ciates, the North River Steamboat Company, and 

 was launched in 1816. She was the last vessel for 

 which Fulton planned; he died early in 1815. The 

 hull was designed by Eckford in consultation with 

 Isaac Webb and was built by the latter under a 

 subcontract. The engine was of the Fulton type, 

 designed by Fulton's foreman Charles Stoudinger 

 and built by James P. Allaire, with whom Stoud- 

 inger had entered a partnership. Her joinery was 

 done by David Cook, of New York. Costing $1 20,000, 

 she was considered the fastest and finest steamer that 

 had yet been built at the time of her launch. 



She was intended for service on the Hudson River 

 and, as originally fitted, had a single stack. Her 

 engine was rated at 75 horsepower, having a cylinder 

 40 inches in diameter and a stroke of 60 inches. 

 The boiler was copper, 28 feet long and 12 feet 

 front, and weighed about 44,000 pounds. There 

 were two 14-foot diameter flywheels, and the pad- 

 dlewheels were 18 feet in diameter and 5 feet 10 

 inches wide. Her speed was about 8)^ miles per 

 hour and under normal conditions she carried 25 

 to 30 pounds of steam in her boiler. Her fuel con- 

 sumption was about 1 ^2 cords of hardwood per 

 hour. 



In the fall of 1827 she was rebuilt and provided 

 with new engine and boilers. Her new engine, 

 rated at 120 horsepower and also built by Allaire 

 had a cylinder 56 inches in diameter and a stroke of 

 72 inches. She was also fitted with three small 

 boilers and three stacks placed athwartshlps, and 

 in addition was provided with a jib boom, three 

 masts with topmasts, and a 3-mast schooner rig with 

 a square course on the foremast. In 1828 she was 

 placed on the New York-Providence run, where she 

 made three round trips weekly during the next 

 five years. Sold in 1832, she underwent extensive 

 alterations, after which she was placed on the Provi- 

 dence-Boston run. In 1834 she was again sold, 

 and in the fall of that year ran onto a rock in Boston 

 Harbor and was abandoned to the insurance under- 

 writers. Her engine, salvaged in 1835, was fitted 

 to a new- vessel, the Portland, owned by the C'uraber- 

 land Steam Navigation Company and operated on 

 the Boston-Portland run. 



The Chancellor Livingston was about 165 feet long 

 on deck, 157 feet long on the waterline, 154 feet on 

 the keel, 33 feet 6 inches moulded beam, 10 feet 

 3 inches depth, 7 feet 3 inches service draft, and 494 

 tons register. She was built of oak, cedar, and 

 locust, copper fastened and copper sheathed. Her 



principal cabin was 54 feet long, the ladies cabin 

 was 36 feet long, and the forward cabin 30 feet 

 long, with 38 berths in the principal cabin, 24 in 

 the ladies cabin, and 56 in the forward caljin. Scale 

 of the model is ji inch to the foot. 



The model shows the vessel as originally built and 

 using wood for fuel. (She burned coal as early as 

 September 8, 1816.) The hull is formed with rather 

 straight sheer, straight keel with slight drag, short 

 and moderately full entrance, short but fine run, 

 and raking stem rabbet with head and man's bust 

 figurehead, trails, and headrail. The stern is square, 

 with round tuck and quarter galleries. The mid- 

 section has a slightly rising straight floor, firm round 

 bilge, and vertical topsides. The sponsons, formed 

 by carrying the deck beams outboard, extended 

 nearly the full length of the hull. 



Built for the museum by F. Van Loon Ryder horn 

 plans in Marestier's Me/noire sur les Bateaux a Vapeur 

 des Etats-Unis d'Amcrique, Paris, 1824. 



IRON, SCREW CANAL TUG, 1838 

 Rigged Model, usnm 160404 



Robert F. Stockton 



This model is a reconstruction of the iron, screw, 

 steam canal tug Robert F. Stockton built at the Birken- 

 head Ironworks in England in 1838 and fitted with 

 Ericsson's screw propeller, to the order of Lt. Robert 

 F. Stockton, LT.S.N., to serve as a canal tug on the 

 Raritan Canal, in the construction of which Lt. Stock- 

 ton was interested. When the vessel was completed 

 she was schooner rigged, the propeller unshipped, 

 and the voyage from Lixerpool to Ne%\' York was made 

 under canvas. The vessel was owned by the Dela- 

 ware and Raritan Canal Company and she was built 

 under the super\ision of F. B. Ogden, American con- 

 sul at Liverpool. The Stockton \\as 40 days in making 

 the Atlantic crossing, leaving Liverpool on April 11 

 and arriving at New York May 21, 1830. Her crew 

 consisted of C^aptain Crane, four men, and a boy. 

 On arrival her propeller was shipped and she was 

 employed in towing canal boats and vessels. She was 

 renamed New jersey when an Act of Congress, May 8, 

 1840, admitted her to American registry. 



The model does not agree with contemporary pic- 

 tures of the Stockton in many respects and the informa- 

 tion employed to construct this model has not been 

 found. It shows an iron, single-screw steamer having 

 straight keel, nearly straight rakiag stem with angular 

 forefoot, slightly raking post, round fantail counter 

 with vertical bulwarks, sharp entrance and full run, 



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