Steamboat Firsts

The following is a list of significant first and last occurrences during the steamboat era.

- First steamboat - General Smyth - 1816

- First Saint John to Fredericton trip - General Smyth - May 20/21, 1816

- Early trip to Grand Lake for coal - John Ward - 1832

- First steamboat to Hampton - Woodstock - 1832

- First high pressure steam engine - Novelty - 1836

- First steamboat to Woodstock - Novelty - 1837

- First iron hulled steamboat - Experiment - 1841

- First compound steam engine in the world - Reindeer - 1845

- First steamboat to Tobique - Reindeer - 1845

- First and only steamboat above Grand Falls - Madawaska - 1846

- First steam whistle - Madawaska - 1847

- Longest steamboat (210 feet) - City of Saint John - 1847

- First steamboat to Hatfield Point on Belleisle - Madawaska - around 1849

- First steamboat up the Oromocto - Carleton - 1850

- First boat with regular service to Grand Lake - Union - 1850's

- First stern wheeler - J.D.Pierce - 1852

- Longest serving steamboat (49 years) - May Queen - 1869-1918

- First propeller driven steamboat - Hampstead - 1894

- Last side wheeler steamboats - Oconee, D.J. Purdy - 1923

- Last stern wheeler - Hampton - 1930

- Last steam driven steamboat - Majestic - 1942

- First diesel powered river boat - D.J. Purdy I - 1924

- Last river boat - D.J. Purdy - 1946