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Snagboat
A snagboat is a river boat, resembling a barge with superstructure for crew accommodations, and deck-mounted cranes and hoists for removing snags and other obstructions from rivers and other shallow waterways. USA During the American Civil War, when much of the naval fighting was done on rivers and their tributaries, numerous snagboats were in operation. , for example, was a commercial snagboat quickly converted by the Union Army to a river gunboat when the American Civil War broke out. Snagboats of the USA Bear was a wooden-hulled, stern-wheel steamship that served as a snagboat for the United States Army Corps of Engineers. Seizer was a wooden-hulled, stern-wheel steamship that served as the first snagboat for the United States Army Corps of Engineers on the Sacramento River. '' W. T. Preston'' is a specialized sternwheeler that operated as a snagboat, removing log jams and natural debris that prevented river navigation on several Puget Sound-area rivers. She is now t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bear (snagboat)
''Bear'' was a wooden-hulled, stern-wheel steamship that served as a snagboat for the United States Army Corps of Engineers. History ''Bear'' was a stern-wheeled, shallow draft steamship ordered by the U.S. Engineers Department of the Army (now known as the United States Army Corps of Engineers) to serve as a snagboat on the Sacramento, the Mokelumne, and the San Joaquin River The San Joaquin River (; es, Río San Joaquín) is the longest river of Central California. The long river starts in the high Sierra Nevada, and flows through the rich agricultural region of the northern San Joaquin Valley before reaching Suis ...s. Her namesake was the Bear River, a tributary of the Mokelumne River. She was designed to replace the first snagboat on the Sacramento River, ''Seizer'' (240 GRT) operating since 1881. In 1919, a contract was awarded to Schultz & Schultz of San Francisco who won with a bid of $117,000. She was completed in 1921. She was damaged on the Sacramento River af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuba (snagboat)
''Yuba'' was a wooden-hulled, stern-wheel steamship that served as a snagboat for the United States Army Corps of Engineers. History ''Yuba'' was a stern-wheeled, shallow draft steamship ordered by the U.S. Engineers Department of the Army (now known as the United States Army Corps of Engineers) to serve as a snagboat on the Sacramento River. Her namesake was the Yuba River, a tributary of the Feather River which was the principal tributary of the Sacramento River. The first snagboat on the Sacramento River, ''Seizer'' (240 GRT, 1881), had retired in 1921 and its replacement, '' Bear'' (242 GT, 1921), was in need of support. ''Yuba'' was laid down on 19 November 1924 at the Alameda, California shipyard of A. W. de Young Boat & Shipbuilding Company who won the contract with a bid price of $78,346. The ship was designed by Captain Thomas B. Foster. The engine from the retired snagboat ''Seizer'' was utilized. She was launched on 27 February 1925, completed in March 1925, and co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seizer (snagboat)
''Seizer'' was a wooden-hulled, stern-wheel steamship that served as the first snagboat for the United States Army Corps of Engineers on the Sacramento River. History ''Seizer'' was a stern-wheeled, shallow draft steamship ordered by the U.S. Engineers Department of the Army (now known as the United States Army Corps of Engineers) to serve as the first snagboat on the Sacramento, the Mokelumne, and the San Joaquin Rivers. She was built in Stockton, California in 1881 and outfitted with a wood-fueled steam boiler which enabled her to cruise at a speed of 6-7 knots. The ship was painted white with a red line and a mahogany smoke stake. She was captained by Captain "Rush" Fisher of Missouri and carried a crew of 33 men. The crew included divers from Hawaii who were able swimmers and capable of entering the muddy waters to attach chains to sunken trees. In 1895, she overhauled and fitted to burn coal. By 1919, she was using oil as a fuel. In 1908 she was joined by a snag scow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montgomery On The Apalachicola
Montgomery refers to: People For people with the name Montgomery, see Montgomery (name) Places Belgium * Montgomery Square, Brussels * Montgomery metro station, Brussels Pakistan * Montgomery (town), British India, former name of Sahiwal, Punjab * Montgomery District, an administrative district in the Lahore division of former Punjab Province of British India ** Montgomery Tahsil, an administrative subdivision of Montgomery District in Punjab province of British India United Kingdom Wales * Montgomery, Powys ** Montgomery Canal ** Montgomery Castle * Montgomeryshire (other) United States * Montgomery, Alabama, state capital * Montgomery, California * Montgomery, Georgia * Montgomery, Illinois * Montgomery, Indiana * Montgomery, Iowa * Montgomery, Kentucky * Montgomery, Louisiana * Montgomery, Massachusetts * Montgomery, Michigan * Montgomery, Minnesota * Montgomery, Mississippi * Montgomery, New York (other) * Montgomery, Ohio * Montgomery, Pennsylvania * Mont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puget Sound
Puget Sound ( ) is a sound of the Pacific Northwest, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, and part of the Salish Sea. It is located along the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington. It is a complex estuarine system of interconnected marine waterways and basins, with one major and two minor connections to the open Pacific Ocean via the Strait of Juan de Fuca—Admiralty Inlet being the major connection and Deception Pass and Swinomish Channel being the minor. Water flow through Deception Pass is approximately equal to 2% of the total tidal exchange between Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Puget Sound extends approximately from Deception Pass in the north to Olympia in the south. Its average depth is and its maximum depth, off Jefferson Point between Indianola and Kingston, is . The depth of the main basin, between the southern tip of Whidbey Island and Tacoma, is approximately . In 2009, the term Salish Sea was established by the United States Board o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, forests, lakes, mountains, inland deserts and grassy plains, and borders the province of Alberta to the east and the Yukon and Northwest Territories to the north. With an estimated population of 5.3million as of 2022, it is Canada's third-most populous province. The capital of British Columbia is Victoria and its largest city is Vancouver. Vancouver is the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada; the 2021 census recorded 2.6million people in Metro Vancouver. The first known human inhabitants of the area settled in British Columbia at least 10,000 years ago. Such groups include the Coast Salish, Tsilhqotʼin, and Haida peoples, among many others. One of the earliest British settlements in the area was Fort Victoria, established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natchitoches, Louisiana
