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Steamship Huntsville (1859 - )

(artwork courtesy of Eric Heyl in 1950)

(3 years of service with the Cromwell Savannah Line, from 1858 to 1861)


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Cromwell has two propellers on the stocks at the Westervelt Yard for the New York
and Savannah run. (From The New York Herald, September 4th, 1857)

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first trial trip April 2, 1858 (sistership Montgomery)
built in 1859, built by Westervelt & Sons, New York
Verticle engine 52 x 42 (Morgan Iron Works)
817 gross tons, 200 x 20 x 19.4
built for HB Cromwell (Cromwell Steamship Line)

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sold to the US Navy in 1861 (paid $90,000.)

Sources:
From: Dictionary of American Fighting Ships, Vol. III, 1968, Navy ...
... The first HUNTSVILLE, a wooden screw steamer, was chartered from her owner,
HB Cromwell Co., in New York City 24 April 1861; commissioned there 9 May 1861 ...
www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/history/marshall/ military/USN/misc/huntsvil.txt


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