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The historical roots of the prototypical Mississippi steamboat, or Western Rivers steamboat, can be traced to designs by easterners like Oliver Evans, John Fitch, Daniel French, Robert Fulton, Nicholas Roosevelt, James Rumsey, and John Stevens.
Lloyd's Steamboat Directory, and Disasters on the Western Waters is a book published in 1856 listing steamboat businesses in the United States, along with an illustrated catalog of American maritime disasters. It covers "mainly river material, with a substantial scattering of lake items."
The impact started a fire on United States when some flammable liquids were spilled and reached the firebox. The fire quickly spread on United States as the two vessels made for the nearby Indiana bank. America came to the aid of United States pulling along aside to provide escape for passengers and crew. The fire then spread to America.
Hunter, Louis C (1949), Steamboats on the Western rivers: an economic and technological history, Harvard University Press, hdl:2027/heb.00403. The standard history of American river boats. Paskoff, Paul F (2007), Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821–1860, ISBN 978-0-8071-3268-5.
A unique feature of light river steamboats like the Far West was their ability to "grasshopper" to get across shallow sand bars to reach a deeper river channel beyond the sand bar. In this "grasshopper" maneuver, the boat used spars and steam capstans on the front of the boat to lift and swing the front of the boat onto the sand bar, moving ...
Colorado, was a stern-wheel paddle-steamer, the third steamboat on the Colorado River, and first stern-wheel steamboat put on that river, in December 1855.. The Colorado was a 120 foot long, stern-wheel steamboat, built for the George A. Johnson & Company in San Francisco by John G. North a well known builder of steamboats in California. [1]
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Various chicaneries were practiced by the steamboat companies to increase the tonnage charges for items shipped. [2] One authority states that gross tonnage was measured at 100 cubic feet to the ton, which would still permit the steamboat companies to fix the "ton" for customer charges at 40 cubic feet. [1] Steamboat capacity was measured by ...