Unknown County GaArchives History .....STEAM ENGINES AND STEAM NAVIGATION. 1840
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The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the year 1840

Boston: Published by David H. Williams.
New York: Collins, Keese, and Company
Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait, and Company

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1839, by
David H. Williams,In the Clerk’s Office of the District of Massachusetts

Cambridge: Folsom, Wells, and Thurston,Printers to the University.

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Pages 114 - 123
STEAM ENGINES AND STEAM NAVIGATION.

2.	Steamboats in Each State.

State.	No. of Vessels	Tonnage.    Tonnage.	No. Vessels Built in 1837.
      	Returns to December 1838    Return, Sept, 30, 1837.
Georgia	    29		4,273	    4,521		2


3.	Abstract from Returns, respecting Steamboats, Locomotives, and 
Stationary Engines.

State.	No. of Steamboats  No. of Locomotives	No. of Stationary Engines
Georgia	        29		3				23

4.	Locomotives  and Railroad Engines in each State.

State.	Number		Power		Period when first introduced into use 
in State
Georgia	    3		  60				1837

5.	Standing Steam-Engines in each State.

State.	  Number	Power	Period when first introduced into use in State
Georgia	    23		 799				1827

6.	List of Material Accidents and loss of life, by Explosion and Other 
Disasters, which occurred to Steamboats in the United States.

Name		Date	Cause		Killed	Wounded	    Place where
of Boat				    Injury to Life.	accident occurred.

Andrew Jackson	1831	Explos.	          2		   Savannah River.
			boilers

Free Trade	1836	Explos.	          5		   Savannah River.
			boilers

Maid of Orleans	1819	Explos.	          6		   Savannah River.
			boilers

Oglethorpe	1835	Explos.	          9		   Savannah River.
			boilers

Tempest		1838	Snagged				Chattahochee River.


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