Steamboat Museum
Radio Controlled Riverboat Hall


photo by E.J. Drown


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A prototype of iron-hulled boats built on the Clyde by R. Duncan and Comp-any of Port Glasgow and Dennys of Dunbarton in England. After completion of the hull and machinery, they were disassembled, crated up in sections and shipped to their operating areas in Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America for re-assembly by bolting together the hull plates and installing the machinery. The cabins and superstructure were then built according to the needs of the operators. Some were located in Burma and India being operated by the Irrawaddi Flotation Company in the early 1900's; at least one was running on the Amazon River in Peru as recently as 1985.

Model built by Ralph Lossing and is electric powered and radio controlled


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