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She was the first steamboat with two decks, the predecessor of the Mississippi steamboats of later years. [12] The upper deck was reserved for passengers and the main deck was used for the boiler, increasing the space below the main deck for carrying cargo. [ 12 ]
The title page of the edition in the Internet Archive promises all of this but only "forty-six maps" (not 60), and also claims a "List of All the Plantations on the Mississippi River." [8] "A Woman Swimming the Mississippi" refers to the Steamboat Directory account of the Ben Sherod disaster (White Cloud Kansas Chief, June 11, 1857)
He was born on February 17, 1901. Little is known of his youth. He apparently gravitated to a life on the river early, as he obtained his pilot’s license in 1923 at the age of 22 and purchased his first steamboat, the Betsy Ann, in 1925, at the age of 24.
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 ...
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The first Mississippi steamboat reached Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1844, and during the next decade, the Red Cedar (as it was still called) was an important commercial waterway. [4] The surrounding region is known officially as the Cedar River Valley, though it is more commonly referred to simply as the Cedar Valley. The stream is young geologically ...
Time table of the Delta Queen and the Delta King in their first season in 1927. Delta Queen is an American sternwheel steamboat.She is known for cruising the major rivers that constitute the tributaries of the Mississippi River, particularly in the American South, although she began service in California on the Sacramento River delta for which she gets her name.
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