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DELTA QUEEN steamboat
A National
Historic Landmark
Built in 1926, the 174-passenger
Delta Queen was the last traditional steamboat carrying
overnight passengers on America's inland waterways.
She hearkened back to a bygone era with stately wooden
cabins and hardwood-paneled public rooms.
As of June 2009, Delta Queen is
docked in Chattanooga, Tennessee and has been converted
into a hotel. Fans of the Delta Queen have been lobbying
Congress to extend the exemption, allowing the boat to
resume operations on the nation's rivers.
Delta Queen's owner, Ambassadors
International, is looking for a buyer who is committed
to returning it to the water.
The lease Ambassadors International signed with a
Chattanooga entrepreneur to operate the Delta Queen as a
hotel requires the ship's priceless wooden and brass
interior as well as its machinery to be left intact so
the vessel can someday return to cruising.
About this primarily wood Delta Queen riverboat
boat model:
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Superior
hollow hull,
hollow hull construction
(very important)
- Hollow superstructure is comprised of many
individual thin pieces of wood glued together, not
several solid pieces of wood stacking on top one another.
- Windows are cutouts (not black decals nor painted
indentation). They are clean, uniform, and aligned.
- The wheel works: it can
be manually rotated.
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Lighting feature is included.
A boat is
not a riverboat without beautiful lighting. LED
light powered by standard 9v battery
for your convenience. Our model has realistic and
beautiful lighting, including navigation light. Cheap model
makers can never keep up
our
with genuine artistic design and engineering ability.
32"L x 10"W x 14" T
$3,590 Shipping and insurance in
the contiguous USA included.
Other places: $300 flat rate.
44"L
x 11"W x 16" T
$4,730
Shipping and insurance in
the contiguous USA included.
Other places: $500 flat rate.
For other sizes,
please send us an email for a quote.
Model is built per commission only. We require only a
small deposit (not full amount, not even half) to start
the process $900. The
remaining balance won't be due until the boat is
completed,
in several months.
DON'T BE FOOLED by the
other models out there. They are
very wrong in many features and miss important
details. A quick look and you can see horrible hull
shape, no DQ on the smokestack, incomplete pipe
organ.
There are many more but we do not waste time to list
them here. They are a disgrace to the real ship.
For a remote control model of the Delta Queen, click here:
Remote control Delta Queen
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"Hello
Frank.
received model today. Can't
tell you in words how to describe this model. The
detail is out of this world. Thank you very much for
the lights, won't look the same without them. Got to
mount the model and then enjoy. Thanks again and
hope to do business again with you in the future.
Bill"
"The model
arrived today. A day early. The hour spent
unpacking it was well worth it. What a magnificent
model. And it lights up... There was a second small lifeboat wrapped
separately. I almost missed it. Some very minor
damage to the gang way which was easily fixed with
super glue. Bruce"
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On
December 4, 2018, president Donald Trump signed
into law a measure that renews the vessel's exemption
from the 1966 Safety at Sea Act. The act enables the
Delta Queen to return to overnight cruise service
through 2028 after repairs to the 91-year-old steamboat
are complete. Please help preserve the beautiful Delta
Queen
here. We want to help: 5% of the sale proceed of all
Delta Queen models will be donated to the National
Trust.
Learn more about the
Delta Queen here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Queen
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