Delta Queen Steamboat Company

Steamboats are special. They carry in them the slow energy of the old world. With gentle obstinacy, they seem to plod their way through the enveloping oceans of change. Delta Queen Steamboat Company's ships move at a leisurely speed of 8 miles, urging the most regardless of passengers to notice the different embodiments of nature around.

Delta Queen Steamboat Company trace their roots proudly to 1890s , when in Nashville , Capt. Gordon Christopher Greene bought a steamboat at an auction.

Delta Queen Steamboat Company organizes steamboat cruising along the many rivers of America . Its three beautiful steamboats Delta Queen, Mississippi Queen and American Queen, keep alive the almost defunct charms of steam boating.

Each of the three ships is marked by an extremely agreeable Victorian ambience . The rich tradition of steam boating could not have found a statelier flag bearer.

Delta Queen Steamboat Company's river voyages are planned in a manner that resembles steamboat journeys of the 19 th century. The passengers aboard Delta Queen Steamboat Company's steamboats halt at small riverside towns, in the way their 19 th century fellowmen would do.

Delta Queen Steamboat Company cruises carry various themes for the travelers to choose from. For instance a theme called Civil War will take the travelers from Nashville to Chattanooga on a six-night cruise. Then there cruises along Arkansas river , Illinois river and so on.

Delta Queen Steamboat Company has pointed to us that keeping a tradition alive is enjoyable and we need not really starve ourselves of fun to feed life into it.

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