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    along the Ohio River. The name was changed in 1973 to Delta Queen Steamboat Company. The company was started in 1890 by Gordon C. Greene with Henry K....
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    90°39′43″W / 29.593°N 90.662°W / 29.593; -90.662 The Delta Queen is an American sternwheel steamboat. She is known for cruising the major rivers that constitute...
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    created for Delta Queen Steamboat Company to be a six-deck recreation of a classic Mississippi riverboat. Upon the arrival of American Queen in New Orleans...
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    Queen. The ship was the largest such steamboat when she was built in 1976 by the Delta Queen Steamboat Company at Jeffboat in Indiana and was a seven-deck...
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  • American Classic Voyages (category Companies established in 1993)
    industry. The company traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol "AMCV". The company operated the Delta Steamboat Company, Delta Queen Coastal...
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  • morning of 3 December 1967, the River Queen sank at her moorings. The ship appeared in several films. Steamboat Round the Bend (1935) Gone with the Wind...
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  • Thomas Rea Greene (category Delta Queen Steamboat Company)
    between the Betsy Ann and the Thomas Greene (steamboat) with Thomas piloting. In 1946 the Delta Queen was put up for auction by the owners. Greene became...
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    the Belle of Louisville and the Delta Queen, although other steamboats have participated. Since 2009, the Delta Queen has not participated due to ownership...
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    Natchez Delta Queen racing Delta King Steam Sidewheeler Belle of Cincinnati, a participant in the Great Steamboat Race American Queen docked at the Riverwalk...
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  • Paddlewheel". American Cruise Lines. Retrieved 20 March 2021. "American Queen". Steamboats.org. Retrieved 20 March 2021. C. I. N. Staff (27 February 2018). "American...
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    Gordon C. Greene (category Delta Queen Steamboat Company)
    Greene" and the "Delta Queen." Captain Mary Greene served as hostess on these steamboats. She died at the age of 81 on the renowned "Delta Queen," a National...
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    Mary Becker Greene (category Delta Queen Steamboat Company)
    (1867 - April 22, 1949), was steamboat captain of the Greene Line of river steamboats. She was the only female steamboat captain in Ohio. She was born...
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    Delta King is a 285-foot-long sternwheel steamboat (87 m) and the sister ship of Delta Queen, built in Glasgow, Scotland and Stockton, California for the...
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    H. K. Bedford (category Delta Queen Steamboat Company)
    until Sept. 1896. ... "Paddlewheel Queens still rollin' on the river Steamboating alive and well on Mississippi". Toronto Star. February 10, 1990. Archived...
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  • Christopher Becker Greene (category Delta Queen Steamboat Company)
    Greene" and the "Delta Queen." Captain Mary Greene served as hostess on these steamboats. She died at the age of 81 on the renowned "Delta Queen," a National...
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  • Chamber of Commerce. When she was promoted to president of the Delta Queen Steamboat Company in 1976, she became the first woman to serve as the president...
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    referred to as the Natchez IX. She is operated by the New Orleans Steamboat Company and docks at the Toulouse Street Wharf. Day trips include harbor and...
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    Steamboats played a major role in the 19th-century development of the Mississippi River and its tributaries, allowing practical large-scale transport of...
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  • historical adviser for the History Channel, the Walt Disney Company, the Delta Queen Steamboat Company, and more than 30 history-themed hotels and restaurants...
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    Louisville American Queen Natchez The Delta King is in use as a floating restaurant/hotel in Old Town Sacramento, California The Delta Queen is a sister boat...
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    for his involvement in the Hollywood community, his rescue of the steamboat Delta Queen, his work in preserving the work of musicians in the Welte-Mignon...
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    as scrap to Newt Marine of Dubuque, Iowa. Purchased by American Queen Steamboat Company in 2016, the dormant vessel was eventually brought to Gulf Island...
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    and Cape Canaveral, Florida. In 1990, he became Steamboat Director for the Delta Queen Steamboat Company, and his wife tour manager, together they cruised...
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  • Steamboats operated in California on San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, and Sacramento River as early as November 1847, when...
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    Steamboats on the Colorado River operated from the river mouth at the Colorado River Delta on the Gulf of California in Mexico, up to the Virgin River...
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    the Delta Queen Steamboat in 1970, and his role in the SATW (Society of American Travel Writers) photo contest. As president of the Delta Queen from...
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  • Streckfus Steamers (category Steamboats of the Mississippi River)
    business. A few years later, the firm acquired the Diamond Jo Line, a steamboat packet company. The most active period started after the first World War. Bandleader...
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    Julia Belle Swain (category Steamboats of the Mississippi River)
    has entered the Great Steamboat Race twice, in 1975 and 1976. She won in 1976, beating better-known vessels such as the Delta Queen and the Belle of Louisville...
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    River to Pittsburgh in The Saga of the Delta Queen. Way continued to be an active writer, collector of steamboat and packet ship photographs, and preserver...
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    Belle of Louisville (category Steamboats of the Mississippi River)
    Belle of Louisville made her first cruise in a race against the steamboat Delta Queen. That race was the beginning of an unparalleled river tradition...
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