How Mississippi Shipwrights Built Giant Steamboats for America's Shallow Rivers
39K views · Aug 19, 2026 · Education
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@jeffbybee5207 · 1 month ago
Also the civil war iron clads seems to be a combo of different ships but if it was ment to be the city class they were originally armered only on the bow face and along side the middle of the sides.
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@Rightiswrong-qv5ul · 1 month ago
The Howard Steamboat Museum which is the Howard house is in Jeffersonville Indiana. FYI .
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@BuzzSargent · 1 month ago
Well done.
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@garry1214 · 1 month ago
Fascinating information, thanks for the upload.
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@John-o6d1j · 1 month ago
great
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@emilydrayna2472 · 1 month ago
Your facts and candor are refreshing. Thank you for sharing instructive and constructive information. Students can learn if parents value and actively support education.
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@aeoleaburwell7247 · 1 month ago
Caulker also known as seal driver?
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@royreynolds108 · 1 month ago
There were two main steamboat designs on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers at that time: the sidewheel and sternwheel. Dropping a lead line off the stern would necessarily mean that the boat was a sidewheel design. There were some steamboats designed to travel and navigate with only a one-foot draft, loaded.
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@vinodkumarverma6683 · 1 month ago
nice informative video. thanks for uploading.
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@jeffbybee5207 · 1 month ago
Missed a few points like fultons first western steamer was built in pittsberg and sailed to new orleans on her first voyage . Numbers on her draft would of been nice . Snags point down stream since they anchor in the rootballs of the trees. Another thing because the locks of the louieville kentucky most of the ohio river boats were 156 or 152 feet long not 300 like the main stem boats that ram from new orleans to st louis Missouri
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@gerrynugent8996 · 1 month ago
These.tradesmen.are.never.named
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@jeffbybee5207 · 1 month ago
The pictures are interesting seems like something wrong like when yourr describing hogging the boat pictured has no hog chains but a sweeping shear and no paddlewheels or engine. Then the next boat has the chains on the side not over the top and the very last short moving<br> pictures was totally fantastic with a bow wheel. I also saw a combo side and stern paddle wheel boat at one place but the only three wheel boat i know of was built on the colorado river in utah. Still quite intresting also at 24 minutes you show a newspaper clipping but if you read it it says nothing
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