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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