Henry Eckford (steamboat)

Detail from an 1826 Mowatt Brothers advertisement, possibly depicting Henry Eckford
History
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.