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Sternwheel Launch Alligator
Armenia - Hudson River sidewheel steamboat, built 1848
Bailey Gatzert - Famous Columbia River steam sternwheeler built in 1893
Buckeye State - Ohio River sidewheel packet, built 1850
Chaperon - Ohio River sternwheel packet, built 1884
USS Choctaw - Union Navy sidewheel ram gunboat
City of Monroe - Steam sternwheel cotton packet (fictional)
Far West - Missouri River "mountain boat", built 1870
G. K. Wentworth - Columbia River steam sternwheel towboat, built 1906
Generic Diesel River Towboat - Typical small 1970's vintage 50' short haul towboat
Joseph Henry/Louisiana - Mississippi River sidewheeler, built 1880 as lighthouse tender
Mary Powell - Hudson River sidewheel steamboat, built 1861
Mt. Washington - sidewheel lake steamer, built 1872
Royal - hull lines only, of a very fast Ohio River sternwheel packet built in 1870
Sergeant Floyd - Twin-screw diesel inspection boat, built 1932 for U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
Thomas A. Edison - small sternwheel packet built-in 1904 at Apalachicola, FL
Vega - Steam sternwheel dredge tender and inspection boat, built 1901
W. H. Bancroft - Steam sternwheel freight boat, built 1912, Seattle, WA
Lake Charles/Choctaw - built 1990/91
Dumas Creole Queen
Plans from the
Ward Collection:
Alpha - twin-screw Diesel towboat, built 1928
Cop-R-Loy/Detroiter, steam sternwheel towboat, built 1928
Destrehan - Steam sternwheel towboat, built 1922
Donora - steam sternwheel towboat
Scott and Ft. Armstrong - Identical diesel-electric sternwheel towboats built for the Army Corps of Engineers, 1930
George T. Price - Twin screw Diesel towboat, built 1925
Ward barges from the 1920s
Two inland river auto ferries
Ward's Wild Goose
Fairbanks- Morse 180 HP 6-cylinder"CO" diesel engine and auxiliaries used on the Wild Goose
What might have been - boats designed by Ward Engineering, but never built:
White Swan - 1924 - The largest Mississippi River steamboat never built
Four designs for 360 HP diesel powered sternwheel towboats, 1926-1927
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