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2. Steamboats of the Mississippi - Wikipedia

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   Launched in 1814 at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, for the Monongahela and Ohio Steam Boat Company, she was a dramatic departure from Fulton's boats. [1] The Enterprise - featuring a high-pressure steam engine, a single stern paddle wheel, and shoal draft - proved to be better suited for use on the Mississippi compared to Fulton's boats.

3. 41-foot Utility Boat, Large - Wikipedia

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   41-foot Utility Boat, Large. The USCG Ohio Boat, or UTB gynt, was a standard utility boat used by the United States Coast Guard for a variety of inshore and offshore missions. By 2014 all boats of this class had been retired, and replaced with the larger Response Boat – Medium (RB-M) in the USCG.

4. SS Ohio (1940) - Wikipedia

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   SS. Ohio. (1940) SS Ohio was an oil tanker built for The Texas Company (later Texaco ). The ship was launched on 20 April 1940 at the Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. in Chester, Pennsylvania. The United Kingdom requisitioned it to re-supply the island fortress of Malta during the Second World War.

5. Crash boats of World War II - Wikipedia

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   Crash boats, at the time known as "aircraft rescue boats" or "air-sea rescue boats", were United States high speed boats built to rescue the crew of downed Allied aircraft during World War II. US boats came from the observation of British experience with high-speed launches (HSL) by the Royal Air Force Marine Branch during the Battle of Britain ...

6. Steamboat - Wikipedia

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   The new boat was 56 ft (17.1 m) long, 18 ft (5.5 m) wide and 8 ft (2.4 m) depth, with a wooden hull. The boat was built by John Allan and the engine by the Carron Company. The first sailing was on the canal in Glasgow on 4 January 1803, with Lord Dundas and a few of his relatives and friends on board. The crowd were pleased with what they saw ...

7. Majestic (riverboat) - Wikipedia

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   Majestic. (riverboat) /  38.95500°N 84.28167°W  / 38.95500; -84.28167. The Majestic is a historic riverboat that is moored on the Ohio River at Manchester, Ohio. Built in 1923, she was the last floating theater to be built in the United States, and one of its longest-lived. She was declared a National Historic Landmark on December 20, 1989.