Flatboat
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A flatboat was a rectangular flat-bottomed boat with square ends used to transport freight and passengers on inland waterways in the United States. The flatboat could be any size, but essentially it w
A flatboat passing a long cigar-shaped keelboat on the Ohio River.
Flatboat on an American river in the 1800s carrying barrels of whiskey and food
George Caleb Bingham, Jolly Flatboatmen in Port, (1857, St. Louis Art Museum)
Flatboats among the river traffic at New Orleans, 1873
Flat-bottomed boat
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A flat-bottomed boat is a boat with a shallow draft, two-chined hull, which allows it to be used in shallow bodies of water, such as rivers, because it is less likely to ground.
Flatboat
…A flatboat (or broadboat) was a rectangular flat-bottomed boat with square ends used to transport freight and passengers on inland waterways in the United States. The flatboat could be any size, but essentially it…
Man piloting a johnboat on the Speed River within Idylwild Park
Flat-bottomed boats on a pond, Château-la-Vallière, France