The early lead in practical steamboats established by William Symington in 1803 with the Charlotte Dundas in Scotland was not maintained, and the first steamboat passenger service was established in the United States in 1807 by Robert Fulton with his North River Steamboat on the Hudson River, using an engine manufactured in Birmingham.
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Summer cruising round the estuary remained popular, and the Woolwich Steam Packet Company provided vessels dating to 1834.
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