|   1818 Reason: aground
Remarks: Got off
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| 1818 Reason: aground
Lives: nil
Freight: ore
Remarks: Got off
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| 1822 Reason: sunk
Remarks: Total loss
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| 1830 Reason: collision
Lives: nil
Remarks: Repaired
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| 1833 Reason: sunk after explosion
Lives: 5
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| 1839 route |
| 1841 early propeller |
| Port of Hamilton Registration |
| Port of Hamilton Registration |
|  "Twin Screw Steam Boat Vandalia two cylinder engine," Transactions of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, 1893 Engine drawings of the VANDALIAs equipment To illustrate John F. Pankhurst's Paper on "The Development of Shipbuilding on the Great Lakes"
Twin Screw Steam Boat
Vandalia
Two Cylinder Engine 14 in Diam 22 in Stroke
First Screw Propeller on the Great Lakes
1841
Boiler Steam 15 lbs pr Sq In
Deutsch... |
| "The Ericsson Propeller," Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), 24 Mar 1841 The Ericsson Propeller
The progress of the experiments for thee application of steam power in aid of the sails of ships, schooners and other sailing craft, has been observed at this place with great solicitude. From letter addressed by Capt. R.F. Stockton, of the U.S. Navy, to Commodore ... |
| "The Ericsson Propeller," Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), 14 Apr 1841 The Ericsson Propeller. - This improvement to steam navigation is attracting considerable attention among commercial gentlemen on both sides of our lake. Besides the vessels constructing at this oct to be propelled by this invention, we observe by the last British Whig that three vessels are ... |
| Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), 21 Apr 1841, The Buffalonians are much annoyed about Ericsson's propellers, at least we should judge so from the tone of some of their papers. And well they may, for this valuable improvement in the application of steam power will transfer the forwarding business from Buffalo to Oswego, despite the young or... |
| 1841 towing on St. Lawrence |
| 1841 testing propeller |
| 1842 cost for passage |
| 1842 Reason: collision
Lives: nil
Remarks: Damaged
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| 1842 arrived at Cleveland |
| 1842 launch, Cobourg |
| 1842 launch, Niagara |
| 1842 Reason: broke machinery
Lives: nil
Remarks: Repaired
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| 1842 Reason: broke machinery
Lives: nil
Remarks: Repaired
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| 1843 building |
| 1843 launch, Buffalo, &c. |
| 1843 Reason: overboard
Lives: 1
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| 1843 launch, Perrysburgh |
| 1843 first trip |
| 1843 building ? |
| 1843 fast trip |
| "Propellers," Oswego County Whig (Oswego, NY), 2 Aug 1843 Propellers. - This is indeed the new era. Another propeller is to come out and add to the wealth of the Upper Lake craft. She will bear the name of Racine, in honor of one of the most flourishing towns on the Lake shore. She is being built at Oswego, and is to ply between Oswego and Chicago, in... |
| 1843 convert to propeller |
| 1843 Reason: aground
Lives: nil
Remarks: Got off
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| 1843 Reason: collision
Lives: nil
Remarks: Repaired
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| 1843 Reason: dismasted
Lives: nil
Remarks: Repaired
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| 1843 Reason: aground
Lives: nil
Remarks: Got off
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| 1843 early propellers 1841 |
| 1843 early propellers 1842 |
| 1843 early propellers 1843 |
| 1843 early propellers 1843 |
| 1844 fast trip |
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