The Gordon C. Greene was built as the Cape Giradeau in 1923. The ship sank St. Louis in 1967.[1][2]
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^"Marker #10-84 Captain Gordon C. Greene / Captain Mary Becker Greene". Remarkable Ohio. http://www.remarkableohio.org/HistoricalMarker.aspx?historicalMarkerId=629. Retrieved 2011-02-25. "... Mary Becker Greene (1867-1949) married Gordon C. Greene in 1890 and raised three sons - Captain Chris, Captain Tom, and Henry Wilkins. She learned navigation and earned a pilot and masters license, becoming one of the most noted figures on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers for more than a half century. The "Greene Line" fleet continued to expand with additions of the "Gordon C. Greene" and the "Delta Queen." Captain Mary Greene served as hostess on these steamboats. She died at the age of 81 on the renowned "Delta Queen," a National Historic Landmark."
^"Gordon C. Greene". http://wheeling.weirton.lib.wv.us/history/bus/river/GordonCGreene03.htm. Retrieved 2011-02-25. "Built in 1923 as the Cape Girardeau. Renamed Gordon C. Greene in 1935, she ran between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati accepting passengers and freight in the summers of 1935 and 1936. She sank in 1967.(Way's Packet Directory, p. 193, which contains a lot more history of this boat.)"