Henry Eckford (steamboat)
Detail from an 1826 Mowatt Brothers advertisement, possibly depicting Henry Eckford | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Henry Eckford |
| Namesake | New York City shipbuilder Henry Eckford (1775-1832) |
| Owner | Mowatt Brothers & Co. |
| Route | New York City–Albany, New York |
| Builder | Lawrence & Sneden (NY) |
| Completed | 1824 |
| In service | 1824-41 |
| Refit | As a coal barge, 1841 |
| Fate | Broken up after 1851 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Passenger-cargo steamboat |
| Tons burthen | 150 |
| Length | 105 ft |
| Installed power | Woolf double cylinder (compound) vertical crosshead steam engine, operating at 100 psi. |
| Propulsion | Paddlewheels |
| Speed | 10mph |
Henry Eckford was a small passenger-cargo steamboat built in New York in 1824. She was the first steam vessel in the world to be installed with a compound engine, almost fifty years before the technology would become widely adopted for marine use.