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Anchor Line steamboat City of New Orleans at New Orleans levee on Mississippi River. View created as composite image from two stereoview photographs, ca. 1890. The Anchor Line was a steamboat company that operated a fleet of boats on the Mississippi River between St. Louis, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana, between 1859 and 1898, when it went out of business.
500 St. Ann St. and 500 St. Peter St. 29°57′27″N 90°03′46″W / 29.9575°N 90.062778°W / 29.9575; -90.062778 ( Pontalba Buildings c. 1850 matching townhouse buildings with first-floor retail shops; on either side of Jackson Square , constructed by New Orleans native Micaela Almonester, Baroness de Pontalba
With a draft of 4 feet (1.2 m), she was propelled by a high-pressure, horizontally mounted engine turning a single stern paddlewheel. [12] In the spring of 1817, the Washington made the voyage from New Orleans to Louisville in 25 days, equalling the record set two years earlier by the Enterprise, a much smaller boat. [17] [18]
In 1960 she was towed to New Orleans to be converted to a night club, but was soon at Hannibal, Missouri, serving as a restaurant. In 1964 she was sold for the last time, and was based at St. Louis as a bar and restaurant. There, on the morning of 3 December 1967, the River Queen sank at her moorings. [1]
A few paddle steamers serve niche tourism needs as cruise boats on lakes [a] and others, such as Delta Queen, still operate on the Mississippi River. In Oregon , several replica paddle steamers , which are non-steam-powered sternwheelers built in the 1980s and later, are operated for tourism purposes on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers .
Similar to other Fulton-designed steamboats, New Orleans also carried a mast, spars, and two sails as back-up, in case the steam engine failed or fuel ran short. [12] The most accurate estimates put New Orleans at 148 feet 6 inches (45.26 m) long, 32 feet 6 inches (9.91 m) wide, and 12 feet (3.7 m) deep, and measured 371 tons burden. [2]
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American Queen is a Louisiana-built river steamship said to be the largest river steamboat ever built. [3] Although the American Queen's stern paddlewheel is indeed powered by a steam engine, her secondary propulsion, in case of an emergency and for maneuverability around tight areas where the paddle wheel can not navigate, comes from a set of diesel-electric propellers known as Z-drives on ...