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Clermont made the 150-nautical-mile (280 km) trip in 32 hours. Passengers on the maiden voyage included a lawyer Jones and his family from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His infant daughter Alexandra Jones later served as a Union nurse on a steamboat hospital in the American Civil War. [11] The Clermont was the first successful steamboat in America.
The steamboat Enterprise demonstrated for the first time by her epic 2,200-mile voyage from New Orleans to Brownsville, Pennsylvania that steamboat commerce was practical on the Mississippi River and its tributaries. General characteristics; Length: 60–70 ft (18.3–21.3 m) Beam: 15 ft (4.6 m) Draft: 2.5 ft (0.8 m), light ship: Propulsion ...
"Harbinger of Revolution", in Full steam ahead: reflections on the impact of the first steamboat on the Ohio River, 1811-2011. Rita Kohn, editor. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press, pp. 1–16. ISBN 978-0-87195-293-6; Maass, Alfred R. (1994). "Brownsville's Steamboat Enterprize and Pittsburgh's Supply of General Jackson's Army".
New Orleans was the first steamboat on the western waters of the United States.Her 1811–1812 voyage from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to New Orleans, Louisiana, on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers ushered in the era of commercial steamboat navigation on the western and mid-western continental rivers.
Israel Gregg (February 20, 1775 – June 20, 1847) was the first captain of the historic steamboat Enterprise. From June to December 1814, Israel Gregg commanded the Enterprise during two voyages from Louisville, Kentucky to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that were performed against strong currents of the Ohio River . [ 1 ]
The steamboat was the first commercial passenger service in Europe and sailed along the River Clyde in Scotland. [17] The Margery, launched in Dumbarton in 1814, in January 1815 became the first steamboat on the River Thames, much to the amazement of Londoners. She operated a London-to-Gravesend river service until 1816, when she was sold to ...
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Casualty list for the Pennsylvania, including Henry Clemens, second clerk (Daily Missouri Republican, July 18, 1858). Her most heralded crew member was Samuel L. Clemens (later known as Mark Twain) who served as a cub pilot from September 27, 1857 until June 5, 1858, with a two-month break during the repairs from the Vicksburg collision.