MISSISSIPPI built 1853 by F. W. & B. B. Jones, at Buffalo, N. Y. Length 335 feet; Beam 40 feet; Depth of hold 14 ft Tonnage 1,829 One beam engine, by J. P. Morris & Co., of Philadelphia, 82 inch cylinder by 12 ft stroke; (Walking beam 12 feet wide ...
MISSISSIPPI built 1853 by F. W. & B. B. Jones, at Buffalo, ...
"Steamboat Mississippi. Built at Buffalo, N. Y., in 1853. A floating palace; length 335 feet; tonnage 1,829; one beam engine, 82-inch cylinder, 12-feet stroke; three boilers, each 50 feet long by 11 feet diamete; dismantled in 1863, hull remodeled into a dry dock."
"Steamboat Mississippi. Built at Buffalo, N. Y., in 1853. A floating palace; ...