Maritime History of the Great Lakes

PRINCETON

Description
Creator
Stanton, Samuel Ward, Attributed name
Media Type
Image
Item Type
Prints
Description
Sketch and notes on the propeller PRINCETON
Notes
Illustration from Stanton, Samuel Ward, American Steam Vessels, 1895, page 81
Inscriptions

PRINCETON

Built 1845, by Samuel Hubbell, at Perrysburg, Ohio

Designed by Amos Pratt Hubbell

Length 185 feet; Breadth, 27 feet (over guards 39 feet); Depth of hold, 10 feet. Two twin-screw Engines, 24 inch cylinders, by 24 inches stroke; built by the Auburn, New York, States Prison. Two boilers, 6 by 14 feet. Speed, 11 miles.

The Princeton was the first propeller on the Great Lakes that had an Upper Cabin. She was one of a fleet of 14 steamers forming the line of passenger boats from Buffalo to Chicago.

Publisher
Smith & Stanton
Place of Publication
New York
Date of Original
1895
Date Of Event
1845
Subject(s)
Steamboats
Princeton (steamboat)
Local identifier
409
Language of Item
English
Geographic Coverage
  • Lake Erie
    Ontario, Canada
    Latitude: 42.454166 Longitude: -81.121388
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PRINCETON


Sketch and notes on the propeller PRINCETON