PS Clermont
1807 Passenger steamer 133 ft long, 18 ft breadth, 9 ft depth and 160 tons burden. Built at yard of Charles Brown on the East River, New York. Fitted with a Boulton and Watt engine. Carried passengers between New York and Albany. [1]
‘Cross-Channel and Coastal Paddle Steamers’ by George Frank Burtt
In August, 1803, Robert Fulton, an American engineer who had been experimenting with a boat on the River Seine in France, gave an order to James Watt of Soho Works, Birmingham, for an engine of 20 h.p. to be fitted to a boat which was to be built in America. The engine had a single cylinder 24 inches diameter and 48 inches stroke, and the principal parts of it were sent to America in 1805. The hull, paddle wheels and gear, and the minor portions of the engine were designed and built by Fulton himself.
This vessel, the CLERMONT, was completed in 1807. It was 135 feet long, 18 feet beam, and had a depth of hold of 9 feet.
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- ↑ Fielden’s Magazine Vol 4