&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Ticonderoga_(steamboat).jpg) Ticonderoga at Shelburne Museum, Vermont, 2011
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | Ticonderoga |
| Owner | Champlain Transportation Company |
| Builder | Shelburne Shipyard |
| Launched | 1906 |
| Out of service | 1950 |
| Status | Museum ship |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 892 tons |
| Length | 220 ft (67 m) |
| Beam | 59 ft (18 m) |
| Installed power | 2 × coal-fired boilers |
| Propulsion | Vertical beam steam engine, side-paddle-wheel |
| Speed | 17 mph (27 km/h) (14.77 knots) |
| Crew | 28 |
Ticonderoga (Side-paddle-wheel Lakeboat) | |
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| Location | Shelburne, Vermont |
| Coordinates | 44°22′31.6″N 73°13′56.4″W / 44.375444°N 73.232333°W |
| Built | 1906 |
| Architect | Champlain Transportation Company |
| NRHP reference No. | 66000797 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | 15 October 1966[1] |
| Designated NHL | 28 January 1964[2] |
The steamboat Ticonderoga is one of two remaining side-paddle-wheel passenger steamers with a vertical beam engine of the type that provided freight and passenger service on America's bays, lakes and rivers from the early 19th to the mid-20th centuries. Commissioned by the Champlain Transportation Company, Ticonderoga was built in 1906 at the Shelburne Shipyard in Shelburne, Vermont on Lake Champlain.
The other is the Eureka, built as the Ukiah for the Northwestern Pacific Railroad in California, renamed after a post-World War I reconstruction, and passed on to NWP owner Southern Pacific in 1942. The Eureka remained in service until SP's ferries were discontinued in 1958, and it was donated for museum display, where it remains to this day at Aquatic Park in San Francisco, California. Unlike the Ticonderoga however, the Eureka is still afloat.
Ticonderoga measures 220 feet in length and 59 feet in beam, with a displacement of 892 tons. Her steam engine, handmade by the Fletcher Engine Company of Hoboken, New Jersey, was powered by two coal-fired boilers and could achieve a maximum speed of 17 miles per hour (27 km/h) (14.77 knots).
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ "Ticonderoga (Side-paddle-wheel Lakeboat)". National Historic Landmarks Program. National Park Service. Archived from the original on December 22, 2008. Retrieved November 20, 2007.