Subnuts beat me to it. Water doesn't boil itself. A pan of water sitting on a stove won't boil unless you heat it, either with electricity or with natural gas. All "steam-powered" ships have the water boiled to make steam, and heat is provided either by burning coal or fuel oil, or these days by nuclear reaction. Even nuclear ships are "steam-powered".
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