Same points as below re: year of construction, and inflation.
Inflation done, see below for year of construction
Infobox
"screws" or "screw propellers"?
Standardized with the less jargony "screw propellers"
Construction and characteristics
Is there no contemporaneous source which can pin down the date?
Not that I've seen well enough to pin it down. I found an announcement published in August 1845 stating that Tufts in Boston intended to launch a iron steamer later that week, but it didn't give the name and I couldn't find confirmation that actually occurred. I did find a passing statement to R. B. Forbes being in service in a January 1846 news article, though
"as well as two boilers" — unclear what this is referring to. Power came from screw propellers and boilers, or power came from screw propellers, which were in turn driven by both engines and boilers?
Powered by propellers, which were driven by engines, which were fed by boilers. I've tried to clarify.
Who were Tufts and Forbes? Is it known why it was named after him?
Perhaps put the first paragraph in chronological order.
Done
Any word on what happened between 1853 and 1861?
Working on trying to expand this a bit
I've added a few things that seem to be somewhat noteworthy (both in 1860). Most of the coverage of stuff in this specific time frame seems to be routine reporting of it doing standard tugboat or wrecking ship duty
Version I used on Gbooks didn't contain page numbers, will try to find one that does
Internet Archive version isn't page numbered either - from what I tell, this source was just never printed with page numbers
Sources
Publishers can take links.
All done except for Flint, for which I cannot find an appropriate link for the publisher
Flint 1989 — This is in the public domain as a government work, no? It appears to be freely available on Google Books, at any rate. If so, it should be given a link.
Added
Morrison 1905 — Public domain, so a link should be found. Scientific American can be linked.
Added and linked
Official Records — Series & volume numbers missing.
@
Usernameunique: - These should all be dealt with, except for the dates of sale. Source doesn't give any details, and searching in period newspapers hasn't brought anything up. It's very hard to search for the pre-war career of this vessel because of how ubiquitous the ship's namesake was in Boston society at the time and the dozens of routine notices of the ship calling at ports.
Hog FarmTalk06:10, 23 January 2022 (UTC)reply
Same points as below re: year of construction, and inflation.
Inflation done, see below for year of construction
Infobox
"screws" or "screw propellers"?
Standardized with the less jargony "screw propellers"
Construction and characteristics
Is there no contemporaneous source which can pin down the date?
Not that I've seen well enough to pin it down. I found an announcement published in August 1845 stating that Tufts in Boston intended to launch a iron steamer later that week, but it didn't give the name and I couldn't find confirmation that actually occurred. I did find a passing statement to R. B. Forbes being in service in a January 1846 news article, though
"as well as two boilers" — unclear what this is referring to. Power came from screw propellers and boilers, or power came from screw propellers, which were in turn driven by both engines and boilers?
Powered by propellers, which were driven by engines, which were fed by boilers. I've tried to clarify.
Who were Tufts and Forbes? Is it known why it was named after him?
Perhaps put the first paragraph in chronological order.
Done
Any word on what happened between 1853 and 1861?
Working on trying to expand this a bit
I've added a few things that seem to be somewhat noteworthy (both in 1860). Most of the coverage of stuff in this specific time frame seems to be routine reporting of it doing standard tugboat or wrecking ship duty
Version I used on Gbooks didn't contain page numbers, will try to find one that does
Internet Archive version isn't page numbered either - from what I tell, this source was just never printed with page numbers
Sources
Publishers can take links.
All done except for Flint, for which I cannot find an appropriate link for the publisher
Flint 1989 — This is in the public domain as a government work, no? It appears to be freely available on Google Books, at any rate. If so, it should be given a link.
Added
Morrison 1905 — Public domain, so a link should be found. Scientific American can be linked.
Added and linked
Official Records — Series & volume numbers missing.
@
Usernameunique: - These should all be dealt with, except for the dates of sale. Source doesn't give any details, and searching in period newspapers hasn't brought anything up. It's very hard to search for the pre-war career of this vessel because of how ubiquitous the ship's namesake was in Boston society at the time and the dozens of routine notices of the ship calling at ports.
Hog FarmTalk06:10, 23 January 2022 (UTC)reply