Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Badger State

Description
Creator
Stanton, Samuel Ward, Attributed name
Media Type
Image
Item Type
Prints
Description
Sketches and notes on the steamboat BADGER STATE
Notes
Illustration from Stanton, Samuel Ward, American Steam Vessels, 1895, page 171
Inscriptions

Badger State

Built 1862, at Buffalo, N. Y.

Hull, of wood. Built b Mason & Bidwell. Length 213 feet; beam 33 feet, depth of hold 12 feet

Engine, originally "Single," constructed by Shepard Iron Works, Buffalo. Diameter of cylinder 44 inches (afterwards changed to "Steeple compound," with cylinders 25 1/4 and 54 inches in diameter), by 42 inches stroke.

Boiler, or iron, built by Shepard Iron Works. Diameter 12 feet; length 20 feet; working pressure 51 lbs. steam to square inch.

Tonnage = 1,115 52 Gross, 917 03 Net

Built for Peoples Line of passenger propellers running between Buffalo and Chicago. A well-built and comfortably furnished boat of the typical style of passenger propellers of her time. Afterwards used as a passenger boat in the "Lake Superior Transit Co's" line between Buffalo and Duluth.

Publisher
Smith & Stanton
Place of Publication
New York
Date of Original
1895
Date Of Event
1862
Subject(s)
Steamboats
Badger State (steamboat)
Local identifier
423
Language of Item
English
Geographic Coverage
  • Lake Erie
    Ontario, Canada
    Latitude: 42.454166 Longitude: -81.121388
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Badger State


Sketches and notes on the steamboat BADGER STATE