THE Great American Steamboat Company’s American Queen has successfully completed her first set of trials, achieving 17 revolutions per minute as she cruised the Mississippi. American Queen, the largest paddlewheel steamboat ever built, has been undergoing a complete overhaul and refit since her purchase from the US Maritime Administration in...
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THE Great American Steamboat Company’s
American Queen has successfully completed
her first set of trials, achieving 17 revolutions
per minute as she cruised the Mississippi.
American Queen, the largest paddlewheel
steamboat ever built, has been undergoing a
complete overhaul and refit since her purchase
from the US Maritime Administration in Jul last
year, and will be christened on 27 Apr at
Memphis’ Beadle Street Landing, before
departing on her maiden voyage along the
Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, stopping in
Kentucky and Indiana.
MEANWHILE the cruise line has also
announced the Godmother of American Queen
as none other than Priscilla Presley.
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