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| | Riverboats Starting With Wm. and the name WILLIAM, Page w-x-2.1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Name: WILLIAM BAIRD Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 286 tons Launched: 1855, Elizabeth, Pa. Destroyed: 1858, mo. R. |
 | | Name: WILLIAM BUTLER Destroyed: 1868, October., Wheeling, W. Va., burned to the hull while moored at landing above 12th St. Area: 1865, Mar. 2, near island # 76, near Caulk Neck Cut Off, now in Lake Whittington, east of Mississippi R.. |
 | | Owner: Russell, William H. Captain(s): Kinney, Joseph Comments: Russell was a partner in Russell, Majors and Waddell, wagon train opperators out of West Port(later Westport) Mo. Boat plied trade from St. Louis to Ft. Levenworth, Weston, Mo. and St Joseph, Mo.. |
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