Presented is an original oil painting on canvas of a side-wheel steamer painted by an unknown artist. |
There was great danger that he would run into us, as he was like a steamer with only one side-wheel and no rudder. |
A side-wheel boat usually went around the sharp bend with one paddle wheel backing and the other going ahead. |
The side-wheel paddle steamer PROBE Anne Corcscadden was carrying Union soldiers to New Orleans when it hit a coral reef. |
We then crossed a fine iron bridge and went on board a side-wheel steamer. |
She and her sister ship, the Choctaw, were side-wheel steamers altered into casemate ironclads with rams. |