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The Montana was a Missouri River stern-wheel steamboat, one of three "mega-steamboats" (along with its sister boats the Wyoming and the Dakota) built in 1879 at the end of the steamboat era on the Missouri—when steamboats were soon to be supplanted by the nation's expanding railroad network. [1]
A typical river paddle steamer from the 1850s. Fall Line's steamer Providence, launched 1866 Finlandia Queen, a paddle-wheel ship from 1990s in Tampere, Finland [1]. A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine driving paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water.
It was named after another paddlewheel riverboat that was destroyed during the spring ice thaw in 1914. That boat was named after an Iroquois Indian chief named Hiawatha who was instrumental in bringing together the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy and lived in Pre-Columbian America.
The first was the Riverboat Cruises that ran from 1961 to 1963. Next came the Western Cruise from 1964 to 1986 and the Paddlewheel Excursions from 1987 to 2011.
Time table of the Delta Queen and the Delta King in their first season in 1927. The Delta Queen is an American sternwheel steamboat.She is known for cruising the major rivers that constitute the tributaries of the Mississippi River, particularly in the American South, although she began service in California on the Sacramento River delta for which she gets her name.
[14] [38] [70] In turn, the name Atlinto River literally means big lake water river. Aurora No. 2: U.S.A. #107359 1898 San Francisco, California 54 63 feet (19.2 m) Originally owned by Eugene A. Mantell (of San Francisco). At Bergman, Alaska on the Koyukuk River during the winter of 1898–1899. [26] [71] Sold to Alaska Commercial Co. and ...
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Two City gunboats were among the vessels that accompanied the Army on an expedition into Arkansas along the White River. During the Battle of St. Charles, on June 17, 1862, a Rebel battery at St. Charles, Arkansas, fired a shot that penetrated the casemate of USS Mound City and exploded her steam drum. The escaping steam killed or scalded ...