. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. f''*)'^ CoxTEMPORARV \'iEVV OF Fulton's Steamboat. 1 hc .Xortfi Riui-r (popularly known as the (.Ucrmontj passing West Point, showing the vessel as rebuilt in 1807-08 with figurehead, wheelboxes, and leeboards. From a lithograph by F. Berthaux, Dijon, of a work attributed to Saint-Memin. {Photo courtesy of Xew Tork Public Library.) on steamboat navigation that gave them time to perfect their boat and its operation without financial trouble. Apparently Fulton had intended his boat for operation on the Mississippi, and although he later began
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. f''*)'^ CoxTEMPORARV \'iEVV OF Fulton's Steamboat. 1 hc .Xortfi Riui-r (popularly known as the (.Ucrmontj passing West Point, showing the vessel as rebuilt in 1807-08 with figurehead, wheelboxes, and leeboards. From a lithograph by F. Berthaux, Dijon, of a work attributed to Saint-Memin. {Photo courtesy of Xew Tork Public Library.) on steamboat navigation that gave them time to perfect their boat and its operation without financial trouble. Apparently Fulton had intended his boat for operation on the Mississippi, and although he later began operations there, the more profitable opportunity for the boat in New York waters diverted him at the time from any western navigation. The dimensions of the boat as first built are unknown; one report gives her dimensions as 133 feet long, \6]i feet beam, and 7 feet deep. She was apparently a "Durham boat"; this type was used, with some variations in detail, in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York for inland water navigation under oars and sail—having a long, narrow, shoal, flat- bottomed hull with little sheer, the bottom straight or nearly so fore-and-aft and flat athwartships, the sides somewhat flaring and sometimes curved verti- cally, the bilges angular, with chines, or very slightly rounded, and the stem and post raking, the stem sometimes having the same curve as the side frames. This form of hull was called a "praam" in some parts of Europe and was widely used there for craft oper- ating in shallow water. When rebuilt in 1807-08 Fulton's vessel measured 149 feet between perpen- diculars, 17 feet 11 inches beam, and 7 feet depth of hold. She does not appear ever to have been named Clermont; originally known as "The North River Steamboat of Clermont" she was registered after her rebuilding as the North River. The model of this vessel in the Watercraft Collec- tion was reconstructed for the Hudson-Fulton Cele- bration of 1907. Ill. Plea
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