However, for greater efficiency, he went on to construct a steamboat measuring 92 feet long and 25 feet wide, propelled by a steam-driven, 12-foot rear paddlewheel to transport coal from the mouth ...

Historic Tours & Cruises has announced a cruise of Alaska's Inside Passage on the American West Steamboat Company's new paddlewheel steamboat, the Empress of the North. Starting and ending in ...

Sabine Hossenfelder is a physicist and research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies in Germany. She currently works on dark matter and the foundations of quantum mechanics.

Topped by a three-story, 60-ton fiberglass replica of the paddlewheel from the American Queen, the world's largest steamboat, the monument soars 40 feet above a street-level plaza south of Great ...

The gargantuan paddlewheel, rigged to turn by an electric ... careful touch without disturbing the fragile bottom of the older steamboat. I can proudly boast of often laying the DELTA QUEEN ...

Tucked away in the southeastern corner of the Buckeye State, where the Muskingum River meets the mighty Ohio, Marietta delivers small-town charm with such authenticity that even the most jaded ...

Burlington River Days will celebrate the Mighty Mississippi this weekend with music and events on the riverfront.

The CLYDE, I noted, “appears to handle much like the old-time steamboats I’d been on.” The little CLYDE with rudders forward of the paddlewheel, and lacking steering, ...

On Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, Tracy R. Lamb, loving mother of three children, got her wings into heaven at the age of 57. Tracy was born May 16, 1963, in Parkridge, Ill., to Wray and Pauline Lamb. She ...

To know Rick Silloway was to know someone who cared for others. That was the overarching message from friends and coworkers when talking about Silloway, a longtime Chi-Hi golf coach and teacher ...

The Pride is one of six authentic paddlewheel riverboats left in the entire country, and it’s the only one on this side of the Mississippi River. The team is still hopeful for a late June, early ...

The iconic SS Nenana sternwheel paddleship was a center of discussion Wednesday night when the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly voted 5-3 to approve a resolution on accepting a federal grant ...