Seine River Steamers hospital ships during the First World War, as the ghastily wounded British soldiers could be smoothly moved downriver to larger hospital ships at Le Havre. Atlantic Salmon have naturally returned to the Seine almost a century after over fishing and pollution caused them to disappear. Seine River Steamers The Seine River was the scene of many early experiments with steam navigation. The steamship has a long ancestry, dating back at least to 1783 when the Marquis de Jouffray d'Abbans steamed his little boat, the Pyroscaphe, across the Seine. Robert Fulton even exhibited one to Napoleon's regime. With the success of
Steamboats of the Colorado River Fort Yuma at Jaeger's Ferry. In 1858, 1 mile above Colorado City, across the river from Fort Yuma, Arizona City was founded, (renamed Yuma in 1873). In 1865, a better location for an anchorage, and a port and shipyard was established at Port Isabel, Sonora, 157 miles below Fort Yuma and 7 miles east of the river mouth on the eastern outlet of the river. In 1873, Lerdo Landing appeared on the river, 3 miles above Port Famine, to connect the pioneering agricultural settlement of Colonia Lerdo to the steamboat traffic on the river. Port Isabel remained in use until