. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Rigged Model USNM 309409 Reconstruction of the North River. commonly called the Clermont. built for the Hudson-Fulton Cele bration of 1909. For a view aft, see p. 112. (Smithsonianphoto 44957â ) ROBERT FULTON'S STEAMBOAT, 1807-08 Rigged Model, usnm 309401 North Kiver^ ex Clermont This model, an attempt at reconstruction of Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont after her rebuilding during the winter of 1807-08, represents the full- sized reconstruction made for the Hudson-Fulton Celebration in 1907. The rebuilding corrected fatilts in both machi
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Rigged Model USNM 309409 Reconstruction of the North River. commonly called the Clermont. built for the Hudson-Fulton Cele bration of 1909. For a view aft, see p. 112. (Smithsonianphoto 44957â ) ROBERT FULTON'S STEAMBOAT, 1807-08 Rigged Model, usnm 309401 North Kiver^ ex Clermont This model, an attempt at reconstruction of Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont after her rebuilding during the winter of 1807-08, represents the full- sized reconstruction made for the Hudson-Fulton Celebration in 1907. The rebuilding corrected fatilts in both machinery and in hull revealed by the experimental runs started in August 1807 and altera- tions were made. The model shows a "praam" type vessel, flat bottomed athwartships and fore-and-aft, having chines instead of a round bilge. The sides are slightly flaring and in section these are apparently all on the same moderate curve. There is a shallow external keel. The stem is nearly ttpright and slightly cur\ed, the post straight and raking. At the stern is a false counter, made by a "bustle," a structure somewhat like the "patent stern" of the later Chesapeake Bay bugeyes, that makes the sharp stern into a square stern at deck, the stern structure ending in a wide, shallow, rectangular transom with the whole of the false counter being well above the load line. The sheer is almost straight and the entrance convex and sharp, the run the same but finer. An open rail along the sheer is formed by a turned-stanchion-and-cap- rail. The vessel is decked; forward is a low cabin trunk and the foremast, the latter with topmast, yard. gaff, and boom. About amidships is the engine space, with engine, boilers, and drive machinery. The gear- driven fixed-blade paddle wheels are just forward of midlength and the high stack just abaft midlength. The paddle wheels have no guards or wheelboxes; after her rebuilding guards and wheelboxes were fitted. Aft is a long, low cab
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