140 Years Ago the Savannah Set Sail

Archive

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Historic Stonington

Name/Title

"140 Years Ago the Savannah Set Sail"

Entry/Object ID

2002.0613.531

Scope and Content

Newspaper photo of a print of the "Savannah" as she set sail for England May 22, 1819. Notation indicates that she had a steam engine and paddles on the side According to the caption, the Savannah was the first steamship crossing Atlantic

Collection

Dorothea Hewitt Gould Collection