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32-487: The Judith Ann is a riverboat that historically plied the Stikine River in southern Alaska and western British Columbia . Built in 1950, the wooden-hulled boat operated on the river between 1950 and 1970, was the last boat to offer scheduled service on the river, and is the only surviving service watercraft to ply the river. She operated between Wrangell, Alaska and Telegraph Creek , British Columbia. She

64-530: A small clearing and can be readily landed upon. A smaller island, Willie Island, is a little downstream of the Upper Kalgan bridge. The Kalgan River is a place of great significance to the local Noongar people. A Dreaming story tells of a husband and wife who lived in the Porongurup Range . The husband beat his wife terribly but she escaped from him by stumbling through the thick bushland. As

96-734: A special advantage in some operations in the free-running Yangtze. In several locations within the Three Gorges , one-way travel was enforced through fast narrows . While less maneuverable and deeper draft vessels were obliged to wait for clearance, these high-speed boats were free to zip past waiting traffic by running in the shallows. Smaller riverboats are used in urban and suburban areas for sightseeing and public transport. Sightseeing boats can be found in Amsterdam, Paris, and other touristic cities where historical monuments are located near water. The concept of local waterborn public transport

128-667: A specialised river dredge , also called a "snagboat". Some large riverboats are comparable in accommodation, food service, and entertainment to a modern oceanic cruise ship . Tourist boats provide a scenic and relaxing trip through the segment they operate in. On the Yangtze River, typically employees have double duties: both as serving staff and as evening-costumed dancers. Smaller luxury craft (without entertainment) operate on European waterways - both rivers and canals, with some providing bicycle and van side trips to smaller villages. High-speed boats such as those shown here had

160-592: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a location in the City and Borough of Wrangell, Alaska is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Riverboat Riverboats are usually less sturdy than ships built for the open seas, with limited navigational and rescue equipment, as they do not have to withstand the high winds or large waves characteristic to large lakes, seas or oceans. They can thus be built from light composite materials. They are limited in size by width and depth of

192-524: Is also quite low compared to other modes of transport. Kalgan River The Kalgan River is a river in the Great Southern region of Western Australia . The river is 140 kilometres (87 mi) long and, along with the King River , drains into Oyster Harbour . The lower 9 km of the river take the form of a drowned river valley with steep hillsides of forest and farmland, and

224-415: Is dependent on the number of navigable rivers and channels as well as the condition of the road and rail network. Generally speaking, riverboats provide slow but cheap transport especially suited for bulk cargo and containers . As early as 20,000 BC people started fishing in rivers and lakes using rafts and dugouts . Roman sources dated 50 BC mention extensive transportation of goods and people on

256-644: Is known as water taxi in English-speaking countries, vaporetto in Venice, water/river tramway in former Soviet Union and Poland (although sightseeing boats can be called water tramways too). Local waterborne public transport is similar to ferry. The transport craft shown below is used for short-distance carriage of passengers between villages and small cities along the Yangtze, while larger craft are used for low-cost carriage over longer distance, without

288-412: Is mentioned, as these were powered by burning wood, with iron boilers drafted by a pair of tall smokestacks belching smoke and cinders, and twin double-acting pistons driving a large paddlewheel at the stern, churning foam. This type of propulsion was an advantage as a rear paddlewheel operates in an area clear of snags, is easily repaired, and is not likely to suffer damage in a grounding. By burning wood,

320-744: Is now owned by the Stikine River Historical Foundation, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. This article about a property in Alaska on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about transportation in Alaska is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This merchant ship article

352-561: The Kalgan River include Napier Creek, Boonawarrup Creek, Young River, Stony Creek and Gaalgegup Creek. The river flows through two pools of note: Meriwarbelup Pool and Noorubup Pool. The Kalgan River was named the "Riviere des Francais" by the French Scientific Expedition in 1803, captained by French explorer Nicolas Baudin , in the ship Géographe , which anchored in what is now known as Frenchmans Bay, and

