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Number 309 • spriNg 2019 SS Savannah: The Bicentennial of Her Historic Voyage 16 PLUS sava nna h: Illustrious Failure 24 ALSO IN THis issUE To Shanghai American Wind-Class on the Innovation in Icebreakers: Empress of the Shipping Part Two 40 Japan 8 Industry 28 Thanks to All Who Continue to Support SSHSA March 26, 2019 Fleet Admiral ($50,000+) Admiral ($20,000+) The Dibner Charitable Trust of The Family of Helen & Massachusetts Henry Posner Jr. Heritage Harbor Foundation Maritime Heritage Grant Program Benefactor ($10,000+) The Champlin Foundation Mr. Thomas C. 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PowerTHE MAGAZINE OF THEShips STEAMSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA MANIFEST • N u m ber 309 • spr i Ng 2019 THIS QUARTERLY MAGAZINE SS has been continuously published by The Steamship Historical Savannah: Society of America since first The Bicentennial of appearing as The steamboat Her Historic Voyage bill of Facts in 1940. by Brian Rogers...........16 THE STEAMSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, INC., (SSHSA) was organized in 1935 as a means of bringing together those amateur and professional historians interested in the history and development of steam navigation, past and present, and incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1950 as a tax-exempt education corporation. IN ADDITION TO POWERSHIps, THE PILOT HOUSE ...4 the SSHSA produces other books and Savannah: Q&A WITH publications of marine interest, a illustrious Failure STEAMBOat BILL .....5 list of which is available online and by Frank O. Braynard .......24 FULL STEAM AHEAD ..7 from the Warwick headquarters. EGIONALS R SSHSA MEETINGS are normally High Seas ...........53 held annually. Several local Mid-Atlantic..........57 chapters also meet regularly. Off to shanghai aboard New York ............59 MEMBERSHIP in SSHSA includes the Empress of Japan Overseas ............61 subscriptions to powerships, the by William H. Miller......... 8 New England & Eastern Canada .......62 Telegraph, and ahoy! Dues West Coast..........64 are in various classes, beginning at $50.00 for Annual Members. american innovation in Great Lakes / Seaway ..68 Southeast & Gulf Ports . 71 FOR FURTHER DETAILS, write: the shipping industry Southwest Pacific ..... 74 Steamship Historical by Jim Shaw ..............28 Western Rivers .......77 Society of America, TUGBOatS ..........80 2500 Post Road, Warwick, RI 02886 Wind-Class icebreakers, REVIEWS ...........83 red, White & gray, HEarD ON Visit our websites part Two THE FANtaIL .......85 FROM THE by Terry Tilton.............40 www.sshsa.org COLLEctION .......86 www.shiphistory.org ON THE COVER: savannah: First Transatlantic steamship Leaving port in may 1819 by John Stobart. – Image ©1974 courtesy of The Stobart Foundation,18 Washington Square West, Salem, MA 01970, 978-540-0047, stobartfoundation.org. 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