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    Bristol was a large sidewheel steamboat launched in 1866 by William H. Webb of New York for the Merchants Steamship Company. One of Narragansett Bay's...
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  • Playa Bristol, a beach in Mar del Plata, Argentina Bristol (1866 steamboat), a US steamboat Bristol City (1919), a British cargo ship HMS Bristol (1653)...
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    merged with the Boston, Newport and New York Steamboat Company, and Providence and her sister ship Bristol thus joined the latter Company's Fall River...
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    Sultana was a commercial side-wheel steamboat which exploded and sank on the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865, killing 1,547 people in what remains...
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  •  3556. Portsmouth. 15 September 1866. "Another Steamboat Collision". The Times. No. 25598. London. 8 September 1866. col C, p. 12. "Mercantile Ship News"...
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    The Bertrand was a steamboat which sank on April 1, 1865, while carrying cargo up the Missouri River to Virginia City, Montana Territory, after hitting...
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  • The Woolwich Steam Packet Company (later London Steamboat Company), operated between 1834 and 1888 and offered steamer services from central London to...
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    No. 181. Council for British Archaeology. October 2021. p. 11. Lloyds Steamboat Disasters Shaw 1978, p. 47. Rolt & Kichenside 1982, p. 69. Shaw 1978,...
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    Metropolitan Statistical Area February 6, 1818 Bullock 10,357 622.80 December 5, 1866 Butler 19,051 776.83 December 13, 1819 Calhoun 116,441 605.87 Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville...
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    Sanctuary. NOAA. "Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1908". Harvard University. Retrieved...
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    steamship service, which led the Great Western Steamboat Company to use her in regular service between Bristol and New York from 1838 to 1846. She made 64 crossings...
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  • obtained the American patent. Ericsson named his first screw-propelled steamboat Francis B. Ogden - this boat was demonstrated to the British Admiralty...
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    by smaller vessels, called steamboats, conceived in the first half of the 18th century, with the first working steamboat and paddle steamer, the Pyroscaphe...
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    Brunel on how to launch the ship came from a number of sources, including steamboat captains on the Great Lakes and one admirer who wrote an insightful description...
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    of North America by 1834, reaching into the center of the country by steamboat and other river traffic. The third cholera pandemic began in 1846 and...
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    village in South Gloucestershire, England, about 10 miles (16 km) north of Bristol and about 28 miles (45 km) south west of Gloucester. It is located on the...
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    and Pariz in Terazije, London, etc. As Belgrade became connected via steamboats and railway (after 1884), the number of visitors grew and new hotels were...
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    Peto was the Liberal Member of Parliament for Bristol, and on 22 October 1866 addressed a meeting in Bristol to explain his involvement with the LCDR. Although...
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    ever built, and he also built some of the largest and most celebrated steamboats and steamships of his era, including the giant ironclad USS Dunderberg...
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  • the 19th century after the development of steam-powered vessels, both steamboats, which were generally used on lakes and rivers, and ocean-faring steamships...
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    This is a list of steamboats on the Yukon River. Please see Steamboats of the Yukon River for historical context. White Pass Barges (102 vessels): 25 barges...
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  • 1850 Defence Act 1842 Defence Act 1860 Public Health Act 1872 Sanitary Act 1866 Pensions Commutation Act 1872 Militia Pay Act 1868 Militia Pay Act 1869 Gas...
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  • "Nellie: Oyster Sloop". Mystic Seaport. Retrieved 14 March 2017. "Sabino: Steamboat". Mystic Seaport. Retrieved 2 October 2016. "Star: Noank Fish and Lobster...
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  • MAY". idamayskipjack.ning.com. Retrieved 2021-06-16. "Steamboat Minnehaha History – Steamboat Minnehaha". Archived from the original on 2021-06-13. Retrieved...
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  •  1–7. ISBN 978-0-8071-3274-6. Ward, Rufus (2010). The Tombigbee River Steamboats: Rollodores, Dead heads, and Side-wheelers. Charleston, South Carolina:...
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  • Edinburgh. 26 January 1866. "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonia Mercury. No. 23931. Edinburgh. 13 March 1866. "Dreadful Steamboat Explosions. Loss of 250...
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    live with their mother and sister. Robert Peckham (Morris) attended the Bristol Academy in Tauntan and during this time changed his surname from Peckham...
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  • Companies Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 108) Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1866 (29 & 30 Vict. c. 111) Public Health (Scotland) Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c...
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    markets matured; and despite the increasing adoption of locomotives, steamboats and steamships, and hot blast iron smelting. New technologies such as...
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    undergraduate level; for a brief period in the early 1900s, this allowed the "steamboat ladies" to receive ad eundem degrees from the University of Dublin. In...
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