Georgetown steamboat captains and owners littered the inland waterways with their steamboat wrecks. The boats lost on various inland rivers when owned by a Georgetown captain follow:
Missouri:
Georgetown (1855 snagged)
Amelia Poe (1868 snagged)
Ida Stockdale (1871 crushed by ice)
Feerless (1882 sunk)
Mississippi:
Glaucus (1852 fire)
Horizon (1862 CivWar collision)
Nick Wall (1870 snagged)
Glencoe (1877 snagged)
Ohio/Monongahela:
Belmont (1859 fire)
Mollie Ebert (1875 fire)
Cumberland:
Clara Poe (1865 CivWar arson)
Arkansas:
John B Gordon (1851 snagged)
Other boats once owned and operated by Georgetown men were lost, snagged or burned after they had been sold have not been added to the list.
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