Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran

By June, eighteen hundred and fifteen, her engine was put on board, and she was so far completed as to afford an opportunity of trying her machinery. On the first of June, at te...

A "model" of such a double-hull ship--the _Experiment_, built at Leith, Scotland, in 1786 by J. Laurie--was sent to Sweden by Miller. She was 105 feet long, 31 feet beam, and co...

Note that several Figures in this paper consist of two images separated from each other in the original layout, with separate labels. These separate labels are preserved in this...

It is a curious fact that the battery did not receive an official name, as did the sailing blockship on the ways at New Orleans, which at the end of the War of 1812 was official...