Few blueprints exist of steamboat construction in the 1830s, when builders were trying to find a design for shallow waters. Although many sail ships were converted to steam power in the 1820s and ...

"I'd like to find a steamboat that went down in the 1830s," he said, "and take the whole boat and cargo out. That would be a phenomenal exhibit." His father, Bob, adds the only cautionary note to ...

By 1826 there were 143 steamboats on the river and by the 1830s there were more than 1,000. The “Washington,” built in 1816, was first double-decker steamboat. The top deck carried passengers ...

(FORT TOWSON, Okla. September 6, 2004, 9:20 p.m.)-- More than 160 years after it sunk in the Red River, researchers are discovering the history of the steamboat Heroine. Archaeologists using scuba ...