The City of New-York, belonging to the Burnside Expedition, which ran on the bar at the entrance to the harbor, at Hatteras, and was lost, was an American propeller of 574 tons, rates A 2 ...

Although the paddle wheel antedates the Christian ... the evolution of the steamboat was rapid. The first war steamer was built at New York by Robert Fulton. During the war of 1812, wben our ...