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  2. Steamboat - Wikipedia

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    The St. Marys Challenger, launched in 1906, is the oldest operating steamship in the United States. She runs a Skinner Marine Unaflow 4-cylinder reciprocating steam engine as her power plant. [46] Women started to become steamboat captains in the late 19th century.

  3. Category:Steamboats of the United States - Wikipedia

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    American steamboat people (13 P) A. Steamboats of Alaska (14 P) Steamboats of Arizona (1 C, 5 P) C. Steamboats of California (2 C, 30 P) Steamboats of Chesapeake Bay ...

  4. Sabino (steamer) - Wikipedia

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    Sabino (pronounced Sah-BYE-No) is a small wooden, coal-fired steamboat built in 1908 and located at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut. It is one of only two surviving members of the American mosquito fleet, and it was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1992. [2] [3] It is America's oldest regularly operating coal-powered ...

  5. Belle of Louisville - Wikipedia

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    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."

  6. Mary Millicent Miller - Wikipedia

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    The daughter of a steamboat engineer she was immersed into a life on the river. On August 3, 1865, she married widower George 'Old Natural' Miller; a well respected steamboat builder and pilot. [1] Together they had four children Lula Ann, Georgia, Emily, and Norman as well as three children from George's previous marriages. [2]

  7. Delta Queen - Wikipedia

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    Time table of the Delta Queen and the Delta King in their first season in 1927. 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.

  8. Steamboats of California - Wikipedia

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    According to the January 11, 1854, Sacramento Daily Union, the first steamboat in California, besides the Sitka, was the Pioneer brought out in pieces from Boston, and put together at the West Point, in Benicia, and launched there in August, 1849, by the "Edward Everett Company". She was a side-wheeler, 70 feet in length, 25 feet beam, with an ...

  9. List of Murray–Darling steamboats - Wikipedia

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    2. Bracketed numbers after some boats' names are intended for clarity and have no meaning outside this article. 3. Dates of service alongside names of boats and their owners and captains are from contemporary newspaper reports, which varied greatly in depth of information supplied. They would therefore not necessarily reflect the vessel or ...