Steam Stern Wheeler Delta Queen To Be Retired Next Year

[William C. Daugherty]

No further exemption from modern safety regulations will be granted by the U.S. Congress, so the Delta Queen will be retired Nov. 2008. She and her sister the Delta King were shipped in pieces to America for assembly from Wm Denny on the Clyde.

Links:
This includes a link to the press release from her owner and operator: http://www.coltoncompany.com/newsand..._TO_BE_RETIRED

This link includes further links at the bottom of the page, inclu. a link to the unsuccessful campaign to keep her in service: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Queen
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[Guest]

Hi William

Yes its a real shame that this vessels working life should come to an end. I see that there is a campaign to preserve her - good luck to them.

Quite a good article on the Delta Queen at the Shipping Times web site @ http://www.shippingtimes.co.uk/ite802_deltaqueen.htm

Regards

Steve Ellwood