Talk:Team boat

This is not what the British mean by hose ferry.

Horse ferry takes us here from google (UK), but we need to make clear this only applies to the American meaning of horse ferry.

In GB, the term is much older, and simply means a raft for getting a horse or horses and cart or carriage across the river.

London Bridge was opened in 1176, and was the only bridge until Westminster Bridge opened in 1750. The horse ferries in London predate London Bridge, and there were several.

The most famous connects Lambeth on the south bank with Westminster on the north, and ceased when Lambeth Bridge opened in 1862. The road that continues on from the bridge on the north side from the bridge is Horseferry Road.

So we either need a section explaining this, or we need a different page for British horse ferries and to have a disambiguation and a link on this page.

Starting with "A team boat, horse boat, or horse ferry, is a watercraft powered by horses or mules, generally using a treadmill, which serves as a horse engine." implies that all horse ferries were of the American nature, while the British use of the term predates it by seven centuries.

Any ideas how we can sort this out?

Ganpati23 (talk) 18:43, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

References

Location of last known example possibly mistaken?

The source for the last known horse ferry states it operated on the Tennessee river, but all the sources I can find on Ike Napier state that he lived in Carthage, TN and operated the ferry in nearby Rome, which are both on the Cumberland, not the Tennessee. It could be that the one mentioned in the article is a different Ike Napier, but if so I find no records of his ever having existed. If anyone could dredge up any more evidence one way or the other, I'd be happy to see it. I would try and verify next time I'm in the area, but I think that would constitute original research. Letmeusetheoldtheme (talk) 16:49, 7 September 2023 (UTC)