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History of American Steam Navigation
by
John H Morrison



COPYRIGHT: 1958 rare, unabridged copy (exact copy) of the1903 original (very rare)
PUBLISHER: Stephen Daye Press
PAGES: 630 pgs measuring 6" x 9" plus index
CONDITION: The book is in solid condition with green cloth covered boards. Board edges have minor wear and corner bumping. No hinge cracking inside or outside at neither the front nor back. Page edges have been cleaned; board corners have been tinted and compressed for presentation. All pages and covers are tight to the spine; no missing pages (verified). Front and rear endpapers have signs of removed bookplates (see pics below). No previous ownership marks, nameplates, inscriptions, etc.; no odors; no underlining or highlighting. No dustjacket. This book is a solid reading or research copy!

This book covers the entire American steam maritime scene with special coverage of the Hudson River and Long Island Sound waterways, with their many steamboat lines. One of the most valuable features of this book is the full quotation of original sources. Documents of various kinds, letters, time schedules, daily newspaper notices, and advertisements are given. Details of vessel dimensions, changing passenger fares, steam pressure measurements, speed and accident records, lighthouses, etc., are included in profusion. Personal yarns told to the author by captains are included to add to the interest of the book: • Read about how the "New Orleans" steamboat (built in 1811) outran the Chickasaw Indians on the Ohio River. • Read about the excitement and the race from New Orleans to St. Louis in 1870 between the 'Natchez" and the "Robert E Lee." • Read about the 1880 collision between the 'Stonington' and the 'Narragansett', sister ships. • and many more! There are over 50 pen-and-ink drawings, many full page, by marine artist Samuel Ward Stanton, who went down with the Titanic. Some notable photographs are also included. A fascinating book filled with extensive factual material that is hard to find anywhere else. This book is rich in steamship lore and has been the foundation for much of the maritime writing of the early 1900s.

Chapters: I. Experimental Stage
II. Hudson River; Hudson River Towns
III. New Jersey; Delaware River
IV. Western Rivers
V. Long Island Sound: Providence and Stonington Lines; Fall River Line; New London and Norwich Lines; New Haven, CT; Hartford, Conn; Bridgeport, CT;
North Shore of Long Island; Harlem and Morrisania
VI. Lake Erie and Lake Ontario
VII. Coast of Maine; Boston, Mass
VIII. Ocean Steamship Lines; Coastwise Steamship Lines; New York and Philadelphia Outside Lines
IX. Steam Ferry Boats and Companies; Tow Boats
X. High Speed Distances
XI. Lighthouses, Lightships, and Fog Signals; Steamboat Inspection Service; Life-Saving Service
XII. Hell Gate - Steam Calliope or Organ


Some of the vessels in the book: Adirondack • Adriatic, Collins Line • Albany, 1826 • Albany, 1880 • Alida • America and Canada, Lake Ontario • Andrew Harder • Ansonia • Arrow • Arago S S • Asbury Park • Atlantic, 1846 • Balloon • Bay Queen • Bay State • Bangor, 1834 • Bellona • Belle • Benjamin Franklin • Berkshire • Black Warrior • Boston • Bristol • Brandywine • Buffalo • bunker Hill • C. Vanderbilt • C Vibbard • Chancellor Livingston • Charlotte Vanderbilt • Chingarora • Champion • C H Northam • City of Catskill • City of Kingston • City of Chester • City of Worcester • City of Boston • City of Lowell • City of Albany • City of Troy • Cleopatra • North R Steamboat of Clermont • Coatzacoalcos • Constitution • Columbia • Commerce • Confidence • Connecticut, 1846 • Commodore • Commonwealth • Crystal Wave • David Brown • Daniel Drew • Drew • Dean Richmond • De Witt Clinton • D S Miller • D R Martin • Edwin Lewis • Elm City • Emerald • Empire State • Empire of Troy • Erie and Ontario S S • Ericsson • Erie x Iron Witch • Escort • Express • Fairfield • Flambeau • Francis Skiddy • Fulton • Galatea • General Sedgwick • General McDonald • Glen Cove • Golden Gate • Governor Dingley • Great Wester, Lake Erie • Herny Clay • Hendrik Hudson • Henry Eckford • Hope • Home • Homer Ramsdell • Humbolt • Iron Witch • Isaac Newton • Isaac Smith • James W Baldwin • James Madison • Jane Moseley • Jesse Hoyt • John Faron • John Neilson • John Stevens • John Brooks • Joseph Belknap • J B Schuyler • J W Richmond • Kaaterskill • Kennebec • Keyport • Kill Von Kull • Knickerbocker • Lexington • Long Island • Maine • Manhattan • Manhattan, 1847 • Mary Powell • Mary Patten • Mason L Weems • Massachusetts, 1836, • Massachusetts, 1877 • Matteawan • Metamora • Metropolitan • Merchant, Lake Eries • Metropolis • Memenon Sanford • Monmouth • Mouse in the Mountain • Narragansett, 1836 • Narragansett, 1867 • Napoleon • Nathaniel P Banks • Naugatuck • Nashville • Newburg • Nelly White • New Orleans, 1811 • New Orleans • New York • Newport • New Philadelphia • New Jersey • New World • Niagara • Nimrod • New Champion • Noah Brown • Norwich • North America, 1826 • North America, 1841 • Northern Indiana • Novelty • Nuhpa • New York • Olive Branch • Old Colony • Ontario • Oregon • Osirris • Perseverance • Penobscot • Phenix, 1809 • Phenix, Lake Champlain • Plymouth Rock • Plymouth Rock, Lake Erie • Post Boy • Princeton • Priscilla • Puritan • Quaker City • Raritan • Rainbow • Reindeer • Rip Van Winkle • Riverdale • Richard Stockton • River Belle • Richard Peck • Rhode Island, 1836 • Rhode Island, 1873 • Rhode Island 1882 • Roger Williams • Rochester • Robert L Stevens • Rosedale • Robert Fulton • Saugerties • Sandy Hook • Savannah, 1819 • Samuel M Felton • Santa Claus • Sea bird • Seawanhaka • Senator • Sea Horse • Shrewsbury • Shinnecock • Shady Side • Sleepy Hollow • South America • St John • Stockton, Robert F • Stoudinger • St Nicholas • Stonington • Sun • Swallow • Sylvan Dell • Taminend • Thomas Hunt • Thomas Powell • Thomas McManus • Thomas Collyer (Twilight) • Titan • Traveler • Trenton • Troy • T V Arrowsmith • Ulster • United States, S S • Utica • Vanderbilt S S • Victory • Walter Brett • Washington, Mississippi River • Washington, Long Island Sound • Washington, S S • Walk-in-the-Water • Westchester • Western World, Lake Erie • Weehawken • Wilbur A Heisley • William G Payne • William H Webb • Worcester • William Cook • W C Redfield


