• Thumbnail for Paddle steamer
    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...
    63 KB (7,488 words) - 18:42, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Steamship
    prefix designations of "PS" for paddle steamer or "SS" for screw steamer (using a propeller or screw). As paddle steamers became less common, "SS" is incorrectly...
    47 KB (5,783 words) - 03:17, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Steamboat
    sometimes use the prefix designation SS, S.S. or S/S (for 'Screw Steamer') or PS (for 'Paddle Steamer'); however, these designations are most often used for steamships...
    84 KB (10,139 words) - 20:38, 23 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for PS Waverley
    PS Waverley is the last seagoing passenger-carrying paddle steamer in the northern hemisphere. Built in 1946, she sailed from Craigendoran on the Firth...
    19 KB (1,856 words) - 13:18, 17 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Paddle
    used to propel a steamboat or paddle steamer. In a number of racquet sports (e.g. ping-pong and paddle ball), a "paddle" or "bat" is a short, solid racket...
    7 KB (935 words) - 18:56, 12 October 2024
  • ocean-faring ship Screw steamer, steamboat or ship that uses "screws" (propellers) Steam yacht, luxury or commercial yacht Paddle steamer, steamboat or ship...
    1 KB (194 words) - 21:38, 9 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for William Murdoch
    pneumatic tube message system, and worked on one of the first British paddle steamers to cross the English Channel. Murdoch built a prototype steam locomotive...
    36 KB (5,381 words) - 11:29, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Labouchere (paddle steamer)
    The Labouchere was a paddle steamer in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company, built in 1858 at Green's in Blackwall, London, England. Under the command...
    5 KB (572 words) - 08:49, 23 April 2024
  • The Rangiriri was a 19th-century paddle-steamer gunboat used on the Waikato River in New Zealand. It brought the first Pākehā settlers to Hamilton in 1864...
    8 KB (851 words) - 21:26, 23 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Paddle steamer Genève
    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...
    4 KB (327 words) - 17:03, 3 July 2022
  • Paddle boat may refer to: Paddle steamer or paddleboat, a boat propelled by a paddle wheel Pedalo, a boat propelled by pedalling with the feet A paddlecraft...
    303 bytes (77 words) - 06:39, 21 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Clyde steamer
    summer 2024. The PS Waverley, built in 1947, is the last sea-going paddle steamer in the world. This ship sails a full season of cruises every year from...
    9 KB (1,018 words) - 00:23, 7 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Echuca
    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...
    28 KB (2,629 words) - 10:43, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for PS Kingswear Castle
    PS Kingswear Castle (category Paddle steamers of the United Kingdom)
    PS Kingswear Castle is a steamship. She is a coal-fired river paddle steamer, dating from 1924 with engines from 1904. After running summer excursions...
    7 KB (568 words) - 00:45, 29 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pioneer (paddle-steamer)
    Pioneer was a 19th-century paddle-steamer gunboat used in New Zealand. Built in Sydney to the order of the New Zealand colonial government by the Australian...
    4 KB (422 words) - 09:03, 22 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for English Channel
    earliest seagoing voyages by steam ship. The paddle steamer Defiance, Captain William Wager, was the first steamer to cross the Channel to Holland, arriving...
    92 KB (8,806 words) - 06:25, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ozone (paddle steamer)
    Scotland. It could exceed 17 kts and is regarded as one of the finest paddle steamers ever built[citation needed]. Ozone was commissioned by the Bay Excursion...
    4 KB (275 words) - 12:36, 24 August 2021
  • Thumbnail for Dandy (paddle steamer)
    Dandy was a paddle-wheel steamer, built in England in 1823. The ship was bought in 1825 by a Danish businessman and employed on the route between Copenhagen...
    10 KB (871 words) - 08:49, 19 July 2021
  • Thumbnail for Paddle tire
    give no place for mud to stick. They work something like a paddle wheel on a paddle-steamer. Street legal mud tires are a compromise between large voids...
    4 KB (626 words) - 02:43, 15 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Falkland steamer duck
    and feet on the water in a motion reminiscent of an old paddle steamer. The Falkland steamer duck is one of only two bird species endemic to the Falkland...
    16 KB (2,092 words) - 22:03, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Paddle wheel
    with the screw-driven Rattler pulling the paddle steamer Alecto backward at 2.5 knots (4.6 km/h). The paddle wheel is a device for converting between rotary...
    2 KB (298 words) - 01:15, 17 October 2022
  • Thumbnail for Screw steamer
    contradistinction to the paddle steamer, a still earlier form of steamship that was largely, but not entirely, superseded by the screw steamer. Many famous ships...
    3 KB (296 words) - 00:52, 2 November 2024
  • The Columbia, sometimes called the Steamer Columbia, was a paddle steamer excursion boat on which 87 people died, on the Illinois River on July 5, 1918...
    12 KB (871 words) - 08:48, 22 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth
    engaged with issues of urbanism, industry, railroads and steam power. The paddle steamer "Ariel" was formerly called the "Arrow", being built in 1821–22. In...
    9 KB (899 words) - 09:45, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Steam frigate
    Steam frigate (redirect from Paddle frigate)
    not meant to stand in the line of battle. The first such ships were paddle steamers. Later on the invention of screw propulsion enabled construction of...
    23 KB (3,274 words) - 09:18, 11 June 2024
  • Retrieved 2021-06-25. Waimarie, Paddle steamer. "The Vesel | Paddle steamer Waimarie | Whanganui | New Zealand". Paddle steamer Waimarie. Retrieved 2021-09-29...
    266 KB (8,398 words) - 14:15, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Fawcett (paddle steamer)
    William Fawcett was the name given to two paddle steamers that operated in British waters from the late 1820s to the mid-1840s. The first ship, constructed...
    6 KB (446 words) - 13:16, 1 July 2024
  • 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, by...
    4 KB (356 words) - 06:06, 7 July 2022
  • Thumbnail for Skibladner
    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...
    6 KB (474 words) - 15:55, 6 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bristol Channel
    each summer by the PS Waverley, the last seagoing paddle steamer in the world, built in 1947. The steamer provides pleasure trips between the Welsh and English...
    25 KB (3,085 words) - 19:28, 7 November 2024