Today’s issue of The New York Times features an article about Majestic America Line’s 81-year old Delta Queen, set to be retired after her 2008 season due to Congress’ refusal to continue her exemption to the Safety at Sea Act of 1966, which would ban her due to her wooden superstructure.
Click here to read the article (free registration required). Also click here for the Save the Delta Queen Campaign. US Readers: Please tell your Representative to support H.R. 3852!
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Friday, 26 October 2007 at 4:55 pm
Thanks Doug…….keep waving the flag.
Friday, 8 August 2008 at 12:09 am
For a daily journal from onboard the Delta Queen, including info about her struggle to survive, visit http://www.deltaqueenhistory.com
Thanks, Bill
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