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hood, who were anxious to pay this last sad tribute to the memory of one whose 

 death they esteem a public loss. 



Captaiu Rogers was for some time actively and usefully engaged on the North 

 River in the earliest experiments which were made in the application of steam to the 

 purposes of navigation. He afterwards commanded the steamship Savannah, the first 

 steam vessel, we believe, that ever navigated the ocean, and certainly the only one 

 which ever crossed the Atlantic. The Savannah, under the direction of this skillful 

 and enterprising commander, passed in perfect safety to England and from thence to 

 Stockholm and St. Petersburgh and back to the United States, thus fully demonstrat- 

 ing thebenefits which might arise from the application of steam to the general purposes 

 of maritime navigation. In 1820 he was engaged by a respectable company to take 

 charge of the steamboat Pee Dee, which plies between this town and Cheraw. That 

 he fully and satisfactorily performed the duties incumbent on him in this station the 

 universal grief which pervades our community fully testifies. 



Captain Rogers had lately returned from a visit to his family in Philadelphia, and 

 was ou his first voyage from Cheraw to this place when he was attacked by that fell 

 disease (produced by his devotedness to his business) which has at once deprived so- 

 ciety of an energetic industrious, and enterprising citizen, and his family of an affec- 

 tionate husband aud most tender parent. 



STEVENS ROGERS, SAILING-MASTER OF THE SAVANNAH. 



Stevens Rogers was born at New London, Connecticut, in 1789; be 

 bad been associated witb Moses Rogers in tbe management of sailing 

 vessels and steamboats before be was called upon to superintend tbe con- 

 struction of tbe hull and to design the rigging of tbe Savannah, in 1818. 



He rendered valuable assistance toCapt. Moses Rogers in the memo- 

 rable voyages of tbe Savannah — every word of the record of which, in 

 the log book, being in bis handwriting. 



He outlived almost all of bis contemporaries, and during a long and 

 busy life, which terminated only two dnys before the fiftieth anniversary 

 of the date of tbe launch of the Savannah, be saw the transatlantic 

 steamship service, in which be was a pioneer, thoroughly established. 



Born soon after the close of the Revolution, he remembered the death 

 aud burial of Washington, and was acquainted with the sailing vessels 

 in our Navy during the war of 1812. He saw the first steam warship,* 

 and lived to see all tbe navies of the world twice reconstructed : first, 

 when steam power revolutionized naval architecture; and again, when 

 iron armament was applied to battle ships. 



He read the story of the conflict between the Monitor and Merrimac, 

 aud after living through three wars he saw his country finally at peace 

 witb itself and all tbe world — a peace which the ocean steamship has 

 done more to perpetuate than all the standing armies of the universe. 



The following newspaper notices of the events that brought his life 

 to a close give evidence of the high estimation in which he was held 

 during a lifetime of nearly four score years : 



[New London Star, August 26, 1868.1 

 The funeral services of Capt. Stevens Rogers took place on Sunday afternoon. 

 Union and Braiuard Lodges, Free aud Accepted Masons, escorted the remains from the 

 residence of the deceased to the First Baptist Church, where the funeral sermon was 



* Fulton the first, launched at New York, 29th Oct., 1814, "to mount 30 long 32- 

 pounders and 2 100-pouuders (Columbiads)," 



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