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Lake steamers of North America include large, steam-powered non-government vessels with displacement hulls on American freshwater lakes excluding the Great Lakes. They may have served as passenger boats, freighters, mail-boats, log-boom vessels or a combination thereof. The construction of such vessels posed unique problems on water bodies ...
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 ...
P. P.A. Denny (ship) Padelford Riverboats. Phoenix (1815 steamer) Pirate (steamboat) Portland (shipwreck) President (1924 steamboat) Princess Louise (sidewheeler) Steamship Pulaski disaster.
PS Decoy is a privately owned paddle steamer, believed to be the only sea-going paddle steamer in the Southern Hemisphere. Built in 1986 in Fremantle, Decoy is a replica of the original paddle steamer that operated on the Swan River in the 1870s. She was used in the filming of the television mini-series Cloudstreet, which was based on Tim ...
An ice-breaking operation on the St. Joe River ca. 1908. In September 1908, the Red Collar steamship line operated seven steamers on Lake Coeur d'Alene, which was 27 miles, running mainly in a north-south direction. [ 2] The main city on the lake was Coeur d’Alene, at the northern, downstream end.
PS. Weeroona. The paddle steamer PS Weeroona was built by A. & J. Inglis, Pointhouse, Glasgow, Scotland and launched in 1910. It was initially owned by Huddart Parker Ltd, Melbourne. [2] During World War II, the ship was requisitioned for wartime service and used by the United States Army as a barracks and quarters ship through the war.
76 ft (23.2 m), exclusive of fantail. Amelia Wheaton was a stern-wheel driven steamboat that operated on Lake Coeur d'Alene and the St. Joe river from 1880 to 1892. This was the first steam-powered vessel to operate on the lake and the adjacent river. [1] [2] This boat was sometimes referred to as simply the Wheaton .
The second William Fawcett was a paddle steamer built in 1829 in Liverpool by Mottershead and Hayes. It was 74.3 feet (22.6 m) long, with a capacity of 48 tons. It had a 26 (or 30) horsepower engine supplied by Fawcett, Preston and Company. The ship worked as a ferry between Liverpool and Birkenhead for at least twenty years.