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Delta Queen* Neville Island, Pa., March, 1948. Pilothouse of the Delta Queen.

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Delta Queen* Stockton, Ca., 1925. Construction. Photo from Jim Burns.

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Delta Queen* Stockton, Ca., 1925. Construction. Photo from Jim Burns.

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Delta Queen* Stockton, Ca., 1925. Ready to launch. Photo from Jim Burns.

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Delta Queen* Stockton, Ca., 1925. Construction. Photo from Jim Burns.

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Delta Queen* Stockton, Ca., 1925. Construction. Photo from Jim Burns.

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Delta Queen* Stockton, Ca., 1925. Construction. Photo from Jim Burns.

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Delta Queen Under construction, 1925-1926.

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Delta Queen Photo taken prior to 1940. Image in reversed. Lettering on side of boar reads: The River Lines, San Francisco & Sacramento, 6 PM Daily.

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Delta Queen* Stockton, Ca., 1925. Construction. Photo from Jim Burns.

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Delta Queen* Antioch, Ca., February, 1947. Diagonal shores to keep cabin intact at sea.

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Delta Queen* California, March, 1947. From left: Les Fulton and Mrs. Fulton, of Fulton Shipyard; Charles F. Deitz, chief engineer and William Horn, carpenter, Delta Queen.

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Delta Queen Boats in movie, "Steamboat 'Round the Bend" (1935).

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Delta Queen* Antioch, Ca., 1947. Paddlewheel cover, after paddlewheel had been removed. Chief Engineer Charles F. Deitz on fantail.

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Delta Queen* Antioch, Ca., 1947. Crated and rated for sea.

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Delta Queen* Stockton, Ca., 1925. Construction. Photo from Jim Burns.

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Delta Queen* Stockton, Ca., 1925. Construction. Photo from Jim Burns.

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Delta Queen* Antioch, Ca., February 1947. The "bow house" originally built on the forecastle.

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Delta Queen* Antioch, Ca., February, 1947. Interior; looking aft on cabin deck.

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Delta Queen* Antioch, Ca., 1947. Interior: office.

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Delta Queen* Antioch, Ca., February, 1947. Interior: Texas deck observation circle.

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Delta Queen* Antioch, Ca., February, 1947. Crating operations underway.

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Delta Queen* Antioch, Ca., February, 1947. Boarding up the boat for the sea voayge.

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Delta Queen* Antioch, Ca., February, 1947. Tugs Bear Flag and Mr. Thomas which first moved the boat for the Greene Line.

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Delta Queen* Antioch, Ca., February, 1947. At Fulton Shipyard, ready to be crated.

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Delta Queen* Antioch, Ca., March, 1947. Redocumneted; changed from YFB-56 to Delta Queen. F. Way, Jr. painted names on bow.

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Delta Queen* Antioch, Ca., February, 1947. Interior: grand staircase.

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Delta Queen Cincinnati, Oh., June 5, 1948. With Gordon Greene.

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Delta Queen* Pittsburgh, Pa., June 11, 1958. At Allegheny River landing.

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Delta Queen* Antioch, Ca., 1947. Delta Queen boarded up. Frederick Way (l.) and Jim Burns, supervisor of construction of the Delta Queen and Delta King.

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Delta Queen* Neville Island, Pa., February, 1948. Engine room: gauges in engine room.

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Delta Queen* Cincinnati. Oh., Summer, 1947. This crew brought it from New Orleans to Cincinnati on first trip.

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Delta Queen Mariette, Oh., June 29, 1960.

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Delta Queen* Panama Canal, May, 1947. Frederick Way, Jr. painted name on stern of paddlebox; had to paint out "Cincinnati, Oh.," due to Coast Guard rulings.

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Delta Queen* Ohio River, Summer, 1947. Flags of nations passed by boats enroute from California to New Orleans were displayed coming up Ohio River on initial trip.

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Delta Queen* 1947. Interior: overhead in cabin deck. Boat had leaded dome skylight glass, and tapestries at ends.

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Delta Queen* Sewickley, Pa., August, 1947. Test run before rebuilding.

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Delta Queen In the Joe Wheeler Lock, Mile 274.9, Tennessee River, 1958.

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Delta Queen* Neville Island, Pa., September, 1947. Rebuilding in progress.

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Delta Queen* Neville Island, Pa., February, 1948. Stern of the rebuilt boat.

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Delta Queen Neville Island, Pa., September, 1947. Remodeling: the deckroom; later became the dining room.

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Delta Queen Dravo's, Neville Island, February, 1948.

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Delta Queen* Sewickley Bridge, February, 28, 1948.

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Delta Queen* Neville Island, Pa., September, 1947. Officers dining room (temporary) in the kitchen hull compartment.

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Delta Queen* Neville Island, Pa., February, 1948. Engine: low pressure cyclinder; port side.

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Delta Queen* Antioch, Ca., Spring, 1947. Delta Queen pilothouse. Original appearance as it was operated on the Sacramento River.

