Tag: blanket boat

Haupt, United States Military Railway Department. Construction and Transportation, No. 18 says: Expedients for Crossing Streams.-No. 18 represents blanket boats on the Potomac, at some distance from shore. A pair of boats carries four men, and a single small boat, made of an ordinary blanket, one man, who is sitting on the bottom. Boats of blankets of the ordinary size are too small. They have buoyancy enough to carry a man, but he must be very expert in the use of a canoe, or he will upset.

Haupt, United States Military Railway Department. Construction and Transportation, No. 19 says: Expedients for Crossing Streams.-No. 19 represents the frame of a blanket boat of proper size. The outside dimensions are, height 15 inches, breadth 33 inches, length 69 inches. The rails of the frame are one inch and a half, round or square; the connecting pieces one inch, round or square. The material may be obtained from fence rails, poles or split timber.