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Staff Photo by Angela Lewis
The Delta Queen gets ready to dock at Ross's Landing on Wednesday afternoon. The boat will be permanently docked and turned into a hotel.
The Delta Queen riverboat is pulling into Chattanooga.
About 12:20 p.m., the 83-year-old paddlewheeler was passing under the U.S. 27 bridge on the Tennessee River.
It is scheduled to dock at the Riverfront about 1 p.m. After that, there will be VIP rides, boat tours, a press conference and other events at the Riverfront.
The boat, the last traditional river steamboat, left its winter home in New Orleans several days ago and has churned through the Gulf of Mexico, into Mobile Bay and up the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway before reaching the Tennessee River.
Once permanently docked in Chattanooga, it will be turned into a hotel, owners say.
For complete details, see tomorrow’s Times Free Press.
Turned into a hotel! What a sad ending. This excerpt from Oliver Wendell Holmes' famous poem on "Old Oronsides" should apply:
". . . . The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea!
"Oh, better that her shattered bulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave; Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale!"
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