The Delta Queen is the American sternwheel steamboat. Historically, it has been used to explore the major rivers which are the tributaries of the Mississippi River, especially in South America. He docked in Chattanooga, Tennessee and served as a floating hotel until he was bought by the newly formed Delta Queen Steamboat Company. He was withdrawn to Houma, Louisiana, in March 2015 to be fixed on his original condition.
The Delta Queen is 285 feet (87 m) in length, 58 feet (18 m) wide, and pulls 11.5 feet (3.5 m). It weighs 1,650 tons (1,676 metric tons), with a capacity of 176 passengers. Its cross-compound steam engine produces 2,000 horsepower shown (1,500 kW), turning on a hard-mounted paddlewheel. Built in 1927, it is the last steam-powered steam-powered steamest passenger that survives in the Mississippi river basin. He was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989.
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History
Hull, the first two decks, and a steam engine booked in 1924 from William Denny & Shipyard brothers on the River Leven side by side with the Clyde River in Dumbarton, Scotland. Delta Queen and his sister Delta King , were shipped to Stockton, California in 1926. There the California Transport Company collected two ships for their regular Sacramento River service between San Francisco and Sacramento, and a visit to Stockton, on the San Joaquin River. At that time, they were the most luxurious and expensive sternwheel passenger ship ever assigned. Driven out of service by a new highway connecting Sacramento with San Francisco in 1940, the two boats were unfurled and then purchased by Isbrandtsen Steamship Lines for service out of New Orleans. During World War II, they were requested by the United States Navy to serve in the San Francisco Bay as Delta Delta (YHB-7/YFB-56). During the war the ships were painted "dark gray" and used to "transport the wounded from sailing ships in the Bay of San Francisco to local hospitals."
Three different US Presidents have sailed in Delta Queen: Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, and Jimmy Carter.
In 1946, Delta Queen was purchased by Greene Line in Cincinnati, Ohio and withdrawn through the Panama Canal and the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers to be restored in Pittsburgh. On the ocean journey he was tested by Frederick Way, Jr. In 1948 he entered regular passenger services, crossing the waters of the Ohio River, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Cumberland between Cincinnati, New Orleans, St. Louis. Paul, Chattanooga, Nashville, and the port in between. Ownership of ships has changed seven times over the past fifty years.
In 1966, Congress passed the first Marine Safety Act that would make Delta Queen out of business. After consulting with lawyer William Kohler, Richard Simonton, Bill Muster, and Edwin "Jay" Quinby went to Washington, DC, to save their boat. As chairman of the Greene Supervisory Board, Jay Quinby testified before the Senate to request an exception to the law. Greene Line must renegotiate any exceptions every two to four years. The Betty Blake Lounge boat was named in honor of a woman who rose from public relations officers to boat rescuers when Congressman Edward A. Garmatz, a Democrat representing Baltimore and Chairman of the Marine and Fisheries Representative Commission, attempted to block the release of 1970.
Thanks to the efforts of Betty Blake and Bill Muster, Delta Queen was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and later declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989.
One of the unusual features of Delta Queen is its steam calliope, which is mounted on the Texas deck behind the pilot's house. It covers about three octaves, and is used to play the ship in and out of bed while he is docked and undocking. Masters of the Delta Queen sometimes extend this decency to other ships as well.
In 1974, Charlie Waller & amp; The Country Gentlemen record songs in Remembrances & amp; The Forecasts album written by Leroy Drumm and Pete Goble is titled Delta Queen, which Leroy was inspired to write after seeing him run on the Tennessee River in the early 1970s.
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Current assignment
The ship was last operated by Majestic America Line. The ships were purchased from Delaware North Companies in April 2006. In addition to Delta Queen, the company also owns the American Queen and Mississippi Queen, a modern ship steam is designed along the lines of Delta Queen ' but carries about 400 passengers. The company also has river boats that have seen services on the Columbia and Snake Rivers in Oregon and Washington, and Alaska Inside Passage.
Delta Queen explore the Mississippi River and its tributaries on a regular schedule, with cruises starting from New Orleans to Memphis to St. Louis. Louis to St Louis Paul to Cincinnati to Pittsburgh, and more. On some cruise ships, vessels check out rivers like Arkansas, Red, Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterways, Black Warrior, Mobile, and more.
