Hi PDs,

While doing a little research on french steamboats following the discussion at http://www.paddleducks.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3386.msg15647;topicseen#msg15647, I found a really cool french steamboat blogspot: http://balades-pascal.blogspot.com/
You could virtually spend hours over hours just looking at these hundreds of pictures of both contemporary steam launches and vintage pictures of all sorts of steamboats, among them many paddlers.

One interesting, arbitrarily chosen example: There's a picture labeled as turkish steamer, showing what appears to be an identical twin of the well known, due to the excellent model plans, Burmese "Zulu".

Regards, Moritz