United States floating battery Demologos

The USS Fulton, which initially was called Demologos (also Fulton the First or U.S. Steam Battery Fulton - ( Floating battery) - called ), was designed by Robert Fulton in New York. Their design was patented on February 11, 1809 by Fulton. Keel was early 1814 at the yard of Adam and Noah Browne under the name chosen by Fulton Demologos, on 29 October 1814, the shell was launched from the dock.

She was thus the first steam warship and the first steam ship of the U.S. Navy. The ship, however, was not completed until 1815 and then was given the name USS Fulton in honor of its founder, who died in February 1815.

In July 1815 they undertook a successful trial runs in which a speed of 6.35 knots and reaches 53 nautical miles were covered. It was not until 1816, the USS Fulton was delivered to the Navy. She was intended for coastal defense and as a blockade runner. But shortly after its completion, the war was over. Their only official intervention took place in 1817. President James Monroe, she used to be a harbor cruise in New York harbor. After 1825 the ship was used as a floating barracks of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

On June 4, 1829 the ship was destroyed by a gunpowder explosion.

She had a steam-powered paddle wheel in the center of 4.9 m in diameter and was equipped with 44 cannons, of which 20 32- pounder armed. She was designed as a floating battery and therefore not seaworthy. She had a load capacity of 2455 tons and 1450 tons displaced. Below the decks of the hull was divided by a 4.6 m wide space. In one half, there was a steam engine with 120 hp rated power, in the other of copper boiler.

Main dimensions

• Length: 47.5 m
• Width: 17.1 m
• Draft: 3.05 m
• Side height: 6.1m
• Thickness of the walls: 1.5 m