. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Famous Hudson River Steamer Francis Skiddy. Launched in 1849, she was capable of steaming 23-24 miles per hour. Wrecked in 1854. Rigged model USNM 316204. {Smithsonian photo 4^666-h.) Steam blower. Paddle wheels were 40 feet in diameter and had 26 buckets 11 feet wide and 33 inches deep. The vessel was 1,235 tons, old measurement. Built for the Museum from the builder's lines by F. Van Loon Ryder. SCREW STEAM FRIGATE, 1858 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 160139 General Admiral The single-screw, wooden steam frigate General Admiral was built on th
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Famous Hudson River Steamer Francis Skiddy. Launched in 1849, she was capable of steaming 23-24 miles per hour. Wrecked in 1854. Rigged model USNM 316204. {Smithsonian photo 4^666-h.) Steam blower. Paddle wheels were 40 feet in diameter and had 26 buckets 11 feet wide and 33 inches deep. The vessel was 1,235 tons, old measurement. Built for the Museum from the builder's lines by F. Van Loon Ryder. SCREW STEAM FRIGATE, 1858 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 160139 General Admiral The single-screw, wooden steam frigate General Admiral was built on the lines of this half-model at New York by William H. Webb in 1858 for the Im- perial Russian Navy. .She carried 64 guns and at the time of her launching was one of the largest and most powerful ships of her class in the world, being then considered the finest man-of-war to have iDcen built in the United States. She was full ship-rigged with a large spread of canvas and was intended to steam fast and sail swiftly. Her lines and other draw- ings are shown in Weblo's Plans of Wooden Ships. The half-model shows an auxiliary steam frigate hull having little sheer, a straight keel with little or no drag, straight and slightly raking stem rabbet, slightly founded at forefoot, upright post, short counter with round stern, long and sharp entrance, short body, long and easy run. Midsection shows a slightly rising straight floor, a low hard bilge, and a slight tumble- home in the topside. Model mounted with long- head, billet, trail, cutwater, keel, post, and rudder. The model is for a frigate 316 feet 6 inches moulded length at rail, 302 feet 10 inches load waterline length, 54 feet 6 inches extreme beam, 34 feet depth, 22 feet draft loaded, 4600 tons measurement. Scale )i inch to the foot. Given by William H. Webb, shipbuilder, New York, N. Y. WOODEN, SCREW STEAMSHIP, 1864 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76045 Meteor The ship-rigged, wooden, single-screw clipper steamship Meteor was built on
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