NORTH STAR
Description
- Creator
- Stanton, Samuel Ward, Attributed name
- Item Type
- Prints
- Description
- Sketch and notes on the steamboat NORTH STAR
- Notes
- Illustration from Stanton, Samuel Ward, American Steam Vessels, 1895, page 129
- Inscriptions
NORTH STAR
Built at Cleveland, Ohio, 1854
Length 274 feet; beam 33 1/2 feet; hold 15 1/2 feet; 1,106 tons
The NORTH STAR was built for the Cleveland and Lake Superior Line, and was launched on May 20, 1854. She was considered one of the most beautiful boats of her class and was splendidly furnished throughout. She had a speed of between 16 and 17 miles an hour. She ran regularly each eseason between Cleveland, Detroit, and the ports on Lake Superior. She was burned at her dock in Cleveland, February 21, 1862.
- Publisher
- Smith & Stanton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date of Original
- 1895
- Date Of Event
- 1854
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 415
- 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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