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The Clarksville, Tenn., Landing Long Ago
| 题名： | The Clarksville, Tenn., Landing Long Ago |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | KEITH NORRINGTON |
| 摘要： | This week's Old Boat Column presents an image with a common factor. Taken in the 1880s, all three steamboats lying at the Clarksville, Tenn., wharf had the proud distinction of being constructed by the Howard Shipyard at Jeffersonville, Ind.The packet with the domed pilothouse at the far left is the sternwheeler B.S. Rhea, built in 1886 at a contract cost of $6,650 for the Ryman Line to run in the Nashville-Paducah trade, connecting with the C.W. Anderson on the upper Cumberland River. Named for the "Corn King of Tennessee," the Rhea had a wooden hull measuring 165 feet in length by 27.1 feet in width. The engines had 14-inch cylinders with a 4.5-foot stroke. An earlier vessel of the same name was built in 1878 at Louisville and burned in 1885.The second Rhea was under the command of Capt. J.S. Tyner, master of the Ryman Line. On June 10, 1890, while the riverboat was underway on the Cumberland, some 25 miles above Clarksville, the engineer discovered that the paddle-wheel shaft was broken; his prompt action averted serious damage. |
| 出版年： | 2021 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 135 |
| 期： | 14 |
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