WASHINGTON paddle steamer 1816

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WASHINGTON paddle steamer 1816

Post by aukepalmhof » Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:20 pm

There are no reliable depictions of the WASHINGTON, and the sources are most contradictory, the stamp depict her as a side-wheeler but more as one first hand sources give that she was a stern-wheeler.

She was built as a wooden hulled paddle steamer by George White at Wheeling, West Virginia for a consortium of Capt. Henry M. Shreve, Niles Gillespie, Robert Clark both of Brownsville, Pa. and Noah Zane and George White of Wheeling, West Virginia.
10 September 1815 laid down.
04 June 1816 launched as the WASHINGTON.
Tonnage ? tons, dim. 136 x 28Ft.
Powered by a high pressure horizontally placed steam engine 24” diameter, stroke 6’, steam was supplied by four boilers, engine and boiler were manufactured by T. Sweeny Foundry in Brownsville.
The boilers were placed on deck instead of the hold.
She was the first two-decker on the western waters.

When completed it was given that her accommodation was beter that the ships on the North River. She had a main cabin with a length of 60 feet, had three private rooms and a commodious bar.
1816 She crossed the falls of the Ohio under command of Captain Shreve, where after she navigated to New Orleans.
09 June 1816 on the Ohio River near Marietta, Ohio the head of one of the boilers blew out, killing eight persons and six fatally injured. Captain Shreve was blown overboard and badly hurt.
Repairs were made where after she proceeded again under Captain Shreve to New Orleans where she arrived 24 September 1816.
41 Days later she returned to Louisville.
The next spring she made a roundtrip between Louisville and New Orleans in 41 days.
1820 Alternations to her diminsions and tonnage were made in Louisville, tonnage given as 211 tons, dim. 136.8 x 21.9 x 6.8ft.
1821 She went up-streams the Missouri River as far as Franklin.
In service till 1831 when she was destroyed by fire in New Orleans.

http://steamboattimes.com/steamboats_1811~61_p1.html History of American Steam Navigation by John H. Morrison.
USA 1989 25c sg 2392, scott?
Marshall Islands 2017 49c sg?, scott?
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