{"id":390,"date":"2011-07-26T17:27:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T17:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?page_id=390"},"modified":"2011-07-29T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T13:00:15","slug":"lee-line-fleet-1899-wgunboat-nashville","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?page_id=390","title":{"rendered":"Lee Line Fleet 1899 w\\gunboat Nashville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Memphis Commercial Appeal reported the following for May 2, 1899.\u00a0 &#8220;The Gunboat Nashville anchored in Memphis harbor last evening.\u00a0 She is en route from New Orleans to St. Louis.\u00a0 There was a great crowd on the levee to welcome the ship.\u00a0 Lee Line Steamers Robert E Lee, James Lee, Ferd Harold and the New Mattie and Kate Adams carried numbers of persons down the river to meet the ship and escort her to port.<a href=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Bert-Fenn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-396\" title=\"Bert Fenn\" src=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Bert-Fenn-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Bert-Fenn-300x176.jpg 300w, http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Bert-Fenn-1024x601.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Bert-Fenn.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&#8221;\u00a0 The index card\u00a0to the left\u00a0was clipped to a copy of this picture which I purchased on Ebay.\u00a0 The picture was part of the collection belonging to\u00a0the late Bert Fenn.\u00a0 This card appears to have been from Fred Way who compiled Way&#8217;s Packet Directory and who worked as a steamboat and modern towboat pilot.<a href=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/004-LEE-LINE-FLEET-1912_1_2_1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-388\" title=\"004 LEE LINE FLEET 1899\" src=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/004-LEE-LINE-FLEET-1912_1_2_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Memphis Commercial Appeal reported the following for May 2, 1899.\u00a0 &#8220;The Gunboat Nashville anchored in Memphis harbor last evening.\u00a0 She is en route from New Orleans to St. Louis.\u00a0 There was a great crowd on the levee to welcome &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?page_id=390\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-390","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5XurE-6i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/390\/revisions\/409"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}