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Riverboat DELTA QUEEN
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The Delta Queen is a sternwheel steamboat. She is 285 feet long and 58 feet wide, weighs 1,650 tons, and with a capacity of 176 passengers. Delta Queen was docked in Chattanooga, Tennessee and served as a floating hotel until she was bought by the newly formed Delta Queen Steamboat Company.  She was towed to Houma, Louisiana, in March 2015 to be refurbished to her original condition.

Her cross-compound steam engines generate 2,000 horsepower (1,500 kW), powering a stern-mounted paddlewheel. Built in 1927, she is the last surviving steam-powered overnight passenger boat plying the watershed of the Mississippi.  She was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989.

One unusual feature of Delta Queen is her steam calliope, mounted on the Texas deck aft of the pilot house. It covers approximately three octaves, and was used to play the ship in and out of her berth while she was docking and undocking. The Master of the Delta Queen sometimes extended this courtesy to other vessels as well.