#excursion steamer

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TASHMOO (steel side-wheel excursion steamer, 308 foot, 1,344 gross tons, built in 1900, at Wyandotte, Michigan) entered regular service for the White Star Line at Detroit, Michigan, on 11 June 1900.

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Theodore Roosevelt, Excursion Steamer, Chicago, Ill., postcard, Date Unknown

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The New Excursion Steamer Columbia, "Gem of the Ocean." The Largest Steamboat ever built for the Excursion Business. Currier & Ives hand-colored lithograph; 1877

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Mississippi River Excursion Steamer City of Providence

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Excursion Steamer JS Metropolis, Illinois hand colored postcard

The New York Times; Published June 27, 1910: THREE EXCURSIONISTS DEAD; Rest of 1,500 on Steamer JS Metropolis Manage to Get Ashore When She Burns

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Postcard of Lady of the Lake (built 1877) at Silver Point; Ullswater Navigation Co - Ullswater Steamers

Launched on 26th June, 1877 Lady of the Lake is possibly the oldest working passenger vessel in the world. She was designed by Mr Douglas Hebson of Penrith and built in Glasgow by Joseph Seath & Company. She was transported in three sections by rail to Penrith, then horse drays to Waterside where she was assembled at Elder Beck.

She sank at her moorings in 1881, but was salvaged and returned to service.

She sank again c.1951 and suffered a fire 1965. Restored in 1979. more

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Steam rises from the whistle of the Boblo boat COLUMBIA in this c. 1984 shot.

For more images of the Boblo boats, visit our online collection.

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Hudson River excursion steamer Robert Fulton with crew and passengers, signed “Albert Sr. Nemethy”. Appears to be passing Stuyvesant Landing.