Delta Queen (Packet/Excursion boat, 1926)
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- 1979-08
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BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
BOAT TYPE: Packet
BUILT: 1926 at Stockton, California
OWNERS: California Transportation Company; Isbrandsten Steamship Lines (1940); Greene Line Steamers, Incorporated (1946); Overseas National Airways (1969); Delta Queen Steamboat Company; Coca-Cola Company, New York (1976); Prudential Lines, Incorporated, San Francisco
OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Paul Underwood (master); Captain Ernest E. Wagner (master); Captain Clarke "Doc" Hawley (master); Captain Gabriel Chengery (master, 1977)
RIVERS: Mississippi River; Ohio River; Missouri River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 1504; Fabricated at Glasgow, Scotland along with her sister ship, the Delta King. All steel work done on the River Clyde at the Isherwood Yard, Glasgow. Both boats were knocked down and the sections sent by steamship to San Francisco and then barged to Stockton where the boats were completed. The building operations extended from 1924 through part of 1927. Her machinery was built at Denny's Shop in Dumbarton; the paddlewheel shafts and cranks were forged at the Krupp Works, Germany. The upper cabins were built by U.S. shipwrights, four decks high, largely of oak, teak, mahogany, and Oregon cedar. When completed the two boats were the most expensive river sternwheelers extant, costing $875,000 each. In the beginning of her career she ran in the San Francisco-Sacramento trade on a regular year-round schedule. Frequent excursions were made to Stockton. She frequently carried 800 tons of freight. The staterooms slept 200. Rooms and passenger areas were air-conditi
PHOTO DESCRIPTION: One of the pilots, C. S. Ware, a Southern gentleman, in the pilot house on the Delta Queen
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- Sternwheel packets
Sternwheel excursions
Ware, C. S
Pilot houses
Interiors
Ship crew
Packets
Mississippi River
Ohio River
Missouri River
Excursion boats - Type
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