paddlewheel(er)

noun, N. Amer., a steamer propelled by paddlewheels (“paddlewheeler” COD); see also paddlewheel steamboat

“The old ferries run out there, eh, even the old paddlewheeler.”

“Well back on the old boat, I think I’m the only one left that worked on the old paddlewheeler, the old steamboat. The rest are all gone. And the ones that worked on that one are getting scarce.”

“It was surprising, as remote as they were up here. The old paddlewheeler used to come up once a week in the nice weather.”

“Do you remember the paddlewheels? I can, as a kid, remember ’cause it was all open on the one side where the big steam engine was, and watching the big arms, you know.”

“What was the ferry like when you were…”
“It was the old paddlewheeler. Ten cents a day to ride on, going to school.”

“This was when the old Wolfe Islander, the old wooden one, used to come up. The old paddlewheeler used to come up.”

“The old paddlewheeler‘d bring them across, eh. They’d unload and go to the Head of the Island.”

“They used to have the steam engine with the thrashing machine up here, and they used to do the Head of Wolfe Island. And when Grandpa died, Dad and Uncle Tom took it over. They used to take her by the old paddlewheel in the fall.”

“The boiler accident on the old Wolfe Islander. Not the one I remembered but the paddlewheeler. Here on the dock, two men were scalded to death. And shortly after that, she was condemned.”