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384-399: The Kalgan River is good fishing for many species including black bream , with a few skippy, herring , mulloway and whiting . The Kalgan River is renowned as being an excellent place to fish for bream and some of the state's largest bream have been caught in the river. Smaller freshwater species that can be found in the Kalgan River include the western galaxias ( Galaxias occidentalis ),

416-481: The Kalgan River lie within the National Park. These tributaries are marginally saline to brackish, suggesting the levels of salinity are natural. The loss of catchment vegetation (66% of the catchment is cleared) has increased salinity levels downstream. The lower section of the Kalgan River is tidal; a rockbar at the Upper Kalgan bridge separates the upper section from the tidal lower section. The tributaries of

448-535: The Lower King Bridge site. The jetty was also later used as a landing point for tourist vessels that travelled upriver from Albany. It is now in a state of disrepair. The Kalgan River contains many small islands, particularly in the section below the Upper Kalgan bridge. The largest is Honeymoon Island (also called Elbow Island), which is slightly upstream of the Lower Kalgan bridge. This island has

480-684: The Murray, but now a lower water level is stopping them. The Kalgan River in Western Australia has had two main riverboats, the Silver Star , 1918 to 1935, would lower her funnel to get under the low bridge. Today, the Kalgan Queen riverboat takes tourists up the river to taste the local wines. She lowers her roof to get under the same bridge. It is these early steam-driven river craft that typically come to mind when " steamboat "

512-399: The boat could consume fuel provided by woodcutters along the shore of the river. These early boats carried a brow (a short bridge) on the bow, so they could head in to an unimproved shore for transfer of cargo and passengers. Modern riverboats are generally screw (propeller) -driven, with pairs of diesel engines of several thousand horsepower. The standard reference for the development of

544-661: The common jollytail ( Galaxias maculatus ), the mud minnow ( Galaxiella munda ), Balston's pygmy perch ( Nannatherina balston ), nightfish ( Bostockia porosa ) and the western pygmy perch ( Edelia vittata ). The river is home to a large population of birds. In the estuarine part of the river, species such as the Australian pelican , little black cormorant , pied cormorant , pied oystercatcher , black-winged stilt , common sandpiper , Australian white ibis , straw-necked ibis , yellow-billed spoonbill , Pacific gull and Caspian tern can often be seen. The freshwater parts of

576-534: The early 19th century. Out west, riverboats were common transportation on the Colorado , Columbia , and Sacramento rivers. These American riverboats were designed to draw very little water, and in fact it was commonly said that they could "navigate on a heavy dew". Australia has a history of riverboats. Australia's biggest river, the Murray , has an inland port called Echuca . Many large riverboats were working on

608-457: The fancy food or shows seen on the tourist riverboats. In some cases, the traveller must provide their own food. As the major rivers in China are mostly east-west, most rail and road transport are typically north-south. As roads along the rivers are inadequate for heavy truck transport and in some cases extremely dangerous, drive-on/drive-off ramp barges are used to transport trucks. In many cases

640-551: The last 7,500 years. The fringing vegetation of the estuarine portion of the Kalgan River is dominated by the saltwater paperbark trees surrounded by dense stands of coastal saw sedge and shore rushes . The downstream freshwater parts of the river have a much greater variety of species, with a fringing forest that includes swamp paperbark , marri , jarrah , wattle and Western Australian peppermint trees . Further inland, species such as swamp yate , flooded gum and varieties of Banksia and Hakea are found. Parts of

672-484: The occasional outcrop of granite. The river's source is west of the Stirling Ranges . It rises north-west of Kendenup and flows generally southwards until it reaches Oyster Harbour about 10 km north-east of Albany . The Kalgan River is the region’s fourth largest river in terms of average annual flow (53,400 megalitres), and has the third largest catchment area (2,562 km ). The upper reaches of

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704-525: The river Rhine . Upstream, boats were usually powered by sails or oars . In the Middle Ages, towpaths were built along most waterways to use working animals or people to pull riverboats. In the 19th century, steamboats became common. The most famous riverboats were on the rivers of the midwestern and central southern United States , on the Mississippi , Ohio and Missouri rivers in

