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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.
[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]
[3] [4] Later, the boat ran on the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Julia Belle, smaller and nimbler than some of its sisters on America's rivers, has entered the Great Steamboat Race twice, in 1975 and 1976. She won in 1976, beating better-known vessels such as the Delta Queen and the Belle of Louisville. [5]
While the first steamboat race was Aug. 19, 1928, the annual competition didn't kickoff until the Belle of Louisville took on the Delta Queen in 1963.
The other riverboats attending the festival included Spirit of Jefferson, Anson Northrup, Belle of Cincinnati, The Colonel, General Jackson, River Queen, Spirit of Peoria, and Celebration Belle. This festival was said [by whom?] to be the largest riverboat gathering that Louisville has seen in over 100 years. A portion of the proceeds from The ...
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 ...
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