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2. Steamboats of the Mississippi - Wikipedia

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   Steamboats played a major role in the 19th-century development of the Mississippi River and its tributaries, allowing practical large-scale transport of passengers and freight both up- and down-river. Using steam power, riverboats were developed during that time which could navigate in shallow waters as well as upriver against strong currents.

3. Riverboat casino - Wikipedia

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   Riverboat casino. A riverboat casino is a type of casino on a riverboat found in several states in the United States with frontage on the Mississippi River and its tributaries, or along the Gulf Coast. Several states authorized this type of casino in order to enable gambling but limit the areas where casinos could be constructed; it was a type ...

4. Gateway Clipper Fleet - Wikipedia

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   The original riverboat was Gateway Clipper, which set sail in 1958. By the mid-1960s, the fleet was composed of three craft, Gateway Clipper, Party Liner, and Good Ship Lollipop. In 1999 it added its fifth ship. In 2008 the Gateway Clipper Fleet celebrated its 50th year of sailing on the Three Rivers. In 2013, the fleet added its sixth ship ...

5. A trip within a trip: What to know about Princess Cruises ...

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   Princess Cruises' 360 immerses guests in the cuisine of the Mediterranean. On a cruise earlier this month, I took a food tour of the Mediterranean while sailing just off the coast of California.

6. Natchez (boat) - Wikipedia

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   She is operated by the New Orleans Steamboat Company and docks at the Toulouse Street Wharf. Day trips include harbor and dinner cruises along the Mississippi River. One of the two tandem-compound steam engines on the Steamboat Natchez. Each engine produces 1600 horsepower and has the dimensions 7 feet (2.1 m) by 30 inches (0.76 m) by 15 inches ...

7. List of U.S. flagged cruise ships - Wikipedia

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   List of current U.S. flagged cruise ships and river boats in the United States. Due to the Passenger Vessel Services Act of 1886 , these are the only overnight passenger ships currently eligible to sail solely between U.S. ports without the need for a foreign port stopover.

8. Sultana (steamboat) - Wikipedia

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   Sultana was a commercial side-wheel steamboat which exploded and sank on the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865, killing 1,547 people in what remains the worst maritime disaster in United States history. Constructed of wood in 1863 by the John Litherbury Boatyard [ 1 ] in Cincinnati, Ohio, Sultana was intended for the lower Mississippi cotton ...

9. SS Admiral (1907) - Wikipedia

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   SS Admiral (1907) SS Admiral was an excursion steamboat that operated on the Mississippi River from the Port of St. Louis, Missouri, from 1940 to 1978. The ship was briefly re-purposed as an amusement center in 1987 and converted to a gambling venue called President Casino, [1] also known as Admiral Casino, [2] in the 1990s.