Natchez Victory
10"x 18" 350 in edition

This last (and only sternwheeler) Natchez of the Leathers' fleet survived some near misses; sank about three miles above Natchez, Mississippi, November 1896, with 1,700 bales of cotton and 8,757 sacks of seed, due to dried hull seams. In February 1897, she hit the shore at Cottonwood, twenty miles below Vicksburg, tore away the jack staff and stages and toppled her chimneys. She sank at Ford's Crossing, twelve miles below Natchez, in November 1899. She got new boilers July 1914, and less than a year later was in the hands of a U.S. Marshal who sold her for $6,500. She was often laid up for long periods, and was dismantled in 1918.

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