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    Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran
    Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran
    Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran
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    Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran

    By Howard I. (Howard Irving) Chapelle

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Title: Fulton's Steam Battery: Blockship and Catamaran

      Author: Howard I. Chapelle

      Release Date: February 4, 2010 [EBook #31179]

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      SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

      UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM

      BULLETIN 240

      SMITHSONIAN PRESS

      MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY

      Contributions

      From the

      Museum

      of History and

      Technology

      Papers 34-44

      On Science and Technology

      SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION · WASHINGTON, D.C. 1966

      Publications of the United States National Museum

      The scholarly and scientific publications of the United States National Museum include two series, Proceedings of the United States National Museum and United States National Museum Bulletin.

      In these series, the Museum publishes original articles and monographs dealing with the collections and work of its constituent museums—The Museum of Natural History and the Museum of History and Technology—setting forth newly acquired facts in the fields of anthropology, biology, history, geology, and technology. Copies of each publication are distributed to libraries, to cultural and scientific organizations, and to specialists and others interested in the different subjects.

      The Proceedings, begun in 1878, are intended for the publication, in separate form, of shorter papers from the Museum of Natural History. These are gathered in volumes, octavo in size, with the publication date of each paper recorded in the table of contents of the volume.

      In the Bulletin series, the first of which was issued in 1875, appear longer, separate publications consisting of monographs (occasionally in several parts) and volumes in which are collected works on related subjects. Bulletins are either octavo or quarto in size, depending on the needs of the presentation. Since 1902 papers relating to the botanical collections of the Museum of Natural History have been published in the Bulletin series under the heading Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, and since 1959, in Bulletins titled Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, have been gathered shorter papers relating to the collections and research of that Museum.

      The present collection of Contributions, Papers 34-44, comprises Bulletin 240. Each of these papers has been previously published in separate form. The year of publication is shown on the last page of each paper.

      Frank A. Taylor

      Director, United States National Museum

      Contributions from

      The Museum of History and Technology:

      Paper 39

      Fulton’s Steam Battery:

      Blockship and Catamaran

      Howard I. Chapelle

      SURVIVING DESIGNS FOR FLOATING BATTERIES 145

      CONTROVERSIAL DESCRIPTIONS 147

      COPENHAGEN PLANS 150

      HISTORY OF DOUBLE-HULL CRAFT 152

      SAIL AND INBOARD PLANS 157

      RECONSTRUCTING THE PLANS 161

      APPENDIX 167

      FOOTNOTES

      INDEX

      Figure 1.—Scale model of Fulton's Steam Battery in the Museum of History and Technology. (Smithsonian photo P-63390-F.)

      Howard I. Chapelle

      FULTON’S

      STEAM BATTERY:

      BLOCKSHIP and CATAMARAN

      Robert Fulton’s Steam Battery, a catamaran-type blockship, was built during the War of 1812. Until recently, not enough material has been available to permit a reasonably accurate reconstruction of what is generally acknowledged to be the first steam man-of-war.

      With the discovery, in the Danish Royal Archives at Copenhagen, of plans of this vessel, it is now possible to prepare a reconstruction and to build a model.

      This article summarizes the history of the vessel, describes the plans and the reconstruction, and also evaluates its design with particular attention to the double-hull construction.

      The Author: Howard I. Chapelle is curator of transportation in the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of History and Technology.

      The identity of the first steam man-of-war has been known for many years, and a great deal has been written and published on the history of this American vessel. Until recently, the only available drawing of the ship has been a patent drawing made for Robert Fulton. This does not comply with contemporary descriptions of the steamer and the drawing or plan is out of proportion with the known dimensions. The lack of plans has heretofore made it impossible to illustrate the vessel with any degree of precision, or to build a scale model.

      The discovery in 1960 of some of the plans of this historic ship in the Danish Royal Archives at Copenhagen now makes possible a reasonably accurate reconstruction of the vessel and also clarifies some of the incomplete and often confusing descriptions by contemporary writers.

      Of the numerous published accounts of the ship that are available, the most complete is David B. Tyler’s Fulton’s Steam Frigate.[1] A contemporary description of the vessel by the British Minister to Washington, 1820-23, Stratford Canning, was published by Arthur J. May.[2] In Naval and Mail Steamers of the United States, by Charles B. Stuart,[3] and The Steam Navy of the United States, by Frank M. Bennett,[4] the history of the ship and some descriptive facts are given. Stuart, in an appendix, gives in full the report of the Supervisory Committee (set up to administer the building contract). Tyler and Stuart, and the Committee Report

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