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    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...
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    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...
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    PS Waverley is the last seagoing passenger-carrying paddle steamer in the world. Built in 1946, she sailed from Craigendoran on the Firth of Clyde to Arrochar...
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    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...
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  • The Rangiriri was a 19th-century paddle-steamer gunboat used on the Waikato River in New Zealand. It brought the first Pakeha settlers to Hamilton in 1864...
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    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...
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    used to propel a steamboat (i.e. paddle steamer). A number of racquet sports (e.g. ping-pong and paddle ball), a "paddle" or "bat" is a short, solid racket...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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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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    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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    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...
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    to the rear of the hardstanding. A major feature of the site is the paddle steamer Ryde, currently in a very poor state. More details of this vessel are...
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  • The Paddle Steamer Preservation Society (PSPS) is a United Kingdom-based registered charity and owner of two working paddle steamers; PS Kingswear Castle...
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    earliest seagoing voyages by steam ship. The paddle steamer Defiance, Captain William Wager, was the first steamer to cross the Channel to Holland, arriving...
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    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...
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  • ocean-faring ship Screw steamer, steamboat or ship that uses "screws" (propellers) Steam yacht, luxury or commercial yacht Paddle steamer, steamboat or ship...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    1872 when the original paddle steamer Mount Washington was launched from Alton Bay. The Mount was the largest of all the steamers on the lake at 187 feet...
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    position. Dumpleton, Bernard (2002). Story of the Paddle Steamer. Intellect Books. ISBN 978-1-84150-801-6. "Paddle Boat". Leonardo da Vinci Exhibit: the Models...
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    PS Maid of the Loch (category Paddle steamers of the United Kingdom)
    4.591872°W / 56.008663; -4.591872 PS Maid of the Loch is the last paddle steamer built in the United Kingdom. She operated on Loch Lomond for 29 years...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • Retrieved 2021-06-25. Waimarie, Paddle steamer. "The Vesel | Paddle steamer Waimarie | Whanganui | New Zealand". Paddle steamer Waimarie. Retrieved 2021-09-29...
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    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...
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    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...
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