PRINCETON
Description
- Creator
- Stanton, Samuel Ward, Attributed name
- 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)
- Local identifier
- 409
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 42.454166 Longitude: -81.121388
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Maritime History of the Great LakesEmail:walter@maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca
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