Night Boat to New York
Title | Night Boat to New York PDF eBook |
Author | Erik Hesselberg |
Publisher | |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781493044498 |
"A portrait of the steamboat era, when a procession of stately sidewheelers plied between Hartford and New York City, docking at Peck's Slip on the East River in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge"--
The Connecticut River Steamboat Story
Title | The Connecticut River Steamboat Story PDF eBook |
Author | Melancthon Williams Jacobus |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1956 |
Genre | Connecticut River |
ISBN |
Story of the First Steamboats to Sail the Connecticut River ...
Title | Story of the First Steamboats to Sail the Connecticut River ... PDF eBook |
Author | C. Seymour Bullock |
Publisher | |
Pages | 18 |
Release | |
Genre | Steam-navigation |
ISBN |
Night Boat to New York
Title | Night Boat to New York PDF eBook |
Author | Erik Hesselberg |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2022-07-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1493044508 |
Night Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut, 1824-1931, is a portrait of the vanished steamboat days–when a procession of stately sidewheelers plied between Hartford and New York City, docking at Peck’s Slip on the East River in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge. At one time, Hartford could boast two thousand steamboat arrivals and departures in a year. Altogether, some thirty-five large steamboats were in service on the Connecticut River in these years, largely on the Hartford to New York City route. These Long Island Sound steamers, unlike the tubby, wedding cake dowagers of Western waters, were long, sleek craft, with sharp prows cutting a neat wake as they cruised along. Departing each afternoon from State Street or Talcott Street wharf in Hartford, the “night boats” reached New York at daybreak, inaugurating a pattern of city commuting that continues to this day. Steamboating not only brought people and goods—Colt’s firearms and Essex’s pianos—down river to New York for export to world markets, but also helped America’s inland “Spa Culture” transplant itself to the seashore, making steamboating not just convenient transportation but also a social phenomenon noted by such writers as Charles Dickens and Mark Twain. No wonder crowds wept in the fall of 1931, when the last steamboats, made obsolete by the automobile, churned away from the dock and headed downriver—never to return.
Steam Against Steam
Title | Steam Against Steam PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Daniel Lane |
Publisher | |
Pages | 121 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780871061096 |
Ticket for Travel on the Boats of the Connecticut River Steam Boat Company
Title | Ticket for Travel on the Boats of the Connecticut River Steam Boat Company PDF eBook |
Author | Connecticut River Steam Boat Company |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1 |
Release | 1831 |
Genre | Steamboat lines |
ISBN |
Connecticut River Shipbuilding
Title | Connecticut River Shipbuilding PDF eBook |
Author | Wick Griswold |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2020-10-05 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 1439670498 |
Shipbuilding and shipping have always been key elements in the life of Essex. Since the seventeenth century, the men and women of the lower Connecticut River Valley sustained maritime traditions that spanned the globe in splendid wooden sailing vessels. Their accomplishments include building the first warship of the Connecticut navy and the world's first submarine. They also served as packet ship captains, navigators and skilled crew members who crossed the Atlantic. The Essex area was also home to dedicated craftsmen who produced some of the finest yachts ever built. Noted historians Wick Griswold and Ruth Major detail one village's important role in American maritime history.