New York

New York was an American passenger-cargo sidewheel steamboat built in 1836 for service on Long Island Sound. When new, she was the largest steamboat yet to operate on the route between New York and New Haven, Connecticut, and was one of the largest Sound steamboats of her day. New York continued to operate on the Sound until 1850, when she was sold to New York parties and began service on New York's Hudson River. By the mid-1850s she had been converted into a towboat, and remained in service on the Hudson in that capacity to the end of her career in 1875. British novelist Charles Dickens wrote an unflattering description of New York in 1842, when she was still operating on Long Island Sound as a passenger steamer. The description appears in his book American Notes. Design and construction New York, a wooden-hulled passenger-cargo sidewheel steamboat, was built in Manhattan, New York, in 1836 by Lawrence & Sneden for the New Haven Steamboat Company, which planned to operate the vessel between New York City and New Haven, Connecticut. She was in length, with a beam of , hold depth of and loaded draft of . With a gross tonnage of 524, she was at the time considerably larger than any steamboat previously built for service between New Haven and New York, and was one of the largest steamers on Long Island Sound. She was considered a fine vessel for her day.