Providence was a large sidewheel steamer launched in 1866 by William H. Webb of New York for the Merchants Steamship Company. The first of Narragansett...

in January 1828. Providence (1866 steamboat), a 2,962-gross register ton sidewheel steamer built at New York in 1866 HMS Providence, the name of several...

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...

Stonington and a pier at South Providence, about 1 mile downriver from the city center. At Stonington docks connected to steamboats to New York City through...

rose, and the line was cut to keep the barque from sinking. In 1856 a steamboat was fitted out for the purpose, and the link from Cape Ray, Newfoundland...

Natchez has been the name of several steamboats, and four naval vessels, each named after the city of Natchez, Mississippi or the Natchez people. The current...

Steamboats on the Colorado River operated from the river mouth at the Colorado River Delta on the Gulf of California in Mexico, up to the Virgin River...

Bedford, Newport, Providence, Fitchburg, Lowell and Cape Cod. For many years the Old Colony Railroad Company also operated steamboat and ferry lines, including...

A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine that drives paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water. In antiquity,...

Boston and Providence Railroad and the East Thompson Railroad, before the Norfolk County Railroad returned to independent operation in 1858. In 1866, the Boston...

See also Murray-Darling steamboat people for more information on people mentioned in this article. Murray-Darling steamboat people List of Darling River...

(c. 1840 – 13 July 1889) of Mannum, possibly no relation, skippered Providence 1866–1867; Ariel 1868–1875; Nil Desperandum 1873; possibly Bogan 1868–1869...

in 1866 to operate steamships on the "outside route" between Boston and New York City around Cape Cod. The company was organized in February 1866 by Peter...

and New Haven Railroad and Hartford and New Haven Railroad. Boston and Providence Railroad 1888 Stoughton Branch Railroad 1872 Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg...

Atchafalaya River, which borders its eastern limit, connects the parish by steamboat with the Mississippi River and New Orleans. The Bayou Courtableau, formed...

the Mississippi's mean depth of 2.4 feet (0.7 m) was the upper limit of steamboat traffic on the river. His work there earned him a promotion to captain...

the convent of the newly founded Sisters of Charity of Providence (now Sisters of Providence) in Montreal. At that time, her father, a carriagemaker...

Electric telegraph installed. New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket Steamboat Company formed. Wyer's Art Store in business (approximate date). 1892...

Washington was an early steamboat operated in the states of California and Oregon. Washington was built in California and was initially operated on the...

in his expedition report, recommended that a shallow draft stern-wheel steamboat would be the way to send supplies up river to the fort. The next attempt...

Part of twin sister singing act The Wilde Twins Born in East St. Louis Steamboat Willie 1951 Veteran musician of Dixieland, jazz and ragtime music; considered...

named Robert Fulton to develop an economical steamboat. Fulton's paddle steamer, The North River Steamboat (erroneously referred to as the Clermont), made...

eighth-generation descendant of the Mowry family that immigrated from England to Providence in 1666. He was born to Johnathan Mowry and Hannah (Brayton) Mowry. His...

giant ironclad USS Dunderberg and for the passenger steamers Bristol and Providence, the latter two of which were the largest marine engines then built in...

than that, must... actually know where these things are in the dark". Steamboat pilot Horace E. Bixby took Twain on as a cub pilot to teach him the river...

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...

1 million people left Ireland, primarily on packet ships but also on steamboats and barques—one of the greatest exoduses from a single island in history...

The Anchor Line was a steamboat company that operated a fleet of boats on the Mississippi River between St. Louis, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana...

March 29, 1887 State Center Marshall 1,391 1,468 0.98 2.5 August 26, 1867 Steamboat Rock Hardin 264 310 0.54 1.4 October 7, 1875 Stockport Van Buren 272 296...

They journeyed up the Mississippi River on the Martha Washington, a steamboat, and arrived at Gethsemani on 21 December, celebrating Mass for Christmas...