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There were at least 7 QUEEN CITYs and 1 QUEEN CITY #2
Name: QUEEN CITY
Launched: 1850s?
Area: Sacramento R., Calf. Delta
Name: QUEEN CITY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: length: 236', width:44', Draft: 7' Much more description
Launched: 1897 by Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet Line
Destroyed: 1940, Jan., Pittsburgh, as wharfboat, sank at the foot of
Liberty St. Wreckage was burned Feb. 17th that year.
Area: Ohio R.
Owner: Pittsburg and Cincinnati Packet Line
Captain(s): 1897, Agnew, Robert R.
Mate: 1897, Leonard, Jack
Comments: From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. May. 12 1897
: Capt Ellison bought the bell from The CITY OF ST. LOUIS,
an Anchor Lines boat, for this boat.
Her bell, which was inlaid with 250 silver dollars,
is now the ships bell for the NATCHEZ IX
Name: QUEEN CITY/No. 26
Type: Sternwheeler, Union Gunboat Size: Small
Launched: 1850?
Destroyed: White River, Clarendon, Arkansas, During Civil War.
Comments: See information from site visitor, Carl Winkler.
Name: QUEEN OF HEARTS
Type: Modern Excursion sternwheeler
Size: 400 Passenger
Owner: Celebration River Cruises
Comments:The 400-passenger Queen of Hearts, operated by Celebration
River Cruises (1-800-297-0034)from the Moline riverfront,
offers daily luncheon and dinner cruises, twilight cruises
featuring live entertainment and many special theme cruises
(call for a schedule). The Queen of Hearts, which operates
Spring through Fall, is very popular, so reservations are
recommended.
Name: QUEEN of the WEST
Type: Confederate Ram-boat
Launched: 1860? early.
Destroyed: 1863, Sunk by Union gunboats
Area: Miss. R.
Captain and pilots: Capt. Ellet, Charles
Name: QUEEN OF THE WEST
Type: Sternwheel overnight cruise boat. Size: 230', 2,115 tons.
Power: three-story-high paddlewheel, powered by a hydraulic propulsion system -
a revolutionary hydraulic propulsion system that uses environmentally
safe biodegradable hydraulic oil.
Launched: 1995
Area: Columbia, Willamette and Snake Rivers, out of Portland, Or.
Owners: American West Steamboat Company
Comments: See her complete details HERE
Name: QUEEN of NEW ORLEANS/FLAMINGO/GRAND VICTORIA II
Size: 330' x 90'
Launched: 1993 by Halter Marine of New Orleans for Manthe Family
Owner: 1993, Manthe Family
Later, The Hilton Corp.
Presently,
Captains: Presently (1999), Donald J. Sanders
Name: QUICKSTEP
Type: /showboat Size: Small
Launched: 1810s or 1880s??
Owner: A. B. French
Comments: French's showboats got start with this one.
Name: QUICKSTEP
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 200' X 29' X 5.4', 456 tons.
Launched: 1866
Destroyed: 1876, dismantled Metropolis, Ill.
Name: QUICKSTEP
Area: 1901 or so, White R.
Comments: Source Also See
Name: QUINCY/J.S."DE LUXE"
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 264.7' X 42' X 6.8'
Power: at launch, 23's-8'. 2, 84" X 14" Scotch Marine Boilers.
: 1906, after sinking, Scotch boilers were replaced with 4
Western boilers.
Launched: 1896 by by the ?Howard Yard? Diamond Jo Line
Destroyed: Winter of 1938-39, dismantled at St. Louis.
Area: Originally, St. Louis to St. Paul, U. Miss. and Ohio Rs.
: 1917, St. Louis - New Orleans
: often tramped the U. Miss. tributaries.
Owner: 1896 - 19?11?Diamond Jo Line
: ?1911? - 1939, Streckfus Steamers, Inc.
Captains: 1896, Captain, John F. Killeen
: on Ohio River trips, Capt. Verne Streckfus often
handled her.
Comments: 1918-19, renamed the "J.S." after Capt. John Streckfus.
: Some of her original equipment came from the GEM CITY.
: 1906, July, sank and raised at Trempeleau Mountain, Wis.
Comments: Was one of the first truly successful excursion boats.