Identifier: romanceofshipsto00chat (find matches)
Title: The romance of the ship; the story of her origin and evolution
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble), 1878-1944
Subjects: Ships Shipbuilding
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott company London, Seeley and co., limited
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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th sail-power. It is as a sailing rather than as a steam vessel that we must for ever regard the Savannah^ and on her return to America her engines were taken out of her and she became a sailing ship again. England, too, showed she could build a bigger sea-going steamship when, two years after the visit of the Savannah the celebrated James Watt was launched at Glasgow. With a tonnage of 420 and two engines and paddle-wheels, she was rigged not like the Savannah but as a three-masted fore-and-aft schooner with jib, staysail, and jib-topsail. Her square stern, her band of white and black ports, her bow with figurehead,are all in keeping with the naval architecture of the time.With a high smoke-jack placed between the foremast and the main, with her paddles now covered up on the top by boxes—unlike the Savannah^ whose paddle-wheels had been left open—the James Watt represents a type of sea-going steamer which remained for many years, with but minor adaptations externally, as the prevailing ex- 120
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'(Joseph-Philibert Desblanc) M. Desblanc's Experimental Steamboat. ... curious craft Desblanc made about the time Fulton was experimenting with the steamship problem in Paris. [Alternative spelling: M. Des Blanc, a watchmaker at Trevoux, had built a steamboat, and made some experiments with it on the river Soane.]' THE ADVENT OF STEAM - expression of the combined wisdom of the shipbuilder and the marine engineer. In spite of the chilly reception with which steam had been received by most people in any way connected with ships and the sea, there were the most sure and certain signs that the revolutionary innovation had come to stay. By 1825 a little auxiliary steamship of only 176 tons, named the Falcon had reached Calcutta, going round Cape Horn, and in the same year the Enterprise a bigger ship of 470 tons, had made the same voyage, and during 103 out of 113 days of her journey was propelled not by sails but under steam-power. This proved still more the capability of the steamship, though it was to be many years before sails ceased to be relied on, at least for emergency if not for ordinary propulsion. Although the su

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