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Recent Examples of ferryboat
Music at the Maritime, a quarterly concert series performed aboard one of the museum’s historic world-class ships, the 1898 steam ferryboat Berkeley.
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Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
Guests who crossed the Hudson River on ferryboats to Liberty Island included Madonna, Queen Latifah and the entertainment executive Michael Eisner.
—Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
The open-deck ferryboat from Cedar Island to Ocracoke hums along for just over two hours to a terminal in a sheltered harbor.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2023
The Boat Trip: Etchings by Charles Francois Daubigny In 1857, French landscape painter Charles Francois Daubigny purchased a 27-foot ferryboat and converted it into a floating studio.
—Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 14 June 2023
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Told in first-person narrative with archival photos, the 225-page coffee-table book covers the family’s many setbacks and triumphs dating back to the early 1890s, when Jessop’s great-grandparents arrived in San Diego via steamship, rail and horsedrawn buggy.—
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The wooden steamship — which measured 95 feet and weighed 82 gross tons — was built in 1873 in Stockton, New South Wales, according to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.—
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The barges appear to be connected in a continuous span, with the lead ship's ramp extended past the beach.—
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In 2002, a freight barge struck a pier of Oklahoma’s Interstate 40 bridge after the towboat’s captain lost consciousness, collapsing a section of the bridge and killing 14.—
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Use a Steamer Using a handheld clothing steamer is probably the most popular alternative to traditional ironing.—
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While steaming, be sure to hold the steamer nozzle upright so hot water doesn't spill or dribble out.—
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Ross’ outside-of-the-box ingenuity also fueled a project by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans that found Ross shipping himself in a freighter crate that journeyed from Rhode Island to Alabama.—
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But the freighter may not be grounded forever.—
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With past tanker seizures straining relations between Tehran and Washington, the move could escalate tensions further.—
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But deploying firefighters, helicopters and water tankers is often based on human decisions.—
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Rescuers used two fire boats, a helicopter and personal watercraft to look for the boy, as well as personnel on the beach, Guzman said.—
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On all three waterways, officials said all boaters, including paddlers and rowers, must arrive with their watercraft clean, drained and dry.—
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These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.—
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The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.—
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Plans for air support had been scuttled for various reasons, but several armored transports are on the way to evacuate them from the area.—
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BlackRock has long been invested heavily in infrastructure — which can be hard for individual investors to access — but Powell said mass transport and shipping infrastructure offered areas of opportunity in a time of likely mounting inflation.—
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“Ferryboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ferryboat. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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