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\u00a0The HARRY LEE (first) began life as the CITY OF WHEELING.\u00a0 Way’s Packet directory recorded the following about the CITY OF WHEELING, built Clarington OH at Mozena yard and completed at Wheeling 1899.\u00a0 169 feet long x 34.4 feet wide x 4.8 foot draft. Engines 16’s x 6 ft.\u00a0 Three boilers each 42″ dia. by 22 feet.\u00a0 Engines and boilers came from CITY OF SAVANNAH.\u00a0 Built for short trades out of Wheeling and was soon sold to the Lee Line Memphis which renamed her HARRY LEE.\u00a0 Sank at Brandywine Landing 45 miles above Memphis August 1911 and was raised.\u00a0 Burned at Memphis March 19, 1914.\u00a0 She carried the whistle of the Lee Line ROBERT E. Lee<\/p>\n

HARRY LEE (second) was a sternwheel packet, steel hull, built at St. Louis MO, 1915.\u00a0 175 feet length x 36 feet wide x 6.7 foot draft.\u00a0 Engines 16’s x 6 foot.\u00a0 Three boilers set on her backwards; fired from deckroom.\u00a0 Ran Memphis-Helena-Friars Point.\u00a0 She was built at the Phil A. Rohan Boat, Boiler and Tank Works, St. Louis.\u00a0 Last owned by the Valley Line (G.Peters Lee), Memphis which sold her June 1924 to Sherburne Transportation Co.\u00a0 She served\u00a0during WWII at Alexandria LA, on the Red River as a barracks for soldiers and was moved from there to Orange TX and used to quarter shipyard workmen.\u00a0 She burned May 12, 1942 and was then converted into a showboat at Orange and was still there in 1951.\u00a0 Way’s Packet Directory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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