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The ship displaced approximately 60 tons, with an estimated deck length of 17 meters (56 ft) and a width of 5.36 meters (17.6 ft). [1] [2] The crew size was 26 men under Captain Martín Alonso Pinzón. The other ships of the Columbus expedition were La Niña (real name Santa Clara) and Santa María. There are no known contemporary likenesses of ...
CSS Maurepas was a sidewheel steamer that briefly served as a gunboat in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War.Built in 1858 in Indiana as Grosse Tete (English: "big head"), the vessel was used in commercial trade until 1860 and then delivered mail until 1861, when she was acquired by the Confederate Navy.
Ships built in New Albany, Indiana (14 P) Pages in category "Ships built in Indiana" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
SS Indiana was an iron passenger-cargo steamship built by William Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia in 1873. The third of a series of four Pennsylvania-class vessels, Indiana and her three sister ships – Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois – were the largest iron ships ever built in the United States at the time of their construction, and among the first to be fitted with compound steam engines.
Three ships have borne the name SS Indiana. They are: SS Indiana (1848) - a steamship built in 1848 by F.M. Keating. SS Indiana (1873) - a passenger steamship launched in 1873 by William Cramp & Sons for the American Line. SS Indiana (1905) - a passenger ship launched by Societa Esercizio Bacini in 1905 for Lloyd Italiano
[7] [8] [9] Realizing that the ship was beyond repair, Columbus ordered his men to strip the timbers from the ship. The timbers were later used to build a fort which Columbus called La Navidad (Christmas) because the wreck occurred on Christmas Day, north from the modern town of Limonade. [10] [11] Santa María carried several anchors, possibly ...
USS Indiana (SSN-789), is a Virginia-class submarine launched on 9 June 2017; Three ships have borne the name SS Indiana. They are: SS Indiana (1848) - a steamship built in 1848 by F.M. Keating. SS Indiana (1873) - a passenger steamship launched in 1873 by William Cramp & Sons for the American Line.
On 7 December 1863, the U.S. War Department transferred to the Navy two wooden-hulled, side-wheel rams then being built at New Albany, Indiana, for the Army's Mississippi Marine Brigade. On that day, as he was reporting having taken possession of these still-unfinished vessels, Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter —who then commanded the ...