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The red wheel on each boat indicates its current speed, which starts at 1, the speed of the Mississippi current. At the start of their turn, a player can increase or decrease their speed by 1 for free. The player can also choose to speed up or slow down more than 1 for a cost of one coal for each increase or decrease of 1 above the free increment.
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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 .
Launched in 1814 at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, for the Monongahela and Ohio Steam Boat Company, she was a dramatic departure from Fulton's boats. [1] The Enterprise - featuring a high-pressure steam engine, a single stern paddle wheel, and shoal draft - proved to be better suited for use on the Mississippi compared to Fulton's boats.
The hull was designed by DeWitt Hill, and the riverboat cost more than $200,000 to build. [2] She was named for General Robert E. Lee , General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States . The steamboat gained its greatest fame for racing and beating the then-current speed record holder, Natchez , in an 1870 steamboat race.
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