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To: Vinnie
The parts were built in Scotland and assembled in California. The Delta Queen operated on the Sacramento river between Sacramento and San Francisco 1926-1940:

She was requisitioned by the Navy during WWII. Captain Tom Greene of Cincinnati, Ohio bought her after the war and sailed her through the Panama canal and up the Mississippi. She cruised the Mississippi-Ohio river system until 2008.


8 posted on 09/24/2013 2:58:15 AM PDT by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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To: iowamark

Got it.


9 posted on 09/24/2013 3:19:10 AM PDT by Vinnie
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