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From: "rcolyer" <>
Subject: Re: [Mar] Earliest British steamship "at sea"- Fulton
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 07:45:18 -0000

Just a sideline note on Fulton.
From: Dictionary of American Fighting Ships

Fulton




Robert Fulton, born in Little Britain, Pa., in 1765, had a distinguished
career as a painter before patenting his first invention, a double inclined
plane to replace locks in canals, in England in 1794. His numerous ingenious
and influential inventions included a prototype submarine, Nautilus,
amphibious boats, and the first commercially successful steamboat, Clermont.
In 1814 and 1815, he built the first war steamer, known both as Fulton and
Demologos. He died in New York City 24 February 1815.



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(StFr: t. 2,475; l. 156'; b. 56'; dr. 11'; s. 6 k.; cpl. 200; a. 24 32-pdr.
car.)



The first Fulton (or Demologos), a catamaran steam frigate, was completed
after Robert Fulton's death, and made successful trial runs in the summer of
1815. With the close of the War of 1812, it was decided not to fit her out
for service, but she was delivered to the Navy in June 1816, and placed in
ordinary at Brooklyn Navy Yard. Housed over, she was used as a receiving
ship until 4 June 1829, when her magazine exploded, killing 30 men, wounding
many others, and totally destroying the ship.



Transcribed by Yves HUBERT ()




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Regards
Rod Colyer
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An ex-Navy man from London living in Porthcawl, south Wales
----- Original Message -----
From: "rcolyer" <>
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Sent: 30 December 1999 20:50
Subject: Re: [Mar] Earliest British steamship "at sea"


> He demonstrated a small boat driven by steam power on the River Seine in
> Paris. He then built the Clermont which plied the Hudson River, and then
> constructed for the USN a 38 ton vessel with central paddle wheels, which
> was named Fulton and was the first steam driven warship in any of the
worlds
> navies.
> Regards
> Rod Colyer
> e-mail:
> An ex-Navy man from London living in Porthcawl, south Wales
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "C.M. Codrington" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: 30 December 1999 13:50
> Subject: Re: [Mar] Earliest British steamship "at sea"
>
>
> > I though Fulton built the first functional steam powered vessel?
> >
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: rcolyer <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 3:05 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Mar] Earliest British steamship "at sea"
> >
> >
> > > Cracking question! I think you have to start with Symington's
Charlotte
> > > Dundas which is creditted with being the first vessel in the world to
> use
> > > steam propulsion commercially. But is that the first ship to go to sea
> > under
> > > steam?
> > >
> > > I think I'll ask the audience.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Rod Colyer
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> > > An ex-Navy man from London living in Porthcawl, south Wales
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Charles Dawson" <>
> > > To: <>
> > > Sent: 29 December 1999 17:34
> > > Subject: [Mar] Earliest British steamship "at sea"
> > >
> > >
> > > > Which British steamship is regarded as the first ever to steam "to
> sea"?
> > I
> > > realise that the term "to sea" is difficult to interpret. How about
the
> > > voyage of Richard Wright's first steamboat from Leeds to Yarmouth,
where
> > she
> > > arrived on 19 July 1813. Or was Henry Bell's "Comet"earlier. This I
have
> > > been unable to establish, since the dates quoted for her voyage from
> Oban
> > to
> > > Fort William vary.
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