riverboats
Paddle-wheel vessels
Riverboats are boats designed for navigation on rivers, typically flat-bottomed to handle shallow waters.
The term often evokes the paddle-wheel steamboats of 19th-century American rivers—vessels that carried passengers and cargo along the Mississippi and its tributaries: Mark Twain worked as a riverboat pilot.
Modern riverboats include casino boats and tour vessels.
Southern state or major river
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- flatboatLevel-bottomed river craft
- keelboatRidged-hull river cargo vessel
- sternwheelerRear-paddle propelled vessel
Mark Twain · showboat · fur trade · westward expansion · pioneers · settlers · trade routes · rivermen
Leisurely ocean voyage
- excursionBrief recreational trip
- sightseeingVisiting places of interest
- dinner cruiseMeal aboard moving vessel
- casinoFacility for wagering
gaming · entertainment · charter · sunset cruise · wildlife viewing · scenic · tourism · floating restaurant
Mississippi
Southern state or major river
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- flatboatLevel-bottomed river craft
- keelboatRidged-hull river cargo vessel
Mark Twain · sternwheeler · showboat · fur trade · westward expansion · pioneers · settlers · trade routes · rivermen · paddlewheel
cruise
Leisurely ocean voyage
- excursionBrief recreational trip
- sightseeingVisiting places of interest
- dinner cruiseMeal aboard moving vessel
casino · gaming · entertainment · charter · sunset cruise · wildlife viewing · scenic · tourism · floating restaurant · jazz
cargo
Transported goods
ferry · shipping · logistics · navigation · waterway · channel · dock · port · upstream · downstream
pontoon
Buoyant platform or vessel
skiff · narrowboat · shantyboat · dinghy · raft · canoe · pirogue · bateau · sampan · dhow
- South American Navieswarships, frigates, corvettes, destroyers, submarines
- boat toursboat tour, boat cruise, harbor tour, coastal cruise, sunset cruise
- Mississippi RiverItasca, levee, towboats, towboat, paddle wheelers
- shippingshipping, cargo ships, container ships, freight, package
- naval historybattleships, naval battles, naval history, admiral, battleship
- ancient seafaringships, galley, bireme, navigation, mariners
riverboatsocean liners
Large passenger vessels
ocean vessels · supertankers · clipper ships · merchant ships · cargo ships
- riverboat casinosGambling venues on vessels
- riverboat gamblerCard player on waterways
- riverboat gamblingCasino games on watercraft
- riverboat pilotOne who navigates inland vessels
- riverboat cruisesPleasure voyages on streams
- riverboat captainCommander of river vessel