Burning Excursion Str. ISLAND QUEEN after explosion at a Pittsburgh wharf September 1947. Fuel tanks exploded resulting in the destruction of the boat and loss of 19 lives.
This boat was active until she burned on November 4, 1922, at Cincinnati in the great fire which also destroyed the Morning Star, Tacoma and the first Chris Greene. To replace her the steel steamer Louisville, then under construction at Midland, Pennsylvania, for Commodore John W. Hubbard, was bought and completed as the present Island Queen.