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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 39

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to examine this report in full, a summary of the facts in evi-dence, and of the results to which the examiners arrived. This boat had been running but little more than a month, and was fittedwith two boilers, each about 8 or 8^ feet in diameter and 16 feet in length,placed on the guards behind the… … a, a, lower flues for arches; /,/, f,/,f, return flues ; w, water-line. Doc. No. 158. 41 The shell of the boiler was torn open in the lower arches, and spreadoutward till its parts met in an inversed position, and was thrown : medistance from the boat. The flues and steam-chimney.^ were uninjuredby…

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