Sentence examples for side-wheeler from inspiring English sources

And on Plate 3, just up an embankment from a docked side-wheeler steamboat called the Brooklyn, he found it.

The bones of the side-wheeler were discovered in 1988 more than a mile beneath the waves.

Talk visit to the Hudson River Day Line side-wheeler Alexander Hamilton as she was being readied for the 1966 season & taken on a trial run.

Twain's vessel, a refitted Civil War side-wheeler called the Quaker City, took more than five months to circle back to New York.

After being expelled (for nonpayment) in 1905 at age 14, she returned to Eatonville via the City of Jacksonville, a famed side-wheeler that chugged along the St . Johns Riverto Sanford.

The Queen of the West, built in Cincinnati in 1854 and retrofitted there under Ellet's direction, was one of the larger rams: the side-wheeler measured 181 feet in length and displaced 406 tons.

Innovative and varied in his designs, he constructed packets, clippers, side-wheelers, sailing vessels, steamships, wooden ships, and ironclads.

Coastal schooners ferried goods to and from New England, side wheelers brought excursioners from New York City, and whaling ships made voyages to far-off waters.

It's a story told also in Fotheringham's pictures, which suggest works of American folk art — the side-wheelers crowding the harbor, the green hills above the river town, the author laughing as he reads his own book.

Side-wheelers, sloops with kegs on their decks, and ferries with passengers on board dart around before a panoramic vista to the east, from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to the future site of the Brooklyn Bridge to the embankment of Brooklyn Heights.

Day trips or weeklong cruises are available on several old side-wheelers or, from some ports, on conventional cruise boats.