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2. 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 ...

3. Ticonderoga (steamboat) - Wikipedia

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   Ticonderoga is a museum ship and one of just two [a] remaining sidewheel passenger steamers with an intact walking beam engine of the type that powered countless thousands of American freight and passenger vessels on America's bays, lakes and rivers for more than a century.

4. Paddle steamer - Wikipedia

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   Left: Riveted steel paddle wheel from a sidewheeler paddle steamer on the lake of Lucerne Right: Detail of a steamer. The paddle wheel is a large steel framework wheel. The outer edge of the wheel is fitted with numerous, regularly spaced paddle blades (called floats or buckets). The bottom quarter or so of the wheel travels under water.

5. 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 ...

6. SS Republic (1853) - Wikipedia

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   Most of the hull of the ship is now gone, but the rudder, parts of the paddle wheel and the steam engine are still present. The search and recovery effort was depicted in a National Geographic Society TV documentary Civil War Gold .

7. 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.

8. Mainz (1929 ship) - Wikipedia

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   Mainz is a side-wheel paddle steamer for the Lower and Middle Rhine built in 1928/1929 for the Steamship Company for the Lower and Middle Rhine (DGNM), which was used by the Cologne-Düsseldorfer German Rhine Shipping in scheduled service on the Rhine.

9. 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.