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 158
has developeda speed of twenty and five one-hundredths knots. Thismeans she can make the run to the Atlantic Highlandsat Sandy Hook, a distance of eighteen miles, in onehour and five minutes with the regularity of a railroadtime-table. Indeed she runs in close connection withrailroad trains that… … ^ O i The Steamboats of To-day 107 general lines of the Morse, have been contracted for,both of which will be ready for the summer seasonof 1908. They will have steel hulls, and the largerone of the two, will be four hundred and forty feet longhaving over five hundred staterooms and accommoda-tions…
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