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Date Posted：02/13/2009 10:57 AMCopy HTML   STRECKFUS IDEALS Courtesy to passengers is the first consideration on the Streckfus Steamers.  All employees and officers of the Line are instructed to give careful consideration to the needs of passengers.  The utmost safety is likewise assured those who ride on Streckfus Steamers.  Every officer of the crew is a U. S. licensed riverman and the steamers have been subjected to rigid examination by U. S. Government Inspectors at regular intervals. Everything for the comfort and safety of passengers has been done.  It is the aim of the Streckfus Line officials to furnish clean, healthful recreation on fine, up-to-date steamers and no expense is spared to supply the best of everything.    THE STEAMBOAT BATTLE AT MEMPHIS One of the most bloody naval battles of the Civil War occured, not on the open sea, but on the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tenn., June 6, 1862.  Early in the morning of that day the Federal Fleet of powerful ramming steamboats and heavily armored gunboats engaged and decisively defeated a similar fleet of Confederate River Vessels, destroying all but one of them.  Altogether some 17 were engaged in the battle. Many historians consider this battle the turning point of the Civil War, because it broke the hitherto tight Confederate control of the Mississippi.   THE STEAMBOAT "ORLEANS"  On January 12, 1812; the first steamboat to reach New Orleans, the Pittsburgh-built stern-wheeler "Orleans," docked at the foot of Canal Street, completing a weird voyage of two months and 20 days, during which the little vessel was beset by a comet, earthquake, flood, fire, plaque and hostile Indians.  The boat was built, owned and operated by Nicholas J. Roosevelt, ancestor of two Presidents.     THE RECORD OF SOME FAMOUS TRIPS FAST TIME ON THE WESTERN WATERS  FROM NEW ORLEANS TO NATCHEZ-268 MILES  1814...Orleans......................6 days, 6 hours & 40 minutes 1814...Comet........................5 days, 10 hours & 0 minutes 1815...Enterprise..................4 days, 11 hours & 20 minutes 1817...Washington...............4 days, 0 hours & 0 minutes 1817...Shelby........................3 days, 20 hours & 0 minutes 1819...Paragon.....................3 days, 8 hours & 0 minutes 1828...Tecumseh..................3 days, 1 hour & 20 minutes 1834...Tuscarora..................1 day, 21 hours & 0 minutes 1838...Natchez......................1 day, 17 hours & 0 minutes 1840...Ed. Shippen...............1 day, 8 hours & 0 minutes 1842...Belle of the West.......1 day, 18 hours & 0 minutes 1844...Sultana............................19 hours & 45 minutes 1851...Magnolia.........................19 hours & 50 minutes 1853...A. L. Shotwell.................19 hours & 49 minutes 1853...Southern Belle.................20 hours & 3 minutes 1853...Princess (no. 4)...............20 hours & 26 minutes 1853...Eclipse...........................19 hours & 47 minutes 1855...Princess (new)................18 hours & 53 minutes 1855...Natchez (new).................17 hours & 30 minutes 1856...Princess (new)................17 hours & 30 minutes 1870...Natchez..........................17 hours & 17 minutes 1870...R. E. Lee........................17 hours & 11 minutes   FROM NEW ORLEANS TO CAIRO-1,024 MILES 1844...J. M. White....................3 days, 6 hours, 44 minutes 1852...Reindeer........................3 days, 12 hours, 25 minutes 1853...Eclipse..........................3 days, 4 hours, 4 minutes 1853...A. L. Shotwell...............3  days, 3 hours, 40 minutes 1869...Dexter...........................3 days, 6 hours, 20 minutes 1870...Natchez.........................3 days, 4 hours, 34 minutes 1870...R. E. Lee.......................3 days, 1 hour, 0 minutes   FROM NEW ORLEANS TO LOUISVILLE-1,440 MILES  