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TRB FIRST OCEAN ESTEAMER.-The Savannah Republican copies Mr, Rush's account of the Anne. rican Steamship Savannah, and endorses it's accura- cS She was fitted up IN New York and sailed from Savannah on the 25th of May, 1919, for Liverpool. She then sailed for the Baltic, and the h'ng,t Swe- den, the Emperor of Russia, and others, werehigh- lv pleased with the enterprise. The King of Swe- den proposed 10 purchase the vessel, and ofel.d Capt. Rogers large sum fir her, payable in irOn, This proposition Captain Rogers did not consider hmsef authorised to accept. At St. Petersburg the Savannah visited by the Emperor Alexander, who expressed much qualifications, both verbally and in the form of presents 10 Capt. Rogers. One oi these presents an iron chair, is still in the posses sion of s. D. Duunins Esq. The Savannah after her return overhauled, her machinery and en- zine taken out, and she reftcd sailing vessel She subsequently made several voyages to N. York and Northern ports, and eventual wrecked oi Fire Place, south side. Of Long Island, in lhe gale o 5,h November, 1921, being then under command ol Capt. Holledge who had succeeded Capt. Rogers She was at the time of her wreck owned by Oliver Sturgcs, Esq The original stockholders lost every cent invested in the enterprise, and have only the honor for themselves and their city, of having been the first to demonstrate the practicablity of Ocean Steam Navigation.