steamboat

1. noun, a boat propelled by a steam engine (COD); 2. attributive

1.
“The boat always landed there, and it was a steamboat. I always wanted to get away from there before the whistle blew up.”

“Like the old train wreck songs, and when steamboats would crash and go up on land, they’d write a song about it.”

“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.”

“What I remember was the old steamboat Wolfe Islander. Like, she carried at one point five cars, and then they done a few alterations to it, got it to carry seven cars.”

“And the ferry would run. The old steamboat would run special trips down to unload at Brophy’s Point, and then come back and pick them up.”

“He was working on the old steamboat Wolfe Islander. They were doing work on it in the shipyard.”

“I remember two guys getting killed on the ferry. On the old steamboat. They were changing a blowdown pipe on the boiler. Then there was no steam on, but it was still full of scalding hot water.”

“Now, did that happen? Who knows. Who knows. But it all ties in, and that’s the fun part. The old Wolfe Islander, the first steamboat coming into the dock.”

“I got a picture of the old steamboat with three of them on her deck going to Kingston, and she only carried five cars, but they had two aircraft up the deck and one crossways.”

2.
“We’d get on the ice right here and go down the river, cut across down below us across Big Bay and up the old canal, the old steamboat canal that runs over towards the other side of the Island, and then jump over to where the ferry was. And I mean, you thought nothing of doing it.”