New Orleans Steamboat Natchez Evening Cruise
Cruise for an evening along the Mississippi River in New Orleans on the Steamboat Natchez.
Experience the beauty and romance of New Orleans from the decks of the Steamboat Natchez! Cruise along the Mississippi River while enjoying live jazz, a buffet dinner and gorgeous sights.
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New Orleans is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana. With an estimated population of 393,292 in 2017, it is the most populous city in Louisiana. A major port, New Orleans is considered an economic and commercial hub for the broader Gulf Coast region of the United States.
New Orleans is world-renowned for its distinct music, Creole cuisine, unique dialect, and its annual celebrations and festivals, most notably Mardi Gras. The historic heart of the city is the French Quarter, known for its French and Spanish Creole architecture and vibrant nightlife along Bourbon Street. The city has been described as the most unique in the United States, owing in large part to its cross-cultural and multilingual heritage. Founded in 1718 by French colonists, New Orleans was once the territorial capital of French Louisiana before being traded to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
Celebrating 100 years of the Oronite brand on the Natchez Steamboat in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Chevron Oronite hosted a celebration of the 100-year anniversary of the Oronite brand on the Natchez Steamboat in New Orleans and docked at the Oak Point Plant in Belle Chasse, LA.
Natchez steamboat - Steam organ, New Orleans
Natchez steamboat - Steam organ (Calliope), New Orleans. Louisiana, United States 2002
The Steam Calliope is a uniquely American instrument, a 32-note steam pipe organ. It has been identified with steamboats since 1865. Today, only four Steamboats operating on the Mississippi River have Steam Calliopes. The Steamboat Natchez, christened in 1975, has a Steam Calliope which is an exact copy of those original instruments built 100 years ago
Engine Room - Natchez Mississippi Paddle Steamer - New Orleans
We traveled on the Natchez in June 2013 as part of our Southern States Road-trip.
The ninth and current Natchez, the SS. Natchez, is a sternwheel steamboat based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Built in 1975, she is sometimes referred to as the Natchez IX. She is operated by the New Orleans Steamboat Company and docks at the Toulouse Street Wharf. Day trips include harbor and dinner cruises along the Mississippi River.
Parts of the Natchez are authentic including the two steam engines, which were built for the sternwheeler Clairton in 1925.
Its copper and steel steam whistle comes from a steamboat that sank in the Monongahela river in 1908 and the copper bell was taken from another steamer. To produce a purer tone, the bell was inlaid with silver melted from 250 silver dollars.
Steamboat Natchez WITH Steam Calliope Organ - New Orleans Drone View
The Calliope Steam Organ stars playing at minute 3:35
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Mississippi River Natchez Steamboat Cruise New Orleans USA
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Natchez Steamboat cruise, New Orleans 1
Natchez steamboat harbor cruise, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States 2002 - before Hurricane Katrina
Cruise down Mississippi river starts at the steamboat´s dock in the heart of the French quarter and offers a historic tour of New Orleans with jazz concert
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Steamboats of the Mississippi. New Orleans 2002.
Steamboats of the Mississippi. New Orleans United States (2002).
Mississippi Steamboat New Orleans, Mississippi cruise I.
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Steamboats played a major role in the 19th-century development of the Mississippi River and its tributaries by allowing the practical large-scale transport of passengers and freight both up- and down-river. Using steam power, riverboats were developed during that time which could navigate in shallow waters as well as upriver against strong currents. After the development of railroads passenger traffic gradually switched to this faster form of transportation, but steamboats continued to serve Mississippi River commerce into the early 20th Century.
Steamboats of the Mississippi.
Riding The Steamboat Natchez on Mississippi River - New Orleans
The NATCHEZ resembles the old sternwheelers VIRGINIA and HUDSON in her profile and layout. Her powerful steam engines were built for U.S. Steel Corporation's sternwheeler CLAIRTON in 1925. Her genuine copper and steel steam whistle is a treasured antique. Her copper bell, smelted from 250 silver dollars to produce a purer tone, once graced the S.S. J.D. AYRES. Her 32 note steam calliope was custom crafted and modeled after the music makers of the Gilded Age.
