On first sight, the American Duchess charmed me with her white, wedding-cake exterior adorned with gingerbread trim. The big, red paddle wheel on the back paid tribute to her steamboat lineage, a ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - “The Whippoorwill” was the name of the flat-bottomed boat struck by a small tornado 40 years ago during the deadliest water disaster in Kansas history. Still, as they prepare to ...

"The Whippoorwill" was the name of the flat-bottomed paddle boat struck by a small tornado 40 years ago this week during the deadliest water disaster in Kansas history. Still, as they prepare to put ...

Prompted by a boating accident that claimed two lives last summer, the largest emergency drill ever on Lake Tahoe centered on an old-fashioned paddle-wheeler stuck a mile offshore. More than a dozen ...