&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:First_Boat_Built_on_the_Western_Waters,_1812.jpg) The New Orleans in an 1856 engraving
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | New Orleans |
| Owner | Robert Fulton and Robert R. Livingston |
| Builder | Nicholas Roosevelt |
| Launched | March 1811 |
| Out of service | July 14, 1814 |
| Fate | Sank |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Steamboat |
| Length | 148 feet 6 inches |
| Depth | 12 feet |
New Orleans was the first steamboat on the western waters of the United States. Her 1811–1812 voyage from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to New Orleans, Louisiana, on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers ushered in the era of commercial steamboat navigation on the western and mid-western continental rivers.