Water Queen and Grace Devers
| Description: |
The showboat, Water Queen was once host to, and co-star with, Gloria Swanson during the filming of Stage Struck. The Water Queen looks like anything but a movie star while resting along side the levee at Madison, Indiana. She sank at her winter moorings in the mouth of the Kanawha River in West Virginia in 1939. Her calliope was rescued and, by a circuitous route, wound up in the Delta Queen in 1958. The Grace Devers is the tow for the Water Queen. The Grace Devers was built from the C. C. Bower after the Bower was salvaged at Rampeys Landing, Kentucky. She made many trips to and from cities up and down the river, including Evansville, Paduca and Nashville. She started towing showboats in 1925. She acted as tow for the showboat Cotton Blossom for a time. Photograph taken circa 1927 |
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| Origin: | 1927 |
| Created By: |
Harry Lemen, photographer |
| Source: |
http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4038coll5/id/330 |
| Collection: |
River to Rail and Lemen Collection |
| Copyright: |
Permission to reproduce this image for other than personal use must be requested from the Director of the Madison-Jefferson County Public Library. Please contact at 420 W. Main St., Madison, IN 47250 (812) 265-2744. |
| Subjects: |
Showboats Tugboats |
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