Editing SS Savannah (section)

{{Short description|Hybrid sailing/steampowered ship built in 1818; first steamship to cross the Atlantic}}
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{{About|the 1818 steamship Savannah|other uses of the term|Savannah (disambiguation)}}
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|Ship image=SS-Savannah.jpg
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|Ship caption=''Savannah''
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|Ship name= '''''Savannah'''''
|Ship namesake=[[Savannah, Georgia]]
|Ship owner=[[William Scarbrough|Scarbrough]] & Isaacs
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|Ship builder=Fickett & Crockett
|Ship original cost=$50,000 ($774,239 today)
|Ship launched=August 22, 1818
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|Ship completed=1818
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|Ship maiden voyage=May 24, 1819
|Ship in service=March 28, 1819
|Ship out of service=November 5, 1821
|Ship fate=Wrecked at [[Long Island]], November 5, 1821
|Ship notes=First steam-powered vessel to cross the Atlantic, May 24 – June 20, 1819
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|Ship type=Hybrid [[sailing ship]]/[[sidewheel steamer]]
|Ship tons burthen=319 74/94<ref name =Chapelle>Chapelle, Howard I., "[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25544/25544-h/25544-h.htm The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model]", [https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/bulletinunited2281963unit ''Bulletin – United States National Museum''] 228 (1963), p. 64. According to this source, these measurements are from the ship's register.</ref>
|Ship length={{convert|98|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} [[Length between perpendiculars|p.p.]]<ref name = Chapelle/>
|Ship beam={{convert|25|ft|10|in|m|abbr=on}}<ref name = Chapelle/>
|Ship hold depth={{convert|14|ft|2|in|m|abbr=on}}<ref name = Chapelle/>
|Ship power={{convert|90|hp|kW|abbr=on}}
|Ship propulsion=Sails, plus 1 × [[marine steam engine#Direct acting|inclined direct-acting]] {{convert|90|hp|kW|abbr=on}} [[steam engine]] driving 2 × {{convert|16|ft|m|abbr=on}} [[paddlewheel]]s
|Ship sail plan= [[Ship-rigged]]
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'''SS ''Savannah''''' was an American hybrid [[sailing ship]]/[[sidewheel steamer]] built in 1818. She was the first [[steamship]] to cross the Atlantic Ocean, transiting mainly under sail power from May to June 1819. In spite of this historic voyage, the great space taken up by her large engine and its fuel at the expense of cargo, and the public's anxiety over embracing her  revolutionary steam power, kept ''Savannah'' from being a commercial success as a steamship. Originally laid down as a  [[packet (sea transport)|sailing packet]], she was, following a severe and unrelated reversal of the financial fortunes of her owners, converted back into a sailing ship shortly after returning from Europe.<ref name=morrison1903-407/>

''Savannah'' was wrecked off [[Long Island]], New York in 1821. No other American-owned steamship would cross the Atlantic for almost thirty years after ''Savannah''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> pioneering voyage. Two British sidewheel steamships, Brunel's [[SS Great Western|SS ''Great Western'']] and Menzies' [[SS Sirius (1837)|SS ''Sirius'']], raced to New York in 1838, both voyages being made under steam power alone.<ref name=IP2012>{{cite web|title=Oceangoing Steamships|url=http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/steamship-oceangoing-steamships.html|publisher=Information Please|accessdate=June 20, 2013|year=2012}}</ref>