| Porthole 22 Dec 11

MAN takes steamboat love seriously.
You know somebody loves steamboats
when they take time off work to help
restore a 1933 steam engine, as has Mike
Sutton, who is currently using his holidays
to slave away restoring an engine for the
436-passenger American Queen.
The engine in question was salvaged from
an old 1933 dredge boat which had been
resting in the watery depths of the
Missouri River- making Sutton’s labour of
love even harder.
It is hoped that the engine will be well
and truly ready and up to rated horsepower
before American Queen takes to the water
once again in Mar next year.