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The Snagboat Missouri
| 题名： | The Snagboat Missouri |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | CAPT. DAVID SMITH |
| 摘要： | Mention was made last week of the snagboat Missouri clearing the wreck of the Str. Elisha Woods. Snagboats are a nearly forgotten, though once very important, fixture on the navigable rivers. In the era of wooden hulls, trees and snags protruding from the river bottoms could and did impale and sink many early steamboats. Capt. Henry Miller Shreve had been involved in the construction of the packet Enterprise at Wheeling, Va. (later W.Va.) in 1814, and the Washington in 1816. Through these vessels, the Fulton-Livingston monopoly on the operation of steamboats on the waters of Louisiana was broken. The design of the Washington also set the precedent for future Western Rivers steamboats, with the boilers on the main deck, rather than in the hull. In 1826, Shreve was appointed superintendent of Western Rivers Improvements. He is credited with designing the first snagboat, named Heliopolis, which served as the forerunner of many to follow that the government utilized to enhance safe navigation on the river system. |
| 出版年： | 2022 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 136 |
| 期： | 8 |
| 页码： | 18,17 |
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