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City of Clifton neg 30269 Univ of Wisconsin LaCrosse Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

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CITY OF CLIFTON Way’s Packet Directory boat 1068, sternwheel packet, wood hull, built Jeffersonville Ind., 1900.\u00a0 190 ft. 36 ft.x 5 ft.\u00a0 Engines 16’s – 7 ft.\u00a0 Three boilers.\u00a0 She was built for the Lee Line Memphis, christened ROWENA LEE, but was bought by the St. Louis & Tennessee River Packet Co. before she left the builders.\u00a0 They renamed her CITY OF CLIFTON.\u00a0 Capt. R.W. McCoy, master.\u00a0 Sank at Seventy-Six Landing, a short distance above Grand Tower, Ill., in August 1901, raised.\u00a0 Burned at Clifton Tenn. in February 1903.<\/p>\n

The origional ROWENA LEE was built at Howard Shipyard Jeffersonville Ind., 1890 and was 166.5 ft. x 35 ft. x 4.5 ft.\u00a0 Way’s Packet Directory Boat 4856.\u00a0 She sank at Mhoon’s Landing below Memphis in October 1897 with her head in six feet and the stern in 12 feet.\u00a0 Had 300 bales of cotton and some passengers, removed by the J.N. HARBIN.\u00a0 The ROWENA LEE carried the whistle from the RUTH and it later went to the JAMES LEE (2nd)\u00a0 and then to HARRY LEE.\u00a0 Rebuilt at Howards in 1899.\u00a0 Finally sank for keeps at Tyler’s Mo., just above the Arkansas state line, this in 1902.<\/p>\n

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