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On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:26:36 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:38:09 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:32:19 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

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


But was it the boat in the movie, or was the movie boat a copy? Or a
whole different boat?

Just the one boat. Converted to Diesel for the movie, back to steam in
the US.

Casady


Was any of the movie story true, or even partly true? The sinking of
the German boat, for example?

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

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