{"id":249,"date":"2009-01-15T21:17:38","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T21:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2009-01-15T21:17:38","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T21:17:38","slug":"the-only-steamer-built-in-kingston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2009\/01\/15\/the-only-steamer-built-in-kingston\/","title":{"rendered":"The only steamer built in Kingston"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the spring of 1898, noted Kingston ship-builder Edward A. Ransom launched the largest vessel constructed on the Jones River since 1874, the steamer Tiger<\/em>.\u00a0 She was, in the words of Henry M. Jones, author of Ships of Kingston<\/em>, “a handsome vessel” of 30 tons with an overall length of 53′, a beam of 14′ and a draft of 6′.<\/p>\n

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Steamer Tiger, ca. 1898<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here she is moored in front of Ransom’s boathouse, with the Bradford Homestead just up the hill.\u00a0 Ransom and his co-owners, A.J. Hill, C.A. Ransom and H.S. West,* used the Tiger <\/em>for fishing and lobstering for several years, then sold her to the Churches of Tiverton, R.I., who used her as a porgy steamer.<\/p>\n

* A handwritten annotation in the archivist’s copy of Ships of Kingston<\/em> tells us that West was the father of Kingston Town Historian Margaret Warnsman.<\/p>\n

Source: Ships of Kingston<\/em>,\u00a0 Henry M. Jones (The Memorial Press of Plymouth, Massachusetts: 1926)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the spring of 1898, noted Kingston ship-builder Edward A. Ransom launched the largest vessel constructed on the Jones River since 1874, the steamer Tiger.\u00a0 She was, in the words of Henry M. Jones, author of Ships of Kingston, “a handsome vessel” of 30 tons with an overall length of 53′, a beam of 14′ … <\/p>\n

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