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  2. 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.

  3. List of extant paddle steamers - Wikipedia

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    PS Murray Princess, the largest of the paddle wheelers operating in Australia [diesel, not steam], is a recent build (1987). Murray Princess measures in around 210 ft (64 m) in length and 45 ft (14 m) in width (the maximum which can fit the standard size of locks 1 to 10), and has a remarkably shallow draft of 3 ft (0.9 m).

  4. Steamboats of the Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    Launched in 1811 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for a company organized by Robert Livingston and Robert Fulton, her designer, she was a large, heavy side-wheeler with a deep draft. [1] [4] [5] Her low-pressure Boulton and Watt steam engine operated a complex power train that was also heavy and inefficient. [1] Comet was the second Mississippi ...

  5. 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).

  6. P.A. Denny (ship) - Wikipedia

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    P.A. Denny is a 109-foot (33 m) long three-deck paddle wheel boat that cruised the Kanawha River in the eastern United States for nearly three decades as a tour boat.It provided excursions and parties, before leaving for Ohio in August 2004.

  7. Steamship - Wikipedia

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    The British side-wheel paddle steamer SS Great Western was the first steamship purpose-built for regularly scheduled trans-Atlantic crossings, starting in 1838. In 1836 Isambard Kingdom Brunel and a group of Bristol investors formed the Great Western Steamship Company to build a line of steamships for the Bristol-New York route. [ 14 ]

  8. Steamboat - Wikipedia

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    In Austria the paddle-wheeler Gisela (1871) (250 passengers) of 1871 vintage continues in service on Traunsee. The paddle-wheeler Hohentwiel of 1913 is the oldest running passenger ship on the Lake of Constance. Pakjesboot 12 arrives in The Netherlands. In The Netherlands, a steamboat is used for the annual Sinterklaas celebration. According to ...

  9. Western Engineer - Wikipedia

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    Western Engineer was built at the Allegheny Arsenal in Pittsburgh, after Major Long's design and under his supervision. The paddle wheel was placed in the stern, the steam engine hidden below the waterline, the vessel was heavily armed and had acquired a peculiar appearance intended to inspire fear and awe among the Plains Indians. At the very ...

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