Old steamboat days on the Hudson River; tales and reminiscences of the stirring times that followed the introduction of steam navigation (1907)
Buckman, David Lear · New York : The Grafton press · leaf 108
cht Stilletto, built entirely forspeed and fresh from the hands of her builders, theHerreshoffs of Bristol, R. I., tried to wrest the laurelsfrom the old boat and succeeded by a narrow margin.On June 10th in a race of thirty miles she beat thePowell by two miles, covering the distance in one… … o -^ (^ § PS a Fast Time on the River 67 Similar claims were made for the StiUetto, her buildersclaiming twenty-seven miles an hour for their boat.The StiUetto set low in the water so as to present aslittle surface for wind resistance as possible. She wassomewhat of the same type as the Vamoose,…
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