736-478: The river also support an enormous variety of birds including nankeen kestrel , Australian hobby , wedge-tailed eagle , short-billed black cockatoo , long-billed black cockatoo , galah , little corella , purple-crowned lorikeet , red-capped parrot , laughing kookaburra , willie wagtail , white-breasted robin , splendid fairywren , New Holland honeyeater , red wattlebird and red-eared firetail . Amphibious species that can be commonly be found in and around

768-479: The river are frogs, such as the western banjo and moaning frogs . Reptiles frequently found in the area include tiger snakes and dugites . The southern end of the Kalgan River has two bridges of note: the Upper Kalgan bridge and the Lower Kalgan Bridge. The Lower Kalgan Bridge was built from 1906 and opened in 1908. At 900 feet (274 m) in length, it was the longest of its kind over water in

800-583: The river as well as the height of bridges spanning the river. They can be designed with shallow drafts, as were the paddle wheel steamers on the Mississippi River that could operate in water under two metres deep. While a ferry is often used to cross a river, a riverboat is used to travel along the course of the river, while carrying passengers or cargo, or both, for revenue. (Vessels like ' riverboat casinos ' are not considered here, as they are essentially stationary.) The significance of riverboats

832-647: The river but was only able to reach the Kitsumkalum River . It was not until 1891 that the Hudson's Bay Company sternwheeler the Caledonia successfully negotiated through the Kitselas Canyon and reached Hazelton . A number of other steamers were built around the turn of the century, in part due to the growing fish industry and the gold rush . The WT Preston , a museum ship that was once

864-798: The riverbank that have been cleared support a variety of introduced weeds that are shallow rooted. In areas in which the native deep-rooted species have been lost, erosion of the river bank has become a problem. Many wild flowers can be found along the Luke Pen Walk, a trail that follows the river for 9 km before it reaches Oyster Harbour. Some of the varieties include Hovea trisperma (common hovea), Hovea pungens (devil’s pins), Hovea elliptica (tree hovea), Adenanthos obovatus (basket flower), Lysinema ciliatum (curry flower), Leucopogeon pulchelus (beard heath), Banksia sessilis (parrot bush), Banksia squarrosa (pringle) and Acacia extensa (wiry wattle). The estuarine end of

896-468: The state at the time. At this time, the bridge had a special navigation span, 40 feet (12 m) wide at the deepest part of the river. The original bridge remained in place until 1958, when it was replaced, but the navigation span trusses were removed for preservation and are now on display in the park at the western end of the bridge. The Government Jetty was also built in 1906 so that timber and other construction materials could be delivered adjacent to

928-576: The steamboat is Steamboats on Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History by Louis C. Hunter (1949). Terrace, British Columbia , Canada, celebrates "Riverboat Days" each summer. The Skeena River passes through Terrace and played a crucial role during the age of the steamboat. The first steam-powered vessel to enter the Skeena was the Union in 1864. In 1866 the Mumford attempted to ascend

960-400: The trucks transported are new and are being delivered to customers or dealers. Perhaps unique to China, the new trucks observed traveling upstream were all blue, while the new trucks traveling downstream were all white. Low-value goods are transported on rivers and canals worldwide, since slow-speed barge traffic offers the lowest possible cost per ton mile and the capital cost per ton carried

992-530: The wife ran through the bush, her digging stick trailed over the Earth and cut open the soil behind her forming the path of the Kalgan river. The Luke Pen Walk is a track that follows the Kalgan River; it was constructed in 1997. The walk is described as easy with the terrain being generally flat and even. With a total length of 9 kilometres (6 mi) it can take about 4 hours to complete the round trip. The walk

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1024-595: Was subsequently known as the "French River" by early settlers. The explorer Alexander Collie recorded the river as "Kal-gan-up" in April 1831. The name Kalganup is believed to be the Noongar word for "place of many waters". Kalganup is also thought to mean "place of fishes" and there are still the remains of Aboriginal fish traps. The traps, known as the Albany Fish Traps have been situated here for at least

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