{"id":2544,"date":"2016-08-05T20:12:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T20:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2016-08-05T20:12:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T20:12:24","slug":"eclipse-formerly-city-of-st-joseph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=2544","title":{"rendered":"ECLIPSE formerly City of St. Joseph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Eclipse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2545\" src=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Eclipse-1024x1020.jpg\" alt=\"Eclipse\" width=\"640\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Eclipse-1024x1020.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Eclipse-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Eclipse-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Eclipse-768x765.jpg 768w, https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Eclipse.jpg 1875w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My new friend Jeff Wilkes of Savannah TN gave me this great old picture. \u00a0 Jeff has an amazing collection of St. Louis and Tennessee River Packet items. \u00a0This picture was cropped from the original which is a stereoscopic card. \u00a0The City of St. Joseph was built at St. Joseph MO in 1901. \u00a0 As you can see from this picture the Eclipse was in a bad way. \u00a0Way&#8217;s Packet Directory reported the following, &#8221; The Lee Line at Memphis in latter (November) 1916 changed her name to ECLIPSE (from CITY OF ST. JOSEPH) and ran her Memphis &#8211; \u00a0Caruthersville. \u00a0She ended up on a snag at 7:00 pm, Sept. 25, 1925 Opposite Osceola Ark. \u00a0Crew and passengers got ashore over a sand bar. \u00a0The picture of the City of ST JOSEPH below shows a much different configuration with an extended bow. \u00a0Ways also reports the City of ST JOSEPH collapsed a flu in June 1911 killing 18 deck crew and injuring engineer Floyd Morgan. \u00a0She was caught out high and dry at Luna Landing, Ark in March 1916 and remained there some time.&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/CITY-OF-ST-JOSEPH-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-219\" src=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/CITY-OF-ST-JOSEPH-21-1024x743.jpg\" alt=\"CITY OF ST JOSEPH 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/CITY-OF-ST-JOSEPH-21-1024x743.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/CITY-OF-ST-JOSEPH-21-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new friend Jeff Wilkes of Savannah TN gave me this great old picture. \u00a0 Jeff has an amazing collection of St. Louis and Tennessee River Packet items. \u00a0This picture was cropped from the original which is a stereoscopic card. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=2544\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XurE-F2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2546,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions\/2546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}