1815...Enterprise.....................25 days, 2 hours, 40 minutes 1817...Washington..................25 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes 1817...Shelby...........................20 days, 4 hours, 20 minutes 1819...Paragon.......................18 days, 10 hours, 0 minutes 1828...Tecumseh.....................8 days, 4 hours, 0 minutes 1834...Tuscarora.....................7 days, 16 hours, 0 minutes 1837...Gen. Brown...................6 days, 22 hours, 0 minutes 1837...Randolph.......................6 days, 22 hours, 0 minutes 1837...Empress.......................6 days, 17 hours, 0 minutes 1837...Sultana..........................6 days, 15 hours, 0 minutes 1840...Ed. Shippen..................5 days, 14 hours, 0 minutes 1842...Belle of the West..........6 days, 14 hours, 0 minutes 1843...Duke of Orleans...........5 days, 23 hours, 0 minutes 1844...Sultana..........................5 days, 12 hours, 0 minutes 1849...Bostona.........................5 days, 8 hours, 0 minutes 1851...Belle Key.......................4 days, 23 hours, 0 minutes 1852...Reindeer.......................4 days, 20 hours, 45 minutes 1852...Eclipse..........................4 days, 19 hours, 0 minutes 1853...A. L. Shotwell................4 days, 10 hours, 20 minutes 1853...Eclipse..........................4 days, 9 hours, 30 minutes   FROM NEW ORLEANS TO DONALDSONVILLE-78 MILES  1852...A. L. Shotwell..............5 hours, 42 minutes 1853...Eclipse.........................5 hours, 42 minutes 1854...Sultana.........................5 hours, 12 minutes 1856...Princess.......................4 hours, 51 minutes 1860...Atlantic..........................5 hours, 11 minutes 1860...Gen. Quitman...............5 hours, 6 minutes 1865...Ruth...............................4 hours, 43 minutes 1870...R. E. Lee......................4 hours, 59 minutes   FROM NEW ORLEANS TO ST. LOUIS-1,218 MILES 1844...J. M. White...................3 days, 23 hours, 9 minutes 1849...Missouri.......................4 days, 19 hours, 0 minutes 1869...Dexter..........................4 days, 9 hours, 0 minutes 1870...Natchez........................3 days, 21 hours, 57 minutes 1870...R. E. Lee......................3 days, 18 hours, 14 minutes   FROM LOUISVILLE TO CINCINNATI-141 MILES 1819...Gen. Pike.......................1 day, 16 hours, 0 minutes 1819...Paragon.........................1 day, 14 hours, 20 minutes 1822...Wheeling Packet...........1 day, 10 hours, 0 minutes 1837...Moselle..........................12 hours, 0 minutes 1843...Duke of Orleans...........12 hours, 0 minutes 1843...Congress......................12 hours, 20 minutes 1846...Ben Franklin (No. 6).....11 hours, 45 minutes 1852...Allegheny.......................10 hours, 38 minutes 1852...Pittsburgh......................10 hours, 23 minutes 1853...Telegraph (No. 3)...........9 hours, 52 minutes   FROM LOUISVILLE TO ST. LOUIS-750 MILES  1842...Congress.....................2 days, 1 hour, 0 minutes 1854...Pike.............................1 day, 23 hours, 0 minutes 1854...Northerner...................1 day, 22 hours, 30 minutes 1855...Southerner...................1 day, 19 hours, 0 minutes   FROM CINCINNATI TO PITTSBURGH-490 MILES  1850...Telegraph (No. 2)........1 day, 17 hours 1851...Buckeye State.............1 day, 16 hours 1852...Pittsburgh.....................1 day, 15 hours   FROM ST. LOUIS TO ALTON-30 MILES  1853...Altona............................1 hour, 35 minutes 1876...Golden Eagle...............1 hour, 37 minutes 1876...War Eagle.....................1 hour, 37 minutes   The above information was taken from the Streckfus Steamers magazine-dated 1935-1936             This set is not public domain. All backgrounds and images were created by me (Fiddlinsue). Html background code provided by Liz from Beyond The Horizon. Image is from my own personal collection.