A new 145-year-old shipwreck discovery in the Fox River is putting a spotlight on the maritime history of Berlin.

Mark Twain himself, the old steamboat pilot who learned his trade on the Mississippi, rode the California riverboats and wrote stories when he was a San Francisco newspaper reporter about the ...

Turnpikes, tollbooths, traffic jams. Solitary people, in their solitary cars. That's our age. The age of gasoline. Picnics, pleasure boats, and people — above all people, jammed by the thousands ...

Not all of the steamboats are old. Jahn’s boat, for example, was launched in 1980, and the engine was built in 2011. Another boat was a World War II lifeboat, later modified to run on steam.

His interest in the old steamboats continued, as he graduated from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point N.Y., served on a navy minesweeper, ...

NEW ORLEANS – Clarke C. "Doc" Hawley was there as the captain barking out orders on a megaphone 40 years ago when the Natchez steamboat first launched its maiden voyage on April 13, 1975. "I ...

His interest in the old steamboats continued, as he graduated from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point N.Y., served on a navy minesweeper, and eventually joined the Port Authority of ...