Resources for vessel specifications

[tony_gunter]

I'm looking for a source that would have the specifications for two shallow draft steamboats that worked Deer Creek, Rolling Fork, and Sunflower River. The boats were the Argo and the Cotton Plant.

All I have found is this, includes length and width but no tonnage or draft.

 

[bschulte]

Tony,

What is the date range for this vessel? I can do searches at Genealogybank.com and Newspapers.com.

Here's what I found at Newspapers.com:

• https://www.newspapers.com/image/225899296/?match=9&terms=steamer "cotton plant"
• https://www.newspapers.com/image/585884334/?match=2&terms=steamer "cotton plant"
• https://www.newspapers.com/image/666874308/?match=12&terms=steamer "cotton plant"
• https://www.newspapers.com/image/57466225/?match=27&terms=steamer "cotton plant"
• https://www.newspapers.com/image/55331617/?match=11&terms=steamer "cotton plant"

 

[NeilL]

Try: Way's Packet Directory, 1848–1994: Passenger Steamboats of the Mississippi River System since the Advent of Photography in Mid-Continent America There may be one in your local library (or they can get it). newer printed copies can be purchased online (from Amazon, etc.)..

 

[tony_gunter]

Tony,

What is the date range for this vessel? I can do searches at Genealogybank.com and Newspapers.com.

Here's what I found at Newspapers.com:

• https://www.newspapers.com/image/225899296/?match=9&terms=steamer "cotton plant"
• https://www.newspapers.com/image/585884334/?match=2&terms=steamer "cotton plant"
• https://www.newspapers.com/image/666874308/?match=12&terms=steamer "cotton plant"
• https://www.newspapers.com/image/57466225/?match=27&terms=steamer "cotton plant"
• https://www.newspapers.com/image/55331617/?match=11&terms=steamer "cotton plant"

I believe construction was completed in 1859 and she was burned in June 1863 to prevent capture.

There was a second Cotton Plant that served in the east, this one was specifically designed for the shallow bayous in Mississippi.