Steamboat Ticonderoga
by Catherine Gagne
Title
Steamboat Ticonderoga
Artist
Catherine Gagne
Medium
Photograph - Photograph - Photo
Description
The steamboat Ticonderoga is America's last remaining side-paddle-wheel passenger steamer with a vertical beam engine of the type that provided freight and passenger service on America's lakes and rivers from the early 19th to the mid-20th centuries. Commissioned by the Champlain Transportation Company, Ticonderoga was built in 1906 at the Shelburne Shipyard in Shelburne, Vermont on Lake Champlain.
Ticonderoga measures 220 feet in length and 59 feet in beam, with a displacement of 892 tons. Her steam engine, handmade by the Fletcher Engine Company of Hoboken, New Jersey, was powered by two coal-fired boilers and could achieve a maximum speed of 17 miles per hour.
In 1955, she was moved two miles overland to her new home on the grounds of the Shelburne Museum. N3298
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August 2nd, 2015
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