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Originally published in 1895, this comprehensive volume includes accurate illustrations and descriptions of all types of American steam vessels--from Robert Fulton's "Clermont, the world's first successful steamboat, to the transatlantic passenger steamship "St. Louis, built in 1895. Expertly rendered by Samuel Ward Stanton--based on early prints, lithographs, drawings and plans, sketches, and other reliable sources--the drawings depict over 250 ships, including steamships of the coast, steamboats on the western rivers and on rivers emptying into the oceans, and the steamers of the Great Lakes. All are distinctive, differing greatly in appearance and construction according to locality. Among them are the "Alabama, Baltimore, Belle Memphis, Bremen, City of Chicago, Daniel Webster, Iron Queen, Jamestown, Kearsarge, Louisiana, Maine, Milwaukee, Monitor, Philadelphia, Robert E. Lee, Savannah, Silver Star, Soo City, Thomas Jefferson, and the "Virginia. A full-length view of each vessel is accompanied by a smaller illustration of the same ship as well as text describ

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Expert renderings of more than 250 vessels that sailed American coastal waters, rivers, and Great Lakes. Full-length view of each vessel; information on length of hull, type of engine and boiler, and size of paddle wheels or propellers. Includes the Alabama, Iron Queen, Monitor, Robert E. Lee, Thomas Jefferson, many more. 488 black-and-white illustrations.