Type: Sternwheel Wooden hull packet Size: 141.8' X 28.7' X 5'
Power: 12'S- 5 ft. from T.N. BARNSDALL/ROYAL/LIBERTY (the 4th LIBERTY).
Launched: 1912: Clarington, Oh. for the Booth family of Clarington.
Destroyed: 1938, Kanauga, Oh., Dismantled. Engines went to VALLEY BELLE
Area: 1912-18, built for upper Ohio R. Wheeling-Clarington trade.
: 1918- Wheeling-New Matamoras, then Parkersburgh; Sept.,to McConnelsville;
Dec. to Pittsburgh- McConnelsville.
1921- Gallipolis-Charleston, then Pittsburgh-Wheeling
1929- Pittsburgh-Charleston
193? Was towboat for GOLDENROD showboat.
Owner: 1912- ?? the Booth family
1936-1938, July 27 when sold for debt, Walter Webster.
Captains: 1912-??, S.W. Litten
1932- Master, Walter C. Booth; Pilot, Wilsie Miller
1938, Raike, Ben
Comments: Opperated for approxinately 30 years.
1936: Was last commercial packet to abandon Pittsburgh as home
port.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
: From a book titled "Sternwheelers on the Great Kanawha River"
by Gerald W. Stuphin and Richard A. Andre:
"Its hull was built from trees personally selected by
Walter C. Booth from the forest in back of Clarington. From
1912 to 1929 when the Liberty came to the Kanawha River, it
operated in a variety of trades on the upper Ohio River. It
was brought to the Kanawha to work the "huckster trade"
bringing chickens and eggs from the farms in the valley to
the markets of Pittsburgh.
:1936, caught in lower Ohio and stripped by vandals of whistle,
bell and fittings and such.
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