- Pennsylvania, in 1814 as an
improvement over the less
efficient side-
wheelers. The
second stern-
wheeler built,
Washington of 1816, had two
decks and
served as the...
- A
paddle wheel is a form of
waterwheel or
impeller in
which a
number of
paddles are set
around the
periphery of the
wheel. It has
several uses, of which...
- USS
Collier was a
stern wheel steamer built at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1864 as the
Allen Collier and
purchased by the
United States Navy on 7
December of...
- Maid of Iowa, 1842
steamboat A
stern-
wheel rafter/packet
named Iowa
plied the
Mississippi River from 1865–1900. A
stern-
wheel towboat named Iowa operated...
- M/V
Mississippi is a
United States Army
Corps of
Engineers (USACE)
towboat operating on the
Mississippi River. It is the
largest diesel towboat on the...
-
service to San
Francisco from the East Bay.
Service started with the
stern-
wheel Sacramento River packet General Sutter and the
small iron
steam ferry...
- USS
Abeona was a
mercantile stern wheel steamer that
traded on the
Mississippi between 1831 and her
destruction by fire in 1872,
except for two years...
- Ribeirão
Vermelho and Capetinga, and the
railway operated a
fleet of 6
stern-
wheel paddle steamers,
together with
barges and launches. The
service was halted...
-
Wilder must
pilot a stolen, wood-burning, flat-bottomed, 19th
Century stern-
wheel riverboat. He will need to
utilize his
detailed memory of the
China coast...
-
Confederate waterways. On 24
March 1863, the
Union Navy
purchased Argosy - a
stern-
wheel river steamer built in late 1862 and
early 1863 at Monongahela, Pennsylvania...
