river steamer in a sentence

Examples

1. "Lytton " was a typical Columbia River steamer.
2. To move men and supplies to the gold fields, service by river steamers was inaugurated in 1858.
3. The small, clumsy, noisy river steamer left Kinshasa on 3 August 1890, bound up the Congo River.
4. The side-wheel river steamer was converted at New Orleans to a " cottonclad " ram in early 1862.
5. The river steamers had to stop here because it was the head of navigation on the Ottawa River.
6. King Leopold had promised a flotilla of river steamers, but only one worked : the " Stanley ".
7. A river steamer, " Henry Henderson ", purchased by Blantyre Mission in 1892, was named in his honour.
8. But 1912 also brought some very good news for all the local river steamers, and the area in general.
9. From here, goods went by river steamers to Chinde then by sea to Beira, involving three transhipments and delays.
10. Practically there were no roads, so that the main means of transport were some river steamers, canoes and rafts.