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  2. Arabia (steamboat) - Wikipedia

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    The paddlewheel of Arabia is located at the Arabia Steamboat Museum in Kansas City.. The Arabia was built in 1853 around the Monongahela River in Brownsville, Pennsylvania.Its paddle wheels were 28 feet (8.5 m) across, and its steam boilers consumed approximately thirty cords of wood per day.

  3. List of extant paddle steamers - Wikipedia

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    The paddle steamer Piemonte (1904) operates on Lake Maggiore, and sister paddle steamers Patria (1926) and Concordia (1926) operate on Lake Como. Former paddle steamers Italia (1909) and Giuseppe Zanardelli (1903) operate on Lake Garda; their steam engines, unlike in the ships that sail on lakes Como and Maggiore, were replaced with diesel ...

  4. Paddle steamer - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Far West (steamship) - Wikipedia

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    From this vantage point the river pilot (who has often the captain, in a smaller steamship like the "Far West") guided the boat, while also regulating the power applied to the paddle wheel. The pilot guided the boat using a large spoked wheel, which was connected by a series of ropes or chains to the rudders at the rear of the boat.

  6. Steamship - Wikipedia

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    The side-wheel paddle steamer SS Great Western, the first purpose-built transatlantic steamship, on its maiden voyage in 1838 The American ship SS Savannah first crossed the Atlantic Ocean arriving in Liverpool, England, on June 20, 1819, although most of the voyage was actually made under sail.

  7. PS Gem - Wikipedia

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    The PS Gem is a retired side-wheel paddle steamer that was first launched in 1876 on the Murray River at Moama, New South Wales. She operated as a cargo and passenger steamer, regularly cruising between Morgan and Mildura. The Gem operated as a tourist passenger vessel during the 1930s and 1940s, and was retired in the early 1950s.

  8. HMS Terrible (1845) - Wikipedia

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    The engines of Terrible were made by Maudslay and Co. and were a similar pair as those on Retributution.They cost 41,250 GBP and each was rated at 400 nominal hp. The weight of the engines was 212 tons, the boilers 250 ton, the water in the boilers 138, the paddle wheels 44 and the coal boxes 16 tons, for a total of 560 tons.

  9. Chrysopolis (sidewheeler) - Wikipedia

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    Launched in 1860, it was a side-wheel paddle steamer of 245 feet long with a 40-foot beam, displacing 1050 tons. It was equipped with a 1,357 horsepower, single cylinder, vertical-beam engine powered by two 32 ton boilers. It had two side-wheels 32 feet in diameter with 8 foot buckets (the wooden blades of a paddle wheel).