On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:29:40 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

Interesting. I had always assumed that it was just a boat that someone
built for the movie company as the story was fiction so there wasn't,
I believed, an "original" African Queen"

In passenger and freight service from 1912 to 1968, if that is
original enough. British built of riveted steel, by the way.

Casady