The great American steamboat race: the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee and the climax of an era by Benton Rain Patterson

Author:Benton Rain Patterson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Boating - General, History: American, USA, Regional History, River steamers, Sports & Recreation, Paddle steamers - Mississippi River - History - 19th century, Boating, United States - 19th Century, Steamboats - Mississippi River - History - 19th century, Transportation, Robert E. Lee (Steamboat), Mississippi River, Ships & Shipbuilding - General, Ships & shipping: general interest, Natchez (Steamboat), United States, Americas, Ships & Shipbuilding, Marine engineering, Marine & Naval, Paddle steamers, 19th century, History, c 1800 to c 1900, Technology & Engineering, Shipbuilding - Mississippi River Region - History - 19th century, History of the Americas, River steamers - Mississippi River - History - 19th century, Marine engineering - Mississippi River Region - History - 19th century, General, 19th Century World History, Shipbuilding, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Steamboats
ISBN: 9780786442928
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2009-05-13T07:00:00+00:00

Stairway leading up from a typical steamboat’s boiler deck, the deck above its main deck, to the hurricane deck, or promenade deck. At right in this photograph is the purser’s, or clerk’s, office. Passengers reached the boiler deck by climbing gracefully curving stairways that rose from the steamer’s main deck near the bow of the boat (Library of Congress).

est, was called the main deck, which stood about four feet above the surface of the river. That was where the boat’s machinery was mounted, with the boilers positioned forward and the engines positioned between the two huge paddle wheels. Some of the boats, of course, had a single paddle wheel, mounted on the stern. Also on the main deck were the galleys, space for freight and space for deck, or steerage, passengers, whose low fares entitled them to little more than passage and a sleeping spot on a cot, a bench or on the boards of the deck itself. Ten to eighteen feet above the main deck and reachable by a pair of curving stairways near the bow, was the boiler deck, or saloon deck, on which were the passenger staterooms, the barroom, the saloon — or main cabin — and the boat’s offices. A promenade, like a porch, encircled the staterooms on the outside and could be accessed from the staterooms, from the saloon or from gangways, allowing cabin passengers to stroll or sit — on benches or chairs — and watch the passing scenery on the river and along the shore.

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