The trio purchased the steamboat for about $14,000. The Rex was built in Still Water, Minn., in 1888 by D.W. Swain. He is also credited with naming the vessel, which had two decks stretching out ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Improved Paddle-Wheel for Steamboats ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 7 No. 19 (January 1852), p. 148 doi:10.1038 ...

Visitors check out displays including a spinning paddlewheel at the Arabia Steamboat Museum on Dec. 23, 2024, in Kansas City, Mo. The wheel is a replica of one of the two paddle wheels that ...

The Julia Belle Swain, a historic paddlewheel steamboat from La Crosse, Wisconsin, has shaped Ellis Inman's life since childhood. Now, ...

We boarded the 417-passenger paddlewheel steamboat in the port of New Orleans in mid-December. Our seven-night cruise traveled up the Lower Mississippi River to Memphis, passing through ports that ...

American Countess, a four-deck paddlewheel steamboat, is expected to dock Friday morning, Oct. 21, at Cape Girardeau's riverfront, with its 183 passengers on board despite low water levels on the ...

In all, the DELTA QUEEN paddlewheel had 28 sets of buckets. Once we had the first bucket replaced, we installed two more complete sets of arms and bucket planks.

On a late-June visit to Lake George, we chose a one-hour cruise on the Minne-Ha-Ha, a paddlewheel steamboat built in 1969 and lengthened from 103 feet to 137 feet in 1999.