PADDLEWHEEL STEAMBOAT

• Vocabulary • The Role of a Riverboat• Travel on Riverboats• Construction of a Riverboat • Dangers on a Riverboat• Henderson , Minnesota : “Hub”

VOCABULARYPaddlewheel: a steamboat driven by a single paddlewheel at the sternStern: the rear end of a boatBow: the front end of a boatSteam boiler: a boiler for producing steam used to drive the paddlewheelSternwheeler: another name for a paddleboat with the paddlewheel at the backSteamer: another name for a paddlewheel boatDraft: The depth of a paddlewheelers floor below the water line, especially when loadedImmigrants: the movement of people into another country or region to which they are not native in order to settle there

ROLE OF THE RIVERBOAT

• She was nicknamed Big Mama, and was capable of pushing 56 coal barges at once. In 1907, Sprague set a world's all-time record for towing: 60 barges of coal, weighing 67,307 tons, covering an area of 6 1⁄2 acres, and measuring 925 feet (282 m) by 312 feet (95 m).She ended her career as a towboat in 1948.

• The biggest paddlewheel was the sternwheeler Sprague, it was the world's largest steam powered sternwheeler towboat.

• Sprague built at Dubuque, Iowa's Iowa Iron Works in 1901 by Captain Peter Sprague for the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company

TRAVEL ON A RIVERBOAT

Paddlewheel Successes;• The flat bottom of the boat allowed the vessel to bob on top

of the water much like a duck. This allowed it to pass over the ever changing sand bars in the river. The wood construction also made the boat buoyant and easy to repair.

• The back of the boat only needed a couple of inches of water to turn and produce power. The main reasons why they were so successful was because they were an easier and faster way to carry large amounts of people and freight than by horse pack trains.

(Paddlewheel)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cswiutb074

STRUCTURE OF A PADDLEWHEEL

Parts of the boat:1. Escape pipe (scape pipe) were pipes on the old time boats located above the boilers through which steam was wasted. 2. Yawl or rowboat. 3.Skylight found on fancier boat, was used for ventilation. 4. Whistle. 5. Pilot house. 6. Smokestack. 7.Texas deck--the long narrow cabins occupied by the officers. 8.King post. 9. Main deck--where cargo was kept. 10. Curtain--used as a shade and protection from bad weather. 11. Hull 12. Boilers 13. Kitchen 14. Paddle wheel 15. Outhouse

MAKE YOUR OWN RIVERBOATMake a recycled boat• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiAWx8odStA

(origami) • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpXOHwqCTLc

(pop bottle)• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n2PqQTzbSY

(popsicle stick boat)• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm21nQLjPJ8

(card board boat)• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ki9Kta8g14

(tea light candle boat)

MY RIVERBOATS

PADDLEWHEEL DANGERS

HENDERSON AS A “HUB”

CREATE YOUR OWN RIVERBOAT STORY!

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Steamboat Iron Mountain." The New Southern View Ezine / Whatever Happened To...? - The Steamboat Iron Mountain. N.p., n.d. Web. 2014.

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