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WALK IN THE WATER

Post by shipstamps » Sun Oct 05, 2008 3:58 pm


This wooden side-paddle steamer was built by a certain Noah Brown from New York City at Black Rock (near Buffalo) N.Y. for account of James R Stuart from Albany N.Y. and Robert McQueen from New York and others, who founded the Lake Erie Steamboat Company.
May 1818 launched under the name WALK IN THE WATER the name was given to her by the Indians.
Tonnage 338 gross, dim. 135 x 32 x 8.3ft.
The steam engine to power her was of the low-pressure system, and manufactured by Robert McQueen one of the shareholders in the company. Robert Fulton installed the engine.
The engine was transported from New York by boat to Albany, then by horse and wagon to Buffalo; the transport took more as 15 days.
All materials of the boiler were send to Black Rock where near the building yard of the ship the boiler was built. The boiler was made of copper, with a length of 24 feet and a diameter of 9 feet.
The engineer on board the ship was James Calhoun from New York City.
Two masts and brig rigged. Carried a figure-head of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry.
While the steam whistle had not been invented she carried a small canon on her foredeck to give signals.
Passenger accommodation for 29 passengers was below deck.
1818 Completed.

She was the first steamboat on Lake Erie, and built for the passenger service between Buffalo and Detroit.
20 (23) August 1818 she left for her maiden voyage from Buffalo under command of Capt. Job Fish, after making stops in Cleveland and Erie she arrived at Detroit on 26 August.
Mostly making the trip in about 36 till 40 hours.
As fuel she used wood, she used about 36 till 40 cord wood on this voyages. One cord wood is 128 cubic feet or 3.5 cubic meters.
Passenger fare was for the first class 24 Dollar between Buffalo and Detroit.
In the strong rapids between Buffalo and Black Rock over a distance of 2.5 mile, her engine did not have enough power and she needed 8 pair of oxen to pass this rapids.

She was kept in this service until the ice closed navigation, and during this time she was laid up.
June 1820 she made a voyage from Detroit to Mackinac Island through Lake Huron, where she landed some passengers and a detachment of U.S. soldiers.
August 1820 she made an other trip to Mackinac and from there proceeded to Green Bay on Lake Michigan, it was the first pleasure cruise in history by a steamboat.

31 October 1821 in the afternoon she sailed from Buffalo for Cleveland with some passengers and cargo, in the evening she ran in a gale, by the working of the ship she began to leak. She turned around and steamed back to Buffalo, but she did not make much headway against the strong wind. She dropped her anchors, but after a while one of the anchor cables broke and then she started to drag the other anchor and drifted on the beach at Point Abino south of Buffalo harbor entrance. All on board were rescued, and when the weather had improved, her furniture, equipment and engine were later salvaged.

Her engine was in 1822 built in the SUPERIOR, which replaced the lost WALK IN THE WATE, later placed in a lumber mill at Saginaw.

On USA 1989 25c sg 2393

Source, some notes in made in Galveston Library from a book on old steamships in the USA, lost the source. http://www.kelleysislandhistorical.org/ ... _water.htm

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Re: WALK IN THE WATER

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon Oct 16, 2017 8:35 pm

Marshall Islands 2017 49c sg?, scott?
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