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Delta Queen* Antioch, Ca., February, 1947. Interior: cabin, looking forward toward main stairway up.

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Delta Queen* Antioch, Ca., February, 1947. Interior: stairway on Texas Deck, observation circle.

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Delta Queen Stripped out interior at Dravo.

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Delta Queen* Neville Island, Pa., August, 1947. Test run before rebuilding.

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Delta Queen* Neville Island, Pa., September 13, 1947. Captain and Mrs. Tom Greene.

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Delta Queen* Neville Island, Pa., September, 1947. Wheel cover has just been lifted off.

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Delta Queen* Neville Island, Pa., September, 1947. Interior: the deckroom, later became the dining room.

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Delta Queen* Antioch, Ca., April 19, 1947. Departure in tow of tug Osage from California to New Orleans.

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Delta Queen* Neville Island, Pa., September, 1947. On Dravo Marine Ways for rebuilding.

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Delta Queen* Pittsburgh, Pa., June 11, 1958. First visit to Pittsburgh.

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Delta Queen* Louisville, Ky., February, 1952. Just through a snowstorm, going to Mardi Gras. Mate "Doc" Carr and passenger.

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Delta Queen* Memphis, Tn., February, 1952. On Mardi Gras trip. Note it is "wearing" Chris Greene whistle.

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Delta Queen* Pittsburgh, Pa., 1950. Model: built 1/48 scale by Frederick Way, Jr. showing appearance after Dravo rebuilding in 1947.

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Delta Queen* New Orleans, La., February, 1952. During Mardi Gras.

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Delta Queen* "When the Delta Queen sailed for Louisville last night with 250 passengers bound for the Kentucky Derby, a few of them gathered on the head end of the boat to wave farewell to their less fortunate friends. Capt. Tom Greene had a capacity crowd and was compelled to turn away from 250 to 300 persons because of lack of sleeping accommodations.

The passengers slept on the Delta Queen last night--that is, maybe some of them did--will witness the big race this afternoon, then board the boat, which will return to Cincinnati tomorrow morning. Tomorrow night the Queen will take on a new passenger list and leave again for New Orleans. The boat crowd was typical of the throngs on their way or preparing to leave for Louisville by plane, train, bus and automobile." Cincinnati Enquirer, May 6, 1950

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Delta Queen* Memphis, February, 1952. Downbound on Mardi Gras trip.

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Delta Queen* New Orleans, La., February, 1952. During Mardi Gras.

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Delta Queen* Ohio River, August, 1952. Pilothouse: Captain Albert Kelly on watch.

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Delta Queen* Ohio River, 1948.

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Delta Queen* Marietta, Oh., March, 1948. Downbound from Dravo to Cincinnati, after being rebuilt.

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Delta Queen* Paducah, Ky., 1948.

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Delta Queen "The Delta Queen of the Greene Lines, finest modern paddle wheel passenger boat afloat, yesterday was made up to look 100 years older in background footage in a $3 million MGM movie, 'Raintree County.' Planning the makeover, yesterday's shooting schedule and details of photography tomorrow at Reelfoot Lake: Fenton Hamilton, chief set electrician; Reggie Callow, assistant director; Edward Dmytryk, director; Edward Woejler, unit production manager; Urie McCleary, art director; Al Alt, assistant to Woehler, and Mary sasso, assistant to Hamilton. River pictures show the Delta Queen before, during and after change of silhouette from one-stacker streamliner to oldtime two stacker." Cincinnati Enquirer, June 19, 1956.

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Delta Queen "Cincinnati's Delta Queen steamed away from her mooring at the Greene Line Steamers Inc., wharf at the foot of Main St. for the first time, this season last night for a short cruise up the Ohio River with members of the Cincinnati Propeller Club aboard. The first public cruise will leave next Friday for the Kentucky Derby at Louisville and return Sunday afternoon." Cincinnati Enquirer, April

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Delta Queen* Emsworth Dam, Ohio River, June 10, 1958. Upbound for Pittsburgh.

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Delta Queen* Pittsburgh, Pa., June 11, 1958. Sixth St. Bridge, Allegheny River, in back.

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Delta Queen* Pittsburgh, Pa., June 11, 1958. First visit to Pittsburgh.

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Delta Queen* Cincinnati, Oh., Summer 1947. Arriving at Cincinnati from California.

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Delta Queen* Louisville Locks, Oh., 1947. Upbound California to Dravo Marine Ways.

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Delta Queen Twenty-eight year old Lexie Palmore receives piloting instructions from Captain C.S. "Rip" Ware in the pilothouse of the Steamboat Delta Queen. Under the sponsorship of the Delta Queen Steamboat Co., the Tyler, Texas, native is enrolled in a two-year 50/50 program at the National River Academy in Helena, Arkansas. She attends classes at the school for 50 days and then works as a steersman or cub pilot for 50 days aboard the Delta Queen as it plies the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. At the end of the program she will be eleigible to sit for her pilot's license. She will then be able to take the helm of either of the company's sternwheelers--the 50 year old Delta Queen or the new $20 million Mississippi--without supervision. Lexie, who has a Master's Degree in Art, intends to make the river her career and to earn her Master's license.

