. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. house, a pilothouse and bridge, two masts, and one stack. Model may be on a scale of % inch to the foot making the measurements about 261 feet 10 inches overall, 33 feet 4 inches beam and 23 feet 4 inches depth. Given by U. S. Post Oflice Department. SIDE-WHEEL MISSISSIPPI RIVER STEAMER, 1871 Rigged Model, usnm 308426 James Howard The flat-bottomed, side-wheel Mississippi River steamer James Howard, was huilt at Jeffersonville, Indiana, by the Howard Shipyards and Dock Com- pany in 1871 for the St. Louis-New Orleans run. She was intended to
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. house, a pilothouse and bridge, two masts, and one stack. Model may be on a scale of % inch to the foot making the measurements about 261 feet 10 inches overall, 33 feet 4 inches beam and 23 feet 4 inches depth. Given by U. S. Post Oflice Department. SIDE-WHEEL MISSISSIPPI RIVER STEAMER, 1871 Rigged Model, usnm 308426 James Howard The flat-bottomed, side-wheel Mississippi River steamer James Howard, was huilt at Jeffersonville, Indiana, by the Howard Shipyards and Dock Com- pany in 1871 for the St. Louis-New Orleans run. She was intended to carry both freight and passengers as a river packet and was the largest vessel of her type when built. The model represents a wooden Mississippi Ri\er steam packet having side paddle wheels and a straight keel, slight sheer, curved upright stem, upright post with round fantail counter, wide guards extending out to outer face of wheelboxes, a sharp and long entrance, and a short easy run. The wheels are about one-third the hull length from the stern, and there is a two-deck house with a pilot's wheelhouse on its roof ai^aft the twin stacks set abreast one another. There is a short forward deck, and the guards are carried fair from the bow to the fantail rim. The vessel was 330 feet long, 56 feet beam over the guards, 10 feet depth, and had two engines with pis-. RiGGED Model (USNM 308426) of the Mississippi River packet steamer James Howard, built at Jeffer- sonville, Indiana, 1871, for the St. Louis to New Orleans run. (Smithsonian photo jog^g-b.) tons 34 inches in diameter by 10 feet stroke, 7 loco- motive-type boilers 42 inches in diameter and 32 feet long; the sidewheels were each 32 feet in diameter and 15 feet wide at the blades. Scale of the model is ^g inch to the foot. Given by Howard Shipyards and Dock Company, Jeffersonville, Indiana. SIDE-WHEEL OHIO RIVER STEAMER, 1892 Rigged Model, usnm 160323 Grej Eagle The side-wheel wooden packet steamer Gxy Eagles represented by
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