Save the Delta Queen Part 2

Part 2 of Save Overnight Steamboating's video "Save the DELTA QUEEN!" for the 2007/2008 Save the DELTA QUEEN Campaign.

If you'd like more information or you would like a copy of the video, please contact me at my website: http://steam.tomcawvel.com

Here are the links listed at the end of the video:

http://www.save-the-delta-queen.org
http://www.steamboats.org
http://sos.tomcawvel.com
http://www.steamboats.com

If your comment has been deleted, it is most likely due to the use of profanity or from inappropriate blaming of one or the other political party.

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Travel & Events

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• Delta
• Queen
• steamboat

[baritonebynight]

@atfatw That was the Mississippi Queen, built in 1975 I think. At least it was a steam powered ship. The modern American Queen built in 1995 which has a steam paddlewheel (for looks mostly) but is diesel propeller driven is now being returned to serivice. I wish that they could scrap the modern propeller driven American Queen to put this money into returing the Delta Queen.

[atfatw]

@baritonebynight I understand your sentiment. it is the last actual in service steam paddlewheeler in the United States. one of the big modern ships that resembled the queen is now being scrapped but I don't think that will happen to the venerable queen.

[baritonebynight]

@atfatw I'd rather see the Delta Queen burn and sink and be lost forever vs make her a permanent hotel with no chance of operating again. I say the propeller driven American Queen be sold for scrap to return the Delta Queen to the river.

[Dolphindream15]

@SpeedyNeutrino43 yes your right they are trying to deystroy our country its not just our river boats but our historic past thats in danger ,,,there already placeing shopping centers and highways through our cival war battle fields,,there taking away our americian history very little is left of our cival war battle fields,,our americian history is who we are as americians,,if congress keeps this up it will all be gone,,,

[Dolphindream15]

is the fight still on are there any more updates on the delta queen I hope so she needs to return to the river where she belongs,,,

[SpeedyNeutrino43]

This law turns the Coast Guard into a bunch of bureaucrats instead of the brave seamen they are. Let them continue saving lives in our coastal waters and get them OFF the rivers.

[doughesson]

@TVRM610 Yeah,there's a lot of contention between river mariners and the Coast Guard.The short version is that a lot of people wish they'd just go back to the coast and guard that. Most of my license exams were more geared to ocean going vessels than they were to river towboats.

[TheTitanicSankFPS]

Much like her sister ship the Delta King in Sacramento. (Delta King Hotel)

[atfatw]

according to 'steamboat bill' magazine

congress wouild not extend, so the queen is moored to a riverside park in tennesee. ongoing work is being done to turn it into a shorebased hotel. like the permanant mooring of the sternwheeler Thomas Edison replica( it has its original engine) at deerfield villedge. it is a terrible thing that this is happening.

[oceanmist12]

yes we need to save the delta queen these 2 congressmen have said that the delta queen is old and need to retire,,but the congressmen need to look at something,,THE CONGRESSMEN ARE OLD TOO BUT THERE STILL GOING WHY DONT THEY RETIRE AND NOT THE DELTA QUEEN,,,