Explore Chattanooga Fall 2024

Spotlight | WHAT TO SEE

O ver the years the Chattanooga Riverfront has hosted or been visited by a number of renowned, historical ships. These included the steam-powered riverboat Julia Belle Swain and the dual-paddle, side-wheeler the Chattanooga Star. For a brief peri od, the classic, and famously haunted Delta Queen Riverboat was docked at Coolidge Park serving as a hotel. The American Queen Riverboat used Chattanooga as an overnight stop, and currently American Riverboat Cruises includes Chattanooga as part of their Tennessee Rivers Cruises. Even the historic, 330 ft. WWII U.S. Navy Landing Ship Tank (LST) 325 has visited for extended

stays. And once again, from October 18 through November 3, the downtown waterfront will host the Niña and Pinta, replicas of Columbus’s famous ships of discovery. The Niña was constructed completely by hand with no power tools, just as the original ship would have been built. It is consid ered “the most historically correct Columbus replica ever built,” as stated by Archaeology magazine. Both ships are “caravels,” a Portuguese sailing ship from the 15th-17th centuries, known for its speed and small size. Some historians have referred to “cara vels” as “the space shuttle of the 15th century.”

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