Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steam-navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Long Island Sound and Narragansett Bay Steam Vessels
Author: Steamboats on Long Island Sound
Author: Norman J. BrouwerPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467122238
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Robert Fulton built the world's first commercially successful steamboat in 1807, but it was not until after the War of 1812 that these vessels entered service along the Long Island Sound. For 127 years, between 1815 and 1942, steamboats provided a link between New York and cities in southern New England, greatly reducing travel time. Steamboats served the Connecticut cities of Stamford, Norwalk, Bridgeport, Derby, New Haven, Hartford, New London, Norwich, and Stonington. They also linked New York to the Rhode Island cities of Newport, Bristol, and Providence as well as the southern Massachusetts cities of Fall River and New Bedford. The rapid expansion of industries in southern New England gave steamboats the additionally important role of transporting raw materials to mills and factories and their finished products to New York. Rivalries between steamboat services led to the construction of faster, larger, and more elegantly furnished boats, resulting in the "floating palaces" that were some of the largest and most majestic steamboats the world had ever seen.
American Steam Vessels Series: Long Island Sound and Narragansett Bay steam vessels
Author: The Past and the Present of Steam Navigation on Long Island Sound
Author: Henry WhittemorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Long Island Sound and Narrangansett Bay Steam Vessels
Author: Samuel Ward StantonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steamboats
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fifty Photographic Views of the Steamers of the Fall River Line
Author: Fall River LinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine terminals
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Era of the Joy Line
Author: Edwin DunbaughPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Proceedings of the ... annual meeting of the Board of Supervising Inspectors of Steam Vessels
Author: Annual Report
Author: United States. Light-House BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Annual Report of the Light-House Board of the United States to the Secretary of the Treasury for the Fiscal Year Ended ...
Author: United States. Light-House BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lighthouses
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description