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Definition of Ferryboats

Ferryboat
Ferryboat Fer"ry*boat`, n. A vessel for conveying passengers, merchandise, etc., across streams and other narrow waters.

Meaning of Ferryboats from wikipedia

- A ferry is a boat that transports p****engers, and occasionally vehicles and cargo, across a body of water. A small p****enger ferry with multiple stops...
- A cable ferry (including the types chain ferry, swing ferry, floating bridge, or punt) is a ferry that is guided (and in many cases propelled) across a...
- support the paddlewheels and upper decks. Although a number of large ferryboats survive in the US, Eureka is the only one with a wooden hull. She is one...
- Berkeley was one of several ferryboats of the Southern Pacific Railroad that for sixty years operated on San Francisco Bay between the Oakland Pier and...
- transfer to an elevated station.: 100  Two 225-foot (69 m) steel-hulled ferryboats were built during this time and delivered in 1888. These boats were Erastus...
- Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W). The company had a fleet of six ferryboats when it ceased operations in 1967. These vessels took their names from...
- Publications. ISBN 0-916374-27-0. Harlan, George H. (1967). San Francisco Bay Ferryboats. Berkeley, California: Howell-North Books. Sappers, Vernon J. (2007)....
- the Central Pacific Railroad, the Alameda was placed in the pool of CP ferryboats and served in various locations. The initial order for locomotives was...
- Building in 1970. Today Golden Gate Ferry operates modern high speed ferryboats between San Francisco and four different landings in Marin County. In...
- ISBN 978-1-4396-4706-6. Cudahy, Brian J. (1990). Over and Back: The History of Ferryboats in New York Harbor. Fordham University Press. p. 408. ISBN 978-0-8232-1245-3...