page_title: Alligator (steamboat)
section_title: Rebuilds
hierarchical_section_title: Alligator (steamboat) / Design and construction / Rebuilds
caption_attribution_description: The paddlesteamer Alligator from 1890 stereoview card.
context_page_description: The Alligator was an inboard paddle-wheel steamboat that operated in the interior of north central Florida in the United States from 1888 to 1909. Archeologist Clarence Bloomfield Moore leased the steamer each year from 1891 to 1895 for his annual excursions to explore the St. Johns River and tributaries for Native American artifacts. On 5 November 1909, the paddlesteamer caught fire and sank ending its twenty-one years of service in the passenger and freight business. In December 2008, the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program led a search of the east side of Lake Crescent for the sunken wreckage of the Alligator.
context_section_description: During the boat's twenty-one years of service, the paddlesteamer was rebuilt by several new owners. A Certificate of Enrollment issued on 21 January 1890, when ownership of the steamboat was transferred to brothers Charles B. and Benjamen Wade shows a rebuild in 1889. The paddlesteamer was now 71 feet (22 m) long, 18 feet 7 inches (5.66 m) wide, and 3 feet 5 inches (1.04 m) deep. It weighed 66.21 gross tons and was modified to have a recessed stern wheel instead of a propeller. According to a 13 January 1894, Certificate of Enrollment, the steamboat was enlarged to 81 feet 4 inches (24.79 m) in length with a gross weight of 69.60 tons with "an enlarged cabin deck running the full length of the boat above the boiler deck" and a larger captain's cabin. The Alligator's final rebuild occurred in 1906. The new reconfiguration made the boat more suitable for local freight and passenger trips rather than more lengthy transport. The cabin deck was removed and replaced with an open deck running half the length of the boat; with the pilot house and captain's cabin placed on that same level.
caption: Alligator in 1890 after first rebuild
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