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In March 2024, the wreck of the steamship Milwaukee, which sank after colliding with another vessel in 1886, was found 360 feet below the water's surface in Lake Michigan.
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CBS News, 16 May 2025
On the Mississippi, where Mark Twain had once waited upriver for steamships from this city, all boat traffic had fallen silent.
—Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
The breakthrough came soon after, with a roving assignment aboard the Quaker City, a steamship bound for Palestine.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
The Carpathia, the steamship that raced to the site of the disaster, picked up just over 700 survivors from the Titanic’s too-few and too sparsely filled lifeboats.
—Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
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CBS News, 16 May 2025
On the Mississippi, where Mark Twain had once waited upriver for steamships from this city, all boat traffic had fallen silent.
—Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
The breakthrough came soon after, with a roving assignment aboard the Quaker City, a steamship bound for Palestine.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
The Carpathia, the steamship that raced to the site of the disaster, picked up just over 700 survivors from the Titanic’s too-few and too sparsely filled lifeboats.
—Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
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“Steamship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/steamship. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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steamship
noun
steam·ship
ˈstēm-ˌship 
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