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Delta Queen Dining room: Steward Ed Gallagher and Chef Walter Hicks.

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Delta Queen* Emsworth Dam, Ohio River, June 10, 1958. First time it ever went through this lock, en route to Pittsburgh.

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Delta Queen "Two sister steamboats, the Delta Queen and the Delta King, alike as two peas in a pod were launched and made ready to enter service on the Sacramento River in California in 1926. These two vessels were fabricated in Glasgow, Scotland on the River Clyde inasfar as the steel work was concerned. they were temporarily assembled at the Isherwood Yard, parts marked, then knocked down and shipped by ocean boat to San Francisco and then barged up the Sacramento River to Stockton, California where they were reassembled and the cabin and deck work was completed by American shipbuilders. Building operations took two years being completed in 1926. The machinery was built by Denny's Shop in Dumbarton, Scotland and wheel shafts and cranks were forged by the Krupp plant in Germany. The ships when completed cost about $1 million each.

Original owner was the California Transportation Company who used them alternately for overnight service between San Francisco and Sacramento. After Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy took over both boats and used them for conveying personnel to and from ocean vessels and ferrying personnel in the inner bay area. At the conclusion of World War II, the two ships were turned over to the U.S. Maritime Commission which advertised them for sale. The late Cap't Tom Greene acting for the Greene Lines of Cincinnati successfully bid $46,250.00 for the Delta Queen. On December 17, 1946, Cap't Tom Greene was officially told to come and get his boat.

That is a story you should read and if you can find a copy of Cap't. Frederick Way's 'The Saga of the Delta Queen' you will be rewarded with a fascinating river-sea yarn, tall but entirely true. How did Cap't Way get the Delta Queen from California to the Ohio River? Well, here it is, folks, parked out from in front of the R.R. Tracks and fernix the good ole Ohio River. It's not often such a luxury tourist vessel can park right in front of such a luxury motor hotel. We are both quite honored and return the compliments. The above photo was taken from the Ohio River Bridge, 11:30 AM, Thursday, June 13, 1963, by Round and Round's sharp-eyed camera, naturally and of course!" Marietta Ohio Times June 18, 1963

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Delta Queen Tooker Troop (entertainers).

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Delta Queen Looking upstream on Ohio River above Portsmouth, Oh., June 14, 1966, 6 PM.

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Delta Queen At Vicksburg. Delta Queen and Sprague.

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Delta Queen Panama Canal, May, 1947.

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Delta Queen* Neville Island, Pa., September, 1947. Ready for rebuilding.

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Delta Queen* Antioch, Ca., February, 1947. Interior: cabin deck, looking forward to main stairway.

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Delta Queen Captain C.S. "Rip" Ware conducts a tour of his Delta Queen pilothouse during a cruise on the Mississippi River. Tours of the pilothouse are one of the many activities passengers enjoy aboard the two sternwheelers of the Delta Queen Steamboat Co., the 50 year old Delta Queen and the new $20 million Mississippi Queen. Other activities include shore tours, dancing and Dixieland, sing-alongs, old-time vaudeville routines, kite-flying over the paddlewheel, eleven-at-eleven jogs on the Sun Deck, and do-it-yourself calliope playing.

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Delta Queen At Avondale Boatyard.

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Delta Queen* Sacramento River, February 4, 1947. First trip under Greene Line management; being towed to Fulton Shipyard for crating. Tuggs Bear Flag (r.) and Mr. Thomas.

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Delta Queen* Mississippi River, February, 1952. On Mardi Gras cruise.

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Delta Queen* Memphis, Tn., February, 1952. On Mardi Gras cruise.

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Delta Queen* Near Madison, In., August, 1952. Taken from a motorboat, with Jim Way at the throttle.

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Delta Queen* San Francisco, Ca., 1944. In Navy Service, designated YFB-56.

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Delta Queen* Stockton, Ca., 1926. At shipyard, being finished, with Delta King. Unknown which is Delta Queen.

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Delta Queen "Apparently reluctant to leave the West Coast for her new home in Cincinnati, the Delta Queen, one of the largest river boats in the world, balked at Antioch, Calif., Saturday, broke her tow line, veered to shore and became stuck in a mudflat. The boat is being towed from California to New Orleans, whence she is to continue on to Cincinnati, where the Green line steamers will put her into operation between Cincinnati and New Orleans. A tug can be seen maneuvering near the large steamship." Unknown newspaper clipping, April 21, 1947.

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Delta Queen* Cincinnati, Oh., 1947. Interior: grand stairway, cabin next to Texas Deck.

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Delta Queen* Antioch, Ca., February, 1947. Interior: lounge on Texas Deck looking forwrad.

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Delta Queen* Stockton, Ca., 1926. Actual launching of the boat.

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Delta Queen* Stockton, Ca., 1926. Delta King (r.) and Delta Queen, ready to go.

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* From the Way Collection