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- Bateau length "7315.2".
- Bateau abstract "A bateau or batteau is a shallow-draft, flat-bottomed boat which was used extensively across North America, especially in the colonial period and in the fur trade. It was traditionally pointed at both ends but came in a wide variety of sizes. The name derives from the French word, bateau, which is simply the word for boat and the plural, bateaux, follows the French, an unusual construction for an English plural. In the southern United States, the term is still used to refer to flat-bottomed boats, including those elsewhere called jon boats.Proper spelling remains a problem with researchers. Dr. William E. Trout III, a member of the Virginia Canals and Navigations Society who has written about the batteaux, explained the issue thus:We use the spelling "batteau" because we consider that to be the correct spelling for our kind of boat - the James River Batteau, invented by the Rucker brothers in 1771 and later patented. This is the way it was spelled during the batteau era, even in the Virginia state laws. Evidently after batteaux were forgotten and the word was not used anymore, this spelling was forgotten and reverted to the French spelling for that general type of boat (and for boats generally). We have a lot of trouble with editors who don't want to know that the correct spelling for our type of boat was "batteau," just because current dictionaries don't have it. Some regional dictionaries do say that "batteau" was the usual American spelling during the 19th century. The plural is "batteaux."Since 1985 replicas of James River Batteaux have descended the James every year during the week-long James River Batteau Festival, and have explored other rivers in and around Virginia. See Batteau.org".
- Bateau length "7.3152".
- Bateau shipBeam "1.524".
- Bateau thumbnail PolingJamesacp.jpg?width=300.
- Bateau wikiPageExternalLink www.batteau.org.
- Bateau wikiPageExternalLink bateau.htm.
- Bateau wikiPageExternalLink batteau.
- Bateau wikiPageExternalLink bat3.html.
- Bateau wikiPageExternalLink index.html.
- Bateau wikiPageExternalLink 560524734.
- Bateau wikiPageID "2587563".
- Bateau wikiPageRevisionID "605633313".
- Bateau builders "various".
- Bateau hasPhotoCollection Bateau.
- Bateau inServiceRange "c. 1650 - c. 1850".
- Bateau operators "commercial and military freight haulers".
- Bateau shipArmament "none".
- Bateau shipBeam "to".
- Bateau shipCapacity "1".
- Bateau shipComplement "usually 3 or more".
- Bateau shipDraught "up to when loaded".
- Bateau shipLength "to".
- Bateau shipNotes "built to ferry freight on interior waterways of North America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries".
- Bateau shipPropulsion "setting poles, oars or sail".
- Bateau shipSpeed "varied".
- Bateau shipType "Bateau".
- Bateau subject Category:Boat_types.
- Bateau subject Category:Fur_trade.
- Bateau subject Category:Human-powered_vehicles.
- Bateau type Artifact100021939.
- Bateau type Conveyance103100490.
- Bateau type Human-poweredVehicles.
- Bateau type Instrumentality103575240.
- Bateau type Object100002684.
- Bateau type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- Bateau type Vehicle104524313.
- Bateau type Whole100003553.
- Bateau type MeanOfTransportation.
- Bateau type Ship.
- Bateau type Product.
- Bateau type DesignedArtifact.
- Bateau comment "A bateau or batteau is a shallow-draft, flat-bottomed boat which was used extensively across North America, especially in the colonial period and in the fur trade. It was traditionally pointed at both ends but came in a wide variety of sizes. The name derives from the French word, bateau, which is simply the word for boat and the plural, bateaux, follows the French, an unusual construction for an English plural.".
- Bateau label "Bat (łódź)".
- Bateau label "Bateau".
- Bateau sameAs Bat_(łódź).
- Bateau sameAs m.03bx7nf.
- Bateau sameAs Q4868744.
- Bateau sameAs Q4868744.
- Bateau sameAs Bateau.
- Bateau wasDerivedFrom Bateau?oldid=605633313.
- Bateau depiction PolingJamesacp.jpg.
- Bateau isPrimaryTopicOf Bateau.