Str. BONANZA in the ice at Cincinnati, 1904.
Thanks to Dale Flick for the picture.


This photo was snapped spring, 1988, at Capt. John & Elsie Beatty's home. The W.P. SNYDER was docked for refurbishing below the house at Warsaw. This rolling truck bed shows various whistles and bells. 'Legend' had it that one of the bells (small one to the front in the A frame) was from the exploded Str. MOSELLE of 1838 and had been dredged from the river in the Fulton area of eastern Cincinnati.
Thanks to Dale Flick for the picture!


This photo of the stellar Str. CHRIS GREENE. No date or location of where taken but the CHRIS GREENE looks fresh and new. WAY'S PACKET DIRECTORY lists the CG under No. 1027 Pg. 87. Maybe this picture was taken on her Cincinnati-Pomeroy-Charleston run? Note the big pile of coal on the deck.
Thanks to Dale Flick for the picture!


Here is a model of Robert Fulton's CLERMONT that was on auction in 2005 at COWANS AUCTION CO. in Cincinnati. No surviving actual plans of the original CLERMONT rendering this model something of an imaginative creation.
Thanks to Dale Flick for the picture!


Here is a model of Robert Fulton's CLERMONT that was on auction in 2005 at COWANS AUCTION CO. in Cincinnati. No surviving actual plans of the original CLERMONT rendering this model something of an imaginative creation.
Thanks to Dale Flick for the picture!


This is the start of a loose series of paddlewheelers in Europe. We start with a very interesting, though rather new boat at Berlin, Germany: The ALEXANDER. This actual boat was built in 2000 from historic plans. The original boat was meant as a present for the last German Kaiser but eventually was never built due to the end of the monarchy in Germany in 1918.


This boat, the DE MAJESTEIT, has a long history (buit in 1926) and originally was a running on the German part of the Rhine River, first under the name RHEINLAND. Totally destroyed in World War II it was rebuilt and ran for KD under the name RUEDESHEIM. A couple of years ago the boat was sold and now is located at Rotterdam, Netherlands. Beautifully renovated by a real boat enthusiast who obviously put a lot of money in this boat, the DE MAJESTEIT serves as an excursion boat there.


Not exactly located in Europe, but on the Nile River at Egypt, I'd like to add this picture to the "Europe" series as well. It's the SUDAN, which most of you may know from the Agatha Christie movie "Death on the Nile" from 1978, starring Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Mia Farrow and Bette Davis. The boat is still running on the Nile River, this pictures was taken just last year.
Thanks to Ulli Pesch for taking this picture for me!


An other picture I took at Rotterdam, Netherlands, two years ago. This is from the wonderful maritime museum at Rotterdam and shows a model of a stern wheel freight boat on European rivers. The majority of paddlewheelers on European rivers where sidewheelers, so this is a rather rare sight and there is no such sternwheeler in existance today any more.