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WHISKEY AND WINDOW PANES: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF A SIDE-WHEEL STEAMBOAT AT SEMINOLE, ALABAMA

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Date Issued:
2011
Abstract/Description:
During the fall of 2005, faculty from the University of West Florida (UWF) were notified of ship remains located in the Blackwater River where the Seminole Lumber Camp once operated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After an initial visit by faculty and students, it was determined that the remains were that of an eastern coastal paddle-wheel steamboat. The hull was intact, and the vessel was equipped with a boiler and walking beam steam engine. By the late eighteenth century, steam power became prevalent in the maritime industry and helped bring about the development of the eastern coastal paddle-wheel steamboat with its distinctive walking beam engine. The information contained in this thesis is the result of several field schools conducted between 2006 and 2010 where students extensively recorded the hull and the machinery, including the walking beam engine which engineers built in New York City in 1870. The thesis is an all-embracing summary of the students' hard work and provides detailed information on the history of lumbering and steam navigation in the area and the development and construction of the eastern coastal paddle-wheel steamboat.
Title: WHISKEY AND WINDOW PANES: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF A SIDE-WHEEL STEAMBOAT AT SEMINOLE, ALABAMA.
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Name(s): Abrahamson, Wayne Arlen, Author
Bratten, John R., Committee Chair
Mitchell-Cook, Amy M., Committee Member
Cook, Gregory D., Committee Member
University of West Florida, Degree Grantor
Type of Resource: text
Date Issued: 2011
Publisher: University of West Florida
Language(s): English
Abstract/Description: During the fall of 2005, faculty from the University of West Florida (UWF) were notified of ship remains located in the Blackwater River where the Seminole Lumber Camp once operated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After an initial visit by faculty and students, it was determined that the remains were that of an eastern coastal paddle-wheel steamboat. The hull was intact, and the vessel was equipped with a boiler and walking beam steam engine. By the late eighteenth century, steam power became prevalent in the maritime industry and helped bring about the development of the eastern coastal paddle-wheel steamboat with its distinctive walking beam engine. The information contained in this thesis is the result of several field schools conducted between 2006 and 2010 where students extensively recorded the hull and the machinery, including the walking beam engine which engineers built in New York City in 1870. The thesis is an all-embracing summary of the students' hard work and provides detailed information on the history of lumbering and steam navigation in the area and the development and construction of the eastern coastal paddle-wheel steamboat.
Identifier: WFE0000282 (IID), uwf:60894 (fedora)
Note(s): 2011-08-01
M.A.
Department of Anthropology
Masters
Subject(s): Maritime archaeology, ship wreck, steam engines, side paddle-wheel steamboat, eastern coastal steamboat, walking beam engine
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/uwf/fd/WFE0000282
Restrictions on Access: public
Host Institution: UWF

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