628 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



Several naval officers, noblemen, and merchants from London came down to visit her, 

 and were very curious to ascertain her speed, destination, etc. As it was soon after 

 Jerome Bonaparte had offered a large reward to anyone who would succeed in taking 

 his brother from St. Helena, it was suspected that that was the object of the Savan- 

 nah. After remaining 25 days in Liverpool, during which time she was visited by 

 thousands of people of all rank, and her officers were treated with marked attention, 

 she left for Copenhagen, at which place she arrived in safety, where she excited 

 similar curiosity. She proceeded thence to Stockholm, in Sweden, where she was 

 visited by the royal family, the foreign ministers, naval officers, the nobility, and 

 others, who, by invitation of Mr. Hughes, the American minister, dined on board, and 

 took an excursion among the neighboring islands, with which they were much de- 

 lighted. 



Lord Lyndock, of England, who was then on a tour through the north of Europe, 

 by invitation of our minister took passage on board of the Savannah for St. Peters- 

 burg, which place she reached in due time. Here she was visited, by the invitation 

 of our minister at that court, by several noblemen and military and naval officers, who 

 also tested her superior qualities by a trip to Cronstadt. Her officers received several 

 valuable presents of plate, etc., and we have now before us a superb gold snuffbox, 

 which was presented to her sailing master, Capt. Stevens Rogers, by Lord Lyndock. 

 She sailed from St. Petersburg to Copenhagen, and then to Arendal, in Norway, 

 whence she returned to Savannah, where, after a passage of about 25 days, she arrived 

 in safety — being the first steam vessel that ever crossed the Atlantic— and after per- 

 forming a voyage highly creditable to American ingenuity and enterprise. 



She used Liverpool coal for fuel, of which she took 75 tons, as well as 25 cords of wood 

 for kindling. She had uo freight, and only used her engine when not able to go at 

 the rate of 4 knots with her sails. By the great fire in Savannah her owners were 

 compelled to sell her, and she was purchased to run as a packet between that place 

 and New York, whither she was bound, uuder charge of Capt. Nathaniel Holdredge, 

 now master of the Liverpool packet ship United States, when she was lost on the 

 south side of Long Island. 



A more detailed account of the voyages is giveu in the notes from 

 the log book, which follows: 



NOTES FROM THE LOG BOOK OF THE SAVANNAH AND THE NEWS- 

 PAPERS OF THE DAY. 



The log book of the Savannah (PI. clv) is composed of twenty-four 

 sheets of thick brown paper, eleven inches by fourteen, stitched through 

 and through the middle fold, and attached to a coarse cover of sail-cloth 



bearing the inscription : 



STEAMSHIP 

 SAVANNAH'S 

 LOG BOOK. 



Only fifty-two of the ninety- six pages are written upon. A fac-simile 

 of two of them is shown in PI. clvi. 



I. — Voyage from New York to Savannah, Georgia. 



We find that the vessel "got under way for sea with the crew on 

 board" at 10 a. m.,* Sunday, March 28, 1819, and that the pilot left the 

 ship oil' Sandy Hook Light three hours later, " with fresh breezes at 

 NW." 



"It should be remembered that sea time begins 12 hours later than calendar time. 

 On shijiboard the log is kept by calendar time in port and by sea time at sea. 



