Christened last month in New Orleans, the 150-passenger vessel is only the second new paddle wheeler designed for overnight travel on America's rivers in the past two decades.
As can be seen in the tour, the American Eagle features a traditional early-American riverboat design while offering all the creature comforts of a modern vessel including large cabins with balconies.
Created by veteran cruise writer and ship photographer Peter Knego and designed as a research tool for vacationers considering a voyage, the American Eagle photo tour is the 128th in our ongoing series of ship and riverboat galleries. For previous photo tours, click on the links below.
Click HERE to see the American Eagle photos above in larger format.
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4 comments:
Does the paddle wheel actually propel the boat? Or does it spin needlessly and just for looks while an ordinary propeller does all the work? And is it steam powered? Or is there just a big modern oil burning monster of an engine hidden down below somewhere.... I'm sure our idiot government has 10,000 different "regs" to control these things just like everything else. Still, it's a beautiful boat, and really brings this colorful part of our history to life once again, neat!
I got a noticed in the mail that I owe taxes on the FICA that I paided already wtf
This vessel was built in Salisbury MD @ Chesapeake Shipbuilding!
The paddle wheel is hydraulically driven and actually does help with propulsion although most of the motive power comes from three diesel engines running three Z-Drives, sort of like inboard-outboards or azipods.
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