'steamboat' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It refers to a boat or ship that is propelled by a steam engine, and is typically used for transportation or leisure activities on water. Example: We took a leisurely ride on a steamboat down the Mississippi River, enjoying the scenic views and the nostalgic feeling of being on a traditional mode of transportation.
Several editions of the Guinness Book of Records list Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhaupt-betriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft, (why, the association for subordinate officials of the head office management of the Danube steamboat electrical services, of course) as the longest compound in the German language, even if there's no evidence that such an association ever existed in real life.
In Muskoka taxpayers are on the hook for a refurbished steamboat that won't even float until the summit is over, and new outdoor toilets 20km from the meeting site.
The general should have experienced no difficulty, since regular steamboat services from St Louis via the Missouri river to the Yellowstone had started in 1832.
A 300-tonne sail-assisted steamboat was acquired and christened all too aptly, as it turned out Endurance.Endurance left Plymouth on August 8th, four days after Britain declared war on Germany.
BARRING a last minute reprieve, America's last proper paddle-wheeled steamboat may disappear by the end of the year.
The crew of the New Orleans, the first steamboat to ply the Mississippi, told locals that they had moored on an island the evening before the earthquake only to discover that it was gone in the morning.
The news spread, and the next year saw a stampede of 100,000 fortune-hunters: the Yukon gold rush.This summer a modern steamboat, The Spirit of '98, replicated the historic arrival in Seattle, complete with rather less gold but still $2.5m worth of it and a group of descendants of the original prospectors.
His last substantial novel, "Love in the Time of Cholera", based on the forbidden romance of his own parents, ended with the aged lovers on the creaking Magdalena steamboat, pushing through purple lotus and past crocodiles with their mouths agape to catch butterflies, out to the mouth of the sea.
Yet Naples was for many years the biggest city in the peninsula; it built the first steamboat, suspension bridge and railway in Italy and, even more surprising, was as late as 1800 more liberal than most of the rest of the country.The second weakness in the Risorgimento was an unabashed desire for military success.
The city declined with the passing of the steamboat era in the 1870s, but after 1920 industrial development stimulated its growth.
Native American hostility grew when steamboat traffic increased after the discovery of gold in Montana in 1862 and when the U.S. Army built forts along the rivers.
