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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: January 2008
Caption: SS Savannah at City Hall
Additional Description: This tablet commemorates the centenary of
the "Savannah"
The first steamship to cross the ocean
The idea of this enterprise originiated with William Scarborough and his associates, citizens of Savannah, and was financed by them.
The Savannah steamed out of this port on this great adventure for Liverpool on May 22, 1819 and arrived June 20, 1819
Francis Fickett, Builder, Moses Rogers, Captain
Submitted: January 24, 2008, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p14560
File Size: 0.169 Megabytes

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