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    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,...
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    PS Waverley is the last seagoing passenger-carrying paddle steamer in the world. Built in 1946, she sailed from Craigendoran on the Firth of Clyde to Arrochar...
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    prefix designations of "PS" for paddle steamer or "SS" for screw steamer (using a propeller or screw). As paddle steamers became less common, "SS" is incorrectly...
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    sometimes use the prefix designation SS, S.S. or S/S (for 'Screw Steamer') or PS (for 'Paddle Steamer'); however, these designations are most often used for steamships...
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    Scotland. It could exceed 17 kts and is regarded as one of the finest paddle steamers ever built[citation needed]. Ozone was commissioned by the Bay Excursion...
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    The Labouchere was a paddle steamer in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company, built in 1858 at Green's in Blackwall, London, England. Under the command...
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    used to propel a steamboat (i.e. paddle steamer). A number of racquet sports (e.g. ping-pong and paddle ball), a "paddle" or "bat" is a short, solid racket...
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    pneumatic tube message system, and worked on one of the first British paddle steamers to cross the English Channel. Murdoch built a prototype steam locomotive...
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    Pioneer was a 19th-century paddle-steamer gunboat used in New Zealand. Built in Sydney to the order of the New Zealand colonial government by the Australian...
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  • Paddle boat may refer to: Paddle steamer or paddleboat, a boat propelled by a paddle wheel Pedalo, a boat propelled by pedalling with the feet A paddlecraft...
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