. History of New York ship yards. August, 1833, a highclass mechanical journal of its day, which says in part:* * * We now insert a copy from a drawing made byhimself (Robert Fulton) and which may be considered asdescriptive of the first successful application of steam innavigation. Since the above was in type, Capt. DavisHunt, who was the commander of the boat, has seen theengraving and pronounces it correct in every Capt. Hunt was at the time of the Clermonts 1784 TO 1820. 35 first being placed in service a mariner living in NewYork City, and is the captain of the vessel of w
. History of New York ship yards. August, 1833, a highclass mechanical journal of its day, which says in part:* * * We now insert a copy from a drawing made byhimself (Robert Fulton) and which may be considered asdescriptive of the first successful application of steam innavigation. Since the above was in type, Capt. DavisHunt, who was the commander of the boat, has seen theengraving and pronounces it correct in every Capt. Hunt was at the time of the Clermonts 1784 TO 1820. 35 first being placed in service a mariner living in NewYork City, and is the captain of the vessel of which therehas been some doubt. The other cut, without any sailsspread on the vessel is from a Tourists Guide of 1844given to the writer many years ago by late Capt, T. of Ithaca, N. Y., who was a cabin boy on theParagon, one of the Fulton or Monopoly boats as earlyas April 1818, who claimed the cut was the best pictureof the vessel I have seen. The pennant shown on theforemast was made in the original with lead pencil by. THE ( the captain in the writers presence, and is the onlychange he made in the cut. Capt. Wilcox was in serviceon Long Island Sound prior to 1840, and later had aline of passenger steamboats on Cajuiga Lake for severalyears. It is readily seen that there is a great similarity inthe form of the vessels presented in the two cuts. Thereis the same general form of joiner work on the maindeck, though the vessel with sails has more shear to herdeck, with about the same freeboard. One feature thatis recognized in both cuts is the balance wheel of theengine being placed outboard but inside the water 36 1784 TO 1820. wheel. With, such a marked similarity, and fromsources not related in any particular whatever, separatedby several years, and endorsed by those who were per-sonally familiar during the early stage with the subject,it can with confidence be said the Clermont was in out-ward appearance very similar to these cuts. Henry Eckford, who was a
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