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| | Steamship Curaçao, 1826 |
 | | The booklet The First Steamer to Cross the Atlantic; the record of the steamship Curaçao of the Royal Netherlands Navy, by F.B.C. Bradlee, Salem 1925, offers solutions to these differences in dates and particulars, and gives more details on the ship and its record voyage. |
 | | Confusion still reigns: The Guinness Book of World Records, 1978, states that Curaçao had been built in Dundee, Angus, Scotland in 1826, with a length of 127 foot. |
 | | Most sources will tell you that Savannah holds the record, but Savannah, while having a steam engine, was actually powered by sail almost all of the way. |
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