Eureka

A 300-foot-long wooden ferryboat. — The ferryboat EUREKA, built in 1890.
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Eureka's Statistics

Overall Length	299.5 feet
Extreme Width	78 feet
Gross Tonnage	2,420
Horsepower	1500
Passengers	2300 souls
Automobiles	120

♦ Eureka is a wooden-hulled, sidewheel paddle steamboat.
♦ From the passenger deck up, she is nearly identical fore and aft.
♦ Her "double-end" design made disembarking quicker and easier.
♦ Eureka's large "walking beam" steam engine remains intact.