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DELTA KING
SAVE THE KING!
WHA
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he Delta King, sister-ship to the Delta Queen, was built in 1925
in Glasgow, Scotland, at the end of the riverboat era.
She was then disassembled and towed across the Atlantic,
through the Panama Canal and up the coast to Antioch and Stockton
where she was reassembled and completed by the California
Transportation Company in 1926, at the foot of Harrison Street.
The Delta King and Queen were styled after the River Palaces, a term
indigenous only to riverboats on the Sacramento River, and
referred to by Mother Lode miners who were bedazzled by such
extravagance, at a cost of $875,000 each. After a succession of
owners she returned home to the Stockton Deepwater Channel, at the
foot of the Pershing, on April 1959, where, abandoned, she fell prey to
nine grey flannel suit executives, both young and spirited, under the
name of Riverboat's Comin'!, Inc., and the backwards tow of a small
50-foot tug, who "pirated" her to Sacramento on the
night of July 19, 1969.
Sacramento River, Sacramento County, California
the plowlands
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