Cruisin' the Savannah

In February, 2023, we took a short sightseeing cruise aboard the riverboat Georgia Queen in Savannah, Georgia, which included a closer look at this busy inland port, a view of a sunken dredge, and a live fire artillery demonstration from Old Fort Jackson.
The boat on which we're riding (the Georgia Queen) was constructed in Houma, Louisiana in 1994 as the casino boat "Mississippi Belle 2", operating out of Clinton, Iowa. In 2010, the boat moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she ran dinner cruises on the Delaware River, renamed to "Philadelphia Belle". These dinner cruises ceased operations abruptly in mid-2011, and the boat was moved to Moline, Illinois for storage. In the mid-2010's, the boat was sold to the Savannah Riverboat Company, and underwent a $4 million dollar overhaul that saw her turned into the luxurious and well appointed "Georgia Queen", replacing a somewhat smaller vessel of the same name, and she's now in service as the "Mary M. Miller" in Louisville, Kentucky.
Now with her slot machines and card tables a thing of the past, the Georgia Queen has a capacity of 1,000 passengers on four decks, and features three grand ballrooms. She measures an impressive 230 feet in length, 64 feet wide, and towers 68 feet above the Savannah River. Join us as we learn a little river history from our onboard narrator Zacchaeus as we go "Crusin' the Savannah"!