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A small number of steamboats are still used for tourist excursions in the 21st century. Delta Queen at Paducah, Kentucky, 2007. "Saloon of Mississippi River Steamboat Princess" (Marie Adrien Persac, 1861), showing elaborate interior of a prewar Mississippi steamboat
New Orleans was the first steamboat on the western waters of the United States.Her 1811–1812 voyage from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to New Orleans, Louisiana, on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers ushered in the era of commercial steamboat navigation on the western and mid-western continental rivers.
Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat, the North River Steamboat (also known as Clermont).
The title page of the edition in the Internet Archive promises all of this but only "forty-six maps" (not 60), and also claims a "List of All the Plantations on the Mississippi River." [8] "A Woman Swimming the Mississippi" refers to the Steamboat Directory account of the Ben Sherod disaster (White Cloud Kansas Chief, June 11, 1857)
Pages in category "Steamboats of the Mississippi River" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Sank at Rock Harbor, Rock Island, Ohio River next to Shippingport, Kentucky. Notes: The steamboat Enterprise demonstrated for the first time by her epic 2,200-mile voyage from New Orleans to Brownsville, Pennsylvania that steamboat commerce was practical on the Mississippi River and its tributaries. General characteristics; Length
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The George Washington's boilers exploded near Grand Gulf, Mississippi on January 14, 1852. [1] The death toll was approximately 20 killed, [2] with some counts running as high as 30. [1] The loss of the George Washington was one of the steamboat catastrophes described in Lloyd's Steamboat Directory, and Disasters on Western Waters. [3]