NOV 6 1900
STR. FRED SWAIN
The stamp was canceled in the the steamer's first year of operation.
The LaSalle & Peoria Packet Company's Fred Swain side wheeler
The Fred Swain was built at Stillwater, Minnesota in 1900. Her dimensions were:-142 x 28.3 x 4.5 feet; tonnage, gross and net, 124 tons. She operated mostly on the Illinois River around Peoria. On August 20, 1909, she burned to the water's edge at Peoria, Illinois; fifty-eight persons were aboard but no lives lost.
The burning Fred Swain.
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