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She was a flat-bottomed, stern-wheel paddle-steamer of 304 tons, made of 3 ⁄ 8 inch (9.5 mm) iron. She was 42.6 m long, 6 m beam, and drew only 0.9 m fully laden for travel on the Waikato River. With twin 30 hp engines and a 3.7 m (12 foot) stern wheel she had a speed of 9 knots.
The paddle steamer Piemonte (1904) operates on Lake Maggiore, and sister paddle steamers Patria (1926) and Concordia (1926) operate on Lake Como. Former paddle steamers Italia (1909) and Giuseppe Zanardelli (1903) operate on Lake Garda; their steam engines, unlike in the ships that sail on lakes Como and Maggiore, were replaced with diesel ...
PS Decoy is a privately owned paddle steamer.Built in 1986 in Fremantle, Decoy is a replica of the original paddle steamer that operated on the Swan River in the 1870s. She was used in the filming of the television mini-series Cloudstreet, which was based on Tim Winton's novel.
PS Pioneer was a Clyde-built paddle steamer launched in 1905, built by A. & J. Inglis at their Pointhouse shipyard for David MacBrayne. [1] She served as a passenger and mail ship between the Kintyre peninsula and the islands Islay, Jura and Gigha for over thirty years. [1]
PS Ruby loading cargo at Renmark, South Australia (c. 1910). The PS Ruby was built in 1907 at Morgan, South Australia by David Low Milne at the request of Captain Hugh King. . This Ruby was a replacement for the Paddle Steamer Ruby built in 1876, which had been modified several times and had sunk twice before having her engine removed in 1908 (subsequently being renamed the Barge Ra
A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine driving paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water. In antiquity, paddle wheelers followed the development of poles, oars and sails, whereby the first uses were wheelers driven by animals or humans.
The PS Gem is a retired side-wheel paddle steamer that was first launched in 1876 on the Murray River at Moama, New South Wales. She operated as a cargo and passenger steamer, regularly cruising between Morgan and Mildura. The Gem operated as a tourist passenger vessel during the 1930s and 1940s, and was retired in the early 1950s.
A paddle steamer that sank in 1866 in Newcastle Harbour, New South Wales, Australia with the loss of 60 lives. The sinking was one of the worst maritime disasters in Australian history. 1864: Carham: 158: 18 1865: PSS Waverley: 592: 25 Iron paddle steamer launched on Tuesday, 16 May 1865 with 2cyl oscillating steam engine with 280nhp.