• Surprise was the first paddle steamer, and the first steam powered vessel, built and run in Australia. It was built possibly on the Parramatta River,...
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  • ship Surprise (1813 privateer), a schooner launched in the U.S. that captured more than 30 British vessels before wrecking in 1815 Surprise (paddle steamer)...
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    MS Genève is the oldest paddle ship of Lake Geneva. Originally a steamship, she became diesel powered in the 1930s. Genève was built in 1896 by Sulzer...
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    The Alexander Arbuthnot is the last paddle steamer built as a working boat during the riverboat trade era on the Murray River, Australia. The ship was...
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    Skibladner (category Paddle steamers)
    oldest paddle steamer in timetabled service, and the only paddle steamer operating in Norway, sailing on lake Mjøsa. Skibladner is a side-wheel paddle steamer...
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    home to the largest paddle steamer fleet in the world, which includes the world's oldest operating wooden hulled paddle steamer, PS Adelaide built in...
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    Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft. In contrast to most other Swiss paddle steamers, the most striking features of this vessel and its sister ship Stadt...
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  • and the Princess of Wales, Lady Diana at the re-commissioning of the paddle steamer 'Adelaide', Echuca, Victoria, 29 October, 1985, 3, 1985, retrieved 19...
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    City of Ainsworth was a paddle steamer sternwheeler that worked on Kootenay Lake in British Columbia, Canada from 1892 to 1898. In November 1898, she sank...
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    Sophia Jane (category Paddle steamers of Australia)
    River. Sophia Jane became an operational steamer before Surprise and was "the first steamer to turn a paddle-wheel in Sydney Harbour." At Sydney the vessel's...
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    PS Emmylou (category Paddle steamers of Australia)
    PS Emmylou is a paddle steamer operated by Murray River Paddlesteamers in Echuca, used for both day and overnight accommodation cruises. Built in 1980...
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    Tudor Vladimirescu (1854) (category Paddle steamers)
    Tudor Vladimirescu is the oldest operational paddle steamer in the world, built in 1854 as a tugboat for the Austrian company DDSG. Currently, the ship...
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    32nd tourist ship on Lake Zürich. In contrast to most other Swiss paddle steamers, the most striking features of this vessel and its sister ship Stadt...
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    PS Herald (category Paddle steamers of Australia)
    The Herald was an iron paddle steamer imported as frames from the United Kingdom and assembled in 1855 by Richard Johnson in Sydney Harbour, New South...
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    PS Oscar W (category Paddle steamers of Australia)
    The PS Oscar W is a restored paddle steamer located at Goolwa in South Australia. (Frans) Oscar "Charlie" Wallin (1867 – 16 August 1934), born in Sweden...
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    PS Success (category Paddle steamers of Australia)
    PS Success is a historic paddle steamer in Victoria, Australia. Originally built as a snagging steamer in June 1877, it is currently being restored by...
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    PV Coonawarra (category Paddle steamers of Australia)
    along the Murray, Darling, and Murrumbidgee Rivers, being towed behind paddle steamers such as PS Maggie, PS Pride of the Murray, and PS Goldsbrough. In the...
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    PV Pyap (category Paddle steamers of Australia)
    launched as a barge in July 1896 at Mannum, the Pyap was completed as a paddle steamer in late 1897 and operated on the Murray River. In 1970, the Pyap was...
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    SS Bessemer (category Paddle steamers)
    Bessemer Saloon) was an experimental Victorian cross-channel passenger paddle steamer with a swinging cabin, a concept devised by the engineer and inventor...
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  • ")untitled)". The Hull Packet. No. 2424. Hull. 3 May 1831. "British paddle steamer 'Pluto' (1831)". Threedecks. Retrieved 3 October 2023. "Shipping Intelligence"...
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    PS Lincoln Castle (category Paddle steamers of the United Kingdom)
    side-wheel paddle steamer, which ferried passengers across the Humber from the 1941 until 1978. She was the last coal-fired paddle steamer still in regular...
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    ferries were sail and/or oar powered, but by the mid-19th century, paddle steamers were well established. Double-ended ferries became common as they did...
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  • Egypt, they are surprised by the jilted Jackie. The Doyles pretend to take a train to Alexandria, then board the Nile paddle steamer, S.S. Karnak. Holidaying...
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    PS Enterprise (category Paddle steamers of Australia)
    Australian paddle steamer, currently owned by the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. It is still operational, and one of the oldest working paddle steamers...
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    Japanese corvette Kasuga (category Paddle steamers)
    Kasuga Maru (春日丸, Vernal Sun) was a Japanese wooden paddle steamer warship of the Bakumatsu and early Meiji period, serving with the navy of Satsuma Domain...
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    PS Adelaide (category Paddle steamers of Australia)
    PS Adelaide is the oldest wooden hulled paddle steamer still operating anywhere in the world. (Hjejlen from Denmark is older and has sailed since 1861...
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  • Experiment (1832 ship) (category Paddle steamers of Australia)
    services between Sydney Cove and Parramatta began in 1831 with paddle steamers Surprise and Sophia Jane servicing the route. Both boats were financially...
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    PS Pevensey (category Paddle steamers of Australia)
    PS Pevensey is a historic paddle steamer, with its original steam engine, in the fleet of steamers at Echuca Wharf, Victoria, Australia. Built in 1911...
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    coastal trade to Newcastle. 1 June 1831 - The first Australian-built paddle steamer, Surprise, starts regular service to Parramatta. She has limited financial...
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    PV Amphibious (category Paddle steamers of Australia)
    diesel-powered paddle vessel based in Echuca, Victoria. She was constructed in Melbourne in 1875 by Bevan & Cooke, and started life as a screw steamer in 1876...
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