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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893. Excerpt:... tons. They had a single beam engine, cylinder 50 ins. diam. by 10 ft. stroke, paddle wheels 22 ft. diam. by 9 ft. face; two return flue boilers, grate surface 97 sq. ft., heating surface 2706 sq. ft., steam pressure 30 lbs., cutoff at half stroke, revo. 26 per min., speed 16 miles an hour. The boats were the first to have a saloon on the upper deck, and to have the buckets on the paddle wheels half the length of the face, and staggered in order to prevent the jar, and the boats when under way were in fact very steady. They were sold to the U. S. Government to run between Annapolis and Havre de Grace, and two others, "Clifton" No. 2 and "Westfield" No. 2, were built to take their place. In 1862 the China steamboat, "Hu-Quang," for the Yang-Tse-Kiang River service, came out. She was built by H. Steers; was 290 ft. long, 36 ft. 8 ins. beam and 14 ft. deep, tonnage 1510 tons, draught 9 ft. She had a single beam engine with single poppet valves, built by the Allaire Works Co., N. Y., cylinder 76 ins. diam. by 12 ft. stroke, with Sickels' adjustable cut-off, paddle wheels 28 ft. diam. by 11 ft. face; two round flue boilers with steam chimeys 20 ft. high above the boiler for superheating, grate surface 217 sq. ft, heating surface 6642 sq. ft., steam pressure 30 lbs., revo. 26 per min., speed 18 miles an hour. This boat was considered the fastest that had ever gone to China up to that date, and she ran many years from Shang-hae up and down the river. In 1860 the Long Island Sound freight boat, "City of Norwich," to run between New York and Norwich, Conn., came out. She was 200 ft. long, 36 ft. beam and 12 ft. deep, tonnage 900 tons, draught 6 ft. 9 ins.; she had a single beam engine, built at the Allaire Works, cylinder 54 ins. diam. by 11 ft. stroke, with Sickel...