Identifier: hudsonfultonbrie00hall (find matches)
Title: Hudson and Fulton; a brief history of Henry Hudson and Robert Fulton
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Hall, Edward Hagaman, 1858- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Hudson, Henry, d. 1611 Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909
Publisher: New York, The Hudson-Fulton celebration commission
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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as below thelatitude of City Hall, with straggling buildings along theBowery, Broadway and Greenwich street as far north asthe latitude of Greenwich. Greenwich was closely settledand included the States Prison from the neighborhood ofwhich the Clermont started. On March 10, 1807, Fulton took lodging at Mrs. Lor-ings fashionable boarding-house at No. 13 Broadway. In1809 and 1810 he lived at No. 100 Reade street; in 1811 at133 Chambers street; and from 1812 to the time of hisdeath in what is now called Battery place, in the rear ofNo. I Broadway. There was a vacant lot between his houseand No. i Broadway. Before returning to New York Fulton had ordered fromWatt and Bolton in England the engine for a new steam-boat which, upon his arrival, he began to build at CharlesBrowns shipyard near Corlears Hook and which he calledthe Clermont. In the Hudson-Fulton Celebration therewill be an accurate reproduction of that historic vessel, theresult of the most critical, painstaking and thorough in-
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Invention of Steam Navigation 47 vestigation that was ever applied to such a problem. Thetask of ascertaining the appearance of the Clermont a cen-tury after she was built was not an easy one, for thereason that while drawings of her engine were in existence,there was no contemporary picture of her hull. Butfrom Fultons statement concerning his first boat inthe specifications upon which he obtained his secondpatent of October 2, 1810,* and from other sources the fol-lowing facts are now perfectly established: The originalClermont was 150 feet long and 13 feet wide, with 7 feetdepth of hold. She drew 2 feet of water. Her hull (belowthe deck) had wedge-shaped bow and stern, cut sharp tothe angle of sixty degrees. In horizontal plan her sideswere parallel and she was almost wall-sided, being a verylittle wider on deck than on the bottom. Her bottom wasfiat with no keel, and she had two steering-boards or lee-boards to prevent drifting sideways. She had two masts,but no bowsprit or figure

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