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The Columbia was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1903. She was 170 feet long, 29 feet beam and four feet depth of hold. Her registry indicateds that her tonnage, both net and gross, was 139, and her indicated horse power 185. She had her first inspection on October 27, 1903. She was named for the town of Columbia, Louisiana. This boat is the sternwheeler that ran in the New Orleans and Bends trade, and later up the Red and Ouachita Rivers for the Carter Packet Company of New Orleans. Charges filed by J.L. Ross, pilot of the Columbia, against the steamer St. James, charging violation of pilot rules was investigated on November 23, 1905. The case was a near collicion of the two vessels on October 30th. As a result, the licenses of pilots E. R. Daigre of the St. James, and Ross of the Columbia, were suspended 10 days each. Her life was comparatively short - less than seven years. On February 26, 1910, while she was coming up pthe Mississippi, she started to make a landing at Grand Levee, nine miles above Bayou Sara, Louisiana. She hit a submerged obstruction and knocked a large hole in her port side, abreast of the derrick. She started to sink. As she listed over at a 45 degree angle, fire broke out, and that part of her cabin that was above water was destroyed. A negro fireman named John Henry left the boat as she started down, but for some unknown...
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