• The Columbia, sometimes called the Steamer Columbia, was a paddle steamer excursion boat on which 87 people died, on the Illinois River on July 5, 1918...
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  • Hudson's Bay Company on the Columbia River and along the Pacific Northwest Coast Columbia (collapsed paddle steamer), a paddle steamer excursion boat which sank...
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    aircraft Pacific Ocean near Anacapa Island, California 87 1918 Columbia (collapsed paddle steamer) Accident – shipwreck Creve Coeur, Illinois 87 1952 1952 Moses...
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    City of Ainsworth was a paddle steamer sternwheeler that worked on Kootenay Lake in British Columbia, Canada from 1892 to 1898. In November 1898, she sank...
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    the last paddle steamer to set a record with a Queenstown-New York voyage at 14.46 knots (26.78 km/h). Scotia was the final significant paddler ordered...
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    satisfactory in service and was the model for all successful wooden Atlantic paddle-steamers. She was capable of making record Blue Riband voyages as late as 1843...
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    steamship engine designer and builder, to operate the line's four pioneer paddle steamers on the Liverpool–Halifax–Boston route. For most of the next 30 years...
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    Brother Jonathan was a paddle steamer that struck an uncharted rock near Point St. George, off the coast of Crescent City, California, on July 30, 1865...
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    USS Monarch (category Paddle steamers of the United States)
    Tennessee, in June 1862 and joined her sister ship, the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Queen of the West, and the ironclad gunboats USS Benton, USS Cairo...
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    PS Keystone State (category Paddle steamers of the United States)
    Keystone State (also spelled Key Stone State) was a wooden-hulled American paddle steamer in service between 1849 and 1861. She was built in 1848 in Buffalo,...
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    when a paddle steamer would arrive. Vanderbilt started his service with steamer Independence in July 1851 and was soon joined by the steamer Prometheus...
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    Baillie-Grohman Canal (category Paddle steamers of British Columbia)
    between the headwaters of the Columbia River and the upper Kootenay River in the East Kootenay region of British Columbia at a place now known as Canal...
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    Sultana (steamboat) (category Paddle steamers)
    Ohio, Sultana was intended for the lower Mississippi cotton trade. The steamer registered 1,719 tons and normally carried a crew of 85. For two years...
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    Oregon boundary dispute (category Pre-Confederation British Columbia)
    British vessels navigate difficult channels and rivers, HMS Cormorant, a paddle steamer, arrived at the Strait of Juan de Fuca in June. Two survey ships were...
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    was formed in February 1875. On November 4 of that same year, their paddle steamer SS Pacific was lost in a collision off Cape Flattery, Washington with...
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  • river. Before the coming of the railway, the flat was the terminus for paddle steamers from Kamloops. In September 1913, the eastward advance of the CNoR...
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    Snake River (category Tributaries of the Columbia River)
    2024. "Columbia Basin Passage Barriers". Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission. Retrieved January 27, 2024. Stahl, Greg (2016). Paddling Idaho:...
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  • the North West Company Chala-Oo-Chick trading post, west of Fort George, paddled downriver to establish the Alexandria trading post, prior to the corporate...
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  • Paddle Steamer Changed the Course of History. Stroud: Amberley Publishing. p. 42. ISBN 9781445603490. Body, Geoffrey (1971). British Paddle Steamers....
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  • March 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive. Lloyd's Register of Shipping: Steamers. London: Lloyd's Register of Shipping. 1897–1998. Retrieved 15 March 2022...
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  • "Marine Insurance". London Standard. 21 January 1908. p. 3. "Red Star Steamer sinks steamer Epirus". Fort Collins Courier. 22 January 1908. p. 9. alaskashipwreck...
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  • of vessels notable in the history of the Canadian province of British Columbia, including Spanish, Russian, American and other military vessels and all...
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    from the original on 9 October 2008. Retrieved 7 October 2008. "The Paddle Steamer Preservation Society – Scottish Branch: Balmoral Salutes a Retiring...
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    Louisiana, over the course of 68 days. In 2005, the Source to Sea Expedition paddled the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers to benefit the Audubon Society's...
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    heeded and in November 1852, the Uncle Sam, a 65-foot-long side-wheel paddle steamer, built by Domingo Marcucci, became the first steamboat on the Colorado...
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    Alberta and featuring working historic vehicles such as a steam train, paddle steamer and electric streetcar. The village itself comprises a mixture of replica...
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    Nass of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2010 In 1991, the 19th-century paddle steamer Atlantic was discovered. It had sunk in 1852 after a collision with...
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    officers and engineers were sent on 20 July on Fury, a wooden Bulldog-class paddle sloop, to survey the harbour of Sevastopol and the coast near it. They managed...
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    In the cases of those ships, both of which had been wooden-hulled paddle steamers, Arctic had foundered off the coast of Newfoundland in September 1854...
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  • About Japan: A Teacher's Resource. New York: Japan Society. "Japanese History: A Chronological Outline". Asia for Educators. USA: Columbia University....
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