Ticonderoga (steamboat)
Ticonderoga at Shelburne Museum, Vermont, 2011 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Ticonderoga |
| Owner | Champlain Transportation Company |
| Builder | Shelburne Shipyard |
| Launched | 1906 |
| Out of service | 1950 |
| Status | Museum ship |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 892 tons |
| Length | 220 ft (67 m) |
| Beam | 59 ft (18 m) |
| Installed power | 2 × coal-fired boilers |
| Propulsion | Vertical beam steam engine, side-paddle-wheel |
| Speed | 17 mph (27 km/h) (14.77 knots) |
| Crew | 28 |
Ticonderoga (Side-paddle-wheel Lakeboat) | |
Postcard showing Ticonderoga | |
| Location | Shelburne, Vermont |
| Coordinates | 44°22′31.6″N 73°13′56.4″W / 44.375444°N 73.232333°W |
| Built | 1906 |
| Architect | Champlain Transportation Company |
| NRHP reference No. | 66000797 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | 15 October 1966 |
| Designated NHL | 28 January 1964 |
Ticonderoga is a museum ship and one of just two remaining sidewheel passenger steamers with an intact walking beam engine of the type that powered countless thousands of American freight and passenger vessels on America's bays, lakes and rivers for more than a century. Commissioned by the Champlain Transportation Company, Ticonderoga was built in 1906 at the Shelburne Shipyard in Shelburne, Vermont on Lake Champlain.
Ticonderoga measures 220 feet in length and 59 feet in beam, with a displacement of 892 tons. Her steam engine, built by the Fletcher Engine Company of Hoboken, New Jersey, was powered by two coal-fired boilers and could achieve a maximum speed of 17 miles per hour (27 km/h) (14.77 knots).