Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 Enterprise was the first steamboat to reach Louisville from New Orleans. [35] Then the Enterprise steamed to Pittsburgh and Brownsville. [2] This voyage, a distance of 2,200 miles (3,500 km) from New Orleans, was performed against the powerful currents of the Mississippi, Ohio and Monongahela rivers.
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.
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)
Pages in category "Steamboats of the Mississippi River" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 ...
Anchor Line steamboat City of New Orleans at New Orleans levee on Mississippi River. View created as composite image from two stereoview photographs, ca. 1890. The Anchor Line was a steamboat company that operated a fleet of boats on the Mississippi River between St. Louis, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana, between 1859 and 1898, when it went out of business.
St. Louis also had increasing connections with eastern markets after the introduction of the steamboat; the first steamboat to arrive in St. Louis, the Zebulon M. Pike, docked on August 2, 1817. [33] By the time of the economic recovery of the mid-1820s, steamboats were common on the Mississippi and at the St. Louis docks. [33]