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Much later, starting in the early 1980s, a number of replica steamboats have been built, for use as tour boats in river cruise service on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. Although still configured as sternwheelers, they are non-steam-driven boats or ships, also called motor vessels , powered instead by diesel engines .
Belle of Louisville is a steamboat owned and operated by the city of Louisville, Kentucky, and moored at its downtown wharf next to the Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere during its annual operational period. The steamboat claims itself the "most widely traveled river steamboat in American history."
The Steamship Historical Society of America (SSHSA) is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1935 as a means of bringing together amateur and professional maritime historians in the waning years of steamboat services in the northeastern United States. The interests of SSHSA have since expanded to encompass engine-powered vessels ...
Hunter, Louis C (1949), Steamboats on the Western rivers: an economic and technological history, Harvard University Press, hdl:2027/heb.00403. The standard history of American river boats. Paskoff, Paul F (2007), Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821–1860, ISBN 978-0-8071-3268-5.
For the next twenty years, Hunter was engaged in research for Steamboats on the Western Rivers. [2] In 1952, his scholarship was acknowledged when he was awarded the Dunning Prize by the American Historical Association. [2] In 1937, Hunter joined the faculty of American University where he was a professor of history until his retirement in 1966.
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The historical roots of the prototypical Mississippi steamboat, or Western Rivers steamboat, can be traced to designs by easterners like Oliver Evans, John Fitch, Daniel French, Robert Fulton, Nicholas Roosevelt, James Rumsey, and John Stevens.
The Sternwheeler Jean is a historic steamboat that operated on the Willamette River, in the U.S. state of Oregon.It is a 168-foot (51 m)-long tugboat (counting its paddle wheels, now removed), built in 1938 for the Western Transportation Company (a former Crown Zellerbach subsidiary) and in service until 1957. [3]