Paddle steamer
Sidewheel
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[[File:DS "La Suisse" vor Lausanne-Ouchy.jpg|thumb|"La Suisse" (built 1910) on Lake Geneva]] |
[[File:DS "La Suisse" vor Lausanne-Ouchy.jpg|thumb|"La Suisse" (built 1910) on [[Lake Geneva]]]] |
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The earliest {{nautical term|steam vessels}} were powered by sidewheels, by far the dominant mode of marine steam propulsion, both for steamships and steamboats until the increasing adoption of [[propeller|screw propulsion]] from the 1850s. Though the sidewheels and enclosing [[sponson]]s make them wider than sternwheelers, sidewheelers may be more maneuverable, since some can move the paddles at different speeds, and even in opposite directions. This extra maneuverability makes sidewheelers popular on the narrower, winding rivers of the [[Murray–Darling basin|Murray–Darling system]] in Australia, where a number still operate. |
The earliest {{nautical term|steam vessels}} were powered by sidewheels, by far the dominant mode of marine steam propulsion, both for steamships and steamboats until the increasing adoption of [[propeller|screw propulsion]] from the 1850s. Though the sidewheels and enclosing [[sponson]]s make them wider than sternwheelers, sidewheelers may be more maneuverable, since some can move the paddles at different speeds, and even in opposite directions. This extra maneuverability makes sidewheelers popular on the narrower, winding rivers of the [[Murray–Darling basin|Murray–Darling system]] in Australia, where a number still operate. |
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