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The ship was the largest such steamboat when she was completed in 1976 by the Delta Queen Steamboat Company at Jeffboat in Indiana and was a seven-deck recreation of a classic Mississippi riverboat. Mississippi Queen was commissioned by a charter airline, Overseas National Airways (ONA), which owned the Delta Queen at the time. [1]
The red wheel on each boat indicates its current speed, which starts at 1, the speed of the Mississippi current. At the start of their turn, a player can increase or decrease their speed by 1 for free. The player can also choose to speed up or slow down more than 1 for a cost of one coal for each increase or decrease of 1 above the free increment.
Launched in 1814 at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, for the Monongahela and Ohio Steam Boat Company, she was a dramatic departure from Fulton's boats. [1] The Enterprise - featuring a high-pressure steam engine, a single stern paddle wheel, and shoal draft - proved to be better suited for use on the Mississippi compared to Fulton's boats.
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The hull was designed by DeWitt Hill, and the riverboat cost more than $200,000 to build. [2] She was named for General Robert E. Lee , General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States . The steamboat gained its greatest fame for racing and beating the then-current speed record holder, Natchez , in an 1870 steamboat race.
Built in Cincinnati, Ohio, as were all of her successors owned by Capt. Leathers, she was a fast two-boiler boat, 175 feet (53 m) long, with red smokestacks, that sailed between New Orleans and Vicksburg, Mississippi. Leathers sold this boat in 1848. She was abandoned in 1852. [9] [10]
Control panels feature compass bearing, wind speed and direction, speed, rpm, fuel level, winch settings, sail settings, radar and GPS are also included. [3] Unusual for a vehicle simulator, users of Virtual Sailor can often roam the interiors of their ships. Weather and sea conditions are adjustable, enabling different levels of play.
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