Detail from an 1826 Mowatt Brothers advertisement, possibly depicting Henry Eckford
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History | |
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Name | Henry Eckford |
Namesake | New York City shipbuilder Henry Eckford (1775-1832) |
Owner | Mowatt Brothers & Co. |
Route | New York City–Albany, New York |
Builder | Lawrence & Sneden (NY) |
Completed | 1824 |
In service | 1824-41 |
Refit | As a coal barge, 1841 |
Fate | Broken up after 1851 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Passenger-cargo steamboat |
Tons burthen | 150 |
Length | 105 ft |
Installed power | Woolf double cylinder (compound) vertical crosshead steam engine, operating at 100 psi. |
Propulsion | Paddlewheels |
Speed | 10mph |
Henry Eckford was a small passenger-cargo steamboat built in New York in 1824. She was the first steam vessel in the world to be installed with a compound engine, almost fifty years before the technology would become widely adopted for marine use.