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SS Admiral was an excursion steamboat that operated on the Mississippi River from the Port of St. Louis, Missouri, from 1940 to 1978.The ship was briefly re-purposed as an amusement center in 1987 and converted to a gambling venue called President Casino, [1] also known as Admiral Casino, [2] in the 1990s.
Anchor Line steamboat City of New Orleans at New Orleans levee on Mississippi River. View created as composite image from two stereoview photographs, ca. 1890. The Anchor Line was a steamboat company that operated a fleet of boats on the Mississippi River between St. Louis, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana, between 1859 and 1898, when it went out of business.
Goldenrod was a floating theater, known as a showboat, which operated on the Mississippi River and its tributaries throughout the 20th Century. She was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark on 24 December 1967 and a St. Louis, Missouri City Landmark in 1972. [3]
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St. Louis left Hamburg on March 28, 1929, for her maiden voyage to New York City, and was then mainly used in the North Atlantic service from Hamburg to Halifax, and then to New York. She also made cruises of 16–17 days each to the Canary Islands , Madeira and Morocco , especially in autumn and spring.
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Streckfus Steamers was a company started in 1910 by John Streckfus Sr. (1856–1925) born in Edgington, Illinois.He started a steam packet business in the 1880s, but transitioned his fleet to the river excursion business around the turn of the century.
A stern wheel replica named The Lt. Robert E. Lee (as first lieutenant of engineers in 1837, the future general supervised the engineering work for St. Louis harbor) was built in 1969 based on an old Corps of Engineers hull. Moored as a floating restaurant in St. Louis, this boat was destroyed by fire in 2010.