The NATCHEZ is the pride of the Mississippi River and is as beautiful as any of her namesakes. Many of her crew have been with her since her maiden voyage. Theirs is a whole new chapter in history of the river, and you can be a part of it. Her daily two-hour jazz cruises depart from the Toulouse St. Wharf (behind JAX Brewery in the French Quarter) at 11:30 A.M.; 2:30 P.M.; and 7:00 P.M.
Aboard the Paddle Steamboat Natchez
We went for a river cruise on the Mississippi river on the paddle steamboat Natchez. Below is some information about the Natchez copied from Wikipedia.
The ninth and current Natchez, the SS. Natchez, is a sternwheel steamboat based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Built in 1975, she is sometimes referred to as the Natchez IX. She is operated by the New Orleans Steamboat Company and docks at the Toulouse Street Wharf. Day trips include harbor and dinner cruises along the Mississippi River.
The Natchez IX is modeled not after the original Natchez, but rather the steamboats Hudson and Virginia. Her steam engines were originally built in 1925 for the steamboat Clairton, from which the steering system also came. From the S.S. J.D. Ayres were taken the copper bell, made of 250 melted silver dollars. The bell has on top a copper acorn that was once on the Avalon (now known as the Belle of Louisville), and on the Delta Queen. The Natchez IX also features a steam calliope that can play 32 notes. The wheel is made of white oak and steel, is 25 feet (7.6 m) by 25 feet (7.6 m), and weighs over 26 tons.[2] The whistle came from a ship that sank in 1908 on the Monongahela River.[citation needed] The Natchez IX was launched in Braithwaite, Louisiana. She is 265 feet (81 m) long and 46 feet (14 m) wide, has a draft of six feet and weighs 1384 tons. Natchez IX is mostly made of steel, to comply with United States Coast Guard rules.[1][3]
In 1982 the Natchez won the Great Steamboat Race, which is held every year on the Wednesday immediately before the first Saturday in May, as part of the Kentucky Derby Festival held in Louisville, Kentucky.[4] She has also participated in other races, and has never lost.[2] Those beaten by the Natchez include the Belle of Louisville, the Delta Queen, and the Mississippi Queen.
During the Hurricane Katrina disaster, the Natchez was temporarily moved upriver to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Since then, operations have returned to New Orleans.
1970s DELTA QUEEN MISSISSIPPI STEAMBOAT PROMOTIONAL FILM 79654
Created to promote the steamboat Delta Queen, this charming film shows the vessel as it appeared in the early 1970s. The film shows some of the modern equipment added to the ship to keep it in operation, while highlighting the trip back in time that the steamboat made possible -- back to the days of Mark Twain. The film was made by Greene Line Steamers and produced by Lee Strosnider and features the song Delta Queen, My Time Machine written by George Tassian and performed by John Hartford. it was directed by Bill Muster. The film was widely used to promote preservation of the ship, and during the last four months of 1972, the film played on numerous TV shows and at private showings for groups, clubs, churches, etc. as part of that effort.
The Delta Queen is an American sternwheel steamboat. Historically, she has been used for cruising the major rivers that constitute the tributaries of the Mississippi River, particularly in the American South. She was docked in Chattanooga, Tennessee and served as a floating hotel until she was bought by the newly formed Delta Queen Steamboat Company. She was towed to Houma, Louisiana, in March 2015 to be refurbished to her original condition. The Delta Queen is 285 feet (87 m) long, 58 feet (18 m) wide, and draws 11.5 feet (3.5 m). She weighs 1,650 tons (1,676 metric tons), with a capacity of 176 passengers. Her cross-compound steam engines generate 2,000 indicated horsepower (1,500 kW), powering a stern-mounted paddlewheel. Built in 1927, she is the last surviving steam-powered overnight passenger boat plying the watershed of the Mississippi. She was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989.
The hull, first two decks, and steam engines were ordered in 1924 from the William Denny & Brothers shipyard on the River Leven adjoining the River Clyde at Dumbarton, Scotland. Delta Queen and her sister, Delta King, were shipped in pieces to Stockton, California in 1926. There the California Transportation Company assembled the two vessels for their regular Sacramento River service between San Francisco and Sacramento, and excursions to Stockton, on the San Joaquin River. At the time, they were the most lavishly appointed and expensive sternwheel passenger boats ever commissioned. Driven out of service by a new highway linking Sacramento with San Francisco in 1940, the two vessels were laid up and then purchased by Isbrandtsen Steamship Lines for service out of New Orleans. During World War II, they were requisitioned by the United States Navy for duty in San Francisco Bay as USS Delta Queen (YHB-7/YFB-56). During the war the vessels were painted battleship gray and used in transporting wounded from ocean-going ships in San Francisco Bay to area hospitals.
