Inventors . the May, 1815, her engine was put on board, andshe was so far completed as to afford an oppor-tunity of trying her machinery. On the 4th ofJuly, in the same year, the steam-frigate madea passage to the ocean and back, a distance offifty-three miles, in eight hours and twentyminutes, by the mere force of steam. In Sep-tember she made another passage to the sea,and having at this time the weight of her wholearmament on board, she went at the rate of fiveand a half miles an hour, upon an average,with and against the tide. The superintendingcommittee gave in their report a
Inventors . the May, 1815, her engine was put on board, andshe was so far completed as to afford an oppor-tunity of trying her machinery. On the 4th ofJuly, in the same year, the steam-frigate madea passage to the ocean and back, a distance offifty-three miles, in eight hours and twentyminutes, by the mere force of steam. In Sep-tember she made another passage to the sea,and having at this time the weight of her wholearmament on board, she went at the rate of fiveand a half miles an hour, upon an average,with and against the tide. The superintendingcommittee gave in their report a full descriptionof the Fulton the First, the honored name thisvessel bore. The last work in which the active and in-genious mind of Fulton was engaged was a proj-ect for the modification of his submarine presented a model of this vessel to the Gov- ROBERT FULTON 65 ernment, by which it was approved; and underFederal authority he began building one; butbefore the hull was entirely finished his country.
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