New Albany, Indiana-based American Queen Steamboat Company this week said it had inked an agreement with Houma, Louisiana-based shipbuilder Gulf Island to build a 245-passenger paddlewheeler for ...

In New Orleans, Louisiana, American Queen Steamboat Company has officially christened its latest 166-guest American Duchess riverboat. Godmother Marissa Applegate, daughter of American Queen Steamboat ...

More information is online at the company's website. American Queen Steamboat is in the midst of an expansion after reviving the 223-passenger American Empress in April on the Columbia River.

As part of the rebrand, American Queen Voyages Lakes & Ocean, the new name for Victory Cruise Lines, will change the names of its identical 202-passenger ships, formerly the Victory I and Victory ...

The American Queen Steamboat Company, owner and operator of the U.S-flagged American Queen, announces the purchase of the Empress of the North from the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) for an ...

The 418-foot-long boat, which carries 436 passengers. The churning red paddlewheel propels the pearl-white steamboat along the Mississippi River, like a slow-moving time machine through a slice of ...

The prospect of cruising up the Ohio River from Cincinnati to her hometown of Pittsburgh didn't exactly thrill our cruise columnist, Anita Dunham-Potter. Sure, the paddle-wheeler was pretty cool ...