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A Diminutive Steamboat. Mr. S. H. Roper, 299 Eustis street, has just com pleted and has an exhibition in his shop a curios ity in the shape of a steamboat, which is probably the smallest one in this vicinity of any practical utility. The coat was made by Samuel McIntosh, and may be described as follows: Length, ten feet; breadth, three and a half feet; depth, one foot. It is a double-ender, built of basswood plank, three-sixteenths of an inch thick, fastened to oak ribs two inches apart, with copper rivets. The deck is of white pine, varnished. The well-hole is four feet long and eighteen inches wide, surrounded by a wash board six inches in height, the mo tive power 18 supplied by a screw propeller, with upright power and engine, all nickel-plated.The engine was built by Mr. Roper and is a novelty. It has no eccentric or connecting rod. The cylinder is three inches in diameter and has a three-inch stroke. There is only one connection with the boiler for the to e, safety-valve, throttle-valve, whistle an i The boiler is of brass, nickie plated, has sixty-one steel flues, is nine inches in diameter and twenty-two inches in height, t he roimed smoke stack is five inches in diameter and three feet high. The boiler has a water tank of the capacity of five gallons, and a steam condenser. It is calculated that one gallon of water will be sufficient for a journey to Boston light and return. ‘the motive power weighs 115 pounds, and the boat 107 pounds; total, 122 pounds. ‘the boat is mounted on wheels to evxry 38 Ww and from the water. It is capable of carrying two men, one in the well-hole and one on deck. It has a single-fluke anchor and a canvas covering for the engine, boiler and engineer for rough weather. On the whole, it is a neat btue pleasure or fishing craft, and Mr. Roper calculates that it cannot be easily swamped, or beaten in beauty in the harbor.
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Boston Weekly Globe
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Tue, Mar 11, 1879
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