Propulsion Type: Reciprocating Steam

This vessel became famous as the flagship of Commodore George Dewey at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War in 1898.

Race from New Orleans to St. Louis against another Mississippi paddle steamer, the Robert E. Lee, was immortalized in a lithograph by Currier and Ives.

A sidewheeler that worked lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire where the modeler used to live.

Mississippi River steam powered sternwheel towboat built in 1921 by the Charles Ward company in Charleston, West Virginia for the Pan American Petroleum company of New Orleans

Built in 1891, Dorothy is the first ship constructed by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company of Newport News, Virginia.

A conjectural design of a typical 1880’s steam packet of the Mississippi River tributaries. Built from plans by James Haley, which are an adaptation of a larger vessel.

Using a spar torpedo mounted on Picket Boat No.1, Lt. William Cushing and his crew succeeded in sinking CSS Albemarle at Plymouth, North Carolina, on the night of 27 October 1864.

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner operated by the White Star Line that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning hours of 15 April 1912.

Union iron gunboat assigned to the James River Flotilla during the Civil War.