Delta Queen re-made historic steamboat races annually during the Kentucky Derby Festival, when she raced with Belle of Louisville in Ohio in Louisville on the Great Steamboat Race. The winners of the annual race receive a golden horn trophy, which is installed in the pilot's house until the next race. They also ran during the High Heap Festival celebrating steamships, held every three or four years in Cincinnati ( Delta Queen ' s former harbor house).
On August 1, 2007, the Majestic America Line announced that Delta Queen will cease to operate permanently at the end of the 2008 season. The temporary exclusion from SOLAS required to keep Delta Queen is terminated by Congress.
In response to this announcement, in September 2007, Scottish Parliament Member for Dumbarton, Jackie Baillie, backed by 15 other Members, filed a motion to the Scottish Parliament calling for the preservation of the ship.
In the United States, boat enthusiasts created the "Save the Delta Queen" campaign similar to that done in the 1970s.
However, at the end of the 2008 season, Delta Queen stopped all services. On its official website, Majestic America Line announces that all of its operations expire, will not be operational in 2009, and its assets, including all its tributaries, will be sold.
On February 11, 2009, Delta Queen arrived in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to become a floating boutique hotel, fearing it could be damaged if he remained in New Orleans. Under the lease to the Chattanooga businessman, Harry Phillips, he docks at Coolidge Park Landing in Chattanooga's North Shore. Delta Queen Hotel was officially opened for guests staying on June 5, 2009, offering meals, lounges, live music periods and theater performances, which are closed to the public in December 2014.
The vessel is currently owned by Ambassadors International, and is hired and operated by a company called All Aboard Travel, operating as Delta Queen LLC, which began chartering vessels in August 2010. Ambassadors International registered ships for sale from late 2008 at $ 4.75 million, and in November 2010 it was announced that a group called Save the Delta Queen 2010 was planning to bid to buy the vessel. If successful, the group will put the ship into operation, bringing only 49 people to be released from federal fire safety regulations, which apply to ships carrying more than 50 people.
For the time being, with the vessels Queen of America submitted to MARAD and Mississippi Queen sold to used goods under New Orleans, Delta Queen the only steamship has been owned by Delta Queen Steamboat Company (formerly Greene Line Steamers) to keep operating, albeit without traveling. However, in November 2011, the Great American Steamboat Company in Memphis, Tennessee was booking cruises on the American Queen along the Upper and Lower Mississippi rivers.
On May 14, 2013, the Bill To rename 46, the United States Code, to extend the exclusion of the refractory material construction requirements for vessels operating within the Limit Line (HR 1961; 113th Congress) was introduced to the United States House of Representatives by Rep. Steve Chabot (R, OH-1).
The Mayor of Chattanooga, Andy Berke, imposed a plan for Delta Queen to be expelled from its moorings in Chattanooga, as he considered it a "barrier". The September 30th 2013 deadline is awarded. The dispute seems to stop at Deltaia because it has not paid the rent, which the owner of Delta Queen has debated on their Facebook page.
This news in light of the Delta Queen is honored as "National Treasure" by the National Trust for Historic Preservation on 21 September 2013. The congress voted to grant the Delta Queen exclusion to allow it to do so river trip again in 2013, but the release bill failed to qualify. The Delta Queen was later purchased by the newly created Delta Queen Steamboat Co at the beginning of 2015. It departs Chattanooga for recovery in New Orleans on March 22, 2015. for repairs and upgrades in Houma, Louisiana. He arrived safely on April 7, 2015, in a temporary slip for recovery.
Hauntings
For several years, there was a rumor about the ghost of Mary Greene that haunted the plane. He has been the wife of Greene Line's founder, Gordon C. Greene, a captain of a river boat in his own right, and had died aboard on April 22, 1949. Guests and employees have reported the voices and activities on the ship that they associate with their spirits. , especially around where he lived first.
See also
- List of ships made by William Denny and Brothers
- Betty Blake
References
External links
- Delta Queen Official hotel website
- Video Clip Delta Queen
- More information about exceptions at steamboats.org
- 2007 Save Delta Queen Campaign
- 2014 Delta Queen ' s history and photos
- 2015 Helps Keep Legendary Steamboat Delta Queen
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