Three different United States Presidents have sailed on Delta Queen: Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, and Jimmy Carter.
In 1946, Delta Queen was purchased by Greene Line of Cincinnati, Ohio and towed via the Panama Canal and the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers to be refurbished in Pittsburgh. On that ocean trip she was piloted by Frederick Way, Jr. In 1948 she entered regular passenger service, plying the waters of the Ohio, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Cumberland Rivers between Cincinnati, New Orleans, St. Paul, Chattanooga, Nashville, and ports in between. Ownership of the vessel has changed seven times over the last fifty years.
In 1966, Congress passed the first Safety at Sea Law that would put the Delta Queen out of business. After consulting with attorney William Kohler, Richard Simonton, Bill Muster, and Edwin Jay Quinby traveled to Washington, DC, to save their boat. As chairman of the board of Greene Line Steamers, Jay Quinby testified before the Senate to ask for an exemption to the law. Greene Line had to renegotiate the exemption every two to four years. Thanks to the efforts of Betty Blake and Bill Muster, the Delta Queen was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and was subsequently declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989.
One unusual feature of Delta Queen is her steam calliope, mounted on the Texas deck aft of the pilot house.
In 1974, Charlie Waller & The Country Gentlemen recorded a song on their Remembrances & Forecasts album written by Leroy Drumm and Pete Goble titled Delta Queen, to which Leroy was inspired to write after having seen her running down the Tennessee River in the early 1970s.
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New Orleans, Louisiana - Steamboat Natchez
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Great River Road, Natchez to New Orleans
Driving the Great River Road (kinda - not really) from Natchez Mississippi to New Orleans. Not much river to see this far south so mainly freeway but an interesting drive
The New Orleans Steamboat provides an authentic Southern experience
New Orleans, July 13, 2008
1. Wide Steamboat Natchez
2. Wide people entering
3. Medium sign for Steamboat Natchez
4. Worker coiling rope
5. Close shot rope
6. Wide shot passengers
7. Medium shot speaker
8. Wide shot Captain on balcony
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Captain Don Houghton of the Steamboat Natchez:
The paddlewheel, the horizontal reciprocating steam engines, the rudders and several other parts came off a boat that was built in the 1920s called the steamer Clairton, it was actually built by US Steel. And the Clairton actually pushed barges, it was actually a tow boat or a push boat and New Orleans Steamboat Company built this Clairton in 1973; took the engines, paddle wheels and several things, and built this boat around it.
10. Wide shot paddle wheel moving before trip to remove condensation from engine
11. Medium shot paddle wheel
12. Medium shot paddle wheel
13. Paddle wheel from above
14. Whistle sounds before trip
15. Various calliope songs on roof of steamboat to attract visitors
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Scott, musician playing calliope:
I remember when I first moved to New Orleans long before I began playing the calliope, I would enjoy hearing the calliope over the town. And it's really amazing how far away you can hear it. For instance my friends in my neighborhood across the river, they hear me playing and they know it's me based on, like, what I'm playing or the style I'm playing. So it's a chance to play for a very wide and diverse audience for sure.
17. Wide shot passengers
18. Passengers watching sunset
19. Close shot engine room sign
20. Medium window to engine room
21. Medium piston in engine room
22. Pan left steam engine
23. Close shot piston
24. Wide shot James Bynum, oiler, operating the engine
25. Close shot James Bynum turning wheel
26. SOUNDBITE (English) James Bynum, oiler for Steamboat Natchez:
It was built in 1925, and we've been maintaining it since 1975. And all the parts are original, everything original, and it'll run for the next hundred years. So you might be looking at something they'll put in the archive.
27. Bynum showing engine gages
28. Close shot telegraphic machine where captain gives orders for speed and direction
29. SOUNDBITE (English) James Bynum, oiler for Steamboat Natchez:
He gave the order to stop but we're just cruising now, cruising to the dock.
