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A Mississippi River System -type riverboat, from an 1850s daguerrotype. A riverboat is a watercraft designed for inland navigation on lakes, rivers, and artificial waterways. They are generally equipped and outfitted as work boats in one of the carrying trades, for freight or people transport, including luxury units constructed for ...
The Thames skiff owes its origins to the clinker boat building technique, of over-lapping timber planking, that's known to have existed in the region from before the 6th century Anglo-Saxon Snape and Sutton Hoo ship burials. Many of the terms used for parts of the skiff are of Germanic origin – "tholes", "thwarts", [1] and "sax".
Keelboat. Barges twice: A long cigar-shaped keelboat passing a "flatboat" on the Ohio River. A keelboat is a riverine cargo-capable working boat, or a small- to mid-sized recreational sailing yacht. The boats in the first category have shallow structural keels, and are nearly flat-bottomed and often used leeboards if forced in open water, while ...
Wherry. A Norfolk wherry on the River Bure. A wherry is a type of boat that was traditionally used for carrying cargo or passengers on rivers and canals in England, and is particularly associated with the River Thames and the River Cam. They were also used on the Broadland rivers of Norfolk and Suffolk .
Along the river frontage to the south-east is the site of a Roman Villa. History [ edit ] A mill at Hambleden is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, when it was held by Queen Matilda and had a rent of 20 shillings/year, as well as a fishery that yielded 1,000 eels annually. [2]
This is a list of boat types. For sailing ships, see: List of sailing boat types
The River Dart Steamboat Co Ltd ( RDSC) and its predecessors, the Dartmouth Steam Packet Company and the Dartmouth and Torbay Steam Packet Company, were the major ferry and excursion boat operators on the River Dart in South Devon for 120 years, until the company's demise in 1976. The company was famous for its distinctive paddle steamers ...
Dartmouth Passenger Ferry. Coordinates: 50.3496°N 3.575191°W. The Dartmouth Passenger Ferry. Sister ships in the River Link fleet can be seen moored to the right. The Dartmouth Passenger Ferry, also known as the Dartmouth Steam Railway and Riverboat Company, is a passenger ferry that crosses the River Dart in the English county of Devon.