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Providence (1866)
''Providence'' was a large sidewheel steamer launched in 1866 by William H. Webb of New York for the Merchants Steamship Company. The first of Narragansett Bay's so-called "floating palaces",〔"The Floating Palaces, 'Providence' and 'Bristol'", ''Newport Mercury'', April 28, 1877, quoted in Covell, pp. 23-24.〕 the luxuriously outfitted ''Providence'' and her sister ship ''Bristol'', each of which could carry up to 1,200 passengers, were installed with the largest engines then built in the United States, and were considered to be amongst the finest American-built vessels of their era.
Both ships would spend their entire careers steaming between New York and various destinations in and around Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. ''Providence'' was eventually scrapped in 1901.
==Development==
''Providence'' and ''Bristol'' owed their existence to a short-lived company known as the Merchants Steamship Company, which placed the initial order for the vessels with the Webb shipyard in about 1865. Merchants Steamship was an amalgamation of three existing Narragansett Bay shipping lines, the Commercial Line, Neptune Line and Stonington Line. The Company intended to run the two steamers between New York and Bristol, Rhode Island in competition with the Fall River Line, which ran a similar service from New York to Fall River, Massachusetts (both Lines then linking up to railway lines that continued on to Boston.〔Covell, pp. 4-5.〕
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