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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 92

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o the river fleethave, however, steel hulls and water-tight bulkheads. The boats of the Fulton type were built with theirboilers well down in the hull of the boat, but in 1826,the New Philadelphia appeared with her boilers builton her guards, a form of construction that prevailedfor many years.… … The De Witt Clixtox Which ran with a sister boat, the Victory, IjetweeTi New York andAlbany. From a dra-ning l>y S. W. Stanton

Steam-navigation -- Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)

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