Queen Anne (1899)

Photograph

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Steamboat Era Museum

Oblique angle, medium shot of port bow and side.: Small banner mounted on the railing of the second deck, slightly forward of the stack, reads "Exposition Pine Beach & Old Point" dates the picture to 1907, the year of the Jamestown Exposition for its 300th anniversary.
Oblique angle, medium shot of port bow and side.

Small banner mounted on the railing of the second deck, slightly forward of the stack, reads "Exposition Pine Beach & Old Point" dates the picture to 1907, the year of the Jamestown Exposition for its 300th anniversary.

Name/Title

Queen Anne (1899)

Entry/Object ID

2017.2.022

Description

Year Built: 1899 Built By: Charles Reeder & Sons Built At: Baltimore, MD Built For: Queen Anne Ferry & Equipment Company Official Number: 20624 Length: 203.3 feet Beam: 52.0 feet Depth of Hold: 8.6 feet Gross Tons: 651 gross, 410 net Propulsion: Sidewheel Hull: Steel Engine: 1,100 hp Passenger Capacity: 1,300 Purchased by: Was included in the purchase of the Queen Anne Ferry and Equipment Company, the Queen Anne's Railroad Company, the Chester River Steamboat Company and the Weems Steamboat Company by the Maryland, Delaware and Virginia Railway on October 10, 1904. Was sold by MD&V not long afterwards. Sold in approximately 1910 to a New Jersey company for service on the Delaware River. Sold again in 1923 to New York interests for operations to Rockaway, a beach on Long Island. The ship was renamed ROCKAWAY. Route: Excursions out of Washington, D.C. on the Potomac. Later Name: ROCKAWAY Disposition: In 1930 she was abandoned.