Delta Queen May Be Running Again

[hvsteve1]

Congress has passed a bill giving the Delta Queen a waiver from maritime law blocking here from carrying overnight passengers due to the wooden superstructure. She sailed for years with such waivers but Congress stopped granting them a few years back. She has been docked in Chattanooga as a hotel and restaurant the past few years and we have visited her. Now she needs the bill passed by a simple vote in the senate and signed by President Obama, who was a sponsor of such a waiver when he was in the Senate. She will have different ownership from AQ, but it will be good to see the old sister ship back on the rivers.

Edited September 27, 2013 by hvsteve1

[akeasley]

This is good to hear if it happens. A few years ago, I stayed on the Delta Queen in Chattanooga. It was a really cool experience which would have been even better, had the boat been sailing.

[Calliope]

As the OP stated, the house has already passed a bill exempting the "Old Gal" from SOLAS laws. Now the Senate bill is still in committee. Realistically speaking the Senate committee won't even consider it till next year.

 

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D- W.VA.) is the chair of the committee where the bill rests. Please, take time to write him or your own Senators, and let them know how you feel about this National Landmark.

[LHT28]

Is the AQSC involved in the Delta Queen sailing again ???

[Calliope]

Not at all. Widely held belief is that they would prefer to see the DELTA QUEEN not come out again.

[LHT28]

Not at all. Widely held belief is that they would prefer to see the DELTA QUEEN not come out again.

 

Why is this posted here then ??

[steamboats]

Due to historic reasons ;)!

 

The American Queen used to be the "little" sister of the Delta Queen as was the Mississippi Queen (which has been scrapped). The Empress of the North once also was a sister during the Majestic America Line times.

 

This sub forum started out as "Delta Queen Steamboat Company" and changed names over the years as the company names changed. When AQSC (which started out with a different name also) brought the AQ back on the rivers in 2012 the subforum was "revived" and renamed for the last boat running again of the former Delta Queen Steamboat Company.

 

steamboats

[LHT28]

Due to historic reasons ;)!

 

The American Queen used to be the "little" sister of the Delta Queen as was the Mississippi Queen (which has been scrapped). The Empress of the North once also was a sister during the Majestic America Line times.

 

This sub forum started out as "Delta Queen Steamboat Company" and changed names over the years as the company names changed. When AQSC (which started out with a different name also) brought the AQ back on the rivers in 2012 the subforum was "revived" and renamed for the last boat running again of the former Delta Queen Steamboat Company.

 

steamboats

There is also a forum for River cruises or other cruises

more appropriate would be

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/forumdisplay.php?f=56

 

The point is it has no affiliation at present with AQSC

[steamboats]

There´s also still a Majestic America Line subforum on here although this line ceased operations in 2008... Could be posted there too.

 

BTW what´s the problem? On here is another thread about the Queen of the Mississippi which the Mods never have moved...

 

steamboats

[Calliope]

There´s also still a Majestic America Line subforum on here although this line ceased operations in 2008... Could be posted there too.

 

BTW what´s the problem? On here is another thread about the Queen of the Mississippi which the Mods never have moved...

 

steamboats

 

 

I agree 100% with Steamboats. Unfortunately, time and circumstances have torn the D.A.M. QUEENs apart, but in my mind they still and always will belong together. That's D.A.M. as in DELTA, AMERICAN, and MISSISSIPPI!

Edited December 20, 2013 by Calliope

[Calliope]

Various media sources in Chattanooga, TN have reported in the past two days, picked up by Cincinnati's CBS affiliate WKRC TV Chanel 12, and New Orleans's "Times-Picayune," that the DELTA QUEEN has been sold to a group of investors headed by Cornel Martin, former Vice President of Corporate Affairs of The Delta Queen Steamboat Co. The sale is contingent on the U.S. Senate passing during this session of Congress an exemption from current American law prohibiting the overnight operation of vessels with wooden superstructure and carrying more than forty nine passengers within the United States.

[riversights]

If we didn't have river watchers reporting these things, we would be navigating in the dark. Thanks for the "heads up"...and keep it coming. If the Delta Queen does run the river again, will it require massive refurbishing to make it so?

[Calliope]

The Coast Guard will require that the DQ receives a set of new boilers and main steam line from the boilers to the engineroom for her to be awarded a new Certificate of Inspection to operate. There will have to be other minor things to be tended to for her to operate and carry passengers again. The estimate for this work is around $7million.

[riversights]

Wow...that's a lot of Cincy "opera creams," even at today's prices. We hope they've got a marketing plan.:D

[Calliope]

I figure that's about 389,000 pounds of the delicious little bon-bons. Of course there might be a bit more if you ask for a bulk discount.

[hvsteve1]

Here's a link to the Chattanooga Times Free Press article and some video to go with it. Looks as though she'll end up steaming out of Cincinnati as Ohio Senator Sharrod Brown is the one pushing through the legislation.

 

 

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2014/jun/15/delta-queen-to-sail-away/?local

 

It was interesting to visit her in Chattanooga a couple of years ago. It would be more interesting to see her under steam.