Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Peacemakers by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1868, depicts the historic 1865 meeting on the River Queen Sidewheeler ferry River Queen at the wharf in Nantucket, probably during U.S. Grant's nostalgic visit aboard the historic steamer on Aug. 27, 1874. The River Queen was a sidewheel steamer launched in 1864.
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 ...
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.
Perhaps more than any other river and ship, the Mississippi and the American Queen steamboat evoke the grandeur and history of a bygone age. The world's largest paddlewheel steamboat, the American ...
PS Georgia Queen is a paddle steamer in Savannah, Georgia, United States. It is the largest riverboat in operation in the country. Berthed beside Savannah's River Street , the vessel, which was completed in 1995, [ 1 ] has four decks .
The Columbia Gorge on the Willamette River, in Portland, in 1987. The M.V. Columbia Gorge is a 145-foot (44 m) sternwheeler in service on both the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. She was built in Hood River by Nichols Boat Works and was launched on August 30, 1983. [15] The motors driving her 17-foot (5.2 m) paddle wheel are diesel-powered.
The Emerald Queen, the Puyallup Tribe of Indians’ riverboat casino that operated from 1997 to 2004, is pictured while moored in Blair Waterway in a Nov. 9, 2006, file photo.
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.