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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Pecan Grove and later known as Illawara, was a placename connected to a steamboat landing and plantation in Carroll Parish, Louisiana, United States. (Carroll...

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...

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...

towards the Gulf. In 1821, cargo tonnage delivered to New Orleans by steamboat surpassed the amount of cargo tonnage delivered by flats, keels, and barges...

markets matured; and despite the increasing adoption of locomotives, steamboats and steamships, and hot blast iron smelting. New technologies such as...

patents for a hill-climbing locomotive, a pulp-paper process, converting steamboats to coal, and removing brine from salt water, and Coleman Sellers II (1827–1907)...

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...