Julia Belle Swain
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Julia Belle Swain is a steam-powered sternwheeler under restoration in La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States.
Julia Belle Swain at La Crosse, 2007
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
Julia Belle Swain
…Julia Belle Swain is a steam-powered sternwheeler under restoration in La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States. Designed and built in 1971 by Capt. Dennis Trone, Julia Belle Swain was the last boat built…
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.