Conway Landing

[tmh10]

Conway Landing, Virginia. Boats and pontoon bridge on York River.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
[between 1861 and 1869]
NOTES
Caption from negative sleeve: Conway Landing, York River, Va.
Two plates form left (LC-B811-2490A) and right (LC-B811-2490B) halves of a stereograph pair.
Corresponding print is in LOT 4175.
Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress).

 

[Free Agent]

I winder if they used special shallow draft sail boats for river navigation?

 

[tmh10]

I winder if they used special shallow draft sail boats for river navigation?

Im sure they did, but what has my attention is what I think may be a schooner. It doesn't look like it has an engine. That would take a steady hand without a tow if that is the case.

 

[Free Agent]

Im sure they did, but what has my attention is what I think may be a schooner. It doesn't look like it has an engine. That would take a steady hand without a tow if that is the case.

I know at Disneyland when you "set sail" on the Columbia sailing ship on the rivers of America, they mention some sailboats were built specifically to cross oceans and navigate rivers too.
Not that Disneyland is any benchmark of historical reference.
But, it's what entered my pea size brain when I saw the pic.
Sailboats tend to have heavy, deep keels for a leveraged ballast.

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[tmh10]

I know at Disneyland when you "set sail" on the Columbia sailing ship on the rivers of America, they mention some sailboats were built specifically to cross oceans and navigate rivers too.
Not that Disneyland is any benchmark of historical reference.
But, it's what entered my pea size brain when I saw the pic.

I get your drift, so to speak. Im sure a shallow draft sail boat would be handy for blockade running and getting supplies from the ocean into rivers. If im doing some blue water sailing, give me a deep keel.

 

[jessgettysburg1863]

Fine looking ship on the right hand side Ted !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[reading48]

Good Photos