Transport / Passenger – Hampton Roads Ship Model Society

Arabia Steamboat Museum, The

Arabia was a riverboat sunk by a submerged tree snag just outside of Kansas City. The 150 passengers Made it off the boat safely, but 200 tons of cargo were lost. These artifacts are now on display.

Queen Mary

Take a tour or stay overnight this ship which now operates as a hotel and venue for meetings and weddings

Natchez (1869)

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.

Mt. Washington

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

Destrehan

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

City of Monroe

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.

Titanic, RMS

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.

A former Southern Pacific Railroad ferry that operated between the Oakland Pier and the San Francisco Ferry Building. Built in 1898 by the Union Iron Works of San Francisco. Part of the Maritime Museum of San Diego.

United States, SS

The largest ocean liner constructed entirely in the United States and the fastest to cross the Atlantic in either direction

Portland

A large ocean-going, side-wheel, paddle steamer. Built in 1889 for passenger service between Boston, Massachusetts and Portland, Maine. Sank off Cape Ann during the Portland Gale of 1898 with all hands.

Subject Type: Transport / Passenger