The James W. Gaff. “The steamer James W. Gaff, with a load of freight and ninety passengers was sunk on Thursday a few miles above Carrollton, Ky. No lives were lost. The steamer was heavily insured.” from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 23, 1878

 

  

The Loucinda served the Louisville-Madison-Cincinnati route c. 1910-1918.
Her name was derived from:  LOUisville, CINcinnati and inDianA
(not taken in Carroll Co)

 

“The steamer J. C. Kerr is now running between Cincinnati and Carrollton, Ky., having quit the Ripley trade.”
from the Daily Evening Bulletin, Maysville, Kentucky.(photo not taken in Carroll Co)

 

Steamer on Ohio River above Carrollton, 1909	The Jacob Strader (not taken in Carroll Co) read more about her here.
	The Stader burns near Carrollton, 1866

 

As steamers aged, a common practice was to strip them of their mechanicals, and convert the hulls into a wharf boats. This is the Samson, the hull of which would be used for a period of time as the Carrollton wharf boat.

 

 

We can confirm that the Plucky City was built in Chattanooga in 1893, was 82' by 18' and carried 97 tons gross tonnage. A picture, we don't have.	(not taken in Carroll Co)

 

 

The Hattie Brown was destroyed by ice. She was rebuilt/salvaged as the Vim, shown hear near Carrollton

The Ben Franklin, at Cincinnati

“As soon as there is sufficient water in the river, the Telegraph No. 2 and Ben. Franklin
 will assume their places in the morning line, under their old commanders, and the General Pike,
Capt. Claxon, and the Lady Pike in the evening line.  They will leave Cincinnati and Louisville at
9 o'clock, A.M. and 4 o'clock P.M. each day.”

“The breaking up of the ice in the river, on Saturday, caused considerable damage to steamboats, coalboats, etc. to Louisville.  The Courier says seventeen boats were sunk, the most of them laden for the south.”  The Carrollton Courier, February 7, 1852	Typical of the news coverage  of the time is this column of River News from Carrollton papers of 1868.  Similar columns ran in virtually all the papers of the river towns.
“There is a daily line of packets now running between this place and Louisville, the Blue Wing and the Sea Gull. If our citizens are alive to their interests, they will liberally support this enterprise. The officers are gentlemen well-known to the public, and they are determined to offer such inducements as will make their respective boats deserving of patronage. One of the packets will leave here at 9 o'clock AM. Our businessmen, by this arrangement, can go to Madison in the morning, have five or six hours to transact their business, and return the same evening on the Madison or Louisville packets.” - Carroll Courier, December 6,1851
Accident in 1901 puts 175,000 bushels of coal in the river here. Since virtually everyone cooked and heated with coal, that was an issue.
The Explosion of the Steamer Redstone above Carrollton in 1852, here.  (pdf)	An 1894 account of the first steamboat on the Ohio River in 1811-12, here.
The Carrollton Democrat reports in November of 1898, in it's “30 Years Ago This Week” column, that the steamer J. M Sechler burned at the foot of High Street.	They were rougher times.
“The new and beautiful steamer General Pike continues to make her trips from Louisville to Warsaw bar, where she connects with the Lady Pike from Cincinnati.”  The Carroll Courier, November 1, 1851	“The steamers Belle Quigley and Vermont, lying at the mouth of the Kentucky river at Carrollton, Ky., were destroyed by fire on Wednesday last.  A quantity of whiskey was consumed with them.”from the Vevay Reveille, February 13, 1856

“The [General] Buell is now in the packet trade from Madison to Cincinnati.  The [Ben] Franklin and the [General]
Lytle are the mailboats, but from the present indications, these boats will not be of much use this weather.”
from an October,1872 newspaper clipping; which paper and  exact date are unknown.

The General Lytle would eventually end up as the Carrollton wharf boat.

The tow Mabel with barges.

 

A page of steamboat links can be found at this site.