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Savannah was laid down as a sailing packet at the New York shipyard of Fickett & Crockett. While the ship was still on the slipway, Captain Moses Rogers, with the financial backing of the Savannah Steam Ship Company, purchased the vessel in order to convert it to an auxiliary steamship and gain the prestige of inaugurating the world's first transatlantic steamship service.
In 1819, SS Savannah became the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. [26] In 1858, Cyrus West Field laid the first transatlantic telegraph cable from Ireland to Newfoundland (it quickly failed). [27] In 1865, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's ship the SS Great Eastern laid the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable. [28] [29]
SS Bremen depicted on a German postage stamp. Transatlantic passenger crossings became faster, safer, and more reliable with the advent of steamships in the 19th century. The wooden-hulled, paddle-wheel SS Great Western built in 1838 is recognized as the first purpose-built transatlantic steamship, on a scheduled run back and forth from Bristol to New York City.
The Atlantic Ocean mail contract from East Coast cities and New Orleans to and from the Chagres River in Panama was won by the United States Mail Steamship Company whose first paddle wheel steamship, the SS Falcon (1848) was dispatched on 1 December 1848 to the Caribbean (Atlantic) terminus of the Isthmus of Panama trail—the Chagres River.
The first steamship credited with crossing the Atlantic Ocean between North America and Europe was the American ship SS Savannah, though she was actually a hybrid between a steamship and a sailing ship, with the first half of the journey making use of the steam engine.
SS Great Western was a wooden-hulled paddle-wheel steamship with four masts, [3] the first steamship purpose-built for crossing the Atlantic, and the initial unit of the Great Western Steamship Company. [4] Completed in 1838, she was the largest passenger ship in the world from 1837 to 1839, the year the SS British Queen went into service.
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