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The steamboats in interior waters will be exchanged for iron whalebacks, and new forces of a new nature, as yet only partly developed, such a electricity, will contest with steam as a motive power.

From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by Sherman, John

We could send one of papa’s whalebacks after it.

From The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton by Curtis, Wardon Allan

The first of the whalebacks was built about that time, and we began to see those processions of a barge and two, three, or four tows which the lakemen called 'the sow and her pigs.'

From The Indian Drum by Balmer, Edwin

These whalebacks have a very important part to play in internal navigation.

From My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young by Cox, James

No. 1 is McDougal's Armoured Whale-back, with conning-towers, a design of 1892 for converting whalebacks into war-vessels.

From The Illustrated War News, Number 21, Dec. 30, 1914 by Various