Steamboat owners - New York, and Long Island Sound : memorial of sundry proprietors and managers of American steamvessels, on the impolicy and injusti (1840)
New York (State). Steamboat Owners. · [Washington] : Blair & Rives, printers · leaf 37
gh its bottom, the force of the explosionthrew the boiler out of the boat and into the river, demolishing the deckand causing the vessel to sink at the wharf. The boiler was a large andunwieldy structure. It was partially braced, but without a thorough sys-tem of these fastenings, and was… … a 6 Scale \ inch to a foot, or 1-9G. The fire was beneath the boiler, instead of within it as in the foregoingcases; the dependent portions a b c being what are technically calledwater-legs, and riveted to the main shell of the boiler, which was hereperforated with large openings to allow of a free…
