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2. Paddle steamer - Wikipedia

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   Finlandia Queen, a paddle-wheel ship from 1990s in Tampere, Finland [ 1] 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 ...

3. Qianli chuan - Wikipedia

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   Modern reconstruction of a Tang dynasty paddle-wheel ship at the Macau Maritime Museum. Qianli chuan ( Chinese : 千里船; pinyin : qiānlǐchuán; lit. 'thousand league boat' [ 1 ][ 2 ]) were paddle wheel boats used in medieval China. The boats were driven by human pedaling and were able to cruise hundreds of kilometers per day with no wind ...

4. Naval history of China - Wikipedia

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   Paddle-wheel boats were actually developed by the Chinese independently in the 5th–6th centuries, only a century after their first surviving mention in Roman sources (see Paddle steamer), [5] though that method of propulsion had been abandoned for many centuries and only recently reintroduced before the war.

5. Ticonderoga (steamboat) - Wikipedia

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   The steamboat Ticonderoga is one of two remaining side-paddle-wheel passenger steamers with a vertical beam engine of the type that provided freight and passenger service on America's bays, lakes and rivers from the early 19th to the mid-20th centuries. Commissioned by the Champlain Transportation Company, Ticonderoga was built in 1906 at the ...

6. Far West (steamship) - Wikipedia

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   Far West. (steamship) Far West was a shallow draft sternwheel steamboat (or riverboat) plying the upper Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers in the Dakota and Montana Territories, in the years from 1870 to 1883. By being involved in historic events in the Indian Wars of the western frontier, the Far West became an iconic symbol of the shallow draft ...

7. Moyie (sternwheeler) - Wikipedia

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   Designated. 1958. The Moyie is a paddle steamer sternwheeler that operated on Kootenay Lake in British Columbia from 1898 until 1957. After her nearly sixty years of service, she was sold to the town of Kaslo and restored. Today she is a National Historic Site of Canada [ 1][ 2] and the world's oldest intact passenger sternwheeler.