Modern paddle steamers

USA and Canada

MPV Constitution in Vancouver, Canada

Sternwheeler paddleboat, the SS Natchez IX in Louisiana

A few paddle steamers serve alcove tourism needs as cruise boats on lakesnotes 2 and others, such as the Delta Queen, still accomplish on the Mississippi River and in the Pacific Northwest forth the Willamette River,1011 as do a few in the United Kingdom and abroad in Europe.

PS Washington Irving, congenital in 1912 by the New York Shipbuilding Company, was the better passenger-carrying riverboat anytime congenital with a accommodation for 6,000 passengers. It was operated on the Hudson River from 1913 until it was sunk in an blow in 1926. One of the endure paddle steamers congenital in the U.S. was the absterge William M. Black, congenital in 1934 and now a National Historic Landmark.

editGermany

The Elbe river Saxon Paddle Steamer Agile in Dresden (known as "White Fleet"), Germany, is the oldest and better in the world, with about 700,000 cartage per year.12 The 1913-built Goethe was the endure paddle steamer on the River Rhine.13 Previously the world's better sidewheeler with a two-cylinder beef engine of 700 hp (520 kW), a breadth of 83 m and a acme aloft baptize of 9.2 m, the Goethe was adapted to Diesel-Hydraulic ability during the winter of 2008/09.14

editItaly

In Italy, a baby paddle steamer agile operates on Basin Como and Basin Garda, primarily for tourists.

editNorway

PS Skibladner is the oldest steamship in approved operation. Congenital in 1856, she still operates on basin Mjøsa in Norway.

editSwitzerland

CGN paddle steamer Montreux abrogation Evian-les-Bains in July 2002

Steam address engine ZSG Stadt Rapperswil, congenital in 1914 by Escher & Wyss at Zurich

Stadt Zürich (to the left) and Stadt Rapperswil in Zurich-Wollishofen

Switzerland has a ample paddle steamer fleet, a lot of of the "Salon Steamer-type" congenital by Sulzer in Winterthur or Escher-Wyss in Zurich. There are 5 alive and one abeyant on Basin Lucerne, two on Basin Zurich, and one anniversary on Basin Brienz, Basin Thun and Basin Constance. Swiss aggregation CGN operates a amount of paddle steamers on Basin Geneva. Their agile includes three adapted to agent electric ability in the 1960s and 5 application steam. One, Montreux, was reconverted in 2000 from agent to an all-new beef engine. It is the world's aboriginal electronically remote-controlled beef engine and has operating costs agnate to advanced diesels, while bearing up to 90 percent beneath air pollution.15

editUnited Kingdom

PS Waverley, congenital in 1947, is the endure abyssal paddle steamer in the world. This address sails a abounding division of cruises from ports about Britain, and sailed beyond the English Channel to admire the biconcave of her antecedent of 1899 at the 1940 Battle of Dunkirk.

On the Isle of Wight, PS Monarch (one of the aboriginal passenger-carrying argosy of her type) takes trips on the River Medina. Monarch is a ancillary wheeler congenital at Chatham Historic Dockyard.

editUSSR

In the USSR, river paddle steamers of the blazon Iosif Stalin (project 373), afterwards renamed Ryazan-class steamships, were congenital until 1951. Amid 1952 and 1959, ships of this blazon were congenital for the Soviet Union by Obuda Hajogyar Budapest branch in Hungary. In total, 75 blazon Iosif Stalin/Ryazan side-wheelers were built. They are 70 m continued and can backpack up to 360 passengers. Few of them still abide in alive service.1617

editAustralia

PS Adelaide is the oldest wooden-hulled paddle steamer in the world. Congenital in 1866, she operates from the Port of Echuca, on Australia's Murray River, which has the better agile of paddle steamers in the world.

The replica paddle steamer Curlip was complete in Gippsland, Australia, and launched in November 2008.

PS Kookaburra Queen and a CityCat

PS Kookaburra Queen casework the Brisbane River, operating as a amphibian restaurant or area for hire.

PS Enterprise, congenital in Echuca in 1876-78 and now berthed at a anchorage on the Acton Peninsula, Basin Burley Griffin, Canberra, has been adequate to abounding alive order. Recommissioned afterwards restoration, she was acclimated on the Murray River, the Darling River and the Murrumbidgee River in New South Wales amid 1978 and 1988.

PS Marion, based at Mannum, is the endure brief all-around commuter accustomed paddle steamer in the world, alteration book paying cartage up and down the Murray River.

editNew Zealand

The adequate paddle steamer Waimarie is based in Wanganui, New Zealand. The Waimarie was congenital in kitset anatomy in Poplar, London in 1899, and originally operated on the Whanganui River beneath the name Aotea. Afterwards renamed, she remained in account until 1949. She sank at her moorings in 1952, and remained in the mud until aloft by volunteers and adequate to activate operations afresh in 2000.18

editThe Netherlands

The Kapitein Kok is a paddle steamer congenital in 1911 for bear account on the river Lek. It has been absolutely adequate in 1976 and is still in use today as a affair ship. Queen Beatrix has accountant the address in 1998 as allotment of the celebrations of her 60th birthday.