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A bateau or batteau is a shallow-draft, flat-bottomed boat which was used extensively across North America, especially in the colonial period and in the fur trade.It was traditionally pointed at both ends but came in a wide variety of sizes.
Alternate spellings of bateau include batteau, batoe, and the plurals bateaux, batoes, and batteaux. Bateau is the French word for boat . In the colonial days, bateaux were used extensively in rivers throughout the eastern part of the United States , but the coverage of this article is confined to those that plied the James River in the ...
The term Columbia boat was used in HBC inventories, to distinguish them from other types of river craft. [9] Although French-Canadian voyageurs used the term batteau (modern spelling bateau), which is simply the French word for boat, Company journals and correspondence always used the term boat, not batteaux or bateau.
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The French bateau type boat was a small flat bottom boat with straight sides used as early as 1671 on the Saint Lawrence River. [41] The common coastal boat of the time was the wherry and the merging of the wherry design with the simplified flat bottom of the bateau resulted in the birth of the dory. Anecdotal evidence exists of much older ...
The Durham boat was a large wooden, flat-bottomed, double-ended freight boat used on interior waterways in North America beginning in the middle of the 18th century. They were replaced by larger, more efficient canal boats during the canal era beginning with the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825.
A boat is a watercraft of a large range of types and sizes, but generally smaller than a ship, which is distinguished by its larger size or capacity, its shape, or its ability to carry boats. Small boats are typically used on inland waterways such as rivers and lakes , or in protected coastal areas.
A Bateau Mouche on the Seine near Pont Neuf Bateau Mouche seats. Bateaux Mouches (French pronunciation: [bato muʃ]) are open, long, and often glass-covered excursion boats that provide visitors to Paris with a view of the center of the city from along the river Seine.