One of these is a paddle tug dating from 8 May 1945.

However in the 19th century the river supported a substantial commercial trade using shallow-draft paddle steamers, the first trips being made by two boats from South Australia on the spring flood of 1853.

There are a number of both historic paddle steamers and newer boats offering cruises ranging from a half-hour to 5 days.

* April 26 – May 24, 1827-The Royal Netherlands Navy's British-built paddle steamer Curaçao makes the first Transatlantic Crossing by steam, from Hellevoetsluis to Paramaribo.

* March 31 – The paddle steamer, bound from Cork to London, sinks in the English Channel with the loss of all 250 on board.

* April 26 – May 24 – The Royal Netherlands Navy's British-built paddle steamer Curaçao makes the first Transatlantic Crossing by steam, from Hellevoetsluis to Paramaribo.

* April 4 – April 22 – The paddle steamer SS Sirius ( 1837 ) makes the Transatlantic Crossing to New York from Cork, Ireland, in eighteen days, though not using steam continuously.

Kayaking is distinguished from canoeing by the sitting position of the paddler and the number of blades on the paddle.

Activities range from a spontaneous smack on bare buttocks during a sexual activity, to occasional sexual roleplay ( such as ageplay ) to domestic discipline and may involve the use of a hand or the use of a variety of spanking implements, such as a spanking paddle or cane.

At the end of the sketch, Foley and McDonald paddle their canoe to a local clothier owned by Thompson, and reveal their bounty, including " many fine Armani " from " yesterday's kill ".

The time and the cost for transit dropped as regular paddle wheel steamships and sailing ships went from ports on the east coast and New Orleans, Louisiana to Colón, Panama ($ 80 –$ 100 ), across the Isthmus of Panama by railroad ($ 25 ) and by paddle wheel steamships and sailing ships to ports in California and Oregon ($ 100 –$ 150 ).

Vanderbilt decided to use paddle wheel steam ships from the U. S. to the San Juan river, small paddle wheel steam launches on the San Juan river, boats across Lake Nicaragua, and a stage coach to the Pacific where connections could be made with another ship headed to California, Oregon, etc .. Vanderbilt, by undercutting fares to the Isthmus of Panama and stealing many of the Panama Railroad workers, managed to attract roughly 30 % of the California bound steam boat traffic.

: Distinguish from paddle and petal and the verb peddle.

* Charlotte ( sternwheeler ), a paddle steamer from the Fraser River

Gamow later claimed that his first two attempts to defect with his wife were in 1932, and involved trying to kayak: first a planned 250-kilometer paddle over the Black Sea to Turkey, and another attempt from Murmansk to Norway.

The paddle wheel above the waterline was exposed to enemy fire, while itself preventing the ship from firing broadsides effectively.

Surfers often paddle out from Paradise Cove to the area when the waves are breaking.

Teams create their own vessel and then paddle the boat from one end of Children's Lake ( near the Boiling Springs Tavern ) to the other end ( near the Grist Mill and the Boiling Springs Pool ).

Before the bridge was built a series of paddle steamers operated from the oddly-named Corporation Pier railway station at the Victoria Pier in Hull to the railway pier in New Holland.

* Enterprise, was a British East India Company's armed paddle steamer that served alongside the Fleet in the First China War from 1839 to 1840 and the Second Burmese War in 1852.

They were constructed from wire-braced bamboo poles carrying fabric sails ; a paddle pump or waterladder pump is fixed to a Thai bladed rotor.

These early defibrillators used the alternating current from a power socket, transformed from the 110-240 volts available in the line, up to between 300 and 1000 volts, to the exposed heart by way of ' paddle ' type electrodes.

On the next outflow of water, his raft was expelled, and Odysseus was able to recover it and paddle away to safety.

Coleco was also able to design and market the Gemini game system which was an exact clone of the 2600, but with combined joystick / paddle controllers.

His later attempt to paddle a kayak to the North Pole in late 2008, following the erroneous prediction of clear water to the Pole, was stymied when his expedition found itself stuck in thick ice after only three days.

Pelton's paddle geometry was designed so that when the rim runs at ½ the speed of the water jet, the water leaves the wheel with very little speed, extracting almost all of its energy, and allowing for a very efficient turbine.

* was an Antelope-class iron paddle sloop launched in 1846 and sold in 1883.

The paddle steamer was off the river for a week while it was being repaired.

* was a first-class paddle frigate launched in 1846 and scrapped in 1864.

An " Inexplosible "- type paddle steamer owned by the mairie was put in place in August 2007, facing place de la Loire and containing a bar.

Cargo was hauled in bateau-anguilles, boats with paddle wheels amidships, and bateaux crabes, a huge toothed ' claw ' wheel across to grip the river bed in the shallows to supplement the paddle wheels.

Going upstream was more difficult since there were many places where the current was too swift to paddle.

A good Brunswick stew must be cooked down slowly, according to stew masters for the Capitol Square event, “ Until the stirring paddle stands up straight in the stew .” When the paddle stood, Brunswick Stew was served to the legislators and hundreds of Virginians who turned out for the event to “ Get a Taste of Brunswick .”

In 1839, Canadian-born Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract, and the next year formed the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company to operate the line's four pioneer paddle steamers on the Liverpool – Halifax – Boston route.

The exceptions were that its wheel can be continuously rotated in either direction, and it was missing the extra paddle included on the previous model.

The Namco Jogcon paddle was available for the PlayStation game R4: Ridge Racer Type 4.

An overshot wheel replaced the paddle wheel and was itself replaced later by the turbine.

Toledo was named by Celeste Rochon after a pioneer side wheel paddle steamer operated by Captain Oren Kellogg of the Kellogg Transportation Company.

The numeric keypad found on the keyboard is also used as a game controller and can be found on a number of separate devices, most notably early consoles, usually attached to a joystick or a paddle.

Wooden paddle dolls have been found in Egyptian tombs which date to as early as 2000 BCE.

The ability to shift gears manually, often via paddle shifters, can also be found on certain automated transmissions ( manumatics such as Tiptronic ), semi-automatics ( BMW SMG ), and CVTs ( such as Lineartronic ).

* Paula Lepro, 57, sexually molested with a table paddle and strangled with her nylon stockings ; found on June 22, 1962 in her apartment in Stoughton, Mass.

The ability to shift gears manually, often via paddle shifters, can also be found on certain automatic transmissions ( manumatics such as Tiptronic ) and continuous variable transmissions ( CVTs ) ( such as Lineartronic ).

According to the Car Crazy episode " Le Mans Museum of the Automobile ", the paddle shifter interface could be found as early as 1912.

Further still, the Mertens ' Water Monitor ( Water goanna – Varanus mertensi ), found in lagoons and rivers across northern Australia, is streamlined for swimming, using its tail as a paddle.

In the University of Missouri until World War II, any freshman found on the ' quad ', the most prestigious square on campus, had to offer his ' insolent ' posterior for punishment along a paddle line formed by swatting seniors.

Also mentioned at the end of the show, was a compelling report of a paddle found on a part of Angel Island where the current led directly ( and only ) from the Marin Headlands.