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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.
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.
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]
In 1948, at the request of his friend Tom Greene, Way captained the 21-year-old Delta Queen from San Francisco to Pittsburgh. He wrote about the adventure of piloting the paddle wheeler down the west coast, through the Panama Canal, across the Gulf of Mexico and up the Mississippi River to Pittsburgh in The Saga of the Delta Queen.
[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 Company". [4] ONA commissioned the construction of the Mississippi Queen, but by the time the new ship first sailed in 1976, ONA had sold the company to the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of New York. [5] [6]
She died on Fri., April 22, 1949 aboard her boat, Delta Queen, after leaving New Orleans. [3] [4] Her spirit is said to still haunt the ship. In 1988, Greene was inducted into the National Rivers Hall of Fame. [5] Folk musician Jake Speed's "Captain Mary" (2003) was inspired by Greene's life.
As president of the Delta Queen from 1966 to 1976, he and vice-president Betty Blake worked to secure federal legislation to allow the boat to continue running. They won historic recognition for the boat in 1970. [1] Bill Muster joined the SATW in 1974 to assist Betty Blake in representing the Delta Queen. Thereafter, he remained an associate ...
2008 was the last year to feature the Delta Queen as a competitor prior to it being renovated into a dry-dock hotel; the Belle of Cincinnati has subsequently entered the races in the Queen ' s stead. In 2009, the event organizers changed the format prompting the Belle of Cincinnati ' s Capt. Kerry Snowden to note that "[t]here are no rules in ...