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The Palatial Str. J.M. White
| 题名： | The Palatial Str. J.M. White |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | KEITH NORRINGTON |
| 摘要： | In 1878, the Howard Shipyard of Jef-fersonville, Ind., completed work on its magnum opus, the J.M. White. Owned by the Greenville & New Orleans Packet Company, the big side-wheeler's wooden hull measured oxer-all 321 feet in length by 91 feet in width, including the cotton guards. Ten boilers supplied steam to engines having 43-inch cylinders with an 11-foot stroke. The pad-dlewheels were 44 feet in diameter. Named for Capt. J.M. White (1823-1880) of Cloverport, Ky, the packet was the 276th steamboat built by the Howards. The contract was signed June 12, 1877; it was the fourth riverboat to be built for revered Southern steamboatman Capt. John W. Tobin. The White was launched on April 3, 1878, and it was taken over the Falls of the Ohio a month later to New Albany, Ind., where, reportedly, much of the work was completed; finishing touches were done at Paducah, Ky., and Cairo, Ill. The contract price for the opulent riverboat was $103,500. |
| 出版年： | 2021 |
| 期刊名称： | Waterways Journal |
| 卷： | 134 |
| 期： | 42 |
| 页码： | 38,37 |
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