30. Medium Bynum rotating wheel
31. SOUNDBITE (English) James Bynum, oiler for Steamboat Natchez:
I love engines, I love this job. It's a nice job for somebody to have who loves engines. If you can take the heat, you can stay in the kitchen. But if you can't take the heat, you gotta get out of the kitchen.
32. Medium shot trumpet player
33. Wide shot barge, people waving
34. Wide shot people on dock
35. Wide shot ship Onego Breeze
36. Wide shot people waving from ship
37. Passenger taking picture
38. Wide shot sunset, boats
LEAD-IN:
The Steamboat is an iconic symbol, and a traditional sight on the Mississippi River in the United States.
No visit to New Orleans would be complete without a leisurely cruise along the meandering Mississippi on an authentic vessel, reminiscent of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn.
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The Steamboat Natchez is a favourite amongst visitors to New Orleans.
The Natchez is the ninth steamer of the same name, with its engine and paddlewheel dating back to 1925.
Don Houghton is the Captain onboard the Steamer. He explains that the Natchez is actually made up of several parts of another steamer, built in the 1920's.
Built in the style of older stern-wheel paddleboats, the Natchez has a 25-ton white oak wheel with the shaft, cranks and wheel arms of solid steel.
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Natchez steamboat cruise, New Orleans 3
Natchez steamboat harbor cruise, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States 2002 - before Hurricane Katrina
Cruise down Mississippi river starts at the steamboat´s dock in the heart of the French quarter and offers a historic tour of New Orleans with jazz concert
Another video Natchez steamboat cruise, part 4
Oct 20 The Mississippi is Conquered!
Camille Taylor, a junior at Trinity Episcopal School, presents today's Natchez History Minute about the inaugural voyage of the steamboat New Orleans down the Mississippi River that began on this day, Oct. 20 in 1811. Upon the boat's arrival in the city of New Orleans, inventor Robert Fulton remarked, The Mississippi is conquered!
New Orleans to launch new paddlewheel riverboat
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New Orleans, Louisiana – 9 November 2018
1. Various of shoreline and Mississippi river
2. Various of band playing on riverboat
3. Various of band playing and people dancing
4. View of paddlewheel through riverboat window
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Dow, New Orleans Steamboat Company:
At one point in time, there were thousands going up and down the rivers and the lakes of this wonderful country here. Now, there's only six, and we've got one of them, so we love showcasing that engine room.
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6. Various of steamboat Natchez arriving
7. Riverboat captain
8. Various of passengers exiting the steamboat
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Cyndi Grunenberg, Houston, Texas resident:
It was a great trip, a little bit of history along the river and just a fun ride.
10. Various of passengers exiting the riverboat
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen Perry, Executive Director, New Orleans & Company:
People don't come here only for food and music. What they like is other experiences. They love to do things like go on swamp tours. They love to go on the paddlewheelers.
12. Setup of Stephen Perry, Executive Director of New Orleans & Company
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen Perry/Executive Director, New Orleans & Company:
People stand in lines to go see them because that experience on a paddlewheeler is just one of the great added attractions of imagining yourself in a time gone by.
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14. Various of riverboat arriving at dock
15. Various of giant red paddlewheel
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16. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Dow, New Orleans Steamboat Company:
And, I mean, instantly fell in love with the boat. Uh, she was in rough shape, having sat not used for almost a decade. But, we saw the potential in her, and we knew that we could do her justice bring her back not only to her former glory but well beyond that.
17. Various of new City of New Orleans riverboat due to launch by Jan. 21
18. Various of boat interior work
19. Setup of Matthew Dow talking about the boat
20. Various of fleur de lis detailing on boat
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Dow, New Orleans Steamboat Company:
Basically, we had to strip this boat down to the superstructure, to bare bones, and everything had to go back new.
22. Exterior of new riverboat
23. Various of Matthew Dow talking about detailing on the boat
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Dow, New Orleans Steamboat Company:
At the back of the second deck, there's a little walk-around, uh, where people can go out, and they can look down on the paddlewheel, and they can see it working. So, we're not trying to hide that feature from anybody. Uh, even though we don't have the steam engines, we have the working paddlewheel, and we want to show that off.
25. Red paddlewheel at back of new boat
26. Various of Matthew Dow playing the new boat's calliope
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27. Shoreline and water from the Natchez steamboat
28. Various of jazz band
29. Various of brunch food items
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