Name: Mrs. Ward EXAMPLE
Corps of Discovery Research
Main Topic: Keelboat
Who
1.Lewis drew up the plans for the keelboat and Clark made detailed sketches of it along the route.
2.The corps of discovery
3.it took a minimum of 22 men to navigate the boat
What
1.55 feet long and 8 feet wide
2.single mass and 1 square sail
3. They were large flat-bottomed boats with a heavy timber (the keel) running down the center of the
whole length of the boat to absorb the shock of running into an underwater obstruction. Before the
advent of the steamboat, keelboats were the dominant boat for river travel.
Where
5. The Missouri and Ohio Rivers
2. Corps of Discovery sent its keelboat back down river in the spring of 1805 to St. Louis loaded with
scientific artifacts for President Jefferson back in D.C.
3.Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was where it was made
Why
1.keelboat carried 10 tons of supplies
2.It was a current day “cargo boat”
3.
When
1.Built in Pittsburgh in summer of 1803
2.Aug 31, 1803 Lewis begins 981 mile voyage down Ohio River
3.May 14th, 1804 keelboat leave camp Dubois and heads up the Missouri river.
How
1.Keelboats are rowed, sailed, poled like a raft, or towed from a riverbank
2.There were 20, 10 foot oars that were rowed by the corps
3.very difficult because the rivers contained rocks, downed trees, and sandbars.
Interesting 1.lewis and Clark refer to the keelboat as a boat 90 times and a barge 32 times in their journals
Facts
2. captains' cabin (sometimes called the "cuddy cabin," although never by Lewis or Clark), situated on
the after deck, contained two bunk-beds, a bench, a desk to hold a portable writing-desk with
inkwell, shelves for the captains' library, and instruments such as the Hadley's quadrant (or octant)
and sextant, Clark's two-pole chain, and the log line, reel and ship. The six cabin windows shown in
Clark's sketch (Figure 2), three on each side,
3.there was a one pound cannon mounted on the bow to the keelboat.
4.The keelboat wasn’t the only boat..there were also two pirogues (flat bottomed wooden dugout
boats that resembled canoes, and several canoes.
5.
Journal entry mentioning your main idea: Lewis to Jefferson Summer 1803
The person who contracted to build my boat . . . pleads his having been disappointed in procuring timber, but says he has now supplied himself with the necessary materials, and
that she shall be completed by the last of this month; however in this I am by no means sanguine, nor do I believe from the progress he makes that she will be ready before the 5th
of August.; I visit him every day, and endeavour by every means in my power to hasten the completion of the work: I have prevailed on him to engage more hands, and he tells me
that two others will join him in the morning, if so, he may probably finish the boat by the time he mentioned.12