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DELTA QUEEN
Assembled at Stockton, Cal., 1926 Length, 250 ft. 1,837 tons
The Delta Queen is the last overnight steamboat on the Mississippi System. But she
is no ordinary Mississippi sternwheeler. Prefabricated in Scotland and assembled in
California, she and her sister steamer Delta King were the last passenger boats on
the Sacramento River, running almost 15 years between San Francisco and
Sacramento before financial troubles ended their career there. During the war the
Government enlisted them as troop ferries on San Francisco Bay. In December,
1946, Greene Line Steamers bought the Queen and remodeled her for the inland
rivers, removing the far-western-style paddlebox from her sternwheel, rounding
her pointed foredeck, and fitting her with a swinging stage (gangplank) and
calliope. She now operates in cruise service out of Cincinnati, to such widely-
scattered destinations as Pittsburgh, Chattanooga, St. Paul, and New Orleans.
GREENE LINE STEAMERS
