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Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website This long reel of footage was shot and assembled by someone who loved passenger ships, river boats, steamships and freighters. The film starts along the Mississippi River and shows various views of historic steamboats starting with an APS car ferry in New Orleans at :18. At :30 are shots of the President. At 3:11, a steam tugboat is seen pushing a barge up river. At 4:42 another sternwheeler is shown. At 5:13 a Republic RC-3 Seabee flies over the Mississippi River. At 8:43 a steam freight train is shown moving towards the camera, running backwards. At 10:31, a steamboat arrives at a wharf. At 12:08 the famous Delta Queen is shown. At 14:00, color footage of a steamboat. At 17:30, point of view shots from a boat on the Mississippi. At 20:30, black and white footage of a barge being moved by a tow boat. At 20:58, the exterior of the Norfolk Steamer / Old Bay Line new company quarters on Pier 3, Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland. At 21:58 the somewhat decrepit SS City of Norfolk is shown, operating service between Baltimore and Norfolk. At 28:45 the vessel SS City of Richmond is shown returning to Baltimore. At 32:32, a submarine is shown, hard to make out the hull number. At 34:26 a cargo vessel enters a lock. At 34:55 the SS Keywest cargo vessel, possibly a Great Lakes carrier, is shown. At 35:48, shots of the Day Line pier for cruises up the Hudson River in New York. (The Hudson River Day Line was the premier steamboat line on the Hudson River from the 1860s through the 1940s, carrying millions of passengers between New York City and Albany with stops at the major towns in between. Service ceased in 1971.) At 36:06 the last of the great Hudson River “side-wheelers“ SS Alexander Hamilton is shown. At 38;45 the Alexander Hamilton belches black smoke as it moves up river. At 39:45 the ship is seen from a vantage point above the Hudson. At 47:16 the ship returns to debark passengers. At 49:51, shots in Bremerton, Washington car ferry in service. About the vessels shown: The President was originally named Cincinnati, it was built in 1924 and is the only remaining “Western Rivers“ style sidewheel river excursion steamboat in the United States. She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989, although these designations were revoked in 2011 after the vessel was disassembled to create a hotel. The Delta Queen is an American sternwheel steamboat built in 1927. She is known for cruising the major rivers that constitute the tributaries of the Mississippi River, particularly in the American South, although she began service in California on the Sacramento River delta for which she gets her name. In 1989, she was designated a National Historic Landmark. SS City of Norfolk was built by the British Admiralty at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in Alameda, California, and completed as SS Independence in 1918; it was scrapped in 1957. The SS City of Richmond was built in 1913 and sank in 1964 while under tow to be scrapped. SS Alexander Hamilton caught fire and sank in 1977 next to the Navy Pier in Raritan Bay. In her heyday, she carried 3,500 passengers on various excursions and point-to-point passenger transportation. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.“ This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
