Lithograph of the Grand Turk
Hanging in the Cabildo in the LA State Museum
collection on Jackson Square
From Way's Packet Directory (1848-1983): Owned in part and commanded by Capt. Newman Robirds, St. Louis.
Ran Louisville-New Orleans. Burned and lost in the steamboat fire at New Orleans Feb. 6, 1854, which originated on the Charles Belcher.
From Thoughts About St. Louis by Norbury L. Wayman: Lithograph by Henry Lewis, about 1850, of the Grand Turk wooding at night. The Grand Turk,
built at Freedom, Pennsylvania, in 1848, was one of the better-known early-day boats on the lower Mississippi.
She ran in trades to New Orleans from Louisville and Saint Louis. She burned in a disastrous steamboat fire at New Orleans, when the
cotton-laden Charles Belcher caught fire and set the Grand Turk ablaze along with Natchez III and others, on February 6, 1854. |
