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Steamboat: SUNSHINE
Built: 1860
Tonnage: 354
Clemens' Service:
 6 December 1860 - 8 January 1861
Pilot: Capt. George W. Willard in 1860; Absalom Grimes in 1861
Captain: Henry G. Carson
Fate: burned 13 July 1864 in St. Louis by Confederates

For a full account of Clemens' service on the SUNSHINE, see Michael H. Marleau's
"Cooling Our Bottom on the Sand Bars: A Chronicle of a Low Water Trip"

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