Sentence examples for river steamer from inspiring English sources

Then another river steamer through northern Uganda.

Rangamati is connected by road and river steamer with the city of Chittagong (30 miles [50 km] southwest).

With the advent of the river steamer and of newer, more direct roads after the War of 1812, it began a gradual decline.

During part of the rainy season (June November), the Chindwin is navigable by river steamer for more than 400 miles (640 km) upstream to Singkaling Hkamti.

I had actually been aboard "The American River Steamer Hendrick Hudson" once, on a day excursion up the Hudson, but never, worse luck, on the smoke-belching French Jules Michelet.

In the guise of Swiss businessmen, they proceeded by train, river steamer and sampan and on foot until they ran into a Japanese patrol in the insect-infested jungle.

Large river steamers travel upriver for about 700 miles from the delta to the Atures Rapids.

It is connected with Haiphong by river steamers and with Hanoi by road.

The canoes and barges of the fur traders and early immigrants had given way to river steamers by the 1850s.

Because of these cataracts, the river is not completely navigable, although sections between the cataracts are navigable by sailing vessels and by river steamers.

Minas Gerais is served by railroads, all-weather highways, airports, and by river steamers that descend the São Francisco from Pirapora to Juazeiro in Bahia.