Illustrations: NORTH RIVER STEAMBOAT OF CLERMONT • PARAGON • ALBANY • COMMERCE, Having Compound Engine • DEWITT CLINTON • SWALLOW AND ROCHESTER RACING • UTICA • BALLOON • TROY • EMPIRE OF TROY • RIP VAN WINKLE • METAMORA • ALIDA • ARMENIA, as Originally Built • FRANCIS SKIDDY as Day Boat • REINDEER - Day Boat • ARMENIA - After 1853 • NEW WORLD - Night Line • ISAAC NEWTON - Night Line • ST. JOHN - Albany Night Line • DANIEL DREW - Day Boat, 1861 • C VIBBARS - Day Boat • DEAN RICHMOND - Albany Night Line • ALBANY - Present H. R. Day Line • NEW YORK - Present H. R. Day Line • HIGHLANDER • THOMAS POWELL • MARY POWELL • LEXINGTON From a painting in possession of Charles Smith who Was a fireman on the vessel when burned • MASSACHUSETTS of 1836 • RHODE ISLAND of 1836 • OREGON • COMMONWEALTH • STONINGTON • Racing of the OREGON and C. VANDERBILT • BAY STATE • METROPOLIS • NEWPORT • BRISTOL • PURITAN • PRISCILLA, of Fall River Line • ATLANTIC • CONNECTICUT • CITY OF NEW YORK • NEW HAVEN • NEW YORK • CLEOPATRA. Hartford Line • GLEN COVE • SYLVAN DELL • WESTERN WORLD • PENOBSCOTT of 1844 • Ocean Steamships of 1850, BROTHER JONATHAN, BALTIC, GOLDEN GATE, SOUTHERNER • Steamship VANDERBILT • PACIFIC MAIL S.S. GOLDEN CITY • PENOBSCOT


