Definition of "excursion steamer" []

• A steamboat used to take people on coastal, lake or river pleasure-trips. (noun)

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• "The target was the 1,800-ton Hamburg-America Line excursion steamer Königin Luise, whose peacetime work was ferrying passengers back and forth from Hamburg to Heligoland."