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steamboat

type of steam powered vessel; smaller than a steamship; boat in which the primary method of marine propulsion is steam power
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Summary

steamboat is a boat type[1]. steamboat ranks in the top 3% of boat type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,151 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: motorboat[3], steam-powered vessel[4]
  • Commons category: Steamboats[5]
  • Time of discovery or invention: 1783[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Steamboats[7]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[8], Otto's encyclopedia[9], Sytin Military Encyclopedia[10], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[11], New International Encyclopedia[12]
  • Different from: steamship[13]

Why It Matters

steamboat has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] steamboat is known by 78 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0007337-parniky
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  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Different from → steamship
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 2321916
    Aliases → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ Yso id: 16317, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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