Steamboat: Grand Turk

Grand Turk (Packet, 1848-1854)
BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sidewheel
BOAT TYPE: Packet
BUILT: 1848 at Freedom, Pennsylvania
FINAL DISPOSITION: Burned and lost in the steamboat fire at New Orleans on February 6, 1854
OWNERS: Captain Newman Robirds, St. Louis
OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Newman Robirds (master); Captain Clayton (master, 1852-53); H. S. Phillips (clerk, 1852-53)
RIVERS: Mississippi River; Missouri River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 2429; First home port, St. Louis, Missouri. She ran Louisville-New Orleans. The fire at which she was lost originated on the Charles Belcher