In those early days she consistently outpaced her rivals including giant steamboats. |
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I went down by the Nieuwe Haven among old steamboats, and walked along ranks of tall houses built for wool merchants and wine shippers. |
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It is a fascinating read and an essential source for anyone researching early steamboats and their social milieu. |
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Warehouses and wharves proliferated, and steamboats and sailing vessels crowded the riverfront. |
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Returning to America, Fulton continued developing steamboats and naval weapons until his death. |
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After the Supreme Court decision, new companies immediately began to operate more up-to-date steamboats on the Hudson. |
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Eight city slickers had come to Montana for a six-day canoe trip down river from Fort Benton, once a frontier town of steamboats and gold miners. |
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Harlem, however, was primed at the turn of the 20th century with the advent of steamboats, cars and electric trains. |
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Brown testified to helping slaves obtain free papers and then either booking them on steamboats or helping them obtain work on the river. |
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Like most contemporary Hudson River steamboats, the Albany was designed to transport passengers and light freight. |
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The supply steamboats began to ferry all of them across to the west bank of the Missouri, where men of the Thirtieth Wisconsin Infantry were building a new post, Fort Rice. |
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Inside the museum, all manner of detailed models, from submarines, steamboats and trawlers to battleships, tugs and cobles, competed for best model in the various classes. |
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But as the decades passed, airplanes replaced steamboats and folks abandoned Old Bettles to live near the airstrip. |
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And Herman Goslin made his scant living by meeting the steamboats and transporting the disembarking passengers, if any, up to the hotel in a gimpy buckboard. |
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Although railroads made the stagecoaches, freight wagons, and steamboats unprofitable and obsolete, virtually no one mourned the passing of these conveyances. |
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At one time, over 300 paddlewheel steamboats plied the Delta. |
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At the same time costs were rising, partly due to the use of steamboats on the Mersey. |
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Prior to that, freight and passenger service to Mayo was only available on sternwheel steamboats in summer and horse-drawn sleighs in winter. |
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By August, steamboats were busily carrying away Dawsonites, eight thousand in one week alone. |
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The modern form of draw poker originated in the US and became a hugely popular feature of Mississippi steamboats leaving New Orleans. |
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In Denmark, steamboats were a popular means of transportation in earlier times, mostly for recreational purposes. |
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The introduction of radio, steamboats, and icebreakers made running the Northern Sea Route viable. |
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This is also where early towns developed, linked by the steamboats that carried commercial products and crops to markets. |
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They would help regain control of Vanderbilt's steamboats which had become a logistical lifeline for Walker's army. |
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Yet Robert Fulton had found success with the North River Steamboat on the Hudson River in 1807, and thereafter steamboats became a reality. |
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Notable examples of river steamboats that were constructed by the Pittsburgh and Mars Works include the Franklin, the Aetna and the Pennsylvania. |
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Five major commercial steamboats currently operate on the inland waterways of the United States. |
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From 1911 the Kolyma River steamboats ran from Vladivostok to the Kolyma once a year. |
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The steamship was preceded by smaller vessels designed for insular transportation, called steamboats. |
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Stirling used to have steamboats which carried hundreds of passengers a day. |
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The canal allowed steamboats and sailing ships on the Great Lakes to connect to the Mississippi River. |
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The use of steamboats on major US rivers soon followed Fulton's 1807 success. |
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The steamboats consumed much wood for fuel, and the river floodplain and banks became deforested. |
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After sales in New Orleans, steamboats operating on the Mississippi transported slaves upstream to markets or plantation destinations at Natchez and Memphis. |
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After the Clyde, the Thames estuary was the main growth area for steamboats, starting with the Margery and the Thames in 1815, which were both brought down from the Clyde. |
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