'Artificial' paddlesteamers

Most of these are diesel powered and driven by propellers (screw) the funnels and paddles are for appearance only, the boat would sail just fine without them...

Elizabethan downstream from Tower Bridge

Dixie Queen moored downstream of Tower Bridge

Dixie Queen moored upstream from the Tower of London

Dixie Queen moored upstream from the Tower of London - seen from the river

Dixie Queen under way on the river Thames

New Southern Belle at Hampton Court

Yarmouth Belle at Hampton Court

Yarmouth Belle at Hampton Court

Yarmouth Belle outside the London Eye, downstream from Westminster Bridge

Molly Brown at Disneyland, Paris (diesel electric power and driven by paddles, though apparently guided by a rail beneath the surface)

Unfortunately the steam powered sternwheeler 'Mark Twain' was not running when I was there...

Old Orleans at Lakeside Shopping Centre, Thurrock (NOT operational!)