Dry dock ahead for the Delta Queen?
Next year may bring the last dance of the Delta Queen, above, the 81-year-old doyenne of American paddle-wheelers. Its new owner says the boat’s exemption under a 1968 law that bans wooden superstructures in some bigger passenger vessels expires in November 2008, and Congress is unlikely to extend it.
The ship, on the National Register of Historic Places, will make its last scheduled Mississippi sailing from Memphis, Tenn., on Oct. 31, 2008. Then its future is unclear. Joe Ueberroth, president and chief executive of Ambassadors International in Newport Beach, which bought the boat last year, said it may see service abroad or become a floating hotel and museum.
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