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 at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park in San Francisco, California.
Eppleton Hall in San Francisco
A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine that drives paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water. In antiquity, paddle wheelers followed the development of poles, oars and sails, where the first uses were wheelers driven by animals or humans.
A typical river paddle steamer from the 1850s.
Fall Line's steamer Providence, launched 1866
Finlandia Queen, a paddle-wheel ship from 1990s in Tampere, Finland
Advance, a Greenock-built American Civil War blockade-running side-wheel steamer