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Title: Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ...
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Goodrich, Frank B. (Frank Boott), 1826-1894
Subjects: Discoveries in geography Voyages and travels
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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r of three hundred and fifty tons,intended to ply between New York and Liverpool, under thecommand of Captain Moses Rodgers, was launched at NewYork on the 22d of August, 1818. She made a preliminary MAN UPON THE SEA. 493 voyage to the city whose name she bore, in April, 1819, whereshe arrived in seven days, after a very boisterous passage. Shewas several times compelled to take in her wheels—havingmachinery for the purpose—and rely upon her sails, which wasdone with all the promptitude and safety anticipated. Thistrial trip left no doubt that she would successfully accomplishthe object for which she was built. She left Savannah forLiverpool soon after, and the New York newspapers of thesecond week in June announced that she had been spokenat sea, all well. In the log-book of the Pluto, which arrivedsoon after at Baltimore from Bremen, occurred the followingpassage: June 2.—Clear weather and smooth sea: lat. 42°, long.59°, spoke and passed the elegant steamship Savannah, eight
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THE SAVANNAH: THE FIRST 0 C E A N - ST E A M E R. days out from Savannah to St. Petersburg by way of Liver-pool. She passed us at the rate of nine or ten knots; and thecaptain informed us she worked remarkably well, and thegreatest compliment we could bestow was to give her threecheers, as the happiest effort of mechanical genius that everappeared on the Western ocean. She returned the compli-ment. Niles New York Register of the 21st of August containsthe following paragraph in italics at the head of its columnof foreign news:— The steamship Savannah, Captain Moses 494 MAN UPON THE SEA. Rodgers,—the first that ever crossed the Atlantic,—arrived atLiverpool in twenty-five days from Savannah, all well, to thegreat astonishment of the people of that place. She workedher engine eighteen days. The next record of her movementsis that she sailed in August for St. Petersburg, passing Elsinoreon the 13th, and that the British wisely supposed her visit tobe somehow connected with the ambi

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