The steamboat: For many Americans in the 19th century ... Indian Removal was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson in 1830. Transporting so many people up western rivers entailed squeezing ...

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 ...

Publisher James T. Lloyd’s 1856 book Lloyd’s Steamboat Directory, and Disasters on the Western Waters, is illustrated by 32 woodcuts of explosions, fires, and foundering ships, chronicling a ...

Footage shared with The Wall Street Journal shows one ship leaving the Port of Baltimore after being stranded for weeks. Vessels became trapped after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed on ...

(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 ...

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 ...

A drilling team searches the site of the sunken Steamboat Malta ... Those boats, even the ones that sank in the 1820s and 1830s, they remain there basically as they were when they sank," said ...

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 ...

"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 ...