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Steamship History Society Of America

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Peabody Museum

Salem, Massachusetts

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"Old North State (1866)"
of Swaine's Line
Virginia & North Carolina Steamer
From a lithograph, courtesy of The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Va.

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(Originally) Reprinted by Permission of the
Editor of The Nautical Gazette
from Seaboard Magazine,
Volume 4 7, 14, 28
April, 19 & May, 16 June 1892

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STEAM NAVIGATION ON THE CAROLINA
SOUNDS AND THE CHESAPEAKE
IN 1892
by

SAMUEL WARD STANTON

Indexed and with a Foreword by
Alexander Crosby Brown

REPRINT SERIES No. 4

THE STEAMSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
Peabody Museum,
Salem, Massachusetts
1947

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PUBLICATIONS OF THE STEAMSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

      Reprint Series No.1:

        "The Sylvan Steamboats on the East River - New York to Harlem," by Alexander J. Wall
        (New York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin, VIII, 1924-1925.) (1941)

      Reprint Series No.2:

        ''History of Steam Navigation between New York and Providence from 1792 to 1877," by
        Charles H. Dow (New York: Turner & Co., Printers, 1877).
        (Foreword by William King Covell, 1942)

      Reprint Series No.3:

        "Iron and Steel Hull Steam Vessels of the United States, 1825-1905," by John H. Morrison
        (Scientific American Supplement, 21 October - 25 November 1905.) (Indexed and with
        foreword by Alexander C. Brown, (1945)

      Reprint Series No.4:

        "Steam Navigation on the Carolina Sounds and the Chesapeake in 1892," by Samuel Ward
        Stanton (Seaboard Magazine, 7 April - 16 June 1892). (Indexed with foreword by Alexander
        C. Brown, (1947)

      Historical Monograph No.1:

        "Elijah Ormsbee, " By Edwin A. Patt, (A Paper read before the New England Chapter of the
        Steamship Historical Society of America, 12 May 1946). (1947)

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      Journal of the Steamship Historical Society of America: "Steamboat Bill of Facts," Frank O. Braynard, Editor. Volume 1, No.1, issued April, 1940.

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      Correspondence concerning The Steamship Historical Society of America, membership in the Society, orders for publications, or current subscription to the Society's journal, "Steamboat Bill of Facts," may be addressed to the Society, in care of the Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.

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Lithoprinted in U.S.A.
EDWARDS BROTHERS, INC.
Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1947

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword 2
Virginia's Historic City; Norfolk Harbor, Its Commerce and Fleets of Steamers 2
In North Carolina Waters: Steamers, Industries and Ports of Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds - Part I 3
In North Carolina Waters: Part II 4
The James River: A Trip on this Historic Stream. The ARIEL and other boats that have run upon it 5
Baltimore and Norfolk Boats, from the Early Days to the Present, & Index 6

LIST OF PEN AND INK DRAWINGS
by Samuel Ward Stanton (Arranged alphabetically)

ALBEMARLE, screw freight steamboat (1891) 12
Albemarle-Chesapeake Canal 11
ARIEL, side-wheel passenger steamboat (1858) 19
CITY OF PORTSMOUTH, side-wheel ferry (1888) 2
Coinjock Canal 16
COMET, stern-wheel canal steamer (1887) 13
Currituck Sound, Entrance of 11
FLORIDA, side-wheel passenger steamboat (1876) 25
GASTON, screw freight steamer (1881) 26
GENERAL, screw passenger steamboat (1889) 9
GEORGE H. STOUT, screw freight steamboat (1858) 16
GEORGIA, screw passenger steamboat (1887) 24
GLEN COVE, side-wheel passenger steamboat (1854) 21
L. A. COBB, stern-wheel passenger steamboat (1888) 16
LOUISE, side-wheel passenger steamboat (1863) 7
LOUISIANA, side-wheel passenger steamboat (1879) 23
LURAY, side-wheel passenger steamboat (1882) 8
Map of Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds 13
Monitors, U. S. Navy, in James River 21
NETTIE W., screw freight steamboat (1890) 17
NEUSE, screw passenger steamboat (1891) 17
NEWBERNE, screw passenger steamboat (1875) 10, 15
Newberne Harbor, North Carolina 16
NEW YORK, screw passenger steamboat (1889) 7
Norfolk Harbor, Virginia 2
NORTHAMPTON, side-wheel passenger steamboat (1880) 7
North Landing River, North Carolina 13
OLD POINT COMFORT, side-wheel passenger steamboat, (1886) 6
PAMLICO, screw passenger steamboat (1874) 13
Raft Blockade 18
S. A. McCALL, side-wheel passenger steamboat (1863) 18
Scotland, Virginia 20
SEABOARD, screw freight steamboat (1874) 6, 26
TAHOMA, screw passenger steamboat (1884) 14
VIRGINIA, side-wheel passenger steamboat (1817) 23
VIRGINIA, side-wheel passenger steamboat (1879) 24
WILLIAM B. ROGERS, screw passenger steamboat (1880) 8

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