- What was the Electra?
2- What was she doing on the Missouri River?
3- What is the history of the boat?
4- Anything
Any help will be greatlyfully received.
James Higbie
http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2001432780779913548
23/01/2008 7:00 am
James
The only Electra I have is my Missouri River files in the one built at the Howards Ship yard. She was on the Missouri River in 1907 and there is a picture of her at Boonsville that year.
One of the Heckmann boys was on her as pilot but I did not find her mentioned in the material Dorothy Shrader sent me years ago on the family.
Carl Jones Mo river rat