Robert Fulton the "Nautilus", the first practical submarine in history. Fulton is also credited with inventing some of the world's earliest naval torpedoes for use by the British Royal Navy. Fulton became interested in steam engines and the idea of steamboats in 1777 when he was around age 12 and visited state delegate William Henry of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who was interested in this topic. Henry had learned about inventor James Watt and his Watt steam engine on an earlier visit to England. Robert Fulton was born on a farm in Little Britain, Pennsylvania, on November 14, 1765. He had three sisters –
First Four Ships member of the Canterbury Association, and Port Levy's name was never changed. "Randolph", "Cressy", , and "Charlotte Jane" together carried an estimated 790 passengers. In addition, about another 60 worked their passage on the ships or deserted and disembarked. The first of the vessels, "Charlotte Jane", landed at Lyttelton Harbour on the morning of 16 December 1850. "Randolph" followed that afternoon. "Sir George Seymour" arrived on 17 December, followed ten days later by "Cressy" on 27 December. "Cressy" had taken longer because she had lost her foremast south of the Cape of Good Hope. The "colonists", who travelled in the