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The first Great Steamboat Race was held in 1963 between the Belle of Louisville and the Delta Queen, establishing the traditional rivalry until 2008 when the Queen was retired. The Queen won the first race. As of the Delta Queen ' s last race in 2008, the Louisville won 22 races compared to the Queen ' s 20 wins.
Time table of the Delta Queen and the Delta King in their first season in 1927. The Delta Queen is an American sternwheel steamboat.She is known for cruising the major rivers that constitute the tributaries of the Mississippi River, particularly in the American South, although she began service in California on the Sacramento River delta for which she gets her name.
While the first steamboat race was Aug. 19, 1928, the annual competition didn't kickoff until the Belle of Louisville took on the Delta Queen in 1963.
That race was the beginning of an unparalleled river tradition. To this day, Belle of Louisville and another competing steamboat, previously the Delta Queen, still square off every year on the Wednesday before the Kentucky Derby in the Kentucky Derby Festival event The Great Steamboat Race. Belle of Louisville flying the Jolly Roger during the ...
Steamboat race: Delta Queen vs. Belle of Louisville. The last day of Tall Stacks in 1988 featured a classic steamboat race between Cincinnati’s own Delta Queen (built in 1926) and the Belle of ...
The Delta Queen at the start of the 2004 Great Steamboat Race The Greene Line was a line of river steamships along the Ohio River . The name was changed in 1973 to Delta Queen Steamboat Company .
Taggart VanEtten of Manito carries the finish line ribbon after winning the 2024 Steamboat Classic 4-mile race Saturday, June 15, 2024 in downtown Peoria. Going short to train long.
In the 1950s the Delta Queen was "a floating hotel with a troubled occupancy rate" but Richard Simonton rescued the boat when he bought a controlling interest in the Greene Line in 1958. [6] Blake promoted the Delta Queen using a steamboat race between the Queen and the Belle of Louisville in 1963. [6]