Hybrid sailing/steampowered ship built in 1818; first steamship to cross the Atlantic
This article is about the 1818 steamship Savannah. For other uses of the term, see Savannah (disambiguation).
Savannah
History
Name
Savannah
Namesake
Savannah, Georgia
Owner
Scarbrough & Isaacs
Builder
Fickett & Crockett
Cost
$50,000 ($774,239 today)
Launched
August 22, 1818
Completed
1818
Maiden voyage
May 24, 1819
In service
March 28, 1819
Out of service
November 5, 1821
Fate
Wrecked at Long Island, November 5, 1821
Notes
First steam-powered vessel to cross the Atlantic, May 24 – June 20, 1819
General characteristics
Type
Hybrid sailing ship/sidewheel steamer
Tons burthen
319 74/94[1]
Length
98 ft 6 in (30.02 m) p.p.[1]
Beam
25 ft 10 in (7.87 m)[1]
Depth of hold
14 ft 2 in (4.32 m)[1]
Installed power
90 hp (67 kW)
Propulsion
Sails, plus 1 × inclined direct-acting 90 hp (67 kW) steam engine driving 2 × 16 ft (4.9 m) paddlewheels
Sail plan
Ship-rigged
SS Savannah was an American hybrid sailing ship/sidewheel steamer built in 1818. She was the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean, transiting mainly under sail power from May to June 1819. In spite of this historic voyage, the great space taken up by her large engine and its fuel at the expense of cargo, and the public's anxiety over embracing her revolutionary steam power, kept Savannah from being a commercial success as a steamship. Originally laid down as a sailing packet, she was, following a severe and unrelated reversal of the financial fortunes of her owners, converted back into a sailing ship shortly after returning from Europe.[2]
Savannah was wrecked off Long Island, New York in 1821. No other American-owned steamship would cross the Atlantic for almost thirty years after Savannah's pioneering voyage. Two British sidewheel steamships, Brunel's SS Great Western and Menzies' SS Sirius, raced to New York in 1838, both voyages being made under steam power alone.[3]
^ abcdChapelle, Howard I., "The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model", Bulletin – United States National Museum 228 (1963), p. 64. According to this source, these measurements are from the ship's register.
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^"Oceangoing Steamships". Information Please. 2012. Retrieved June 20, 2013.
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