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Correction re: steam warships, dates of service.
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lugnet.pirates
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Tue, 22 Feb 2005 02:00:40 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Kurt Baty wrote:
That page is incorrect.
The first steam-powered armed warship in North America was
in fact Robert Fulton’s catamaran-hulled center-paddler
Demologos, completed in 1815 for the defence of New York and kept in service
by the US Navy until its destruction in an accident in 1829.
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi156.htm
all best
LFB
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