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The company was started in 1890 by Gordon C. Greene with Henry K. Bedford. When Gordon died in 1927 his sons: Christopher Becker Greene, Henry Wilkins Greene, and Thomas R. Greene ran the company. [1] [2] In 1969, a charter airline, Overseas National Airways (ONA) bought the company [3] and changed its name in 1973 to "Delta Queen Steamboat ...
Time table of the Delta Queen and the Delta King in their first season in 1927. 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.
When she was promoted to president of the Delta Queen Steamboat Company in 1976, she became the first woman to serve as the president of a major American cruise line. [2] In 1979, Blake left the Delta Queen to open her own public relations and marketing firm called Betty Blake & Co. [ 1 ] A 400-seat passenger boat, the Betty Blake , was named ...
After the development of railroads, passenger traffic gradually switched to this faster form of transportation, but steamboats continued to serve Mississippi River commerce into the early 20th century. A small number of steamboats are still used for tourist excursions in the 21st century. Delta Queen at Paducah, Kentucky, 2007.
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The Saga of the Delta Queen; Young and Klein, Inc, Cincinnati, Ohio 1951 She Takes the Horns: Steamboat Racing on the Western Waters; The Picture Marine Publishing Company , Cincinnati, Ohio, 1953 Way's Packet Directory , 1848-1983: Passenger Steamboats of the Mississippi River System since the Advent of Photography in Mid-Continent America ...
Richard Simonton (April 29, 1915 – August 22, 1979), also known under the pseudonym Doug Malloy, was a Hollywood businessman and entrepreneur, known for his involvement in the Hollywood community, his rescue of the steamboat Delta Queen, his work in preserving the work of musicians in the Welte-Mignon piano rolls and for founding the American Theatre Organ Society.
The Mississippi Queen was the second-largest paddle wheel driven river steamboat ever built, second only to the larger American Queen.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.