Providence
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History | |
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Name | Providence |
Namesake | Providence, Rhode Island |
Operator | Fall River Line |
Route | New York-Newport-Fall River |
Ordered | 1865 |
Builder | William H. Webb |
Cost | $1,250,000 |
Launched | June 28, 1866 |
Completed | 1867 |
Acquired | 1867 |
Maiden voyage | June 1867 |
In service | 1867-1896 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1901 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Passenger sidewheel steamer |
Tonnage | 2,962 gross, 2,064 net |
Length | 362 ft |
Beam | 48 ft 4 in, over guards 83 ft |
Draft | 10 ft 3 in |
Depth of hold | 16 ft 6 in |
Installed power | 1 x 110-inch-cylinder simple beam steam engine delivering 2,900 IHP @ 19 RPM, 3 x boilers |
Propulsion | 2 x 38 ft 8 in paddlewheels |
Capacity | 840 to 1,200 passengers plus 40 railcars of freight |
Providence was a large sidewheel steamer launched in 1866 by William H. Webb of New York for the Merchants Steamship Company. The first of Narragansett Bay's so-called "floating palaces",[1] the luxuriously outfitted Providence and her sister ship Bristol, each of which could carry up to 1,200 passengers, were installed with the largest engines then built in the United States, and were considered to be amongst the finest American-built vessels of their era.
Both ships would spend their entire careers steaming between New York and various destinations in and around Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Providence was eventually scrapped in 1901.