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USQMD General Meigs

Sternwheel Packet:
  • Laid dwon in 1864 as the sternwheel packet Allena May at Wheeling, West Virginia
  • Launched in 1864
  • Taken over by the US Army Quartermaster Department at Wheeling when completed, renamed and Commissioned USQMD General Meigs
  • Retired from US Army service and decommissioned in 1865
  • Sold, 12 October 1865, renamed Allena May after the daughter of CAPT. Jonathan Hamilton, homeported Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Allena May operated on the upper Ohio River runnig short trades
  • On 15 September 1866 her boiler exploded backing out from a landing on Raccoon Island on the Ohio River. CAPT. Hamilton was badly injured and two crew members were killed
  • Repaired and in 1868 went to the Pittsburg-Parkersburg trade with CAPT. Jacob Flicker
  • Went to New Orleans with CAPT. William Maitiland
  • Advertised for sale at Algiers, LA. in 1870
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 144 t.
    Length 115'
    Beam 20'
    Depth of Hold unknown
    Draft 3'
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Passengers unknown
    Cargo Capacity unknown
    Propulsion
    boiler(s)
    steam engine
    sternwheel
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    USQMD General Meigs
    General M C Meigs
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    Namesake

    Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, born in Augusta, Ga., 3 May 1816, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1836. He served with the Corps of Engineers for a quarter of a century and in 1861 became Quartermaster General. In addition to equipping and supplying the Union Armies during the Civil War, General Meigs supervised the construction of the Washington Aqueduct and the dome and wings of the United States Capitol. After the Civil War, he was a member of the Commission for the Reform and Reorganization of the Army. General Meigs retired in 1882 and died in Washington, D.C., 2 January 1892.
    Digital ID: cwpbh 03709 Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs    		 Bill Gonyo
    Merchant Service
    General Meigs
    301311001    		 203k Allena May underway, date and location unknown
    University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries         		Tommy Trampp
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