Ticonderoga (ship)

Ticonderoga

The Ticonderoga on dry land as an exhibit at the Shelburne Museum

Ship data flag  United States Ship type Cargo and passenger ship home port Burlington (Vermont) Shipyard Shelburne Harbor, Vermont Launch 1906 Whereabouts Museum exhibit

Ship dimensions and crew length 67.06 m ( Lüa ) width 18 m displacement 809  t   crew 28

Machine system machine Balancing steam engine with one cylinder, diameter 1.32 m, stroke 2.75 m propeller 2 side paddle wheels

The Ticonderoga is a side wheel steamer that operated on Lake Champlain from 1906 to 1953 . Passengers were transported and goods were transported on the line for the Champlain Transportation Company . In the last few years of operation, the Ticonderoga served as an excursion steamer.

After decommissioning in 1953, the ship was not scrapped, but bought by Electra Havemeyer Webb as part of the founding of the Shelburne Museum . The overland transport took place in 1955, since 1964 the Ticonderoga has been listed as the last surviving side-wheel steamer with a balancing machine as a National Historic Landmark .

literature

• J. Jobé, RA Plummer, GW Hilton: Paddle steamers from all over the world . With drawings by Carlo Demand. Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1989, ISBN 978-3-89350-024-6 , paddle steamer in North America (5th), p. 142 ff . (Chapter written by GW Hilton ).

Web links

Commons : Ticonderoga  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Shelburne Museum, Steamboat Ticonderoga ( English ) Retrieved October 21, 2011.
2. ↑ National Historics Landmark Program, TICONDEROGA (Side-paddle-wheel Lakeboat) ( English ) Archived from the original on December 22, 2008. Information: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 21, 2011.