Natchitoches ( ; french: link=no, Les Natchitoches) is a small city and the parish seat of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States. Established in 1714 by Louis Juchereau de St. Denis as part of French Louisiana, the community was named after the indigenous Natchitoches people. The City of Natchitoches was incorporated on February 5, 1819, after Louisiana had become a state in 1812. It is the oldest permanent settlement in the land acquired by the Louisiana Purchase. Natchitoches is home to Northwestern State University. Its sister city is Nacogdoches, Texas. History Early years Natchitoches was established in 1714 by Canadien explorer Louis Juchereau de St. Denis. It is the oldest permanent European settlement within the borders of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. Natchitoches was founded as a French outpost on the Red River for trade with Spanish-controlled Mexico; French traders settled there as early as 1699. The post was established near a village of Natchitoches In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dynamite
Dynamite is an explosive made of nitroglycerin, sorbents (such as powdered shells or clay), and Stabilizer (chemistry), stabilizers. It was invented by the Swedish people, Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel in Geesthacht, Northern Germany, and patented in 1867. It rapidly gained wide-scale use as a more robust alternative to gun powder, black powder. History Dynamite was invented by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel in the 1860s and was the first safely manageable explosive stronger than black powder. Alfred Nobel's father, Immanuel Nobel, was an industrialist, engineer, and inventor. He built bridges and buildings in Stockholm and founded Sweden's first rubber factory. His construction work inspired him to research new methods of blasting rock that were more effective than black powder. After some bad business deals in Sweden, in 1838 Immanuel moved Nobel family, his family to Saint Petersburg, where Alfred and his brothers were educated privately under Swedish and Russi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Miller Shreve
Henry Miller Shreve (October 21, 1785 – March 6, 1851) was the American inventor and steamboat captain who opened the Mississippi, Ohio, and Red rivers to steamboat navigation. Shreveport, Louisiana, is named in his honor. Shreve was also instrumental in breaking the Fulton-Livingston monopoly on steamboat traffic on the lower Mississippi. He was the first riverboat captain to travel the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans and back, as well as the first to bring a keelboat from the Ohio River up the Mississippi to the Fever River in Illinois. Shreve also made significant improvements to the steamboat and the steam engine, such as separate boilers to power side paddlewheels independently, horizontal cylinders, and multiple decks to allow for passengers and entertainment. Early life Shreve was born to Israel Shreve, a Quaker who had served with honor in the American Revolution, and the former Mary Cokely at Mount Pleasant (Burlington County, New Jersey), the family homeste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Raft
The Great Raft was a gigantic log jam or series of "rafts" that clogged the Red and Atchafalaya rivers and was unique in North America in terms of its scale. Origin The Great Raft probably began forming in the 12th century. It grew from its upper end, while decaying or washing out at the lower end. By the early 1830s, it spanned more than . The raft, at one point, extended for from Loggy Bayou to Carolina Bluffs. Because of its scale, the Great Raft became incorporated in the mythology of the regional Caddo tribe, which had been in the area for thousands of years. They credited it with protecting them from competing tribes, as well as intermittently causing floods on the land and making it fertile for agriculture. Harrelson et al. describe the origins of the raft: This ecosystem of entangled logs, vegetation and sediments remained in place for almost two millennia, altering the flow regime of the Red River and causing a complete change in its geomorphic character from a sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is bordered by the state of Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, Mississippi to the east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. A large part of its eastern boundary is demarcated by the Mississippi River. Louisiana is the only U.S. state with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are equivalent to counties, making it one of only two U.S. states not subdivided into counties (the other being Alaska and its boroughs). The state's capital is Baton Rouge, and its largest city is New Orleans, with a population of roughly 383,000 people. Some Louisiana urban environments have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by a mixture of 18th century Louisiana French, Dominican Creole, Spanish, French Canadian, Acadi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red River Of The South
The Red River, or sometimes the Red River of the South, is a major river in the Southern United States. It was named for its reddish water color from passing through red-bed country in its watershed. It is one of several rivers with that name. Although once a tributary of the Mississippi River, the Red River is now a tributary of the Atchafalaya River, a distributary of the Mississippi that flows separately into the Gulf of Mexico. This confluence is connected to the Mississippi River by the Old River Control Structure. The south bank of the Red River formed part of the US–Mexico border from the Adams–Onís Treaty (in force 1821) until the Texas Annexation and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The Red River is the second-largest river basin in the southern Great Plains. It rises in two branches in the Texas Panhandle and flows east, where it serves as the border between the states of Texas and Oklahoma. It forms a short border between Texas and Arkansas before entering Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
