Steamboat

A steamboat or steamship, sometimes called a steamer, is a boat or vessel that is propelled by steam power driving a propeller or paddlewheel. The term steamboat is usually used to refer to smaller steam-powered boats working on lakes and rivers, particularly riverboats in the USA; steamship generally refers to steam powered ships capable of carrying a (ship's) boat. Nuclear powered ships and submarines use steam to drive turbines, but are not referred to as steamships or steamboats.

External links

• Barlow Cumberland, A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River, 2001
• Robert H. Thurston, A history of the growth of the steam-engine, 1878 (Chapter 5)
• The Steam Boat Association of Great Britain
• Cruising The World TV Show (RTP-TV 2001), Online video showing trip down Mississippi on the Delta Queen steamboat
• Loch Katrine Steamship Sir Walter Scott, Steamer on Loch Katrine
• Waverley Excursions
• Paddle Steamer Preservation Society
• SS Shieldhall, Steam powered General Cargo-Passenger Steamer available for Trips in the Solent
• The SS John W. Brown is a steam powered WWII Liberty ship that makes regular passenger carrying cruises out of Baltimore
• Steamboat revival on Lake Geneva
• The coal fired steam narrow boat President, owned by the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley