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Author: Edward A. Mueller Publisher: ISBN: 9781930098237 Category : Coastwise shipping Languages : en Pages : 237
Book Description
This subsidiary of the Central Georgia Railway, provided a major travel and freight link from Alabama and Georgia to New York and Boston.
Author: Frank O. Braynard Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 0820332151 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 290
Book Description
This is the story of a ship and her pioneer master, Moses Rogers, who had the idea of making the first transatlantic voyage in a steam-propelled vessel. His "laudable and meritorious experiment" marked one of the world's maritime epochs. The conception and building of the S. S. Savannah was guided by the engineering genius of Captain Rogers who, with Robert Fulton, was a leading exponent of steam in his day. The momentous voyage began in Savannah, Georgia, in 1819, and took the courageous crew to England, Sweden, and Russia. These were the elegant steam ship's times of triumph. Yet she also had moments of pathos, from the first doubts and fears of a public that dubbed her a "steam coffin" to that sad day when a Washington newspaper said her engine could be removed for only $200, leaving her "just as good" as any other ship. The previously untold story of the first steam-powered vessel to cross the Atlantic is written in a scholarly, well-documented fashion, yet with the color, imagination, and humor of the men who lived it.