. Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters . De-cember following, when, being floated off by the tide, she returned toNew Orleans. In 1815, 16, she made regular trips for severalmonths, from New Orleans to Natchez, under the command of This gentleman was soon after succeeded by Capt. Johnde Hart, and while approaching New Orleans with a valuable cargoon board, she took fire and burned to the waters edge. After beingsubmerged for several months, her hulk was raised and refitted. Shewas afterwards in the Louisville trade, and was condemned in 1819. The Enter
. Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters . De-cember following, when, being floated off by the tide, she returned toNew Orleans. In 1815, 16, she made regular trips for severalmonths, from New Orleans to Natchez, under the command of This gentleman was soon after succeeded by Capt. Johnde Hart, and while approaching New Orleans with a valuable cargoon board, she took fire and burned to the waters edge. After beingsubmerged for several months, her hulk was raised and refitted. Shewas afterwards in the Louisville trade, and was condemned in 1819. The Enterprise was No. 4 of the Western steamboat series. She wasbuilt at Brownsville, Pa., by D. French, under his patent, and was ownedby several residents of that place. The Enterprise was a small boat ofseventy-five tons. She made two voyages to Louisville in the summerof 1814, under the command of Capt. J. Gregg. On the 1st of Decem-ber, in the same year, she conveyed a cargo of ordnance stores fromPittsburgh to New Orleans. While at the last-named port, she was pres-. ENTEKPISE ON HER FAST TRIP TO LOUISVILLE, 1815. sed into service by Gen. Jackson. Her owners were afterwards remu-nerated by the United States government. AYhen engaged in the pub-lic service, she was eminently useful in transporting troops, arms, andammunition to the seat of war. She left New Orleans for Pittsburgh onihc 6th of May, 1815, and reached Louisville after a passage of twenty- 44 COMMENCEMENT OF STEAM NAVIGATION five days, thus completing the first steamboat voyage ever made fromNew Orleans to Louisville. But at the time the Enterprise made thistrip, the water was so high that the banks in many places were over-flowed ; consequently there was no current. The Enterprise was en-abled to make her way up without much difficulty, by running throughthe cut-oflFs, and over inundated fields, in still water. In view ofthese favorable circumstances, the experiment was not satisfactory, thepublic being still in doub
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