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at in Europe. Fulton built the first steamboat on the Western rivers, at Pittsburg, in 1811. The Orleans, of 100 tons, was a sternwheeler, took her first freight at Natchez for New Orleans, and plied for three or four years on the river between those points. She made her first trip from Pittsburg to New Orleans in 14 days. The next vessel was the Comet, of 25 tons, in 1814. She made three or four trips, was taken to pieces, and the engine set up in a cotton factory. The third was the Vesuvius, in 1814. She made a number of trips, but eventually exploded. Fulton afterward devoted his attention to a submarine battery, for which he obtained a patent in 1813. In 1814 a steam man-of-war was launched under the name of Fulton the first. He died in 1815 Bell's steamboat, the Comet, was built in Greenock, and plied in 1812 between Glasgow and Greenock. It had 40 feet keel, 10 1/2 feet beam, was fitted with a portable engine of 3 horsepower, and was propelled by paddle-wheels.