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Vesuvius was the third Mississippi steamboat. [9] Launched in 1814 at Pittsburgh for the company headed by Robert Livingston and Robert Fulton, her designer, she was very similar to the New Orleans. [10] Enterprise, or Enterprize, was the fourth Mississippi steamboat. [11]
The Sidney is a steamboat first built in West Virginia between 1880 and 1881. On March 10, 1881, a breach in the steam line scalded fourteen people and killed four others. Diamond Jo Line acquired the steamer the next year for about $23,000, after which it ran the Mississippi River between St. Louis and St. Paul. [21]
The first Verne Swain was a steamboat built by David Swain of Stillwater, Minnesota, and put into packet service between Clinton, Iowa and Davenport, Iowa by Swain in 1886. [1] In 1889, John Streckfus purchased the Verne Swain from the Swain Shipyard in Stillwater, Minnesota for $10,000. [2] Verne Swain had a cargo deck, a passenger deck, and a ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Joseph Marie LaBarge [a] (October 1, 1815 – April 3, 1899) was an American steamboat captain, most notably of the steamboats Yellowstone, and Emilie, [b] that saw service on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, bringing fur traders, miners, goods and supplies up and down these rivers to their destinations.
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