This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ... paddles, ........ 20 inches. 30 inches. 30 " 30 inches. 30 inches. Number .."..... 24 " " 22 " 24 " 24-" arms, ... e... I2 " 24 " 22 " 24 " 24 " " boilers, ....-... 2 2 2 2 2 Kind .."..... Return flue, Return flue. Return flue, Return flue. Return flue. Fire-surface, .. 2600 sq. feet. 3178 sq. feet. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ... paddles, ........ 20 inches. 30 inches. 30 " 30 inches. 30 inches. Number .."..... 24 " " 22 " 24 " 24-" arms, ... e... I2 " 24 " 22 " 24 " 24 " " boilers, ....-... 2 2 2 2 2 Kind .."..... Return flue, Return flue. Return flue, Return flue. Return flue. Fire-surface, .. 2600 sq. feet. 3178 sq. feet. 3656 sq. feet. Grate .."........ 103 " 126 " I20 " Height of smoke-pipe, above grates, 54 feet. 64 feet. Diameter of " ." 54 inches. 60 inches. 66 inches. I 148 vv I I CONCLUSION. THE reader of the foregoing history will have _noticed, that of the thirty-one steamers, of all classes, which have been constructed or purchased by the Navy Department, since the formation of our Government, there are now but fourteen remaining in the service, including one used for a receiving ship. Of this small number, there are but two of the first class, the "Susquehanna" and the " Powhatan;" five of the second class, the "Mississippi," "Saranac," "San Jacinto," "Princeton," and " Alleghany;" three of the third class, the "Fulton," "Massachusetts," and "Michigan;" and of the fourth class, the " Water Witch," "John Hancock," and "Vixen;" all but three of the entire number having been either completed, rebuilt, or thoroughly repaired, since the commencement of eighteen hundred and fifty. ' Comparing this force with that of other nations, we find it less than that of Spain, Holland, Prussia, or Russia; about one-eighth that of France, and one-twelfth that of England: and yet we are, commercially, ...
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Publisher:
Charles B. Norton; Sampson Low Son & Co.
Published:
1853
Alibris ID:
15384404414
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Fair. Ex-Mechanic's Institute Library with the usual treatments including bookplate; hand or perforation stamps on title page. No stamps on the engravings and illustrations. 216 pp., (1)-21 notices of the press, letters, publisher's ad. Illustrated with 31 plates; 10 views of vessels including two frontispieces, the first a chromolighograph, the second tinted; portrait engraving of Stuart. Front board detached; spine cloth missing but covered with library glue over the cord binding. Contents holding together solidly; text and plates with tissue guards quite clean with only moderate toning at extremities.