SAGAMORE Steamship LAKE GEORGE New York Ferry To Baldwin People POSTCARD for Sale

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SAGAMORE Steamship LAKE GEORGE New York Ferry To Baldwin People POSTCARD For Sale

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SAGAMORE Steamship LAKE GEORGE New York Ferry To Baldwin People POSTCARD:
$19.95

The Sagamore was almost an exact replica of Lake Champlain’s Chateaugay and was powered by the same boilers and coal burning engines. (The engines were built by the Fletcher Company, which had a reputation for making engines fine enough to be preserved under glass.) The Chateaugay, which was launched in 1888, was the very first of the iron-hulled vessels. Later she would carry among her passengers a young Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose father, James Roosevelt, served for a time as president of the Champlain Transportation Company and the Lake George Steamboat Company , and become the first boat to ferry automobiles between New York and Vermont.

But whereas the Chateaugay sailed for more than forty years without any alterations, the Sagamore sailed for little more than six months before she was withdrawn from service. The builders of the Sagamore had given the boat more headroom between decks than the Chateaugay possessed, and that additional headroom made the Sagamore top heavy. The boat was put into dry dock and there she was cut in half amidship and lengthened by 200 feet. A set of ballast tanks was also installed forward of the wheelboxes. From then on, steamboatmen praised her for her easy handling. (In 1999 we would see another Lake George steamboat – the MinneHaHa – cut amidship and lengthened by 34 feet.)

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