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2. Paddle steamer - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. List of extant paddle steamers - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Ticonderoga (steamboat) - Wikipedia

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   Ticonderoga is a museum ship and one of just two [a] remaining sidewheel passenger steamers with an intact walking beam engine of the type that powered countless thousands of American freight and passenger vessels on America's bays, lakes and rivers for more than a century.

5. Arabia (steamboat) - Wikipedia

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   The paddlewheel of Arabia is located at the Arabia Steamboat Museum in Kansas City.. The Arabia was built in 1853 around the Monongahela River in Brownsville, Pennsylvania.Its paddle wheels were 28 feet (8.5 m) across, and its steam boilers consumed approximately thirty cords of wood per day.

6. Steamship - Wikipedia

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   Great Western was an iron-strapped, wooden, side-wheel paddle steamer, with four masts to hoist the auxiliary sails. The sails were not just to provide auxiliary propulsion, but also were used in rough seas to keep the ship on an even keel and ensure that both paddle wheels remained in the water, driving the ship in a straight line.

7. HMS Terrible (1845) - Wikipedia

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   The engines of Terrible were made by Maudslay and Co. and were a similar pair as those on Retributution.They cost 41,250 GBP and each was rated at 400 nominal hp. The weight of the engines was 212 tons, the boilers 250 ton, the water in the boilers 138, the paddle wheels 44 and the coal boxes 16 tons, for a total of 560 tons.

8. Uncle Sam (1852 sidewheeler) - Wikipedia

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   Uncle Sam, was a side-wheel paddle steamer and the first steamboat on the Colorado River in 1852.. In November 1852, Uncle Sam, a 65-foot (20 m) long side-wheel paddle steamer was brought by the schooner Capacity from San Francisco to the Colorado River Delta by the next contractor to supply Fort Yuma, Captain James Turnbull.

9. PS Alexander Hamilton - Wikipedia

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   The steamer's propulsion system consisted of four Scotch marine boilers delivering steam to an inclined triple expansion engine that turned a crankshaft attached to feathering paddle-wheels on the port and starboard sides. She was the last of the great Day Line "side-wheelers", and the last of her kind to ply the Hudson River.