LONG ISLAND (1859)
Year Built: 1859
Built By: Edward Lupton,and independent builder
Built At: Greenpoint, NY
Built For: Flushing Railroad Company
Official Number: 22097
Purchase Price:
Length: 188 feet
Beam: 50 feet
Depth of Hold:
Gross Tons: 474
Propulsion: Sidewheel
Hull: wood
Engine: Walking Beam with a 46 inch cylinder and a 12 foot stroke. The sidewheels are 30 feet in diameter.
Passenger Capacity:
Purchased by: Individual Enterprise Steamboat Company in 1866
Route: Miles River
Captains: Captain Augusts Somerindyke in 1859
Previous Name:
Later Name: Samuel J. Pentz in 1866
Comments: Taken by the U.S. Government during the Civil War, she burnt at New Bern, North Carolina. Rebuilt at the Skinner Shipyard in Baltimore and renamed.
Disposition: Abandoned in 1906.
