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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.
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. P.A. Denny is now [when?] based in Cincinnati, Ohio operated by the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation ...
Octopus (yacht) Octopus. (yacht) Octopus is a 126-metre (413 ft) megayacht built for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. She is one of the world's largest yachts. Launched in 2003 at a cost of $200 million, [1] Octopus is a private vessel that has been loaned out for exploration projects, scientific research and rescue missions.
This is a list of boat types. For sailing ships , see: List of sailing boat types This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
[4] [14] As a night boat, the vessel was fitted with 200 sleeping berths. [3] [14] Her saloon decorations included a lifesize portrait of the steamer's namesake, donated by his friends, [3] who also gifted the vessel an elegant piano with a value in excess of $600 (equivalent to $22,000 in 2023). [9] [15]
The Tayana 37 is a Taiwanese sailboat that was designed by American Robert Perry as a cruiser and first built in 1976. [1][2][3] The design was originally commissioned by Will Eckert, of Flying Dutchman Yachts and C.T. Chen, of Ta Yang Yacht Building. The latter bought the rights to the design and commenced production as the CT 37.
Yacht Eos moored in Dartmouth, UK, Feb. 2008 Eos at the Lürssen shipyard. The Eos is a three-masted Bermuda rigged schooner.The ship is one of the largest private sailing yachts in the world, and as of 2009 was owned by movie and media billionaire Barry Diller, [3] husband of fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg.
127 m (417 ft) Capacity. 18 passengers. Crew. 40. Koru is a luxury custom superyacht owned by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon. The vessel was built in the Netherlands by Oceanco starting in 2021, and delivered in April 2023. [3][4][5] It is a three-masted sailing yacht 127 meters (417 ft) long and reported to have cost $500 million or more ...