According to Enos the keel boat Lewis and Clark had weighed between 8 and 10 tons empty.

Pirogue boat lewis and clark. Lewis pirogue had a bronze cannon on a swivel just like the one on the keelboat. It was 55 feet long and 8 feet wide with a 3- to 4-foot draft. During the Expedition there were normally five or seven men manning each pirogue.

With a load and a crew it only. Until the Corps switched over to the canoes when they got closer to the rapidsThe Red. After linking up with Clark the expedition left Clarksville Indiana Territory on 26 October 1803 with the keelboat and two smaller flat-bottom boats called by their French name pirogue.

I n a letter to Lewis who was in St. In staying historically accurate the re-enactors white pirogue replica weighs in at about the same weight and like the original that Lewis and Clark used it will displace only 8 inches of water when it is empty. The Corps also had two rowboat like boats called pirogues that were used for just about the entire trip.

The Museum is an educational attraction and unique historic destination. The boat was the expeditions main vessel until the spring of 1805 when it. The pirogues were lighter weighing around two-and-a-half tons each.

The captains revealed more details in their Detachment Orders of May. Like the keelboat the pirogue saved the time and the energy of the men because they did not have to walk. This essay examines their canoeing as well as their canoes.

Lewis and Clarks keelboat was built as a galley in Pittsburgh in 1803 for the Lewis and Clark Expedition after detailed specifications by Meriwether Lewis. Louis on May 13 1804 Clark had written from Camp Dubois that their flotilla would depart the next day in the Boat of 22 oars a large Perogue of 7 oares manned by 8 Frenchmen and a Second Perogue of 6 oars Complete with Sails14 c. Lewis used the terms pirogue and canoe interchangeably when referring to the expeditions two pirogues.