Items in the book: James P Allaire • Alexandre Line to Havana • American Steamboat Co • American Steamers to China • American S S Co, Boston • American Screw S S • American Line, Transatlantic • Atlantic Coast Mail S S Co • Bay State Steamboat Co • Beam Engines • Beam Propeller Engines • Bishop & Simonson • Blowers, fan • Boston & New York Trans. Co • Boston & Bangor S S Co • Boston & Hingham S B Co • Boston & Philadelphia S S Co • Boston & Providence R R • Bottling Up Steam • California Gold Excitement • Camden & Amboy R R Co • Chapin Chester • Chartered Steam Vessels in Civil War • Citizens' Steamboat Co • W P Clyde & Co • Cornell Steamboat Co • Coastwise, Pioneer Line • Compound engines • J B Coyle, Capt • Collins Line Steamships • Cadw. D Colden • George Collyer • Thomas Collyer • Charles W Copeland • Commercial Steamboat Co • Connecticut Steamboat Co • Cromwell Line • Daniel Drew • Delaware & H Canal Co • Delaware & Raritan Canal Co • Details: Providence & Stonington Steamboats; Fall River Line Steamboats; New London & Norwich Steamboats • New Haven Line Steamboats • Hudson River Steamboats • Western River Steamboats • Coastwise Steamships • Detroit Steamboat Co • Disasters on western rivers • Disasters to Coastwise Steamships • Distances on Long Island Sound: Hudson River; Delaware River; around New York City • Daniel Dod • Dredge boats, Mississippi River • Dry Docks, Simpsons • Earthquake of 1811 • Early captains on western rivers • Early steam navigation on western rivers • James B Eads, Capt • Engineers and masters • John Englis • Erie R R Co • John Ericsson • Oliver Evans • Fall River Line • John Fitch • James Fisk Jr • Fletcher Harrison & Co • W & A Fletcher Co • Fog trumpet • Fog, steam whistle • Freight Rates • Forward Main Deck, covered • Robert Fulton • C K Garrison • Thomas Gibbons • Washington Haws • J W Hancox • J H Harcourt • Harlan & Hollingsworth Co • Jonas C Heartt • Hell Gate • High speed in steamboats; on Hudson River; on western rivers; on Lake Erie • David Hitchcock, Capt • Hoboken Ferry • A N Hoffman • Thomas Holloway • Housatonic R R • Hudson River Line • Hudson River R R • Hudson River Steamboats • Lower Hudson Steamboat Co • Iron hull steamboats, western rivers • Iron Strapping of wooden Hulls • Iron shipbuilding • Joy Steamship Co • William Kembile • Eli Kelly • Prof. Charles King • George Law • Lawrence & Foulks • Lawrence & Sneeden • Liquors • Robert R Livingston • Lightships • Logs, Long Island Sound Steamboats • Long Island Sound frozen over • Dominick Lynch • C H Mallory & Co • Maine Steam Navigation Co • Merchants & Miners Transportation Co • Metropolitan S S Co • Mississippi River passes • Samuel Morey • Robert McQueen • C Widlam • Charles Morgan • New London and Norwich Steamboat Co • Neptune S S Co • Isaac Newton • Newburg Lines • New Haven & Hartford Lines • New Brunswick Steamboat Co • New Haven Harbor • New Jersey Steam Navigation Co • New Jersey Steamboat Co • Norwich & N Y Transportation Co • Widlam • Eliphalet Nott • NY Albany & Troy Line • New York Catskill & Athens Steamboat Co • New York & Rhode Island Steamboat Co • New York & Boston Steamboat Co • New York & Havre S S Co • New York & Virginia S S Co • N Y & Cuba Mail S S Co • New York & Philadelphia Steamboat Co • Ocean Steam Navigation Co • Aaron Ogden • Old Colony Steamboat Co • Old Dominion S S Co • Ontario Steamboat Co • Pacific Mail S S Co • Patten Line • People's Line • Elijah Peck • Philadelphia Dredge Boat • Philadelphia Pumping Engines • Pioneer Coastwise Line • C & R Poillon • Thomas Powell • Portland Steam Packet Co • Providence Steamboat Co • Providence & Stonington R R • Providence Harbor • Propellers: on Long Island Sound; Lake Erie; Tow boats • Quintard Iron Works • Railroads vs Steamboats • Homer Ramsdell • Racing of steamboats • Races of : Robert E Lee and Natchez; Oregon and Vanderbilt; Oregon and Bay State; Swallow and Rochester • Raritan & Delaware Bay RR • Nathan Read • Prof James Renwick • W C Redfield • Record time, Coastwise S S • Rensselaer & Saratoga RR • River Steamboats to California • Rhode Island & New York Steamboat Co • Nicholas J Roosevelt • Moses Rogers, Capt • Marshall O Roberts • Romer & Tremper Co • John Roach • Russian Naval steamer • James Rumsey • Savannah Line, Mitchell • Savannah Line, Cromwell • Memenon Sanford, Capt • Sanford Independent Line • Saugerties Lighthouse • Samuel Secor & Co • T F Secor & Co • Shrewsbury River • H M Shreve • Side propeller steamboats • Spofford & Tileston • John Stevens • Robert L Stevens • Frank B Stevens • State rooms • Steam Calliope or organ • Steamboat runners • Steamboat Inspectors • Steamboat Rules, first of 1858 • Steam whistle • Star line to New Orleans • Swiftsure Line • Tornadoes on western rivers • Traveling in 1800 and 1840 • Triple Expansion Engines • Tow Boats • Union Ferries of Brooklyn • U S Mail Line to Chagres • U S Frigate Roanoke • Cornelius Vanderbilt • Jacob Vanderbilt, Capt • Alfred Van Santvoord • C Elfreth Watkins • West Point Foundry, NY • Western River Marine Engines • Western River Iron Hull Boats • R Cornell White • Steam Whistle • Wire tiller rope

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