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  2. SS Archimedes - Wikipedia

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    In 1807, the world's first commercially successful steam-powered vessel, Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat, made its debut. As this vessel was powered by paddlewheels rather than a propeller, the paddlewheel thereby became the de facto early standard for steamship propulsion.

  3. Steamship - Wikipedia

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    The first steamship credited with crossing the Atlantic Ocean between North America and Europe was the American ship SS Savannah, though she was actually a hybrid between a steamship and a sailing ship, with the first half of the journey making use of the steam engine.

  4. Screw steamer - Wikipedia

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    Following a number of smaller experimental boats and ships in the mid and late 1830s, the first screw powered ocean-going ship was the British SS Archimedes of 1839, using a propeller designed by Francis Smith based on his 1835 patent.

  5. Steam-powered vessel - Wikipedia

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    Screw-driven steamships generally carry the ship prefix "SS" before their names, meaning 'Steam Ship' (or 'Screw Steamer' i.e. 'screw-driven steamship', or 'Screw Schooner' during the 1870s and 1880s, when sail was also carried), paddle steamers usually carry the prefix "PS" and steamships powered by steam turbine may be prefixed "TS" (turbine ship).

  6. Star of the South (1853 ship) - Wikipedia

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    Star of the South was a wooden-hulled, propeller-driven steamship launched in 1853. She was one of the first mechanically reliable and economically profitable propeller-driven steamships. Her success foretold the end of paddlewheel propulsion on ocean-going steamships.

  7. Steam frigate - Wikipedia

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    The first small vessel that can be considered a steam warship was the Demologos, which was launched in 1815 for the United States Navy. [1] From the early 1820s, the British Navy began building a number of small steam warships including the armed tugs HMS Comet and HMS Monkey, and by the 1830s the navies of America, Russia and France were experimenting with steam-powered warships. [2]

  8. Henry Wimshurst - Wikipedia

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    He would later claim to have proposed an improved, two-bladed version of Smith's original propeller which was subsequently installed on the vessel. [ 6 ] After completing Archimedes in 1839, Wimshurst built a second screw-propelled steamship in 1840, Novelty , described as the world's first screw-propelled cargo ship [ 7 ] and the first screw ...

  9. Francis Pettit Smith - Wikipedia

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    Sir Francis Pettit Smith (9 February 1808 – 12 February 1874) was an English inventor and, along with John Ericsson, one of the inventors of the screw propeller.He was also the driving force behind the construction of the world's first screw-propelled boat, SS Archimedes.