Eppleton Hall (1914)
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Eppleton Hall is a paddlewheel tugboat built in England in 1914. The only remaining intact example of a Tyne-built paddle tug, and one of only two surviving British-built paddle tugs, she is preserved
Eppleton Hall in San Francisco
Paddle steamer
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A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine driving paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water. Earlier ships that are driven by a paddle wheel under manual power a
Eppleton Hall (1914)
…Eppleton Hall is a paddlewheel tugboat built in England in 1914. The only remaining intact example of a Tyne-built paddle tug, and one of only two surviving British-built paddle tugs…
A typical river paddle steamer from the 1850s.
Advance, a Greenock-built American Civil War blockade-running sidewheel steamer
Left: riveted steel paddle wheel from a sidewheel steamer on Lake Lucerne Right: a sidewheel concealed within the hull of a steamer
The Nettie Quill, pictured in Alabama in 1906, shows a typical early sternwheeler design.